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Re: Webwork warning

by Sean Fitzpatrick -
Number of replies: 4

I never touch the database and probably should not be trusted to do so even if I had a good reason to.

I'm pretty sure the warning is just that new course data is going to overwrite old course data you don't care about.

I've never done anything about it and I think it's been fine?

The alternative is to make a slight change to the course name the second time around.

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Re: Webwork warning

by Andras Balogh -

I am recreating annually previously archived and deleted courses, and in about 10% of the time (10 out of 100) I receive this warning. So far I have not seen anything else wrong, but I do wander if archiving/deleting some courses did not work completely.

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Re: Webwork warning

by Andras Balogh -

I just deleted a course and noticed that in the admin course class list editor the professor account of the deleted course is still there, but instead of Enrolled status it now shows Drop status.

Manually deleting the professor account from the admin course eliminates the warning. 

I don't see what the reason is to keep a deleted course's professor in the database. 

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Re: Webwork warning

by Glenn Rice -
Anytime that you create a course and add an instructor to it when the course is created, a corresponding user is created in the admin course with the username username_courseid. When a course is deleted, webwork changes the status of that user to dropped. This is something that webwork has always done.

We have talked about this, and I think that we are going to stop creating a user in the admin course entirely. There really is no point in these users being there. They have no real purpose.