yet another query...

[John Ruttner <jruttner@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi digitalrati:
We use BlackBoard  on our campus and by doing this are able to follow - 
and make use of - the opportunities offered by the Teach Act. Recently 
we've had an issue come up however when some of the media files did not 
play properly in a course page. My question concerns the production of 
a back-up CD that contains the media files in question that could be 
handed out to the students in the class. Obviously the only issue is 
the use of copyrighted material on the disk and the fact that it is 
being given to students in a format that cab be reproduced. Will 
providing a disclaimer/warning combined with asking students to give 
back the disk at the end of the course suffice? Or is there some other 
acceptable  back-up/emergency  format  (short of removing all possible 
copyrighted content) that we can give to students? Anyone have any 
experience with this issue or ideas/musings about it?

Thanks all,
John



John Ruttner
Instructional Designer
Office for Distributed Learning
CSUSB


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