The approach suggested by Blackboard is fine except for the Admin
overhead.
I discovered last week that if you create a course for "shared
documents" and through the Sys Admin set it to allow Guest access then
you can link to the documents in that course from another course which
has specified users. The advantage is you don't have to enroll users
on the "shared documents" course. We have guest access to Bb disabled
so only registered users can access them.
If anyone has tried this and discovered it has problems let me know and
I'll just wait fro Bb 6
Bye
Paul
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 13:57:31 +0100 Andrea Chappell
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> Hi Fiona,
> Blackboard has a document that talks about this kind of thing. They
> recommend that you create 1+N courses, where N is the number of
> sections in
> your course. You put all of your notes in the one "main" course, and
> then
> create separate courses for each section/course using the notes. In your
> separate section/course areas you point to the main course within
> External
> Links (or elsewhere if you prefer). The document goes into a bit more
> detail, including the URLs for CourseInfo 4 and Blackboard 5.
>
> I don't have a link to the page that describes this, but the document is
> called:
> Managing Multiple Course Web Sites
>
> BTW, I noted to our previous Blackboard rep that the ability to share
> modules between courses was something we very much would like. The
> example I
> gave was that the School of Accountancy uses the same case study in a
> number
> of different courses (from different perspectives). It would be very
> handy
> to have the information shared. Even in the scenario recommended in this
> paper, there is some admin overhead, I assume. I.e., having to add all
> the
> appropriate students to the one course. And even if you had the Level
> 3, I
> am not sure that you could automatically have all the class lists
> automatically added to the one "main" course. Besides course modules we
> would like to share glossaries, and calendars.
>
> Good luck!
> Andrea Chappell
> Technology Planner
> Centre for Learning and Teaching Through Technology
> University of Waterloo
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