Choosing an "Internal Course Name"

Again, all of the "normal" and "standalone" courses on a Manhattan server are stored within sub-directories of the distribution's courses directory:

manhat-x.x.x/courses   <-- groups and courses are stored in the 'courses' directory

    f03         <-- a 'group' is a subdirectory under 'courses'
        engl10101
        math13103   <--the f03 group has 3 courses - the 'internal course names' are also
        hist35101         directory names

    s04         <-- another course group
        engl10102
        cis40021

The internal course name is important. Choose a name that will let you, the server administrator, know exactly which course is stored in that directory. The best approach is to use the same course-code-section information that's used to identify the course within your school's information system. At my college, I know that the course "phy10101" within group "f03" is Physics 101 section 01 for the Fall 2003 semester, for example.

The programs that allow system administrators to work with courses allow you to search for courses by their group and internal course name

As for the group name, try to keep the internal course names short, say under 20 characters. Since you are specifying the name of a directory on the server, use only letters of the alphabet, the digits 0-9, and underscores (or dashes if you prefer) in the names. DON'T use spaces!

When you create a Course template, Manhattan will automatically insert an uppercase 'T' in front of the internal course name you specify, if one is not already there, as mentioned in the previous section. The internal course name for a normal or standalone course must NOT start with a 'T' - Manhattan will warn you if you make this mistake.