Our users are "screaming" for the possibility to open certain areas of the system in order to give e.g external collegues the possibility to take a look at the course. The "publish externally" feature is not enough and is not working very well. In our own homebuilt LMS (that the users had to stop using in order to use its learning) and as well in Blackboard this is a possibility- to determine wich pages in the course should be open to the public - this is an actual look into the course and not a mirror. The user gets a link to the course - follows it and gets access to some of the areas. It the person wants to interact or otherwise be active they have to be a participant in the course and they must logg in.