Annotation of loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Docs_Overview.tex, revision 1.5
1.4 vandui11 1: \label{Docs_Overview}A LON-CAPA course is managed through
2: the \textbf{Course Documents} screen, accessed by selecting \textbf{DOCS} on the Remote Control or Main Menu. This screen allows you to arrange LON-CAPA resources from
1.1 bowersj2 3: the LON-CAPA network, and create several resources for use in your course.
4:
1.4 vandui11 5: \textbf{Main Course Documents} make up the course itself and are the ones the student will use the navigation
6: controls to move through. Main Course Documents
7: show up on the \textbf{Navigate Course Content} screen. Main Course Documents were added to
8: LON-CAPA in 2003, so courses pre-dating 2003 or deliberately created in
1.1 bowersj2 9: the old style by the Domain Coordinator will not have Main Course Documents.
10:
11: \textbf{Supplemental Course Documents} are attached to the course, but do
12: not appear in the main course sequence. Students access these documents by
1.4 vandui11 13: selecting \textbf{DOCS} on the Remote Control or Main Menu. Supplemental Course Documents
1.1 bowersj2 14: are particularly useful for auxiliary files that may not be directly viewable
1.4 vandui11 15: or usable in a browser, such as PowerPoint presentations or Word documents,
16: which may not work on all students' computers.
1.1 bowersj2 17:
18: Manipulating the two types of Course Documents are essentially identical,
1.4 vandui11 19: except that the Main Course Documents have some options which are not available
1.5 ! vandui11 20: to the Supplemental Course Documents, as they do not make sense there.
1.1 bowersj2 21:
1.4 vandui11 22: NOTE: These capabilities are provided to allow instructors to extend
23: already existing courses, or personalize courses with their own syllabi
24: or information pages. Main Course Documents and Supplemental Course Documents
1.1 bowersj2 25: do not carry over from one course to another. If you would like to create
26: documents that can be used in multiple courses, please talk to your LON-CAPA
27: Domain Coordinator about becoming an Author, which will open the full power
28: of the Author role to you. For more information about what that means, see
29: the LON-CAPA Author's Manual. It is available online in the \textbf{About
30: LON-CAPA Help and More Help} link at the bottom of this page, if you are
1.3 bowersj2 31: viewing this online, or at http://\emph{your LON-CAPA server}/adm/help/abouthelp.html,
1.1 bowersj2 32: where {}``\emph{your LON-CAPA server}'' is replaced by the hostname you
33: use to access your server, such as {}``loncapa.msu.edu''.
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