--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Docs_Overview.tex	2005/03/16 16:28:22	1.5
+++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Docs_Overview.tex	2016/08/20 17:48:11	1.15
@@ -1,33 +1,65 @@
-\label{Docs_Overview}A LON-CAPA course is managed through
-the \textbf{Course Documents} screen, accessed by selecting \textbf{DOCS} on the Remote Control or Main Menu. 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} make up the course itself and are the ones the student will use the navigation
-controls to move through. Main Course Documents
-show up on the \textbf{Navigate Course Content} screen. Main Course Documents were 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
-selecting \textbf{DOCS} on the Remote Control or Main Menu. 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 students' computers.
-
-Manipulating the two types of Course Documents are essentially identical,
-except that the Main Course Documents have some options which are not available
-to the Supplemental Course Documents, as they do not make sense there.
-
-NOTE: These capabilities are provided to allow instructors to extend
-already existing courses, or personalize courses with their own syllabi
-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 http://\emph{your LON-CAPA server}/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 which can be accessed in a number of ways.
+
+\begin{itemize} 
+\item Selecting \textbf{Course Editor} in the Inline Menu
+\item Selecting \includegraphics[width=0.03\paperwidth]{docs} 
+\textbf{Edit course contents} from the Main Menu.
+\item Clicking the \includegraphics[width=0.03\paperwidth]{docs} icon in the Tools at the top of
+the Course Contents screen.  
+\item Clicking \includegraphics[width=0.015\paperwidth]{editmap} to the right of a folder name 
+on the Course Contents screen. (Editor will open that specific folder). 
+\item Clicking \includegraphics[width=0.015\paperwidth]{docs} in the Functions menu when viewing 
+content in the course. (Editor will open that specific folder).
+\end{itemize}
+The Course Editor screen allows you to create new resources, upload resources or import 
+LON-CAPA resources from the LON-CAPA network.  The screen also allows resources to be 
+rearranged within the course.
+
+The Course Editor contains three tabs: 
+\begin{enumerate}
+\item Main Content Editor
+\item Supplemental Content Editor
+\item Content Utilities
+\end{enumerate}
+
+\textbf{Main Content Editor} tab is used to manage the primary content of the course. 
+Content within this area can:
+\begin{itemize} 
+\item Have parameters set (including dates controlling availability)
+\item Can be incorporated in PDFs for printing, created by LON-CAPA's print utility
+\item Can be a part of sub-folders for which different students may see a subset of
+      contents picked from a pool, and/or contents displayed in a different order.
+\item Be organized within a hierarchical arrangement of folders and sub folders.
+\item Can originate in a variety of ways including import from the shared content pool.
+\end{itemize}
+
+Within the course, 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 (version 1.0), 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 Course Documents\index{main content} in versions 1.0 through 2.10.
+
+\textbf{Supplemental Content Editor} tab is used to manage supplemental content in the course.
+Content within this area is restricted to uploaded files, a syllabus page, a web page created using
+the HTML editor, or a web page on an external server retrived from a remote site, but displayed within 
+the LON-CAPA interface. A hierarchical arrangement of folders and sub folders can be created. 
+Students access supplemental content 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 require a viewer to be installed on a student's computer.
+
+NOTE: Although the Course Editor provides instructors with the ability to import content
+from the shared content pool, or to copy content from other courses, as well as personalize 
+courses with their own syllabi or information pages,  for the ultimate power
+in creating reusable content, you will want to become a content \textbf{Author}.  This is
+especially true if you plan to create your own assignments.  The ``simple problem'' templates
+available to create assessment items directly with a course, provide a much restricted set of
+components compared to those available when constructing assessment items as an author.
+
+Policies and methods for creation of \textbf{Author} roles vary depending on user status and domain. If you are a course instructor, and you do not have an authoring role, and you do not see a ``Request author role'' link on your Roles page, make a request through the ``Ask Helpdesk'' link available on the ``Help'' page.
+For more information about content authoring in LON-CAPA, see
+the LON-CAPA Author's Manual available online at \texttt{http://help.lon-capa.org}.