Multiple rollover
The rollover functionality is great and is used to reduce the workload for the staff.
We have encountered one issue. What we have seen is that the work on the establishing of the courses themselves in the course management system (external system) often takes a long time and there are changes throughout the year. That means that at the point where the library would like to perform the rollover there will only be a portion of the courses that are ready in the course system. This means that there are a need to perform a 2nd rollover at a later time (or even a 3rd or 4th load). If they wait with the rollover until all of the courses are ready the do not have enough time to perform the quality control of the lists before the term starts.
In the extract from the course management system we can not select only courses that has not been part of a previous load (normal or rollover). That means that all of the courses are added to the import-file. This is not a problem, and sometimes an advantage, for the "normal" load as the exisiting courses are updated and the new ones added. With rollover there is a problem; if the course has been rolled over earlier the list will be rolled over again and create a duplicate list.
What we would like to do is to be able to do multiple rollovers for a complete list of courses without duplicating the same list each time. Example: If you do a rollover and then immidiately after runs the same file again (with rollover) the result of the second run would be the same as if the operation was "Normal".
Setting a flag on the course/list that it has been rolled over and then set a tickbox in the integration profile that says do not rollover if the course has previous been rolled over should not be difficult and would solve the problem.
Asbjørn Risan
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