[Deploying Sakai] course setup

[Matthew Jones]

Yea, course management in Sakai is "kind of" an add-on functionality that
many institutions have to end up writing custom implementations of. [1]
There is a sample "in the box" implementation of course management that uses
the SampleDataLoader in edu-servies to display the terms. [2]  If you start
Sakai with -Dsakai.demo=true you'll get recent terms and some sample courses
populated in this table.

After that, you have to manipulate this table with SQL queries Aaron gave or
write your own provider to implement functions like getAcademicSession.
There's no UI to manipulate this, but you probably have something like
SQLDeveloper that makes it easy enough as it's just a single table
(CM_ACADEMIC_SESSION_T).

[1]
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/SAKDEV/Course+Management+Integration
[2]
https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/edu-services/trunk/cm-service/cm-impl/hibernate-impl/impl/src/java/org/sakaiproject/coursemanagement/impl/SampleDataLoader.java

-Matthew

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Aaron Zeckoski <azeckoski at unicon.net>wrote:

> Kevin,
> This is from a previous thread:
> ---------------
> You will have to do this manually through your DB client.. Here is an
> example for mysql.
>
> INSERT INTO CM_ACADEMIC_SESSION_T
> (ENTERPRISE_ID,TITLE,START_DATE,END_DATE) VALUES(200950,'Spring
> 2009',2009-05-10,2009-05-25);
>
> Make sure you have valid (current) dates if you want to see these in the
> 'Worksite Setup' drop down.  There is also an IS_CURRENT flag for this
> table in sakai 2.6 which will need a 0 or 1.
> Not sure what version you have installed so I didn't place it in the sql
> above.
> ------------
>
> You can also just create a project course. It has all the same tools
> and functionality (but would not be tied to the Sakai CM, which you
> are not using or you would have terms).
> :-)
> -AZ
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Kevin Henderson <hcoachmd at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I have just had Sakai installed on my server. When I try to create a
> Course,
> > I am asked for an Academic Term.
> >
> > There are no terms entered thus far. I have read I can make this change
> > via preferences, however, it appears that preferences is not enabled
> under
> > My Workspace or admin tab.
> >
> > Can someone guid me on how to enable preferences and also to add terms so
> I
> > can setup courses.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Kevin Henderson
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