[Building Sakai] What exactly is Subject, Course and Section ?

[Zhen Qian]

Just another suggestion here in case you want to customize the required course fields other than the Subject, Course and Section levels:

Please take a look at the org.sakaiproject.sitemanage.api.SectionField and org.sakaiproject.sitemanage.api.SectionFieldProvider API for definitions of required section fields, and max char length allowed for each field. 

There are default impl of those APIs inside site-manage module, which supports the levels of Subject, Course and Section for OOTB Sakai course. However, you can definitely override the API by implement your own.

Thanks,

- Zhen

On Oct 20, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Henry, Roger James wrote:

> Hi All,
>  
> Here's a scenario that might clarify.
>  
> The Music Department of the University of the Midwest lists courses by subject (Theory, Music History, etc.).
> For each subject there might be many different courses representing different levels. For instance, under Theory, there might be T101, T302, T505; each of these courses is a theory course for different academic levels.
> Depending on enrollment and/or room occupancy limits, a course might be divided into several sections. So, T101 might have 300 enrolled, but the lecture hall only holds 100, so the course is divided into 3 sections of 100 each (10101, 10102, 10103, for instance).
>  
> So in creating the site for the course:
> Subject: Theory
> Course: T101
> Section: 10101
>  
> Hope this helps.
>  
> Roger
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> Roger J. Henry
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> Instructional Technologies Consultant
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> Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning
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> Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education /
> 
> University Information Technology Services
> 
> Indiana University Bloomington
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> Phone (812) 856-2617
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> From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of David Wafula
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 10:19 AM
> To: Sakai Developers
> Cc: Fatima Rahiman
> Subject: [Building Sakai] What exactly is Subject, Course and Section ?
>  
> Dear all,
> A dilemma has arisen when creating a course. What should really be going into Subject, Course and Section field? What exactly do these fields expect ? We have the following scenario:
>  
>  A lecturer wants to create a course, and by course  i mean an entity with code and description, that is meant to be taught for a full semester. 'ICS2100' could be the code, 'Introduction to Programming' could be the description. Lets say this needs to be created during Semester I, 2012.
>  
> What would be a typical entry for these fields ? 
>  
> Thank you,
>  
> -- 
> David Wafula
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