I would like to make a request that you all allow us to make a clone of a completed course that we can then re-use and update. I often don't have time to create an entire course from the ground up before I teach it, I build the outline and then add materials each week as I go, and currently what that means is that when I have finished this process I have to recreate the same course the next semester. I am sure I am not the only person that uses the system that is developing courses under this constraint.
I have spoken with Isaac Grauke on the YouTube comments for Populi on one of the videos, and he mentioned that I could create an entire course with all the material, but that nobody uses, and then clone it; but that if I cloned a course that I have already completed that it will destroy all the information in that course. So instead I should create a "blueprint" course that has no students in it that I will clone from each time.
This creates two problems for me. First, what happens if someone doesn't respect that that course is a blueprint and then uses it? I then have to either destroy all their data to clone my next course, or recreate the course from the ground up.
Secondly, if we made any modifications to a course that we had cloned from a blueprint and wanted to use those modifications in a future course we would have to make a copy of the "blueprint" course and then make the changes, name it something else that identifies it as such and still somehow keep anyone from mistakenly using that course because it is our template.
There should be something like a course repository that isn't a bunch of dummy courses that could be used, just the outline of the course with all the data from the completed courses. All that I need is for my assignments, materials, and quizzes to stay in the same structure.
