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This functionality should be optional, as some schools might wish to continue to allow the external system to calculate a student's GPA.

Share data with other portlets

Jasig would like to have course-related information available to other portlets.  Some examples where this would be useful are

1. Calendar portlet that can integrate a student's or teacher's course schedule into their calendar
2. Map view that obtains the current list of courses and their locations to display a visual map to the student.

To accomplish this we'd like to have the courses portlet DAO code split into a separate module so it can be included in other portlets to access course-related information. https://issues.jasig.org/browse/COURSESPLT-10