[LON-CAPA-users] DOCS - pros and cons?

Ray Batchelor lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:07:55 -0800


It would be a great help if these were implemented to work at least within the 
single server.  Especially  the cloning of a course.

On January 24, 2003 05:32 am, Gerd Kortemeyer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here are the current plans:
> 
> * if a course coordinator also is or becomes an author in the system,
> there will be an "archive" functionality for their DOCS. The function
> will dump all of the current course docs into the author's construction
> space. The reason that this is not in place yet is the extra-challenge
> for us that the course's home server might be different from the
> author's home server.
> 
> * when the domain coordinator starts a new course, there will be an
> option to "clone" a course which the course coordinator or somebody else
> previously taught. Challenge is same as above: new and old course might
> be housed on different servers.
> 
> In summary, I need to figure out a way to safely copy DOCS from one
> server to another, the rest is easy.
> 
> - Gerd.
> 
> Travis Souza wrote:
> 
> >  Mark, I agree with your assesment.  The docs feature will be a
> > lifesaver if the cons you listed can be addressed.  It would
> > definitely be nice to export the sequence file(s) generated by the
> > docs tool.  With a Course Coord that is also an author it could dump
> > the sequence to the construction space.  For non-authors it could
> > export the xml file to save on disk and then later upload to a
> > construction space. I would guess the big problem would be
> > non-published internal documents uploaded or generated through the
> > docs tool.  Published and external resources should be okay if the
> > sequence can be exported..correct? Would it be possible to export non
> > published resources as their respective file types? Travis  Travis
> > Souza, Coordinator
> > Instructional Center for Innovation
> > Truckee Meadows Community College
> > 775-674-7505
> > tsouza@tmcc.edu
> >
> > >>> lucas@lucas.phy.ohiou.edu 01/23/03 06:34AM >>>
> > Gerd (and anyone else),
> >
> >     We too are looking into the DOCS shortly as the easiest way to get
> >
> > someone going on the system. What are the pros and cons of using DOCS?
> >
> > What are the limitations that we may not have considered yet?
> >
> > Are the following statements accurate?
> >
> > pro: upload course-only documents simply without going through a
> > publication process.
> >
> > pro: simple templates are provided for some standard documents
> >
> > con: cannot reuse items that have not been published.
> >
> > con: sequences put together under DOCs cannot be re-used elsewhere.
> > Ie,
> > you can't paste together an assignment in a 'dry-run' course under
> > docs
> > and then move it into a 'running' course.
> >
> > con: you cannot 'duplicate' your course later for another course.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Mark
> >
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