What is the difference between a development shell and a course shell?
You can use the development shell to save your course content for a future course or develop your content well in advance of the date the specific course shell is generated. When a course shell is created for the course you are going to teach, you can use Course Copy to copy any content area from your development shell to the course shell. Your development shell will not be removed from the system unless you specifically request that. The course shells we automatically create each semester are meant to service course activity for 1 term and are automatically included in the course shell maintenance schedule. The information from these term-specific shells can be used to determine grades and provide a historical record of the student’s performance. Links to courses are removed at the end of the semester so the Courses page of instructors and students is not cluttered with courses that have ended. Disk space is limited so we can only store information associated with a specific course fo
