\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''.
