Linking multiple courses' content to 'master' course through CMS

[Ethan Barden]

Apologies if this is the incorrect place for this question!

Currently we have multiple high schools using our installation of Open edX to access content that we have developed.  As it stands, we've created separate courses for each school, filled with the same content.  We've done this to segregate student data between schools, so that educators at one school cannot see the email address or marks of students at another school.

As it stands, when we want to modify the content we provide to schools, we need to separately make identical changes to many different courses.  Is there a better way to do this?  In essence, I'd like a way to link separate cohorts back to the same 'master' content, where staff and students from different cohorts cannot access each other's information.  The existing 'Cohorts' functionality is unsuitable, for example, because I cannot find a way to restrict staff to access information about particular cohorts.

Thanks very much for your help.

[Peter Pinch]

Hi Ethan. You may want to take a look at the Custom Courses on edX feature (CCX).

http://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/open-edx-ca/en/named-release-dogwood.rc/set_up_course/custom_courses.html

> You can create a custom course in the edX platform (CCX) to reuse course content. By using a CCX, you can run some or all of an existing course for a group of students on a new schedule.

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[Ethan Barden]

Thank you!  This looks like what I'm after.