Can an iTunes U instructor create both a public (institution-affiliated) course and then a private course without using two separate Apple IDs?

Question

if one of my instructors/contributors has a number of public courses published but still wants to post a few private invite-enrollment-only courses, can they use the one account or do they have to set the private course(s) up using a different Apple ID?

Answer 1

Thank you for adding the ability to manage sections and divisions! This could not have come at a better time for us.
I have found a few discrepancies between the XSD and the actual behavior. Perhaps you could shed some light on these differences:
1. DeletePermission is documented, both in the PDF and in the XSD, as taking a ParentHandle and a Permission. However, this does not work - I get the following error:
No Credential node specified in XML at #document-->ITunesUDocument-->DeletePermission
Sending a ParentHandle and a Credential (string) does work, however.
2. AddTrack expects a property called Title:
Property Title is absent, but required at element #document-->ITunesUDocument-->AddTrack-->Track
This property does not seem to be documented anywhere.
3. What do the Destructive and MergeByHandle options mean for MergeTrack? Tracks do not seem to have any children for which these options would be relevant.
4. The XSD for Section elements does not allow children to be Division elements. This appears to contradict the data model.
5. Similarly, Section and Course do not allow Permission elements according to the XSD, but Site, Group, and Division do. And Division does not include Handle, Identifier, or ShortName either.
6. What are all the elements that can have an AllowSubscription property? The docs are vague about this.
And one last request:
Can the error checking be improved for content uploads? Right now, if anything goes wrong, I just get a response of:
Which is not very helpful. One case that will produce this message is if the Content-type/Content-disposition headers for the MIME envelope are unquoted, even though this is technically legal.
Thanks!
Dave Benjamin, ASU