--- 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	2005/03/16 16:27:19	1.5
@@ -1,5 +1,22 @@
-\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.
+\label{Docs_Main_Course_Documents}
 
+Main Course Documents are the {}``top-level'' documents of your course. They are the 
+documents that make up the course itself and the user will use the navigation controls to move through them. 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 appear on the \textbf{Navigate Course Contents} screen. Manipulating
+Main Course Documents and Supplemental Course Documents is essentially identical, 
+except that Main Course Documents have some options which are not available to the
+Supplemental Course Documents.
+
+Changes made to the Main Course Documents, such as adding new resources, changing the order, and
+renaming or removing resources will be visible the next time you log in, or by 
+clicking the \fbox{re-initializing course} button on the \textbf{Course Ddocuments} screen, whichever comes 
+first. Main Course Documents was added to LON-CAPA in 2003, so courses pre-dating
+2003 or deliberately created in the old style by the Domain Coordinator will not
+have Main Course Documents.
+
+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, which will open the full power of the Author role to you.