How to Purchase LangLab PASSPORT

LangLab PASSPORT is now offered with two different licensing systems, by number of seats or by number of users, and it is also possible to purchase licenses for certain modules only. Institutions short on funds can begin with a minimal installation corresponding to immediate needs, and as their resources and needs expand, they can purchase licenses for the complete suite of modules. Normally, institutions license either the full suite of modules (including the Let'sT@lk modules for pair and group work) or the basic set of modules (Client, Monitor, Teacher, and Admin) without the Let'sT@lk modules. In special circumstances E-LangLab may grant licenses for a reduced module set, e.g., the basic modules without the Monitor module, or the Let'sT@lk modules as a stand-alone product.

1. When purchasing permanent licenses for a certain number of lab seats, a minimum purchase is for ten seats. (Permanent licenses for laptops belonging to an institution and used in a classroom are considered licenses for lab seats.) The per-seat price depends on the number of seats: one price per seat for 10-30 seats, a lower price for seats #31-60, and an even lower price for seats beyond #60. Prices charged take into account prevailing general price levels in the country in question.

   Additional temporary licenses
   Any purchase of permanent licenses for at least ten seats entitles a client to receive without additional charge renewable temporary licenses for use on computers outside the lab or classroom. These temporary licenses allow teachers to create lessons or retrieve and evaluate students' work using a computer in an office or even a home computer, connected to the institution's server via the Internet. Teachers can also have students do homework using LangLab PASSPORT on a home computer, again connecting (automatically) to the institution's server using a secure connection with authentication. These renewable temporary licenses are granted at the rate of 25 per permanently-licensed seat. They are good for an academic period (quarter, semester, or year in some cases), and the institution tells E-LangLab when each batch should end and the next batch should begin, so that if a client is entitled to, say, 625 temporary licenses (corresponding to 25 seats), it always has 625 available.

2. The second system is by total numbers of users (students and faculty). A minimum purchase is for 100 users, and there are licensing levels available for 300, 500, 750, and 1,000 users, as well as levels beyond 1,000 in increments of 100. Again, there are prices for the basic set of modules, without the Let'sT@lk modules for pair and group work, and prices for the full suite of modules, including Let'sT@lk. With this system, too, prices take into account prevailing general price levels in the country in question.
   
   LangLab PASSPORT will examine the rosters of courses and put together a master list of users, including faculty users. (Students enrolled in more than one course are only counted once.) This list is then checked against the authorized total. With this licensing system, there is no distinction between permanent licenses and temporary licenses, because all licenses are in a sense temporary, valid only as long as the user is on an institution's list of current authorized users. A future version of LangLab PASSPORT will include a tool for managing the master list of users directly.

To inquire about current prices:
E-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , telling us the name of your institution and where it is, which licensing system you are interested in and which modules, and the number of seats or total users for which you would be interested in obtaining licenses.

In the U.K., India, and Nigeria, LangLab is distributed by partners of E-LangLab, LLC who can quote current prices, who can also provide help with installation and training, and who are the first line of technical support. (Institutions in those countries can, however, deal directly with E-LangLab, LLC.)

Installation and training

Clients in North America can pay an additional charge for on-site help with installation and, if necessary, on-site training. E-LangLab will quote prices for these services according to the nature and extent of the extra help desired.

Purchasing

Once you've tried the demo version, it's easy to purchase LangLab PASSPORT. Here is how it works:

• You tell us exactly what you want to buy, and we send you our license agreement and an invoice.
• You pay by check (a bank cashier's check for foreign institutions) or wire transfer, and when the funds are in our account, we set up our database to authorize licenses for what you have purchased: either a site license for a certain maximum number of users, or permanent licenses for a certain number of lab seats and the corresponding number of temporary licenses. We record in our database which modules are covered by licenses granted. (E-LangLab may, at its discretion, grant licenses upon receipt of a domestic institution's purchase order.)
• According to the licensing method used, we e-mail you a client identification number and password for the site license, or a client number and password for permanent licenses and one for temporary licenses.

Using client numbers and passwords to obtain licenses

• Using a client number and password, you enter the Customer Login portion of our site and download an installer for a version of LangLab PASSPORT that works with regular licenses rather than demo licenses. (The demo version works only with demo licenses it creates automatically the first time you use it.)
• You run the installer on each on-site computer that is to use LangLab PASSPORT and distribute it to each faculty member or student to run on a computer that will use LangLab PASSPORT remotely.
• If you are using the site license method by maximum number of users, do the following:

  • In the LangLab directory on your server (the computer that will hold the course files and student recordings) there is a file named LangLabCourse.txt. Using a text editor, your system administrator edits this file so that it has the name or IP address of your server in it. Our Administrator's Reference document shows your system administrator what this file should look like.

  • Your system administrator brings up the LangLabUtilities module on the server and runs the LicenseMgr utility (assuming your server can connect via the Internet to our server and database) to obtain the site license for your server. The license created will use the name or number of the server.

  • Your system administrator uses LangLab PASSPORT's Admin module to set up courses and course passwords for teachers.

  • Teachers use the Admin module to enter the roster of students for each course.

• If you are using licensing by number of lab seats, you can obtain individual licenses for lab computers or you can have E-LangLab send you a central license file with license keys for all lab machines. Institutions use this central licensing file when they are using ghosting or imaging, in which each lab computer periodically has its disk erased and a standard installation restored to it. You send us the hostnames of the client computers, and we send you the encrypted file with permanent licenses for those computers.
• If you are not using ghosting or imaging, you bring up the LangLabUtilities module and run the LicenseMgr program on each computer that should have a permanent license. You enter your client identification number and password for permanent licenses and click a button to contact our server and download the permanent license.
• For temporary licenses, you give the client identification number and password for temporary licenses to faculty members and students who need them for computers outside the lab. They, too, run the LicenseMgr program using this number and password, clicking on the button for a temporary license to download one from our server.
• When computers can't connect to our server via the Internet, you send us the hostname of the computer and we send you a license key for it.