We name the lists by Faculty code and course number and semester:

e.g EE123456W-l for course 123456 at the Electrical eng faculty Winter semester.
We add/delete daily, students enrolled to the course through the Graduate and
Under Graduate school offices. It works very well ...

Moshe

On Mon, 13 May 2002, Bill Verity wrote:

> I'm curious about what other sites do with lists for classes.Here at Penn State we normally:
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> 1. Set up list for one semester.After the semester is over, we delete the lists and archives after reminding the owners that we are doing it.
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> 2. Require the owners to populate the lists.They can get the addresses and names on the web from a page that the registrar maintains.
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> 3. Name the lists with course name, number and section.We begin local lists with an L-, so a typical name might be L-ANTHY100-2.
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> How do other schools handle this task?I'm curious whether you put the semester and year in the name - SP02-ANTHY100-2.
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> Do you offer to populate the lists?If so, do you keep them up to date as drop/adds occur.
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