[Building Sakai] CM API Help

[Stoufer,R M]

Hello Nathan,

In what object are you placing the instructors?  It sounds like your instructors are all placed in the members element of the course-offering object?  If that is the case then you would experience what you're seeing.

We place our instructors in the members element of the section object instead.  That way we have greater control over what sections the instructor sees.

Hope this helps.
Mike

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R. Michael Stoufer
Academic Technology - ICS
University of Florida



From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Nathan Finley
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 6:09 PM
To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: [Building Sakai] CM API Help

All,

I have literally just rolled out our CM API integration with Banner in Sakai this week, and I am already running into an issue with instructors being enrolled in multiple sections at a time.  The basics are that it seems like for courses with multiple sections, instructors are going to create sites and seeing all sections of a give course displayed by the API, not just the one they are scheduled to instruct.  In addition, we have a general course for all first year students where in some cases about half of our faculty are getting enrolled in every section as an instructor.  They can still create create a course site for their section, but they see every section listed as well.  I'll give a more definitive explanation below:

Instructor A is schedule to teach Course 123, Section 5.  There are 35 sections of Course 123 been taught in Fall 2010.  When Instructor A goes to Site Setup to create a course site, the CM API shows the roster option for Sections 1 - 35, not just Section 5.  Instructor A can still create a site for Section 5 and does so successfully.  Instructor B is scheduled to teach Section 7, and the Site Setup correctly shows Section 7 and the site is setup correctly.  However, Instructor B views the roster and Instructor A appears on the roster list (enrolled according to the Course Offering, not Instructor list).

Again, this issue isn't affecting instructors teaching a course with only one section.  It seems to be affecting those courses with multiple sections.  I've been over my feeds several times and I'm not finding any errors.  If anyone has any suggestions, I would be grateful to hear them.  My eyes have glossed over from staring at my feed files for two days.

Thanks,
Nathan
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Nathan Finley
Learning Management Systems Administrator
University of the Pacific
Office of Information Technology - Enterprise Applications
Email: nfinley at pacific.edu
Phone: 209.946.7669

Sakai Support
Email: sakai at pacific.edu
Phone: 209.946.2147
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