--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Course_Prefs_General.tex 2011/01/15 03:10:51 1.1
+++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Course_Prefs_General.tex 2014/01/31 16:12:08 1.3
@@ -1,10 +1,16 @@
\label{Course_Prefs_General}
This panel lets you set and see some general options for your course:
\begin{itemize}
-\item Owner and Co-Owner of the course or community.
-\item Minimum LON-CAPA version required: some items in your course may require a certain minimum version of LON-CAPA to function. The ``Details'' link shows you which items are responsible for a certain requirement.
+\item Owner and Co-Owner of the course or community: owner is set by your domain administrator; co-owner(s) can be set by Course Coordinator (owner), unless set automatically from institutional data.
+\item Minimum LON-CAPA version required: some items in your course may require a certain minimum version of LON-CAPA to function. The \underbar{Details} link shows you which items are responsible for any version requirements.
+\item Cloned From: the title of the course from which the course was originally cloned when it was created.
\item Course/Community Description: the name under which your course or community shows up on Roles screens.
-\item Course ID or number: an internal identifier for your course, usually the course number and semester.
-\item URL of Syllabus: if you want use an external page as a syllabus (for example, the posting from your department) instead of the build-in template or some uploaded file, enter the URL here.
+\item Course ID or number: an optional internal identifier for your course, usually the course number and semester.
+\item Categorize course: if your domain has been configured to allow Course Coordinators to choose the categorization used for their course on the publicly available course/community catalog page, there will be a \underbar{Display Categories} link to allow you to set that.
+\item Syllabus status: shows the syllabus type currently in use, and includes an \underbar{Edit} link which loads the syllabus editing page, and a \underbar{View} link which shows the syllabus.
\item Users allowed to clone course/community: here you can set rules for which users are allowed to create copies (``clones'') of your course/community.
+\item Replacement titles for standard course roles: if you want the names of roles to be different from those used
+by default, enter alternative names in the table.
\end{itemize}
+
+Click the \fbox{Save Changes} button after making any changes to save them.