--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Course_Prefs_Other.tex 2013/11/27 23:16:18 1.2 +++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Course_Prefs_Other.tex 2016/08/20 20:27:03 1.3 @@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ The variable ``reshome'' determines wher 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 \&EXT('course.myvariablename'), +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().