Missing functionality in iTunes U

After a very long develop period we rolled out iTunes U to our campus, Creighton University, at the beginning of the academic year. Recently, I was asked to attend a meeting about one of our schools using our iTunes U presence to podcast course lectures. We were fortunate to have a couple Apple representatives on campus for another event and they made time to attend the meeting.
During the discussion Chris from Apple logged into a demo "Apple University" to show how iTunes U works. I was surprised to notice that when he went to create a new tab in a course that he had additional options in his demo site than I had in mine! And I'm an Admin!
It seems that you can create a dropbox along with other several other exciting options that I heard about but never saw as options in my iTunes U interface.
This is what a course tab edit view looks like for me:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/gKq5ys34XGapAONaYzmYw?authkey=ASjGG8b4N0&feat=directlink
I have no options on the right side in the tab creation and edit view.
After the meeting I asked Chris what I was doing wrong. He was kind enough to stop by my office and take a look. But he didn't see anything that was obvious and strongly suggested that I post to the forum. So, what do you guys think? Did I miss something when I set up the site? Is this something that can be corrected?
Your feedback will be much apreciated.
Tobias Nownes
Instructional Designer
Creighton University

Tobias,
What you are noticing is most likely the options when you are using Group Access Labels.
Group Access Labels allow individual customization of access settings for users from within the course.
A use would be, for example, if you had a setting like the following:
Instructor - Edit
Student - Download
If you wanted to allow the Instructor credential to create a new drop box tab, and override the Student credential to allow them to upload, the instructor could make that change.
The "Edit" credential does not allow changing of credential access; effectively, only the admin can do this. Unless, that is, you use the Group Access Labels.
For information on how to use them, refer to the iTunes U manual, roughly around page 71.
David Poindexter
Indiana University

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