--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Create_Course.tex 2011/05/23 19:57:46 1.2
+++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Create_Course.tex 2016/08/18 13:55:26 1.4
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ which Domain Coordinators can use to eit
\begin{itemize}
\item Username: set the username of the owner, who will also receive a coordinator role.
\item Course Title: This is the name under which the course will appear on the
-Roles screen
-\item Course Home Server: This is the server where the course will be housed
+Roles screen.
+\item Course Home Server: This is the server where the course will be housed.
\item Course ID: This is an optional parameter to internally label the course.
Stored in the course environment.
\item Course Code: This is the institutional code used to identify the course according to the naming scheme adopted by your institution for ``official'' courses.
@@ -21,20 +21,20 @@ the above map.
selects a role in this course (standard courses only).
\item Clone an existing course: An alternative to creation of a new course with
a single item or a non-standard course with a sequence file as the top-level map is to copy the contents of an existing course into the new course.
-\item Open all assessment: Sets the course-level open date for all assignments
+\item Open all assessments: Sets the course-level open date for all assignments
to ``now''. Circumvents the ``not open to be viewed'' problem.
\item Set policy/content feedback: Sets the recipient address for these types
of feedback messages to the course coordinator.
\item Disable student resource discussion: Disables the ``bottom-of-the-page'' discussions.
\end{itemize}
-Two types of course ``container'' are currently available in LON-CAPA:
+Two types of course ``containers'' are currently available in LON-CAPA:
\begin{itemize}
\item Course
\item Community
\end{itemize}
The key difference between the two is that the Coordinator of a Course may import any published resource into the course as long as he/she has access rights for it, whereas import into a Community is restricted to just those resources for which the Coordinator is the author, or a co-author. In addition, the names of standard roles in the two containers have different names: (Course Coordinator vs. Coordinator, Instructor vs. Leader, Teaching Assistant vs. Assistant Leader, Student vs. Member).
-In addition to using a web form to create courses one-at-a-time, Domain Coordinators can upload an XML file containing descriptions of courses (see: \ref{Batch_Creation} Batch Creation) to create multiple courses. If the ability to request courses has been enabled, and certain course types have been set to require Domain Coordinator approval, then the ``Approve or reject requests'' item can be used to display a list of requests requiring approval. These may be approved or rejected. If a conduit has been established to an institutional data source which provides information about instructors of record, then the ``View pending official course requests'' may contain a list of requests for official courses, held pending validation. Validation can be attempted; if it still fails it is possible to override this and force creation of the course.
+In addition to using a web form to create courses one-at-a-time, Domain Coordinators can upload an XML file containing descriptions of courses to create multiple courses, see: Batch Creation of Courses (\ref{Batch_Creation}). If the ability to request courses has been enabled, and certain course types have been set to require Domain Coordinator approval, then the ``Approve or reject requests'' item can be used to display a list of requests requiring approval. These may be approved or rejected. If a conduit has been established to an institutional data source which provides information about instructors of record, then the ``View pending official course requests'' may contain a list of requests for official courses, held pending validation. Validation can be attempted; if it still fails it is possible to override this and force creation of the course.
Lastly, there is access to a utility which can be used to display course and community creation history.