[LON-CAPA-admin] Batch Course Creation

[Stuart Raeburn]

Mark and Guy,

Guy Albertelli II wrote:

>Hi Mark,
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>>I found the routines and think I can swing setting up a batched course 
>>creation. I was wondering if one can have multiple owners of a course?
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>Hrrm, looks like no, the internal data structures expect a single
>owner it looks like, (both in the creation code, and the internal code
>tha tnotes who is owner.)
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In the current release only a single owner is allowed.  This corresponds 
to the single Course Coordinator you would have included when using CCRS 
to create a course.  You can however include multiple users (and assign 
multiple roles to them - including  CC) in the XML file used for batch 
course creation, so you can specify more than one Course Coordinator per 
course.  Note: you can use MCRS to change the course owner, if needed, 
once a course has been created.

>>We typically set up here with multiple owners at the Course Coordinator 
>>level.
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>You can have multipe course coordinators, that is a role, the 'owner'
>attribute is soley used currently to by 'pickcourse' to find
>courses. It is just a bit of data stored as a course annotation.
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The "owner" has another use currently, which in fact predates its use as 
a possible filter when picking courses. In cases where access to 
institutional classlist data is tightly controlled by SIS administrators 
(as is the case at MSU), the identity of the owner can be supplied as 
part of the request for classlist data for a specific course/section.  
The new_course() subroutine in localenroll.pm is available for cases 
where verification of access to classlists is needed.  The course owner 
is one of the three arguments that are supplied to &new_course(). 

At MSU the "owner" is identified as the instructor who originally 
submitted a request for a LON-CAPA course via an online course request 
form.  Verification of instructor status for the owner is required so 
that course creation can proceed automatically without the need for 
intervention by a DC once an online request has been submitted.

Stuart Raeburn
MSU LON-CAPA development/support