[LON-CAPA-admin] Course Quotas

[Stuart Raeburn]

Mark,

> Is there a way a Domain Coordinator can see multiple courses (not   
> just one by one)?

Main Menu -> Status of domain servers -> Display quotas and usage for
Course/Community Content.

See item (13) in the README file included in the 2.11.0 tarball (same  
as the 2.11.0 release notes linked to at http://install.loncapa.org).

> As you might tell, I just had a couple courses that were over limit   
> - something that is new
> this release.

One solution is simply to increase the default quota for uploaded  
content in "official" and "unofficial" courses to a large value.

The 0.5 GB default quota for Courses can be replaced via:
Main Menu -> Set domain configuration -> Course/Community defaults

> How can an instructor view the current size of uploaded files under   
> their course?

To be implemented -- http://bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6736

> When a course is cloned, how much stuff that was deleted before is   
> carried over into the
> new course?

Currently the entire contents of  
/home/httpd/lonUsers/<domain>/<1>/<2>/<3>/<cid>/userfiles on the  
cloned course's homeserver is copied to the corresponding location on  
the homeserver for the new course, (where <domain> is domain, <1>,  
<2>, <3> are first three characters of the courseID, and <cid> is the  
internal courseID), but see comments below.

The Course Editor includes "Remove" and "Cut".

If "Remove" was used to delete an "uploaded" file, then that file will  
have been removed from the file system, and the corresponding item in  
the .sequence file housing it will have been removed (so it would not  
be around to clone).

If "Cut" was used to delete an "uploaded" file, then that file will  
still be in the file system, and the corresponding item in the  
.sequence file housing it will still be there (flagged as a "zombie").

If "Remove" is used to delete a folder (or composite page), then the  
corresponding item in the .sequence file housing it will still be  
there (flagged as a "zombie"). Any uploaded content within the folder  
"removed" from the course will still be on the filesystem (and will be  
cloned).

The current implementation of cloning is not very sophisticated  
(although there is virtue in simplicity).

Implementation of changes to address the following bugs/enhancement  
requests : 6039, 6205, and 6487 (status assigned) should improve the  
cloning process.
See: http://bugs.loncapa.org


Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium


Quoting "Lucas, Mark" <lucasm at ohio.edu>:

> How can an instructor view the current size of uploaded files under   
> their course?
>
> Is there a way a Domain Coordinator can see multiple courses (not   
> just one by one)?
>
> When a course is cloned, how much stuff that was deleted before is   
> carried over into the
> new course?
>
> As you might tell, I just had a couple courses that were over limit   
> - something that is new
> this release.
>
> Later,
> Mark
> --
> Mark Lucas 								email: lucasm at ohiou.edu
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>
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