Hi Najib,

 

We're on version 7.0. 

It's not that CS itself is slow. I've no complaints about that, but when the
CS page is opened and you want to see the institution content (and library
comntent included)  tree in the left frame it takes quite some time before
it is shown.

I know that in version 7.1 it has been improved.

 

Henk 

 

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This is a bit worrying, is this the case even after all the upgrade, app
pack and service packs have been applied? I did read that the slow loading
of CMS was a known problem and was apparently resolved with app pack 3

 

Najib.

 

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Hi Peter,

be aware that creating much folders and subfolders in the institution
content folder will make the whole tree appear very slowly. It might take
almost a minute before the whole instution content folder tree will be
visisble. 
Working with institution roles in order to show/hide specific folders might
improve that. 
At this moment we have almost 1500 users using CS, but mainly for Portfolio.
Also the webfolder is very popular. 
Some departments use their own (department)institution content folder to
store and share all kind of files. They manage the right on these
(sub)folders themselves. For students we haven't done something similar yet.

Henk


At 19:39 1-2-2006, you wrote:

Hi Henk
 
Yes the breaking of links was the reason we were -pragmatically- advised to
keep it off. I am getting a large institutional content structure and dread
to think what would happen in a traditional uni with hundreds of courses and
thousands of users! Wondering if I was missing something.
 
Peter

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Hi Peter,

there's a CS mailing list hosted at Princeton university.
More information you can find here: http://kb.princeton.edu/9277

We've disabled the course content feature in CS as well, indeed because of
the poor integration between CS and LS. Once a course has been removed from
LS the according folder in CS isn't visible anymore, but all content is
still on the server.
We have noticed that the same is valid for user content as well: when a user
has been removed from the system, the folder isn't visible anymore, but it
still remains on the server. Be careful for this when you recycle usernames.


Henk van Rijssen
ROC Midden Nederland

Hi All,
 
Firstly is there a more appropriate place to discuss the blackboard CMS or
as there have been a few threads on it lately is here as good as anywhere?
 
When we had our CMS installed and the training it was advised to turn off
course content mainly because of the orphaning problems. This seemed a bit
cart driving the horse but is what we did as we could not see a requirement
then. I was wondering what others felt, do you use course content section
and if so how?
 
I get a lot of feedback from our students who use groups extensively and
because they are often working offsite love the file exchange but are
frustrated by it's flat, chronological structure. I thought that "course
content" folders with course and group level permissions would be a good way
to manage that rather than deeply nested institutional content and lots of
specific permissions. Before going too far down that road can I ask have
others done this and was it successful?
 
Peter

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