Thank you Justin. A bit of testing in response to your message seems confirms 
it. Though I did not test recommending a replacement resource, marking 
something as obsolete or even then deleting it from my authoring space does 
indeed NOT remove it from the courses it’s already in. Makes sense (and I 
should have known, given Lon-Capa’s outstanding track record of “making sense”) 
but great to have that confirmed. Thank you for your help!

Doug

Douglas Mills
Director of Instructional Technologies
Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois
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From: Justin Gray <jg...@math.sfu.ca<mailto:jg...@math.sfu.ca>>
Date: Monday, December 16, 2013 at 9:29 PM
To: Discussion list for LON-CAPA users 
<lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org<mailto:lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org>>
Cc: Doug Mills <dmi...@illinois.edu<mailto:dmi...@illinois.edu>>
Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-users] Mark Obsolete?

My understanding is that the resource remains in all courses where it currently 
resides, but that it will no longer be visible when browsing or searching the 
repository.

When you mark a resource as obsolete you can recommend a new resource to 
replace it in the metadata. I think that course coordinators are notified of 
this through the What's New page in their courses, though I am not sure about 
this.

I believe that deleting an obsolete resource just keeps it from cluttering your 
author space, but this action does not really delete the resource from the 
repository.

Justin



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On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Mills, Douglas G 
<dmi...@illinois.edu<mailto:dmi...@illinois.edu>> wrote:
Hi All,

I’ve used “Mark Obsolete” before to enable removal of an item that had been 
published but was not in use; however, now I’m wondering what exactly happens 
if you mark something obsolete but don’t delete it. Specifically, we’re 
updating some content we’ve used previous semesters. I want the older version 
around for the sake of grades and student information in the older course 
sites, but I’d like to also flag the resources as no longer being current. Is 
that what Marking something as Obsolete does — will it stay around and still 
appear in older courses where it already exists but not be importable any 
longer?  OR does it behave differently. Thank you!

Doug

Douglas Mills
Director of Instructional Technologies
Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois
dmi...@illinois.edu<mailto:dmi...@illinois.edu>
(217) 244-5739<tel:%28217%29%20244-5739>


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