Everything tested and ready for Tom to fix

cms/static/js/models/course_info.js

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+// single per course holds the updates and handouts	
+CMS.Models.CourseInfo = Backbone.Model.extend({
+	// This model class is not suited for restful operations and is considered just a server side initialized container
+	url: '',
+	
+	defaults: {
+		"courseId": "", // the location url
+		"updates" : null,	// UpdateCollection
+		"handouts": null	// HandoutCollection
+		},
+		
+	idAttribute : "courseId"
+});
+	
+// course update -- biggest kludge here is the lack of a real id to map updates to originals
+CMS.Models.CourseUpdate = Backbone.Model.extend({
+	defaults: {
+		"date" : $.datepicker.formatDate('MM d', new Date()),
+		"content" : ""
+	}
+});
+
+/*
+	The intitializer of this collection must set id to the update's location.url and courseLocation to the course's location. Must pass the
+	collection of updates as [{ date : "month day", content : "html"}]
+*/
+CMS.Models.CourseUpdateCollection = Backbone.Collection.extend({
+	url : function() {return this.urlbase  + "course_info/updates/";},
+	
+	model : CMS.Models.CourseUpdate
+});
+	
+	
+