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

[raeburn]

raeburn		Tue May 13 10:09:44 2014 EDT

  Modified files:              
    /loncom/html/adm/help/tex	Course_Requests.tex 
  Log:
  - There are now four types of "course" container which can be requested.
  - Add some information about cloning options for Textbook/e-book type 
    course containers.
  
  
Index: loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Course_Requests.tex
diff -u loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Course_Requests.tex:1.4 loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Course_Requests.tex:1.5
--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Course_Requests.tex:1.4	Fri Dec 27 14:20:40 2013
+++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Course_Requests.tex	Tue May 13 10:09:44 2014
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 The Course/Community requests utility is a multi-page web form which allows you to submit new requests, as well as view, modify or cancel pending requests, currently queued awaiting administrative action.
 
-There are three types of course container which may be requested, although you might only have rights to request a subset of these.  The types are:
+There are four types of course container which may be requested, although you might only have rights to request a subset of these.  The types are:
 
 \begin{enumerate}
 \item
@@ -12,12 +12,12 @@
 \item
 \textbf{Unofficial courses} are ones for which there is no institutional code, but which otherwise are no different to official courses.  The resources included in such courses, once created, can include both items uploaded directly to a course, and also items imported from the cross-institutional repository of shared resources.  That repository is available to you if your LON-CAPA installation is part of the LON-CAPA cluster.
 
-\item\textbf{Textbook/e-text courses} are intended to accompany a specific text, and include pre-packaged homework assignments created for the particular text. This could be a traditional textbook, or alternatively an online e-text.
+\item\textbf{Textbook/e-text courses} are intended to accompany a specific text, and include pre-packaged homework assignments created for the particular text. This could be a traditional textbook, or alternatively an online e-text. The web form for this type of request is a simplified single page form.
 
 \item
-\textbf{Communities} are intended to provide collaborative spaces for groups of users to interact and share materials.  The same set of tools that are available in a regular course are available in a Community. One difference is that resources in the cross-instutional repository are not in general available for incorporation into a Community.  An exception to this is made for resources authored or co-authored by community coordinators, and which have been added to the shared resource pool.
+\textbf{Communities} are intended to provide collaborative spaces for groups of users to interact and share materials.  The same set of tools that are available in a regular course are available in a Community. One difference is that resources in the cross-institutional repository are not, in general, available for incorporation into a Community.  An exception to this is made for resources authored or co-authored by community coordinators, which have been added to the shared resource pool.
 \end{enumerate}
 
-Depending on the type of course being created, and corresponding settings in the domain, you will be prompted to choose access dates, course personnel etc., and whether your new course should be cloned from an existing course for which you have cloning rights.   Communities may be cloned from existing communities, but not from existing courses.
+Depending on the type of course being created, and corresponding settings in the domain, you will be prompted to choose access dates, course personnel etc., and whether your new course should be cloned from an existing course for which you have cloning rights.   Communities may be cloned from existing communities, but not from existing courses. In the case of a textbook/e-text course, the cloning options will include one of more of the following choices: available textbooks, pre-existing templates and your existing courses.
 
 Unless your request is for a textbook/e-text, a review page will be displayed summarizing the choices you have made, before you submit your course request for processing.  Your Course/Community request may be set to be processed automatically, queued for approval by a Domain Coordinator, or (for official courses) validated against institutional instructor of record data. LON-CAPA messages are sent to course requestors when a queued course is approved, or an official course which had been queued pending validation of instructor status, is created when validation occurs.