[Building Sakai] Preventing multiple user sessions with the same user account

[David C. Minugh]

   There is one case where running multiple user sessions is helpful: 
when a teacher wishes to set up a new site, using materials from the 
previous semester(s), or pull together material from several other 
courses, reusing parts of announcements, etc., but where simple cloning 
or copying resources is too clumsy or brings in too much.
   As I understand it, because the Sakai system is based on web pages, 
leaving a half-filled page means abandoning it or storing the material 
elsewhere (word, notepad, etc.); if you instead open one session in IE 
and another in Firefox, you can cut and paste text, shape the course, 
all the time navigating in the old site while constructing the new one. 
By using two browsers, you don't confuse Sakai about what is happening 
in which tab.
   I've found this very helpful as a teacher, and would be sorry to see 
it disappear. At the same time, I can understand why you would want to 
prevent people from opening X different sessions.
   On the other hand, it may be that there are other ways of doing this 
that I happen not to know about, as I'm relatively ignorant about web tools.

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