[Webct-admin] 3.8 primary designer

[Wendy K. <wen...@si...>]

Hi everyone,
We are currently using 2.2.3 (still), but just bought and are in the 
process of testing 3.8.

In 2.2.3, here's how I create courses:

I use the admin web interface to create the course and type in the 
instructor's name and contact information.

Then, I normally use telnet (in this case, ssh) to switch to the 
directory /webct/webct/generic/admin and can then call the script 
./add_design.pl which assigns my username as the primary designer of 
the course.

I normally type:

./add_design.pl link admin_koff COURSEID

where COURSEID is the name of the course on WebCT and admin_koff is 
the account that I assign as the primary designer of every course.

Then I go into the course itself using my primary designer ID and add 
the faculty member as a shared designer.

No problems -- the name of the instructor is still associated with 
the course in the global database, as well as on users' "myWebCT" 
screens.

The problem:

I have tried setting up several test courses in this same way on 3.8 
and made it as far as the Web interface, but when I tried to telnet 
and call up the ./add_design.pl script, I got the following error 
message: "This utility script is no longer supported by this version 
of WebCT." Do you have any idea what replaced it? It seems that the 
script is still in the admin directory on the new server, so I'm not 
sure why it's there if it doesn't work.

If I assign my username (admin_koff) as the primary designer while 
creating the course through the web interface, the instructor's name 
gets replaced with my own information and therefore on "myWebCT," it 
appears that I'm the instructor of the course. I want this to work 
the same way it did before whereas I am the primary designer, and the 
instructors are shared designers, but the instructors' info. is in 
the WebCT database, as well as attached to courses on users' 
"myWebCT" pages.

Any idea how I can get that to work without having to login to each 
course separately to change the name of the instructor in the 
settings?

We do not want to enable the feature where faculty can assign 
themselves to a course if they have the correct username and 
password. This will just confuse them.

Thanks,
Wendy
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