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1.1       raeburn     1: \label{Domain_Configuration_Cataloging_Courses}
1.4     ! raeburn     2: The availability of a course/community catalog, as well as the type of 
        !             3: catalog provided are both domain configurations.  A choice of catalog can be set  
        !             4: for two contexts: (a) public-facing web page (i.e., unauthenticated users),
        !             5: and (b) web page for authenticated users.
1.1       raeburn     6: 
1.4     ! raeburn     7: For each context the options are:
        !             8: \begin{itemize}
        !             9: \item Standard catalog (the only type available pre-LON-CAPA 2.11), which
        !            10: contains both self-cataloging courses, and manually cataloged courses. 
        !            11: 
        !            12: \item Domain-only catalog, which is the same as the standard catalog, 
        !            13: except no domain selector is available to switch to display course
        !            14: listings in other domains.
        !            15: 
        !            16: \item Code-search form, which provides a web form to search for a 
        !            17: course by the unique six character code, which can be set to be
        !            18: assigned at course creation.
        !            19: 
        !            20: \item No catalog
        !            21: 
        !            22: In the standard and domain-only catalogs, self-cataloging uses the 
        !            23: institutional course code assigned to the course when it is first
        !            24: created, or when the course is modified by a Domain Coordinator via
        !            25: \char`\"{}Modify a course\char`\"{}. If a course has no institutional 
        !            26: code it will not appear in the category:
1.1       raeburn    27: Official courses (with institutional codes).
                     28: 
                     29: A hierarchy of categories and sub-categories can be defined which
                     30: are independent of institutional course codes. These categories might
                     31: be used to catalog courses in the domain to which the \char`\"{}official
                     32: courses\char`\"{} designation does not apply, or they might be used
                     33: to provide alternative ways of cataloging official courses.
                     34: 
                     35: Besides definition of the hierarchy of categories and sub-categories,
                     36: the \char`\"{}cataloging of courses\char`\"{} screen provides two
                     37: options to be set for the domain by a Domain Coordinator, which control:
                     38: 
                     39: \begin{itemize}
1.2       bisitz     40: \item Who may hide a course from the course/community catalog, if the course would
1.1       raeburn    41: ordinarily appear by virtue of having an institutional course code,
                     42: or having been assigned to a custom category/sub-category.
                     43: \item Who may assign a custom category/subcategory to a course
                     44: \end{itemize}
                     45: In both cases, the choice is between a Domain Coordinator and a Course
                     46: Coordinator. For the former, hiding of courses and assignment of categories
                     47: will be via \char`\"{}Modify Course\char`\"{}, while for the latter
                     48: these operations will be via \char`\"{}Modify Parameters\char`\"{}
                     49: (\char`\"{}Set Course Environment\char`\"{} option in sub-menu).
                     50: 
                     51: Definition of custom categories is by the Domain Coordinator. The
                     52: \char`\"{}Cataloging of courses\char`\"{} interface allows custom
                     53: categories and sub-categories to be defined and reordered. There is
                     54: one category listed at the top level in the hierarchy which behaves
                     55: differently to the others - the category: \char`\"{}Official courses
                     56: (with institutional codes)\char`\"{}. This is the category which is
                     57: used for self-cataloged courses: the option is to either display or
                     58: not display.
                     59: 
                     60: Although sub-categories can not be defined via this interface for
                     61: this \char`\"{}system\char`\"{} category (unlike the other \char`\"{}custom\char`\"{}
                     62: categories), customization of two routines in localenroll.pm - \&instcode\_defaults()
                     63: and \&instcode\_format() are used to automatically generate linked
1.2       bisitz     64: select boxes which will be displayed when the course/community catalog is shown
1.1       raeburn    65: to allow users to include limits to their searches for official courses.
                     66: If these routines have not been customized, the catalog for official
                     67: courses will display all courses with institutional codes, which have
                     68: not been specifically hidden.
                     69: 
                     70: When \&instcode\_format() has been customized it will populate perl
                     71: structures (hashes and arrays) which LON-CAPA will use to generate
1.2       bisitz     72: the Javascript code embedded in the course/community catalog page which is used
1.1       raeburn    73: in the functioning of the linked select boxes. The contents of the
                     74: hashes and arrays are determined from the complete list of institutional
                     75: course codes used in the domain. For example at MSU, the following
1.2       bisitz     76: linked select boxes are displayed for the official course/community catalog:
1.1       raeburn    77: Year, Semester, Department, Number.
                     78: 
1.2       bisitz     79: The course/community catalog is useful in domains where Course Coordinators
1.1       raeburn    80: have opted to allow self-enrollment in their courses. In such cases,
                     81: students can include a flag to only display courses allowing self
                     82: enrollment when they display courses from the catalog. Course Coordinators
1.2       bisitz     83: will be advised, when enabling self-enrollment, if a course is currently
                     84: unlisted in the course/community catalog (and therefore difficult for students
1.1       raeburn    85: to locate), and the action to take to rectify the reason why there
                     86: is no listing, which could be because: 
                     87: 
                     88: \begin{itemize}
                     89: \item the course is hidden 
                     90: \item the course has no institutional code 
                     91: \item the course has not been assigned to any custom categories 
1.3       raeburn    92: \item the course has an institutional code, but the 
                     93: course/community catalog has been set to not display self-cataloged 
                     94: courses.
1.1       raeburn    95: \end{itemize}