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<div>Thank you Justin. A bit of testing in response to your message seems confirms it. Though I did not test recommending a replacement resource, marking something as obsolete or even then deleting it from my authoring space does indeed NOT remove it from the
courses it’s already in. Makes sense (and I should have known, given Lon-Capa’s outstanding track record of “making sense”) but great to have that confirmed. Thank you for your help!</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Justin Gray <<a href="mailto:jgray@math.sfu.ca">jgray@math.sfu.ca</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Monday, December 16, 2013 at 9:29 PM<br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>Doug Mills <<a href="mailto:dmills@illinois.edu">dmills@illinois.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [LON-CAPA-users] Mark Obsolete?<br>
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<div>My understanding is that the resource remains in all courses where it currently resides, but that it will no longer be visible when browsing or searching the repository.<br>
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When you mark a resource as obsolete you can recommend a new resource to replace it in the metadata. I think that course coordinators are notified of this through the What's New page in their courses, though I am not sure about this.<br>
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I believe that deleting an obsolete resource just keeps it from cluttering your author space, but this action does not really delete the resource from the repository.<br>
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<div>I’ve used “Mark Obsolete” before to enable removal of an item that had been published but was not in use; however, now I’m wondering what exactly happens if you mark something obsolete but don’t delete it. Specifically, we’re updating some content we’ve
used previous semesters. I want the older version around for the sake of grades and student information in the older course sites, but I’d like to also flag the resources as no longer being current. Is that what Marking something as Obsolete does — will it
stay around and still appear in older courses where it already exists but not be importable any longer? OR does it behave differently. Thank you!</div>
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<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Douglas Mills</div>
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