--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Docs_Overview.tex 2002/12/13 18:59:23 1.2 +++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Docs_Overview.tex 2013/07/22 03:02:46 1.12 @@ -1,34 +1,37 @@ -\label{Docs_Overview}Management of a LON-CAPA course is managed through -the Course Documents screen, accessed by pressing the \textbf{DOCS} button -on the remote. This screen allows you to arrange LON-CAPA resources from -the LON-CAPA network, and create several resources for use in your course. - -\textbf{Main Course Documents} are the ones the student will use the navigation -controls to move through, and make up the course itself. Main Course documents -show up on the Navigation Maps screen. Main Course Documents was added to -LON-CAPA in 2003, so courses pre-dating 2003, or deliberately created in -the old style by the Domain Coordinator will not have Main Course Documents. - -\textbf{Supplemental Course Documents} are attached to the course, but do -not appear in the main course sequence. Students access these documents by -hitting the \textbf{DOCS} button on their remote. Supplemental Course Documents -are particularly useful for auxiliary files that may not be directly viewable -or usable in a browser, such as Powerpoint presentations or Word documents, -which may not work on all student's computers. - -Manipulating the two types of Course Documents are essentially identical, -except that the Main Course Documents has some options which are not available -in the Supplemental Documents, as they do not make sense there. - -\textbf{Note}: These capabilities are provided to allow instructors to extend -already existing courses, or personalize courses with their own syllabuses -or information pages. Main Course Documents and Supplemental Course documents -do not carry over from one course to another. If you would like to create -documents that can be used in multiple courses, please talk to your LON-CAPA -Domain Coordinator about becoming an Author, which will open the full power -of the Author role to you. For more information about what that means, see -the LON-CAPA Author's Manual. It is available online in the \textbf{About -LON-CAPA Help and More Help} link at the bottom of this page, if you are -viewing this online, or at \noun{http://}\emph{\noun{your LON-CAPA server}}\noun{/adm/help/abouthelp.html}, -where {}``\emph{your LON-CAPA server}'' is replaced by the hostname you -use to access your server, such as {}``loncapa.msu.edu''. +\label{Docs_Overview} +A LON-CAPA course is managed through +the \textbf{Course Editor} screen and accessed by selecting +\textbf{Course Editor} on the Inline Menu or by selecting +\includegraphics[width=0.03\paperwidth]{docs} +\textbf{Edit course contents} +on the Main Menu. +This screen allows you to create new resources and arrange +LON-CAPA resources from the LON-CAPA network. + +\textbf{Main Content Editor} tab makes up the heart of course itself. Students use the navigation +controls to move through the Main Content. \textbf{Main Content}\index{main content} is listed on +the \textbf{Contents} screen. Main Content was added to +LON-CAPA in 2003, so pre-2003 courses (as well as courses deliberately created in +the old style) will not have Main Content. The Main Content was called +Main Content\index{main content} from then until version 2.11. + +\textbf{Supplemental Content} is on another tab on the \textbf{Course Editor} page. +It is attached to the course but does +not appear in the main course sequence or main course folder. Students access these documents by +selecting +the \textbf{Supplemental Content} tab while viewing the \textbf{Course Content}. Supplemental Content +is particularly useful for auxiliary files that may not be directly viewable +or usable in a browser, such as PowerPoint presentations or Word documents -- +some of which may not work on all students' computers. + +These the two types of Course Documents are essentially identical, +except Main Content has some options not available +to the Supplemental Content. + +NOTE: These two types of content provide instructors the ability to extend +already existing courses, or personalize courses with their own syllabi +or information pages. While coursed can be copied or cloned, for the ultimate power +in creating reusable content, you will want to become a content \textbf{Author}. +Please talk to your LON-CAPA +Domain Coordinator about becoming an Author. For more information about becomming an Author, see +the LON-CAPA Author's Manual available online at \texttt{http://help.lon-capa.org}.