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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.