[Deploying Sakai] Profs squirreling away old course sites

[Paul Gibbs]

Thank you, everyone! I see there are many ways to address this!

Branden--a weekly job that simply unpublishes sites from semesters ending X months ago would probably be best for our setting. Would it be possible to send us a copy of the job you are currently running?

If unpublishing sites automatically causes issues, we can always follow a combination of the practices at UMich and UVa.

Thank you!

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Branden Visser [mailto:branden at uwindsor.ca] 
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 9:10 AM
To: Paul Gibbs
Cc: production at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: Re: [Deploying Sakai] Profs squirreling away old course sites

Paul:

We run a job that unpublishes all old sites, and unsets the "provided"
field for all users (i.e., makes all users non-provided).

Setting the users as "unprovided" is a local requirement due to the fact that our LDAP system only shows the current semester data.

Hope that helps,
Branden

On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 14:59 -0400, Paul Gibbs wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> How do you handle old course sites? Do you do something that 
> automatically unpublishes or deletes a prior term's courses?
> 
> Our profs aren't removing or unpublishing their old sites, and I'm 
> concerned about cluttering up the student's view.
> 
> We are using course management with Sakora.
> 
> Gracias!
> 
> Paul Gibbs
> Lansdale, Pennsylvania
> 
> 
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