{"id":477,"date":"2008-02-09T10:40:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T14:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/archives\/477"},"modified":"2011-03-13T11:51:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T15:51:37","slug":"using-webct-as-a-network-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2008\/02\/09\/using-webct-as-a-network-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Using An LMS As a Network Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ran across a video describing how to get the WebDAV info in CE6 (aka Blackboard Vista 4 Lite) for the purpose of using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3qNLPWnP4IE\">CE6 as a network drive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The narrator says this is a good idea because if the site has good policies, then backups are being made. In the event of a site disaster, you can recover your files from it.<\/p>\n<p>This is a <strong>HORRIBLE<\/strong> idea.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>An LMS is unlikely to be sized in such a way to store backups of all user content. The IT administration will end up buying more expensive storage for CE6 than for other desktop backup solutions.<\/li>\n<li>By placing content unrelated to classes, you will contribute to making the CE6 site slower.<\/li>\n<li>The IT administration will not be able to recover a single file for you should you make a mistake. They will have to restore the whole database, place a CE6 web server in front of it, and get the one file for you. Its a more expensive investment in time to recover your content.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Use a backup system to do backups. Use a online instruction system to instruct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ran across a video describing how to get the WebDAV info in CE6 (aka Blackboard Vista 4 Lite) for the purpose of using CE6 as a network drive. The narrator says this is a good idea because if the site has good policies, then backups are being made. In the event of a site disaster, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[225,990,591,134,202,77,377,394,194,384,160,479],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbvista","tag-backups","tag-blackboard-cevista","tag-blackboard-inc","tag-database","tag-lms","tag-online","tag-server","tag-single","tag-solution","tag-storage","tag-video","tag-web-server"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-7H","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}