[Building Sakai] how should lesson builder's site copy handle tests and assignments?

[Charles Hedrick]

I'm about to start fixing site copy in Lesson Builder to map entities from the old site to the new site. Currently if you have a reference to a test, assignment or forum, the new site gets a dummy reference. It's not that hard to update the reference to point to the corresponding object in the new site.

However there are issues:

* In assignments, you can't actually use the new assignment until you publish it. It starts out as draft. The gives you a chance to review things like due date, which typically need to be different. If I do the obvious update, the link in the new site will be to the right object, but it won't work until the assignment is published. Should I publish it?

* In Samigo, it's even harder. Lesson Builder points to published assessments, since that's what students use. BUt when you copy a site you get only the core assessments. Nothing is published. That's reasonable, since there are changes you can't make after publishing, and you'd like to give the instructor a chance to review the assessment before publishing it.

In this case I can't insert a pointer at all. I have no idea what the published assessment ID will be. I could certainly publish the test myself as part of the copy and put in a reference to the published copy. Of course that assumes that there is still a corresponding core assessment, and it has the same name as the published assessment. That's not always true. SHould I try to publish something?

Mneme is easier. It has only one type of assessment. To publish something you just change a flag. Should I put in a pointer to the assessment in the new site, but leave it unpublished (and thus nonfunctional)?