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

[Stuart Raeburn]

Mark,

> Thanks! Will this be in the new release?

Yes, it will be in 2.10.

Stuart Raeburn


Quoting Mark Lucas <lucasm at ohio.edu>:

> 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
>