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Ability for Course Developer to designate a Course as "Complete and Ready for Publication" #19

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
 need a way for developer to tell Publishers that Course is ready to
go....perhaps status button that sends Alerts or flags a Course as "NEW &
READY TO GO" --- ask Don how he wants to do this.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jlb1...@gmail.com on 22 Feb 2008 at 1:08

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
We need to discuss the idea of "Publishing" a course.  Once it is published, it 
is 
locked and must be checked-out by an authorized  course developer or course 
owner or 
their designee in order to make a change.  The updated course may then be 
"checked-
in" and will be usable by faclitators for creating classes.  We do not want to 
have 
a scenario where a developer is working on a live course, making changes that 
could 
affect an in-progress class.  Once a class is in progress, the course cannot be 
modified -- the class will run with this course unless major problems exist 
with it.

Commercial Document Management systems support this type of publishing, along 
with 
versioning for changes.  We should view publishing as a process (moving the 
course 
with all media and other externals) to a read-only directory (or the like).  
This 
will prevent subsequent changes from becoming surprises to the facilitator, 
students, and others.  We must also allow similar states for a course that will 
allow them to be reviewed and changed by others, along with "Beta" courses.  
Before 
a course is published, we should require approvals from several individuals, 
who 
have been determined BEFORE the course development begins.  These individuals 
will 
probably include all of the course developers, the responsible curriculum 
director, 
the irresponsible curriculum director (waldo), the Academic Dean, Provost, etc.

The point is, however, that we must maintain the integrity of our courses.

Original comment by don...@gmail.com on 27 Feb 2008 at 10:25