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    Course/Organization Management

    Ultimately, a course and an organization have the same functions.

    Course vs. Organization

    • Courses have a fixed start and end date; Organizations are "Open Ended."
    • Faculty can create their own courses, whereas, users must put in an IT Support Center ticket to request that an organization be created.
    • Only Faculty and Staff can request the creation of an organization.  If a student needs to create an organization, a faculty member's eID and enrollment as a "Co-Leader" must be included in the request.
    • Courses are automatically populated via the banner enrollment file; Leaders must manually enroll users to their organization.
    • Course and Organization user roles have different names but the same privileges.
      • Faculty vs Leader
      • Student vs Participant
      • Teaching Assistant vs Assistant
      • Course Builder vs Organization Builder
      • Grader vs Grader
      • Guest vs Guest
    • Courses are automatically archived after a period of time; Organization, currently (this could possibly change) are not deleted until requested by the Leader(s).
    • Courses can be merged/cross-listed with other courses or sections; Organizations cannot be merged/cross-listed.
    • Courses usually have assessments and grades and that is usually not the case in an organization. Although, Organizations do have a grade center the same as a Course and are capable of the same features.

    ** In this section, if something is not otherwise stated for an organization, it is safe to assume the course and organization work the exact same way.

    This article was updated: 12/7/2017

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