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1.1     ! bowersj2    1: \label{Docs_Overview}Management of a LON-CAPA course is managed through
        !             2: the Course Documents screen, accessed by pressing the \textbf{DOCS} button
        !             3: on the remote. This screen allows you to arrange LON-CAPA resources from
        !             4: the LON-CAPA network, and create several resources for use in your course. 
        !             5: 
        !             6: (screenshot of Main Course Documents here)
        !             7: 
        !             8: \textbf{Main Course Documents} are the ones the student will use the navigation
        !             9: controls to move through, and make up the course itself. Main Course documents
        !            10: show up on the Navigation Maps screen. Main Course Documents was added to
        !            11: LON-CAPA in 2003, so courses pre-dating 2003, or deliberately created in
        !            12: the old style by the Domain Coordinator will not have Main Course Documents.
        !            13: 
        !            14: \textbf{Supplemental Course Documents} are attached to the course, but do
        !            15: not appear in the main course sequence. Students access these documents by
        !            16: hitting the \textbf{DOCS} button on their remote. Supplemental Course Documents
        !            17: are particularly useful for auxiliary files that may not be directly viewable
        !            18: or usable in a browser, such as Powerpoint presentations or Word documents,
        !            19: which may not work on all student's computers.
        !            20: 
        !            21: Manipulating the two types of Course Documents are essentially identical,
        !            22: except that the Main Course Documents has some options which are not available
        !            23: in the Supplemental Documents, as they do not make sense there.
        !            24: 
        !            25: \textbf{Note}: These capabilities are provided to allow instructors to extend
        !            26: already existing courses, or personalize courses with their own syllabuses
        !            27: or information pages. Main Course Documents and Supplemental Course documents
        !            28: do not carry over from one course to another. If you would like to create
        !            29: documents that can be used in multiple courses, please talk to your LON-CAPA
        !            30: Domain Coordinator about becoming an Author, which will open the full power
        !            31: of the Author role to you. For more information about what that means, see
        !            32: the LON-CAPA Author's Manual. It is available online in the \textbf{About
        !            33: LON-CAPA Help and More Help} link at the bottom of this page, if you are
        !            34: viewing this online, or at \noun{http://}\emph{\noun{your LON-CAPA server}}\noun{/adm/help/abouthelp.html},
        !            35: where {}``\emph{your LON-CAPA server}'' is replaced by the hostname you
        !            36: use to access your server, such as {}``loncapa.msu.edu''.