[Using Sakai] New Site Creation

[John Leasia]

Here at UMich, Instructors (or their admins or teaching assistants) 
create course sites. We don't auto create a site for every course since 
there are so many variations - an instructor using one site for all 
their courses, or one site for each, or one site for all cross listed 
courses (or not using a site or using something of their own). We have 
talked about autocreating, but always decide that the manual cleanup 
would be too great, and also confusing to students. I know other 
institutions do successfully autocreate though.

John

Beauchemin, Russell wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> We have a question about your sakai relating to how new sites are 
> created.  We are getting ready to establish integration with our 
> backend management system and we are trying to decide what the best 
> way to handle new course creations will be.  Currently, with our 
> blackboard instance, we have a program that creates the courses 
> manually before each semester starts but we are trying to see if that 
> is indeed the best way to go with sakai.
>
> We talked about the possibility of making the faculty members 
> responsible for creating their own courses in the LMS and adding the 
> enrollments but we're not sure that's the best idea either.  What is 
> the process some of you use out there?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Russell Beauchemin
>
> Instructional Design Specialist
>
> Roger Williams University
>
> One Old Ferry Rd.
>
> Bristol, RI 02809
>
> Email. rbeauchemin at rwu.edu <mailto:rbeauchemin at rwu.edu>
>
> Tel. 401.418.0098
>
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