Re: [WWdevel] hiding courses from general view

[Michael G. <ga...@ma...>]

Hi,

Does anyone have ideas or suggestions for a way to build a Home.pm  
module so that various options
for a homepage can be implemented with a minimum of programming (none  
would be nice :-)  )

It seems to me that folks are going to want to be able to customize  
their home page for a WeBWorK server much more than we allow right at  
the moment.

As a start it seems to me from the comments so far that we will want  
to break the tight link between the directory structure of the  
courses and what is listed on the home page.

Take care,

Mike


On Nov 22, 2005, at 6:26 PM, Davide P. Cervone wrote:

>>> If you look at e.g. http://webwork.rochester.edu/webwork2 you  
>>> will see a long list of courses most of which (in my opinion)  
>>> should be hidden from general view.  I think in this general  
>>> location only courses of interest to students should appear.   
>>> Does someone have in mind a good mechanism to do this?  It could  
>>> be as simple as having a directory "hidden" (which shouldn't  
>>> appear on the list) and then the URL  http:// 
>>> webwork.rochester.edu/webwork2/hidden/old_course would give  
>>> access to a hidden old course.  Or maybe there could be a  
>>> directory "archive" (which maybe would appear on the list) which  
>>> would need a password to enter.  Another question is whether or  
>>> not the Course Administration course should appear in such a  
>>> public place.
>>
>> The simplest thing I can think of is: if a course directory  
>> contains a file named hide_course, hide the course. I would like  
>> to support a hierarchical courses directory at some point as well,  
>> but that's a whole 'nother problem.
>> -sam
>
> At Union, we use a naming scheme for our courses that includes the  
> year and term (e.g., 05FA-MTH115-01 is Fall term 2005 Math 115  
> section 01).  Our home page only shows the current term (and a  
> custom "past courses" page shows past terms).  When the courses for  
> the next term are creatd, they automatically show up as the current  
> courses and the others are relegated to the past courses without my  
> intervention.  Courses that don't match the naming scheme are not  
> shown anywhere (they are considered to be "test" courses).  I also  
> have special "library" courses that allow our professors to view  
> the various libraries more easily, since we don't have all of them  
> linked into the main courses.  The is a custom page that lists  
> these as well.
>
> Anyway, it seems to have worked pretty well here.
>
> Davide
>

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