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- Documentation for Domain Config: Auto Course Creation and Course/Community Requests.

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A domain configuration can be used to determine which users in the domain may request creation of: (a) official courses, (b) unofficial courses, or (c) communities, within the domain. 

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.

Course/Community requests may be set to be processed automatically, queued for approval by a Domain Coordinator, or (for official courses) validated against institutional instructor of record data.

The settings for each course type may be different for the various affiliations defined for the institution (e.g.,  Faculty, Staff etc.).  In addition, course request settings may be defined for users with "advanced" roles in LON-CAPA (i.e., users with author, co-author, coordinator, instructor or administrator roles) which will override the course request settings based on affiliation. 

LON-CAPA can be configured to send messages to Domain Coordinators to notify them when a course has been requested and queued pending approval. Recipients of such messages are selected from users with an active Domain Coordinator role for the domain.  These same users will also receive messages when a course request has been approved by a Domain Coordinator.