How to cleanup the mess?

OK, PC users since the days of the original real IBM PC...over the last six months or so our household has drunk the cool-aid, as they say: two iPhones, two iPod touch and two nicely-loaded Mac Pro's. We are not abandoning PC's, just adding on Macs to see what develops.
Today we got an AppleTV and a nagging issue that I saw in iTunes/iPhone/iPod continued across to this new platform: Content organization seems to be really, really poor all across.
The primary reason we got AppleTV is to download and watch many of the wonderful courses available in iTunesU. When you download one of these you typically get a number of lectures, say 10 to 20. Each lecture is it's own program, usually around an hour long.
As they are downloaded by iTunes they are placed on separate folders under the iTunesU folder. That's great. That is exactly the way I would want to organize them: ten to twenty videos corresponding to a course are located within a folder with the name of the course.
OK up to that point. Now, when I sync with AppleTV (or iPhone, or iPod) all of the lectures are mashed together. It is an absolute mess. Instead of having one main title per course within which live the individual lectures, all lectures are just mashed together in one big blob. Finding what you want to watch and, in particular, following a course (lecture 1, 2, 3, etc.) is, shall we say, less than slick. This was a brutal surprise as Apple is supposed to be famous for ease of use. From my current perspective as an Apple newbie I see both iTunes and the various products it is connecting with to be seriously lacking in search and organization technology.
Anyhow, I am posting here in hopes that someone will tell me that the issue is simply that I don't know what I am doing and that if I do A, B, C the planets will come into alignment again.
BTW, the only idea I've come-up with is to manually edit each and every lecture and prepend it with a unique identifier for the course. For example: "Introduction to Robotics: Lecture 1" would become something like "1234-1: Introduction to Robotics: Lecture 1". The second lecture would have to be named "1234-2: Introduction to Robotics: Lecture 2", and so on. A lot of work, but it seems that it would solve the sorting issues and provide some relief from the jumbled mess I have now.
How do I solve this issue?
Thanks,
-Martin
Message was edited by: martin_05 to fix some typos

Hi, welcome to Apple Discussions.
It would seem that the implementation of the iTunes U feature is somewhat incomplete. I don't have Apple TV, but I'm going to guess that it has similar organisaion for Podcasts to that of iTunes or the iPod. If this is the case change the Media Kind of your iTunes U content to Podcast and you should get a semblance of order.
FWIW the latest iPod Classic has just had a firmware update that introduces an iTunes U section on the iPod that parallels the Podcast menus. If & when other iPods or Apple TV will get a similar overhaul is a mystery.
tt2

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