Course Browsing, Course Options, Announcements, and Sidebar Links Help

Whiteboard Courseware System v1.0.3

Documentation Index

Description

This module allows the adding, editing, and deleting of departments, courses, and sidebar links; the migrating of courses from one semester to another; the adding and deleting of announcements; and the editing of course options. It is also the main course browsing module.

Related Modules

Framed External Links

Affiliated Courses

Staff

Administrators

Permissions

Visitors: may view course listing

Students: may view course listing

Staff: may add, edit, and delete sidebar links; edit course options; and add and delete announcements

Administrators: full access

Miscellaneous Details

All course files are stored in easy-to-navigate subdirectories of the courses directory specified in setup.php.

Migrating courses maintains documents, assignments and their options, assignment categories and their options, discussion boards (but clears the messages), sidebar links, professors, and (optionally) teaching assistants.

Value Details

Announcements

Item Internal Name Database Type Form Type Default Minimum Maximum Required Miscellaneous Message ID id number [int not null auto_increment] NA none 0 none yes   Date Posted date timestamp [int unsigned not null] NA none NA NA yes   NetID netid string [varchar(8) not null] NA none 1 character 8 characters yes May only contain alphanumeric [_A-Za-z] characters. Subject subject string [varchar(80) not null] long text line none 1 character 80 characters yes   Message body long text line [text not null] text area none NA NA yes May contain anchor (a), bold (b), emphasis/italics (em), and underline (u) HTML tags. Deleted deleted number [tinyint] NA 0 0 1 yes

 
 

Departments

Item Internal Name Database Type Form Type Default Minimum Maximum Required Miscellaneous Department department string [char(3) not null] short text line none 3 characters 3 characters yes May only contain capital letters. Name name string [varchar(80)] long text line none 1 character 80 characters yes   Home Page homepage string [varchar(200) not null] long text line none 0 characters 200 characters no   Courses Home Page courselink string [varchar(200) not null] long text line none 0 characters 200 characters no __SEMESTER__ and __COURSENUMBER__ are replaced with the proper values. Deleted deleted number [tinyint] NA 0 0 1 yes

 
 

Courses

Item Internal Name Database Type Form Type Default Minimum Maximum Required Miscellaneous Department department string select box none 3 characters 3 characters yes May only contain capital letters. Number course number [int not null] short text line none 0 none yes   Semester semester string long text line none 1 character none yes Must match Perl-style regular expression /\A(?:(?:fall)|(?:spring))\d{2}\Z/. Title name string [varchar(80)] long text line none 1 character 80 characters yes   Alias (Cross-Listed Course) is_alias boolean [tinyint] checkbox no 0 1 yes   Alias Department alias_department string [char(3) not null] select box none 3 characters 3 characters no May only contain capital letters. Alias Course Number alias_number number [int not null] short text line none 0 none no Empty values replaced with -1. Deleted deleted number [tinyint] NA 0 0 1 yes

 
 

Course Options

Item Internal Name Database Type Form Type Default Minimum Maximum Required Miscellaneous Number course number [int not null] NA none 0 none yes   Table Border Color tablebordercolor hex color [char(6)] hex color 000000 000000 FFFFFF yes   Table Top Color tabletopcolor hex color [char(6)] hex color C0C0C0 000000 FFFFFF yes   Table Bottom Color tablebottomcolor hex color [char(6)] hex color D3D3D3 000000 FFFFFF yes   Table Color 1 tablecolor1 hex color [char(6)] hex color FFFFFF 000000 FFFFFF yes   Table Color 2 tablecolor2 hex color [char(6)] hex color F0F0F0 000000 FFFFFF yes   Error Color errorcolor hex color [char(6)] hex color FF0000 000000 FFFFFF yes   Message Color messagecolor hex color [char(6)] hex color 000000 000000 FFFFFF yes   Decimal Places floatround number [tinyint] select box 3 2 4 yes   Histogram Type histograms number [tinyint] select box 2 0 3 yes   Default Announcements History announcementshistory number [tinyint] select box 1 0 3 yes 0 => "Last 7 Days", 1 => "Last 30 Days", 2 => "All Announcements" Announcement-style Documents announcementstyledocuments boolean [tinyint] checkbox no 0 1 yes   Hide Numeric Grade From Students hidenumericgrade boolean [tinyint] checkbox no 0 1 yes Students never see other students' grades. This hides students' numeric grades in the grades module. Grades Message gradesmessage string [text] text area none 0 characters none no Allows multiple lines. No more than 80 characters per line.

 
 

Sidebar Links

Item Internal Name Database Type Form Type Default Minimum Maximum Required Miscellaneous Sidebar Link ID id number [int not null auto_increment] NA none 0 none yes   Link Text name string [varchar(25) not null] long text line none 1 character 25 characters yes   Link link string [varchar(200) not null] long text line none 1 character 200 characters yes   Open in Frame frame boolean [tinyint] checkbox no 0 1 yes   Open in New Window newwindow boolean [tinyint] checkbox no 0 1 yes   Deleted deleted number [tinyint] NA 0 0 1 yes