Annotation of loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Course_Prefs_Other.tex, revision 1.3
1.1 www 1: \label{Course_Prefs_Other}
1.2 raeburn 2: This panel lets you set the course/community environment variable: ``reshome'', which will
3: have been set to /res/coursedomain (where coursedomain is the course's domain) when the course
4: was first created.
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6: The variable ``reshome'' determines where the \underbar{Home} link points to when a Course Coordinator
7: displays the virtual filesystem used to browse or import content from the shared content pool.
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9: This panel also lets you create your own course environment variables, which, for example, could be
1.3 ! raeburn 10: accessed when rendering a homework problem by accessing the variable via \texttt{\&EXT(\char`\"{}course.myvariablename\char`\"{})},
1.2 raeburn 11: 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().
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