Enable the concept of a "Facilitator's Workroom"

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This is a space in IBS where facilitators can develop, manage, and (future)
eventually even deliver classes from. 

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The Facilitator Workroom is a page that enables a facilitator to manage & 
execute 
all of the facilitor tasks for a class.  The Facilitator's Workroom is a page 
that 
is accessed from within an organization, which means that only classes that are 
owned by that organization will be accessible.  The piviotal control for this 
page 
is a drop-down listbox that contains all of the classes of this organization 
for 
which this facilitator is authorized.  (Note: A facilitator is authorized for a 
class by an academic dean or provost).  Whenever a class is selected from this 
drop-
down listbox, the system will display the facilitator links for this specific 
class. 
The links that will be displayed are: Class Profile, Class Assignments, Class 
Calendar, Class Status, Student Information, Collaboration, Gradebook, 
Administrative, and Class Management.  A description of each link follows:

Class Profile: Displays a page that describes this class, provides information 
about 
the course from which this class was built, tells the start & end dates of the 
class, blackout dates, the facilitator(s) names, Course contact info, number of 
students, etc.
Class Assignments: Allows the facilitator to define assignments and issue them 
or 
schedule them to be issued.
Class Calendar: Allows the facilitator to manage the class calendar. Options 
will 
include Specifying the start date, class days, & blackout days. A button will 
also 
be provided that will allow the "Course" calendar to automatically be copied to 
the "Class" calendar, which will be modifiable by the facilitator by dragging & 
dropping.  The dates on the calendar will have links to assignments and 
instructor 
notes, etc.  More detail will be given later.
Class Status: Displays a page that provides information about how long the 
class has 
been running, average progress of the student grades, student participation, 
assignments submitted by students, etc.  It may also include anonymous 
suggestions 
from a "Student Suggestion Box"
Student Information: This link will display a page that presents a list of all 
students in the class, along with their contact information & background (via 
link). 
It will also display their email ID, etc. so the instructor may contact them.
Collaboration: Displays the Collaboration page (This still needs some defining, 
but 
I have some ideas). The purpose of the page is to allow students to interact 
among 
each other, for assignments and social interaction.  The facilitator will have 
the 
option of sub-grouping the students so they can collaborate among themselves, 
or the 
entire group can interact with each other.  This must be designed for real-time 
and 
non-realtime (asynchronous). More requirements to come...
Gradebook: This link will allow the facilitator to manage the gradebook for the 
class. The gradebook will contains student info, grades, completion status, 
participation status, etc. Rules must be created that will prevent a 
facilitator or 
group coordinators from changing gradebook information AFTER a class has 
completed --
 at that point, it is up to the Academic Dean or Provost.
Administrative: This will allow the facilitator to maintain notes about the 
class, 
contact information, etc.  I'm not exactly sure what all will be here.
Class Management: This will allow the facilitator to manage the class... I'm 
not 
sure this will have anymore to add beyond the links that have already been 
described..

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