--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Course_Prefs_Other.tex	2011/01/15 03:10:51	1.1
+++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Course_Prefs_Other.tex	2016/08/20 20:27:03	1.3
@@ -1,2 +1,12 @@
 \label{Course_Prefs_Other}
-This panel lets you set various options not covered by the other panels.
+This panel lets you set the course/community environment variable: ``reshome'', which will 
+have been set to /res/coursedomain (where coursedomain is the course's domain) when the course 
+was first created.
+
+The variable ``reshome'' determines where the \underbar{Home} link points to when a Course Coordinator 
+displays the virtual filesystem used to browse or import content from the shared content pool.
+
+This panel also lets you create your own course environment variables, which, for example, could be 
+accessed when rendering a homework problem by accessing the variable via \texttt{\&EXT(\char`\"{}course.myvariablename\char`\"{})},
+where ``myvariablename'' is the name assigned in the ``Create New Environment Variable'' textbox.  In course context the value set in the textbox in the ``Value'' column would be retrieved by the \&EXT() call. See the ``Table: LON-CAPA Functions'' section in the Authoring manual for more information about \&EXT(). 
+