[DG: Open Forum] Alumni access to CLE's

[Jeff Ziegler]

Hi David,

At UMich we also see a lot of questions regarding access to CTools,  
our Sakai instance, after graduation.  Post-grad access to our  
instance is determined on a basic level through the student's  
university-provided Basic Computing Package, which includes an email  
account and access to the UMich computing environment, of which  
CTools is a part.  The BCP expires approximately six weeks after  
graduation.  We tell students that they have two options to continue  
access - one is the official policy and the other is free but  
possibly less useful:

1)  The official route - they can pay the university to continue  
their BCP - this ensures that their unique username and password will  
continue to function, and as long as they pay the fee, access will be  
identical to what they've experienced as a student user, and they  
will likely be able to access all of their Course sites.

2)  The cheaper route - we advise them to create a UM guest account  
and add that account as a participant to any Project sites that they  
own or belong to.  Access to Course sites is a different matter,  
however, as our instructors have control over their sites and can  
choose the option to remove their student rosters or unpublish their  
Course sites if they wish, making them unavailable even when the  
student is logged in.  Since student access to Course sites is  
available only to their unique student user ID, we point out that  
they will need to make separate arrangements with their instructors  
to have their guest account added to any Course sites they want to  
access.  Most instructors have no problem with doing this.

Also - not an access solution really, but as many students are really  
just concerned with access to materials in Resources, we tell them to  
download and save any materials/ content they'll want from a Course  
site before their BCP expires.

Jeff




On Aug 17, 2009, at 12:08 PM, David Horwitz wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> A semi idle question: Does any one have a policy that allows their  
> alumni continued access to the learning environment after they  
> graduate?
>
> The reason I ask is we're seeing an increase in the number of  
> support queries from recent graduates who seem to expect to have  
> continued access (and seemingly would value it)
>
> Regards
>
> David
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Jeff Ziegler - CTools Help Desk Supervisor
CTools Implementation Group
Digital Media Commons, Duderstadt Center
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