[LON-CAPA-admin] No Cloning for ...

[Mark Lucas]

Thanks! Will this be in the new release?

Mark

On Jul 28, 2010, at 8:23 AM, Stuart Raeburn wrote:

> Mark,
> 
> Changes in lond (rev 1.445), lonpickcourse.pm (rev 1.98) and lonnet.pm (rev 1.1071) -- from June 25:
> 
> (see
> http://mail.lon-capa.org/pipermail/lon-capa-cvs/Week-of-Mon-20100621/021011.html
> for details),
> 
> allow a DC to override cloning rights for an existing course (in the same domain) when a DC creates a single course on behalf of the owner of the new course via "Create a single course".
> 
> The Domain Coordinator can specify cloning of any course in the domain when creating a new course regardless of who will own the new course, and whether they owned the existing course, had an active CC role in the existing course, or otherwise had rights to clone it.
> 
> Stuart Raeburn
> 
> 
> Quoting Mark Lucas <lucasm at ohio.edu>:
> 
>> 
>> On Jun 24, 2010, at 12:18 PM, Stuart Raeburn wrote:
>> 
>>> The aim with 2.9 has actually been to reduce the administrative  tasks which a Domain Coordinator must perform, by devolving  responsibility for course creation to the faculty who will be  teaching the course.
>> 
>>> In the future, this trend will continue by making cloning more  granular, and also making cloning something that a Course  Coordinator can do directly into a course that has already been  created (see: http://bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6039)
>>> 
>> 
>> With respect, this is a royal pain in the butt for a smaller  installation (though still somewhat big) like mine,
>> where it is more desirable for me to take care of the cloning and  creation of courses than to have other
>> people creating courses and screwing up.
>> 
>> At this point instead of just creating the course, I have to find  each course that I want to clone, enter it, add the
>> new owner,  then go create the course. I realize this doesn't seem  like much, but it roughly doubles or more the
>> time it takes for me to set up courses for a quarter.
>> 
>> Mark
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Mark Lucas 								email: lucasm at ohiou.edu
>> 252D Clippinger Lab						phone: (740)597-2984
>> Department of Physics and Astronomy		fax: (740)593-0433
>> Ohio University
>> Athens, OH 45701
>> 
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Mark Lucas 								email: lucasm at ohiou.edu
252D Clippinger Lab						phone: (740)597-2984
Department of Physics and Astronomy		fax: (740)593-0433
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701

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