What kinds of Moodle course shells are there?
There are 3 kinds of Moodle shells • Backup shells named with the word “Backup” are shells that have been restored from COM’s Blackboard. • Cross-listed or Metacourse: Metacourse “parent course” has the designation XL.sequential number.term code (term code designation follows the yyyyxx format with 10 for spring, 60 for summer, and 80 for fall). The metacourse shell is the shell where you load your content, if content is shared amongst multiple sections/CRNs. You do not need to load content into the corresponding production shells, once they are associated with a meta-course. In other words, you only load your content once into the parent shell, and the children automatically can view it. • Regular production shells are designated by CRN and term code, and they are the ones you load your courses into.
