I recently discovered that the fall 2005 course creation process messed up. Multiple "Welcome" announcements were created on some course sites. If this affects any of your fall course sites, I am sorry.
If we created duplicate Welcome announcements on any of your Fall 2005 course sites, there are three different ways to clean things up.
- Let us know what sites have the duplicate announcements and we will take care of it. Anytime I see the problem I automatically clean it up. If you let us know the course ID, ENG205A for example, we will be happy to remove the duplicates. Just send me an e-mail with any affected sites.
- If you want to fix it yourself and you have not created any announcements in your Fall 2005 course site yet, the simplest solution is to remove ALL the announcements on your course site. You can do that from Control Panel > Recycle Course (in the Course Options section) > Announcements (check ONLY the Announcements box) > type "Remove" > Submit.
- The other way to fix it yourself, and the way we do it, is to go to Control Panel > Announcements and repeatedly click on "Remove" > "OK" for each announcement. If you have a lot to remove (I saw 17 on one site and 23 on a number of others) you can speed things up by clicking on "Remove" and then pressing the Enter key, since "OK" is the default button. That way you don't have to keep moving the mouse. As you remove them it won't seem like anything is happening, since the list is so long. After you remove enough you will see that the list is growing shorter with each removal.
Again I apologize to those of you who may be inconvenienced by this error. Apparently it was caused by my only allowing 12 hours for the creation of the 9,500 fall course sites. It actually took 13 hours. Next time we create courses I will allocate 24 hours.
Bill Vilberg
305-284-3949 (work); 786-218-3052 (cell); 305-255-9138 (home)
