--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Docs_Main_Course_Documents.tex	2002/12/13 18:33:23	1.1
+++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Docs_Main_Course_Documents.tex	2003/09/02 18:28:36	1.3
@@ -1,5 +1,20 @@
-\label{Docs_Main_Course_Documents}Main Course Documents are the {}``top level'' of your course; when a student
-enters the course, they will be taken to the first resource in the Main Course
-Documents, and as they proceed forward through the course, they will proceed
-toward the last resource.
+Main Course Documents are the {}``top-level'' documents of your course. They are the 
+documents the user will use the navigation controls to move through, and
+makeup the course itself. When a user enters the course they will be taken to 
+the first resource listed in the main course documents, and as they proceed 
+forward through the course, they will proceed towards the last resource. Main 
+Course documents also show up on the Navigate Course Content screen. Manipulating
+main course documents and supplemental course documents is essentially identical, 
+except that main course documents has some options that is not available in the
+supplemental documents.What are Supplemental Course Documents?
+Changes made to the main course documents, such as adding new resources, changing the order, 
+renaming or removing resources will be visible the next time you log in, or by 
+clicking the re-initialize button on the course document screen, whichever comes 
+first. Main Course Documents was added to LON-CAPA in 2003, so courses pre-dated
+2003, or deliberately created in the old style by the Domain Coordinator will not
+have Main Course Documents.
 
+\textbf{Note}: Main Course Documents and Supplemental Course Documents do not
+carry over from one course to another. If you would like to create
+documents that can be used in multiple courses, please ask your
+LON-CAPA Domain Coordinator about becoming an Author.