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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''.