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1.1       bowersj2    1: \label{Docs_Overview}Management of a LON-CAPA course is managed through
                      2: the Course Documents screen, accessed by pressing the \textbf{DOCS} button
                      3: on the remote. This screen allows you to arrange LON-CAPA resources from
                      4: the LON-CAPA network, and create several resources for use in your course. 
                      5: 
                      6: \textbf{Main Course Documents} are the ones the student will use the navigation
                      7: controls to move through, and make up the course itself. Main Course documents
                      8: show up on the Navigation Maps screen. Main Course Documents was added to
                      9: LON-CAPA in 2003, so courses pre-dating 2003, or deliberately created in
                     10: the old style by the Domain Coordinator will not have Main Course Documents.
                     11: 
                     12: \textbf{Supplemental Course Documents} are attached to the course, but do
                     13: not appear in the main course sequence. Students access these documents by
                     14: hitting the \textbf{DOCS} button on their remote. Supplemental Course Documents
                     15: are particularly useful for auxiliary files that may not be directly viewable
                     16: or usable in a browser, such as Powerpoint presentations or Word documents,
                     17: which may not work on all student's computers.
                     18: 
                     19: Manipulating the two types of Course Documents are essentially identical,
                     20: except that the Main Course Documents has some options which are not available
                     21: in the Supplemental Documents, as they do not make sense there.
                     22: 
                     23: \textbf{Note}: These capabilities are provided to allow instructors to extend
                     24: already existing courses, or personalize courses with their own syllabuses
                     25: or information pages. Main Course Documents and Supplemental Course documents
                     26: do not carry over from one course to another. If you would like to create
                     27: documents that can be used in multiple courses, please talk to your LON-CAPA
                     28: Domain Coordinator about becoming an Author, which will open the full power
                     29: of the Author role to you. For more information about what that means, see
                     30: the LON-CAPA Author's Manual. It is available online in the \textbf{About
                     31: LON-CAPA Help and More Help} link at the bottom of this page, if you are
1.3     ! bowersj2   32: viewing this online, or at http://\emph{your LON-CAPA server}/adm/help/abouthelp.html,
1.1       bowersj2   33: where {}``\emph{your LON-CAPA server}'' is replaced by the hostname you
                     34: use to access your server, such as {}``loncapa.msu.edu''.