Frances Bell

I thought so - then someone has a lot of work to do converting the complex into the anonymous

In the UK, I guess the relevant legislation would be http://www.opsi.gov.uk/Acts/Acts1998/ukpga_19980029_en_1 , more friendly info here http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/RightsAndResponsibilities/DG_10028507
Having had experience of anonymising student interaction, I would caution that this fairly hard work, and is much more than removing names.

Not sure if this is what you are looking for - and it's not a typical 'course' - but on CABWEB we did create anonymised but populated sample of the two sorts of collaboration spaces we offer to participants see http://www.cabweb.net/portal/course/view.php?id=41 (guest access as long as you agree to Site Policy).

Stimulated by thining about Dick Heller's People's-uni, I wondered if anyone had any workaraounds for using Moodle for Open access resources but 'private' courses.  I suppose you could put the resources in an public global glossary then link to them from within courses.

Any ideas or suggestions?

This looks great Dick - hope you get some offers of help and lots of students.