Current Status and Problem
Courses are created manually via an internal sakai 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.
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1. creates course site "skeleton" with the following attributes:
i. creates site id with a pattern of TERMCD and CRN. An example is 20061012345
ii. creates a site title (tab) with the pattern (this is a MAJOR difference from the manual process)
iia. SUBJ COURSENUMBER SECTION TERMABBREVIATION TERMYEAR (e.g. BIS 001A 001 SSS WQ06)
ProblemTERMABBREVIATION is given below as the associated abbreviations for the terms. This is an internal mechanism to Sakai as a lookup mechanism.
Here is the logic for TERMABBREVIATION resolution, described in code:
if (TermIdentifier.equalsIgnoreCase("01")) return "WQ";
else if (TermIdentifier.equalsIgnoreCase("02")) return "SSEM";
else if (TermIdentifier.equalsIgnoreCase("03")) return "SQ";
else if (TermIdentifier.equalsIgnoreCase("04")) return "ES";
else if (TermIdentifier.equalsIgnoreCase("05")) return "SS1";
else if (TermIdentifier.equalsIgnoreCase("06")) return "SSS";
else if (TermIdentifier.equalsIgnoreCase("07")) return "SS2";
else if (TermIdentifier.equalsIgnoreCase("08")) return "SUQ";
else if (TermIdentifier.equalsIgnoreCase("09")) return "FSEM";
else if (TermIdentifier.equalsIgnoreCase("10")) return "FQ";
else return "ALT";
iii. adds site information also (e.g. description, long description, etc)
2. adds tools and pages to the site (from a sakai.properties configuration), see example set
3. creates the site so that providers can "kick in" and create rosters, roles dynamically
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