Current Status and Problem
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.
How one is able to create course sites in Sakai
Currently, there are two mechanisms for creating course sites in Sakai. These are:
1. Sites tool: for admins, allows complete control of creating site (including siteid). This method only allows users to create sites, but the respective tools and pages are not included.
2. Worksite Setup tool: for maintainers, allows users to create sites of certain types. These types can be controlled via the sitesetup.xml configuration and other means (e.g. realms). By creating sites in this manner, the user is prompted to select their given term, and define what course number to give the site. The user has no control over the site id, as it is automatically generated using this mechanism.
*Note, using both the above methods *does not set a provider id for the site. The provider id allows the providers to detect that they need to "look up" information for this site.
Current Manual Course Creation Strategy
Currently courses are created as a type "course".
Current Batching Strategy
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