[LON-CAPA-cvs] cvs: loncom /html/adm/help/tex Course_Prefs_General.tex

[raeburn]

raeburn		Thu Nov 28 02:08:53 2013 EDT

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    /loncom/html/adm/help/tex	Course_Prefs_General.tex 
  Log:
  - Documentation for Course Settings - provide a little more detail.
    - Cloned from moved from "Other" to "General" Course Settings.
  
  
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diff -u loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Course_Prefs_General.tex:1.1 loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Course_Prefs_General.tex:1.2
--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Course_Prefs_General.tex:1.1	Sat Jan 15 03:10:51 2011
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 \label{Course_Prefs_General}
 This panel lets you set and see some general options for your course:
 \begin{itemize}
-\item Owner and Co-Owner of the course or community.
-\item Minimum LON-CAPA version required: some items in your course may require a certain minimum version of LON-CAPA to function. The ``Details'' link shows you which items are responsible for a certain requirement.
+\item Owner and Co-Owner of the course or community: owner is set by your domain administrator; co-owner(s) can be set by Course Coordinator (owner), unless set automatically from institutional data.   
+\item Minimum LON-CAPA version required: some items in your course may require a certain minimum version of LON-CAPA to function. The \underbar{Details} link shows you which items are responsible for any version requirements.
+\item Cloned From: the title of the course from which the course was originally cloned when it was created. 
 \item Course/Community Description: the name under which your course or community shows up on Roles screens.
-\item Course ID or number: an internal identifier for your course, usually the course number and semester.
-\item URL of Syllabus: if you want use an external page as a syllabus (for example, the posting from your department) instead of the build-in template or some uploaded file, enter the URL here.
+\item Course ID or number: an optional internal identifier for your course, usually the course number and semester.
+\item Categorize course: if your domain has been configured to allow Course Coordinators to choose the categorization used for their course on the publicly available course catalog page, there will be a \underbar{Display Categories} link to allow you to set that.   
+\item Syllabus status: shows the syllabus type currently in use, and includes an \underbar{Edit} link which loads the syllabus editing page, and a \underbar{View} link which shows the syllabus. 
 \item Users allowed to clone course/community: here you can set rules for which users are allowed to create copies (``clones'') of your course/community.
+\item Replacement titles for standard course roles: if you want the names of roles to be different from those used
+by default, enter alternative names in the table. 
 \end{itemize}
+
+Click the \fbox{Save Changes} button after making any changes to save them.