--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Configuration_Request_Courses.tex 2014/06/26 15:07:10 1.9
+++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Configuration_Request_Courses.tex 2017/03/30 02:11:05 1.11
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ A domain configuration can be used to de
The default is for no course or community requests by any domain users.
Communities are similar to courses except the Coordinator may only browse areas of the shared LON-CAPA repository for which he/she has an author or co-author role. Textbook courses use a simplified (1 page) request form, in
-which the options include cloning of available pre-fabricated textbook courses or template courses, for which
-the requester has cloning rights.
+which the options include cloning of available pre-fabricated textbook courses or template courses, and also other courses in the requester's domain for which
+the requester has cloning rights, as well as the requester's own existing courses.
Course/Community requests may be set to be processed automatically, queued for approval by a Domain Coordinator, or (for official courses, for example) validated against institutional instructor of record data. The ``With validation'' option is only displayed if the crsreq\_checks() subroutine in localenroll.pm has been customized to indicate that a particular course type can be validated if the owner belongs to a specific institutional group (e.g., Faculty).
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ The ``default'' settings which apply to
An individual user may still be able to request courses or communities, even if settings preclude that in the user's home domain. Domain Coordinators displaying the ``Add/Modify a User'' page for an existing user from a different domain will see a section where custom settings can be selected to allow requests for creation of Courses/Communities in the domain for which Domain Coordination is being carried out.
-Details of pre-fabricated courses: "textbooks" and "templates" for cloning when creating a new "textbook" course can be uploaded (subject, title, image, author, publisher, and LON-CAPA course domain/ID).
+Details of pre-fabricated courses: ``textbooks'' and ``templates'' for cloning when creating a new ``textbook'' course can be uploaded (subject, title, image, author, publisher, and LON-CAPA course domain/ID).
Validation of unofficial and textbook courses, and communities can be via a validating server/script
Form fields to send to the validator can be specified by customizing the \&crsreq\_updates() subroutine in