How Content Propagates in EPIC
If you do this in a product . . .
Add a resource
Remove a resource
Renaming an existing resource
Re-ordering resources
Add an exercise
Add distracter feedback
Add a set to an existing exercise
Add a question to an existing exercise set
Re-ordering exercises.
Renaming an exercise.
Inactive a question in an existing set
Inactive an exercise
Moving an exercise from one topic to
another
Add a topic
Inactivate a topic
Renaming a topic title
The result would be this . . .
Will propagate automatically to all existing courses
Will propagate automatically to all existing courses
Will propagate automatically to all existing courses
Would need to create a new course. Propagation
cannot affect order.
Requires productlevel update in
Authoring?
Yes
Yes
No
Requires
propagation
No
No
No
Yes
No
Existing users would not see without creating a new
course or content propagation.
Will propagate automatically to all existing courses
Will propagate automatically to all existing courses
Will propagate automatically to all existing courses
Would need to create a new course. Propagation
cannot affect order.
Will propagate automatically to all existing courses
Will propagate automatically to all existing courses
An exercise cannot be universally inactivated as
users would still see the exercise; clicking on an
inactive exercise would generate an error message.
Exercises cannot be untied from a topic (exception:
MCL) at the product level; therefore, exercises
cannot be removed without the assistance of
development.
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
n/a
n/a
Cannot be done without re-authoring entirely.
n/a
n/a
Yes
Yes
n/a
Yes
No
Existing users could not see without creating a new
course or manual content propagation.
A topic cannot be universally inactivated as users
would still see the topic and clicking on inactive topic
would generate an error message. However, topics
no longer desired should no longer be mapped at
the product level.
Will propagate automatically to all existing courses
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If you do this in a product . . .
Add an eText
Add an eText deep link
Delete an eText deep link
The result would be this . . .
Will propagate automatically to all existing courses
Will propagate automatically to all existing courses
Will propagate automatically to all existing courses
Requires productlevel update in
Authoring?
Yes
Yes
Yes
Requires
propagation
No
No
No
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