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Courses are created via an account (sitemaker). This account has maintain access, but not administrative access. Due to these access issues, the sitemaker account has a limitation in that it can only create sites via the Worksite setup tool. The worksite setup tool pulls from sakai.properties values for its data (and other configuration settings such as sitesetup.xml), which are not synchronized with Banner external data. This results in limited ability to select and/or data enter appropriate terms, courses, etc.
How one is able to create course sites in Sakai
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