Marion
On the Blackboard side, look at the settings in SysAdmin > Content Collection > Settings > Copy Settings
The blurb starts "Select from the options below to control whether permissions to Content System items are updated when a user copies a course or organisation."
The setting you want is "Update permissions for Content System items and folders, including those in e-Reserves"
This works for us, because we have course templates from which the new semester's courses are created.
Whether it works for you probably depends on how your new courses are created - it should work if the new courses are copies of the old ones.
Otherwise, you've got to update the permissions on those CLA scans each year.
Mind you, that's probably what the CLA would want you to do.
I'm not directly involved in the administration of the CLA scheme, but is there not a requirement that these permissions are renewed each year? i.e. scans are made for course X in a specific academic year, and should not automatically be extended to all future cohorts.
all the best
Andy
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From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Marion Kennedy
Sent: 04 March 2010 14:47
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Subject: Using ereserves in Blackboards content system
Hi
Does anyone use Blackboard's content collection e-reserve who might be able
to help with this one?
The Library here are using ereserves to store scans of published materials
scanned under the Copyright Licencing Agency's scanning licence.
We have scans that teaching staff want to carry over from 2008-2009
courses to the current 2009-2010 courses and which were originally stored in
the the course e-reserve folder for 2008-2009.
These don't transfer automatically to the 2009-2010 ereserve folder but what
we'd like to know is -
can this be done?
and if not, are links to scans in the 2008-2009 ereserve folder still active from
the 2009-2010 course?
and if so, what will happen with these links when courses roll over to the next
academic year?
Any help very gratefully received
Thanks
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