[LON-CAPA-users] Bulletin Boards

[Todd Ruskell]

Oh yeah, I guess I did know that.  Time to go back through those manuals
again.  I also now remember two reasons I haven't really liked
calendar.  One of which may be relatively easy to fix, the other maybe
not.

Use of the calendar actually requires a student to consciously hit the
"cldr" button.  If they don't, they may miss announcements, and an
announcements "page" of some sort strikes me as much better than always
sending out critical messages.  If students have several classes in
LON-CAPA, this is probably not much of an issue, but for now our
students typically have just one LON-CAPA course until we can get it out
of the Physics Department.

So, request #1 is: Can we somehow make a like to the calendar as part of
the course, so that it would show up when Navigating?  Then strange
people like me could make the calendar the first item students see when
they log in to my class.

Request #2 would be the ability to place linkable URLs in the
announcements that appear on the calendar.  I don't do this a lot, but
frequently enough.  

Thanks for your time,

Todd

On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 17:03, Gerd Kortemeyer wrote:
> Hi Todd,
> 
> Announcements would usually go on the calendar.
> 
> The reason that the instructors cannot post to the Simple Page might be 
> that they have section numbers - do they? If an instructor is only 
> instructor for a certain section, it is assumed that they do not have 
> rights to post for the complete course. Same is true for editing the 
> Syllabus.
> 
> - Gerd.
> 
> On Jan 13, 2004, at 5:31 PM, Todd Ruskell wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm looking for an easy way to allow several instructors to post
> > announcements for a class in a single forum.  I have thought of several
> > possible solutions, but each has some drawbacks.  Any other
> > help/suggestions would be appreciated.
> >
> > It seems the easiest thing would be to set up a bulletin board.
> > However, I haven't found a place in course or resource parms to 
> > disallow
> > student posts to a bulletin board.  At least not without also
> > disallowing either chat or discussion on "problem" resources.  Maybe
> > I've missed something?
> >
> > I could put up a "Simple Page", but Instructors can't change it.
> >
> > I could create an html document in construction space, but that would
> > mean I would have to make all the instructors co-authors, which would
> > require quite a bit more training.
> >
> > Is there anything I missed?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Todd
> >
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Dr. Todd Ruskell			
Lecturer, Department of Physics		Office: Meyer Hall 326
Colorado School of Mines		Phone: 303-384-2080
1523 Illinois Street			Fax: 303-273-3919
Golden, CO 80401