Hi Deactivated user...
I wasn't able to attend instcon this year, but I have a question about Commons. Our CSM just enabled Commons in our "test" environment for us to play around with. In my sandbox course (we'll call this course "A"), I created a wiki page containing a few paragraphs of text and an image. Next, I shared it to Commons, but I shared it only with me (private). Next, I navigated to another course of mine (we'll call this course "B"), and I imported the page I shared to Commons to this course. Then, I went back to course "A" and made an edit to that wiki page. After I saved the page, I went to course "B" in hopes that the same page I imported from Commons would have updated itself, too. It didn't, so I thought I also needed to go back and update the data for the page I shared directly in Commons. So I wrote some notes in Commons on what I updated, and I was able to see the time/date stamp of my comments. Even after updating the Commons page, the wiki page in course "B" hadn't updated with the changes I made from course "A".
Is Commons supposed to have an "update once, distribute to many" model? How do people know that content they've imported into their own course from Commons has been updated by the owner?
EDIT: I was able to find the answer to my own question. But for the benefit of others who might be reading, I had to go into the Commons environment again, access my shared page, and there was a button at the top asking me if I wanted to update the course (in this case, course "B") that the content was also in. Slick!!! 
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