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Will it override the existing version of that course that people are currently taking? Posted 2 years ago by Annette in Design-a-Course

I significantly changed a course content in my developer tool, and want to test it with a colleague. If i upload the heavily modified course to the DAC site with a new name, will it override the existing version of that course that people are currently taking?

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2 years ago by Dave Smith (Staff Member)

You have two options here. You can keep the same name and give the course a new version, or you can rename the course. In either case, the newly uploaded course, with a new version or name, will not overwrite the existing version on the web server. Those students who are currently in the process of taking the current version of this course will continue to see only this older version, i.e., they will see none of the changes in the new version.

If you use groups to assign courses to students, the students will not even see this new version of the course until you assign it to a group containing the students that you want to see this new course version.

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Answered 2 years ago by Dave Smith (Staff Member)

You have two options here. You can keep the same name and give the course a new version, or you can rename the course. In either case, the newly uploaded course, with a new version or name, will not overwrite the existing version on the web server. Those students who are currently in the process of taking the current version of this course will continue to see only this older version, i.e., they will see none of the changes in the new version.

If you use groups to assign courses to students, the students will not even see this new version of the course until you assign it to a group containing the students that you want to see this new course version.

Posted 2 years ago by Dave Smith (Staff Member)

Received this follow-up post from the original poster...

Hi Dave, the course will not allow me to change the title/version number. Any ideas why?

Course directory could not be renamed.

Posted 2 years ago by Dave Smith (Staff Member)

Annette,

Are you really unable to change the version number without changing the course name? I look at the code that generates this error message. It appears to me that this error happens only if there is a problem with the course name.

Beyond that, if you are trying to rename the course you should check the following.

  • The code tries to create a folder that has a name constructed from the course name.
  • Ensure that you only use characters (i.e. letters, numbers, certain punctuation like the underscore character) that are valid in folder names.
  • Ensure that there does not already exist a subfolder in your course folder with the same name.

Finally, I want to say again, that you should not need to rename the course when uploading a new version.

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