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Impact of Course Renumbering on CLS Services

As you may know, a new course numbering system will be in effect for foreign language courses at the 100-level in the coming academic year. This will affect all L1–­L4 courses as well as many L5 courses with a 100-level designation. Departments will still have considerable flexibility and discretion in designating courses at the 200-level and above, including some courses with an L5 designation, literature courses, and courses taught in English. For a more detailed discussion of the new system, please see our PDF on the matter.

One necessary side effect of this is that the CLS will update its webpages and folder names where course numbers are used.

What's changing?

The CLS will change references (e.g. in webpages, web addresses, or in folder names) to language course numbers. Course numbers formerly encompassing two semesters (e.g. ital130) will be renamed to use both numbers of the new system (e.g. ital130-140). We will change the titles of web-based course materials stored on CLS servers (such as Digital Audio, VISION, Picture Dictionary, etc.) if a course number is used in the title. Examples include:

• The VISION project “Chinese 130” will become “Chinese 130–140 (formerly 130)”.
• The Digital Audio entry for the French collection “138: Advanced Language Practice I” will become “150: Advanced Language Practice I (formerly 138)” and that for “French 138: Songs” will become “French 150: Songs (formerly 138)”.

Further, we are going to take this opportunity to standardize course-based folder names to their canonical Yale abbreviations (e.g. “french115tests” will become “fren110tests”). We will, for academic year 2008–09, provide a Windows shortcut file with the old name. However, these shortcuts are only available from a window, not from a command line or Start --> Run (and, unfortunately, not from a Mac).

What's not changing?

Access to content will not change. The same people who worked with, say, the gman130 folder will be able to work with the gman130-140 folder.

What's next?

We recommend working with your CLS liaison for:

• Changing content embedded in or linked from a CRAFT project.
• Updating Oral Production Test (OPT) titles or content

If you have any questions about the impact of the course renumbering changes or if you find any course renumbering problems or discrepancies on our webpages or in your web projects, please contact us as soon as possible.

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