[LON-CAPA-users] Adding Main Crs. Docs to old course

[Lars Jensen]

Hi Ray,

In my active courses, I continually move things up and Down in DOCS. I 
also regularly create new bulletin boards, move them to the top, and 
move expired ones to the bottom of DOCS. 

No problems yet.

Lars.

Ray Batchelor wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'd like a word of advice on the following topic.
>I have courses  (originally created back in August, using what was then 
>v0.99.4, I believe, but it might have been 0.99 or even something earlier).
>I made them the old way by publishing and assigning a top level sequence for 
>the course.  Thus when I go to DOCS I see only the one resource.
>
>Since I've had a couple of bad previous experiences in attempting to add or 
>move things in the main course sequence on an active course using DOCS, I am 
>now leary of making such changes.  I believe that I am probably unnecessarily 
>fearful about this, but I really don't want to risk disrupting the active 
>class.  On the other hand, I would like to add some bulletin boards to the 
>main sequence.  I'd be happy to just add them at the end, but it might be 
>nice to add some in the middle too.  I've tested this out on a recently 
>created course which is not yet active and it seems to me that DOCS is 
>working very nicely and flexibly in v1.0.2 for that case.  i.e. I could 
>REMOVE the single sequence and reload it using DOCS without immediately 
>noticeable damage (i.e my two test-dummy students still have all their scores 
>and the course intializes OK -- I haven't had a close look at the PARMs yet 
>though).
>
>So I guess my questions are: 
>What are the confidence levels that I can do similar sorts of things with my 
>currently live courses?  
>
>What limitations should I be acutely aware of?  
>
>Perhaps I should just stick to popping in a bulletinboard or two at the end, 
>and just leave the original main course sequence as the first resource?
>
>Thanks,
>Ray
>
>
>On October 2, 2003 04:26 pm, Gerd Kortemeyer wrote:
>  
>
>>You cannot do this in the middle of a running semester.
>>
>>Between semesters:
>>
>>* Open a new course, and use the old top-level map as one resource. You 
>>can then add to the front and the back of the course.
>>
>>* Alternatively, open a new course, and "Load Map" for the old 
>>top-level sequence. That will import all old chapters separately.
>>
>>- Gerd.
>>
>>On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 05:07  PM, Lars Jensen wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Is there a way to update an old style course (without Main Docs) to a
>>>new style course, with Main Docs?
>>>
>>>Lars.
>>>
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>>>Lars Jensen, TMCC/Vista B200, 7000 Dandini Blvd, Reno NV 89512-3999.
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>>>
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>>>
>
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