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Edited a bunch of help files and added many new ones so the cc manual no contains everything that my Training Guide contains. Next step is to edit the files for readability and consistancy in format.

\label{Docs_Overview}A LON-CAPA course is managed through 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 the LON-CAPA network, and create several resources for use in your course. \textbf{Main Course Documents} make up the course itself and are the ones the student will use the navigation controls to move through. Main Course Documents show up on the \textbf{Navigate Course Contents} screen. Main Course Documents were 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. \textbf{Supplemental Course Documents} are attached to the course, but do not appear in the main course sequence. Students access these documents by selecting \textbf{DOCS} on the Remote Control or Main Menu. Supplemental Course Documents are particularly useful for auxiliary files that may not be directly viewable or usable in a browser, such as PowerPoint presentations or Word documents, which may not work on all students' computers. Manipulating the two types of Course Documents are essentially identical, except that the Main Course Documents have some options which are not available to the Supplemental Course Documents, as they do not make sense there. NOTE: These capabilities are provided to allow instructors to extend already existing courses, or personalize courses with their own syllabi or information pages. 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 talk to your LON-CAPA Domain Coordinator about becoming an Author, which will open the full power of the Author role to you. For more information about what that means, see the LON-CAPA Author's Manual, which is available online at \underbar{http://help.lon-capa.org}.