Ensure new courses use the latest Learning Object Repository content

Instructional Design

Ensure new courses use the latest Learning Object Repository content – 3900.123

Impact: Instructors and administrators
Updated Help Topic: Learning Object Repository
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Instructors and Administrators

We enhanced the syncing logic in the Learning Object Repository. Courses that have ended or are marked as complete don't receive updates from the Learning Object Repository. This means Learning Object Repository objects may be updated after a course ends, but before that course is used as a template for a new one, which could cause outdated content to be copied forward.

Image 1. The current sync model can result in an outdated copy of an object.

A flowchart illustrating the current syncing process in the Learning Object Repository through a series of boxes and arrows. An open course receives updates, but after that course goes through a status change and is closed, updates are blocked. When the course is copied in the next semester, that course now has outdated objects, but it still receives updates.

Now, when content is copied from one course to another, the system will automatically pull in the latest version of each Learning Object Repository object to ensure that new courses always start with the most current materials. As a result, content authors no longer need to manually update Learning Object Repository objects after a course begins.

Image 2. Copied objects are automatically updated in the new sync model.