'Wild Card' access setting in iTunes U - private site

Hi Folks,
I mistakenly deleted one of my access settings in our private iTunes U site today, and have managed to block all of our users from seeing any of their course content.
Does anyone know of an access setting that is some kind of Download wild card? I vaguely remember that it didn't look like any credentials were a part of the rule, so I assumed it was a kind of wild card.
Cheers!

The problem seems to be related to loading images from the apple site (deimos.apple.com). The iTunes launch page will randomly lock-up while loading these images ( there is a 30 second to 2 minute delay typically). If I try to load one of these images defined in the launch page HTML, directly in the browser I see the same issue. The issues varies, at times there is no issue and at others the images won't load properly 50% of the time.

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I would recommend appending the debug suffix to your transfer script and confirming that the time stamp falls within a 90 second window of our time servers. It is often the case that when users are suddenly no longer able to access a private iTunes U site and no change has been made to the resource that generates the authorization token, there is a disparity between the time-stamp provided by the system generating the token and Apple's time servers, greater than 90 seconds.
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uurazzledazzle wrote:
FYI:
We fixed it by using the same time server on our backend server that Apple is using on their iTunes U servers.
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Lucy,
I'm not sure I'm following you here ... lemme restate your question the way I'm reading it. If I'm not reading you correctly, just say and I and the other iTunes U gurus will try to help.
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Please help!
It would be tremendously helpful to be able to access, set restrictions, and make changes from the parents device, to all devices under the same iTunes account, so that I could make changes to my kids devices without physical access.
I understand that I can set up a different Apple ID for the kids devices, or take physical control of the device and make the changes myself. However, my teenage son is technically savvy enough to have a job in Silicon Valley, as are most young people these days. However, in order to access his devices the current way, I first have to bypass the four digit pass code. This starts a fight of why I need in the device and continues to escalate. The argument that I am the parent will gain access but the fight is simply exhausting, and quite frankly shouldn't have to happen at all. He is not yet an adult, he did not pay for his iPad or iPhone and I, as a parent, should have not only have the right to change options at will, and from anywhere, but look at history or current activity when I feel like it.
I currently have the settings where app and in-app purchases require my password to be put in, and he must come to me to type it in, but I need more control and would like, and should be able to access any of our six devices and make individual changes simply by logging in to my account, with my password.
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http://www.unwireddevicelink.com/features/
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