<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jun 24, 2010, at 12:18 PM, Stuart Raeburn wrote:</div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>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.<br></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>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: <a href="http://bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6039">http://bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6039</a>)<br><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>With respect, this is a royal pain in the butt for a smaller installation (though still somewhat big) like mine,</div><div>where it is more desirable for me to take care of the cloning and creation of courses than to have other</div><div>people creating courses and screwing up.</div><div><br></div><div>At this point instead of just creating the course, I have to find each course that I want to clone, enter it, add the</div><div>new owner, then go create the course. I realize this doesn't seem like much, but it roughly doubles or more the</div><div>time it takes for me to set up courses for a quarter.</div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div>
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