CUNY Academic Commons

Hi All,

I am trying to add a few courses to the ft. courses list and have a question about this process. I am having a hard time identifying the correct course code and the inability to verify the course url from the backend courses list (https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=cac_course) is making this process take a really long time.

For example I am trying to add this site: https://childlit.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

But when i search here for "Performance of Children's Literature TEMPLATE" nothing comes up and if I search "Performance of Children's Literature" I get 3 hits none of which are correct. If I widen the search to "performance" I get a lot of hits with the correct course title but have no way to determine which is the right course (thi faculty member teaches the course repeatedly on the Commons) because the URL is not visible anywhere and I cannot click anything to go to the course site. This means I have to get the course code, add it to the featured courses list, check the front end to see if it's the right course and remove if not.

This faculty member teaches this course repeatedly on the commons so after doing this 4 times and failing to find the right version I came here hoping we might find a more streamlined way to do this. What should take 1-2 mins (adding the course to the list) takes a long time if there are many versions of the course and no way to check the URL or ID the correct version on the back end.

Am i missing something? Is there a quicker way to check if I have the right course ID? Is there any way we can make this process easier?

Thanks for any insight you all can offer.

I think that the specific problem you're having with this search might be the apostrophe. It looks like it might be encoded differently for different courses, which is why it's showing up in some cases but not in others. When I search for 'performance literature', I get what seems like a more "complete" list. https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/edit.php?action2=-1&action=-1&m=0&paged=1&post_status=all&post_type=cac_course&s=performance+literature

I can add a few columns to this view that might make it more helpful (currently there's only Title and Date):
- ID (so that it's easy to see the ID at a glance without looking at URLs)
- Site URL
- Group URL

Would that help?

Thanks for the search tip, will try that!

I can add a few columns to this view that might make it more helpful (currently there's only Title and Date):
- ID (so that it's easy to see the ID at a glance without looking at URLs)
- Site URL
- Group URL

Would that help?

Yes!!

Sounds good. Added in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac-courses/commit/a3cbecabc05868310fcd73ca7587d04075c07cd7, https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac-courses/commit/b1a9bc4533c1a2c3057bdd797bd37cc662e03d0a. This will be part of next week's maintenance release.