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menu and content changes for ver 2.11

\label{Docs_Uploading_From_Harddrive}Any file you create on your hard drive
can be uploaded into your course (e.g., PowerPoint presentations or PDF
files).

To upload a file from your hard drive into the course, do the following:

\begin{enumerate}

\item Create the document and save it to your hard drive.
\item Log in to the course you wisht to add content to.
\item Select \textbf{Course Contents} on the Inline Menu or 
\includegraphics[width=0.03\paperwidth]{docs}
\textbf{Edit course contents}
within Main Menu. 
\item Click on \fbox{Upload} on the menu bar of the \textbf{Course Editor} screen.
\item  Type in the path to your document or click the \fbox{Browse...} button to find the document on 
your hard drive. Both zip and tar files are acceptable.
\item Type the document title in the Title text box.
\item Click the \fbox{Import Content} button.

\end{enumerate}

\label{Upload Web Page}Special Notes on importing \textbf{Web Pages}\index{web page}: If you have already created a
web page outside LON-CAPA you can upload the images when you first
upload the web page, in one of two ways.  Either:

(a) upload the web page via: Course Editor -\textgreater Upload -\textgreater Upload
File, and check the \textbf{Upload embedded images/multimedia files if HTML
file} checkbox.  You will them be prompted to upload the image files (as
dependencies)

or

(b) Create a zip (or tar) file archive containing the web page and the
images (e.g., in a sub-folder).  Use:

Course Editor -\textgreater Upload -\textgreater Upload File

to upload the zip file.  LON-CAPA will prompt you to decide what should
be done with the content.

In general, there is no need for image/multimedia files to be loaded into the
course content hierarchy if the images are linked from a Web Page.  Instead, upload the
web page(s) that contain the images, and then upload the images as
dependencies.  One limitation of this method currently, is that if you
use the same linked content in many places, those file cannot be shared and must
be duplicated for each page. If you 
upload a Web Page and forget to check to box to include embedded images/multimedia
files, you can still upload the individually. See the section
\ref{Docs_Web_Page} for more information about working with Web Page file dependencies.

NOTE: Your new file will be visible the next time you log in, or by
\fbox{re-initializing course}.