Situation: 4 BCIS courses ... all 're-inventing the wheel' to some extent as all use the same text books, have the same practice files, etc..

Suggestion: Create a BCIS Meta Course that contains those items each individual course is duplicating.  Then link to the child courses (which, in this case, are the  4 other BCIS courses).

A meta course takes enrollments from the child courses so students don't have to sign up for yet another course they are just auto-magically enrolled when the MoodleMaster associates the Meta course with the "child" courses.

One would want to acquire and install a block that will facilitate navigation of Moodle back to related courses:

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Related_courses_block

The related courses block:
http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=1723

Notes on installing: upload the zip to the moodle root.  Unzip there.

For more information on Meta courses and uses, please see:
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Metacourses