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Beginnings of a course initialization helper.

    1: <helper title="Course Initialization Helper">
    2: 
    3:   <state name="START" title="Welcome to Your New LON-CAPA Course">
    4:     <message nextstate="FORBID_DISCUSSION">
    5:       <p>This helper will help you set up your new LON-CAPA course and choose
    6:          which LON-CAPA features will be active in your course. You can 
    7:          re-visit it later to change settings in your course.</p>
    8: 
    9:       <p><b>FIXME:</b> Figure out some way to detect whether this has been
   10:          run, and change that paragraph appropriatly.</p>
   11: 
   12:       <p>If you have previous experience with coordinating LON-CAPA courses and
   13:          prefer to use the in-course interface to change these settings, 
   14:          <a href="/adm/navmaps">click here</a> to leave this helper.</p>
   15: 
   16:       <p>All settings you can change with this helper can also be changed while the
   17:          course is running by going to the PARM screen and clicking on the &quot;Set
   18:          course environment&quot; button.</p>
   19: 
   20:       <p>If you do not have experience coordinating LON-CAPA courses, or if you
   21:          prefer the helper interface, please click <b>Next -&gt;</b>.</p>
   22:       </message>
   23:     </state>
   24: 
   25:   <state name="FORBID_DISCUSSION" title="Discussion Participation">
   26:     <message nextstate="DISCUSSION_HTML">
   27:       <p>LON-CAPA hosts discussions on all resources in a course. By default,
   28:          all users are allowed to participate in these discussions.</p>
   29: 
   30:       <p>For more information about discussion and the abilities available
   31:          to you as a course coordinator, such as banning abusive users or
   32:          hiding discussion postings, please see <b>link</b>.</p>
   33: 
   34:       <p>If you do not wish certain classes of users to be able to use the 
   35:          discussion features, select those classes below.</p>
   36: 
   37:       <p><b>Question: Does inability to use discussion mean they simply can't
   38:             post, or that they can't see the discussion at all?</b></p>
   39:       </message>
   40:     <choices variable="BANNED_DISCUSSION_ROLES" multichoice="1">
   41:       <choice computer="st"><b>Students</b> - students will not be able to participate in discussions</choice>
   42:       <choice computer="ta"><b>Teaching Assistants</b> - teaching assistants will not be able to participate in discussions</choice>
   43:       <choice computer="in"><b>Instructor</b> - instructors will not be able to participate in discussions</choice>
   44:       </choices>
   45:     </state>
   46: 
   47:   <state name="DISCUSSION_HTML" title="HTML in Discussions">
   48:     <message nextstate="FEEDBACK_ADDRESSES">
   49:       <p>If you like, limited HTML can be allowed in the course discussions.</p>
   50:       </message>
   51:     <choices variable="HTML_ALLOWED">
   52:       <choice computer=""><b>HTML banned</b>: HTML will not be allowed in discussion postings.</choice>
   53:       <choice computer="yes"><b>HTML allowed</b>: Discussion participants can use limited HTML in their postings.</choice>
   54:       </choices>
   55:     </state>
   56:   </helper>