[LON-CAPA-cvs] cvs: loncom /html/adm/help/tex Docs_Overview.tex
vandui11
lon-capa-cvs@mail.lon-capa.org
Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:17:20 -0000
vandui11 Wed Mar 16 11:17:20 2005 EDT
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/loncom/html/adm/help/tex Docs_Overview.tex
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grammar fixed; formatting added for screen names; made consistent with guide wording
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--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Docs_Overview.tex:1.3 Fri Dec 13 15:39:49 2002
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-\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
+\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} 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
+\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
-hitting the \textbf{DOCS} button on their remote. Supplemental Course Documents
+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 student's computers.
+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 has some options which are not available
-in the Supplemental Documents, as they do not make sense there.
+except that the Main Course Documents have some options which are not available
+to 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
+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