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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">We have been working with DCAD and our developer, Penzias, to both install this module on our site and work out any bugs. My understanding is that DCAD and IS&T developed
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">In terms of the feed - we had to get permission from the registrar’s office to access the course information directly from the warehouse (there are some restrictions there)
and tweak it a bit for the site. I don’t believe there is a standard feed from the warehouse that lists this information. Unfortunately I don’t know much more about that part of the process. Our developer, Mike Rossetti from Penzias, has really taken the
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> William T. G. Litant
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<b>To:</b> Rachel Traughber<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: Posting course schedule to dept. site<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So, is this data warehouse feed available to all of us? can you tell us whom we contact at Data Warehouse?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Jun 10, 2015, at 9:01 AM, Rachel Traughber <<a href="mailto:rptraug@mit.edu">rptraug@mit.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I hesitated to send this because our new site hasn’t launched yet, but I think it would be helpful for a few of the problems that have come up on the listserv in the last
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Our new site uses an automated feed from the data warehouse to update course information by semester. You can see the undergraduate section here:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://bcs-r1.mit.edu/academic-program/undergraduate/class-schedule"><span style="color:purple">http://bcs-r1.mit.edu/academic-program/undergraduate/class-schedule</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>We
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">We also have automated feeds from the News Office, which appear on our homepage and the news section of our website. We’ve included the tags they provide, as well, which
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:editors-bounces@mit.edu"><span style="color:purple">editors-bounces@mit.edu</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>[<a href="mailto:editors-bounces@mit.edu"><span style="color:purple">mailto:editors-bounces@mit.edu</span></a>]<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On
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<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, June 10, 2015 8:51 AM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>engineering-communicators; editors<br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Editors] Posting course schedule to dept. site</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nick did a terrific job setting this up. In the past, I had to fuss with a Word table sent to me by our student services office, migrating it to html, and then cleaning it up. Now, I can simply run Course 16 via Nick’s generator, scrape
the html, and embed it in our site. Great time saver, and will look a lot better. Ideally, I’d like a real-time feed from the Registrar so I don’t have to do periodic updates as rooms/times change during the term, but this is the next best thing. Thanks Nick!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I took a stab at solving Bill’s issue below. If anyone else is looking for an easy way to gather information from the MIT Course Catalog for your websites, I built <a href="http://mitcourses.herokuapp.com/"><span style="color:purple">this
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Fighting my biannual battle posting our course schedule and have a question for you folks.<br>
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Currently, I receive the schedule from our department undergrad coordinator in the form of a .docx table. Yes, far from ideal. I then save as html, clean up the html, and embed in our site in the Drupal code for the page. <a href="http://aeroastro.mit.edu/academics/subject-information/current-schedule"><span style="color:purple">http://aeroastro.mit.edu/academics/subject-information/current-schedule</span></a> It
makes for an ugly posting, the Word>html conversion is wonky, and it takes me too much time, but I’m not going to retype the whole thing. Ideally, I’d love to have a Drupal module that scrapes the same data (course, units, level, title, etc but NOT course description)
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