accession

Examples of accession in the following topics:

• Boundless and Bookstores

  • If you want your bookstore to carry Boundless materials, you can put in a request for a certain number of access codes.
  • Access codes are one-time use passes to a Boundless course.
  • If a student buys an access code ($29.99), they can use it to enter their Boundless course, and receive the same benefits (lifetime access, e-reader, study tools, assignments) as anyone who paid for Boundless with a credit card.
  • We will invoice your institution periodically based on the number of access codes used, rather than the number initially purchased.

• Revoking Commit Access

  • The first thing to be said about revoking commit access is: try not to be in that situation in the first place.
  • Depending on whose access is being revoked, and why, the discussions around such an action can be very divisive.
  • However, if you must do it, the discussion should be had privately among the same people who would be in a position to vote for granting that person whatever flavor of commit access they currently have.
  • In certain rare circumstances, the group may want someone to know that revocation of commit access is or was being considered, as a warning, but this openness should be a decision the group makes.
  • Once someone's access is revoked, that fact is unavoidably public (see the section called "Avoid Mystery"), so try to be as tactful as you can in how it is presented to the outside world.

• Open Educational Resources (OER)

  • Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely accessible, usually openly licensed documents and media that are useful for teaching and learning.
  • Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely accessible, usually openly licensed documents and media that are useful for teaching, learning, and research.
  • Open educational resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed materials.
  • OER can be freely accessed, modified, and shared because they are protected by flexible licensing licensing.
  • This means you must pay to access them and cannot distribute them without the knowledge of the publisher—therefore, they are not open educational resources.

• Partial Commit Access

  • Some projects offer gradations of commit access.
  • For example, there might be contributors whose commit access gives them free rein in the documentation, but who do not commit to the code itself.
  • Common areas for partial commit access include documentation, translations, binding code to other programming languages, specification files for packaging (e.g., RedHat RPM spec files, etc.), and other places where a mistake will not result in a problem for the core project.
  • Since commit access is not only about committing, but about being part of an electorate (see the section called "Who Votes?"
  • Regarding enforcement of partial commit access: it's often best not to have the version control system enforce partial commit domains, even if it can.

• Offline Access

  • While Boundless is a digital product that leverages the Internet for much of its functionality, we understand that offline access is a priority for many students and institutions.
  • The student grades and analytics as well as our product's interactive nature and responsive design mean that Boundless is best viewed in-browser with Internet access.
  • However, we are aware that Internet access remains an issue for many students.
  • However, of course, it's also important that students be able to access their materials even if they don't have Internet at home.

• Summary and discussion questions

  • (Buchanan and Espeseth 2009) "Developing a Bed and Breakfast Business Plan 2009", North Central Regional Extension Publication 273, http://web.aces.uiuc.edu/vista/pdf_pubs/b&b.pdf, accessed June 22, 2009.

• Cultivating Access

  • Access is important and often means a one-on-one meeting with a legislator.
  • Access is important and often means a one-on-one meeting with a legislator .
  • One lobbyist described his style of getting access as "not to have big formal meetings, but to catch members on the fly as they're walking between the House and the office buildings. "
  • When getting access is difficult, there are ways to wear down the walls surrounding a legislator.
  • Access is vital in lobbying.

• Suggested Multimedia Resources

• Dormant Committers

  • Some projects automatically remove people's commit access if they go a certain amount of time (say, a year) without committing anything.
  • First, it may tempt some people into committing acceptable but unnecessary changes, just to prevent their commit access from expiring.
  • If the main criterion for granting commit access is good judgement, then why assume someone's judgement would deteriorate just because he's away from the project for a while?
  • If high school diplomas do not expire, then commit access certainly shouldn't.

• Brightspace / Desire2Learn

  • Boundless integrates seamlessly with Desire2Learn, so students can access Boundless materials from within your school's D2L instance.
  • Students will also have access to our award-winning e-reader, with full highlighting and note-taking functionality, all without leaving their course on D2L.
  • Students can access their Boundless assessments and courseware within their school's Brightspace instance.