[LON-CAPA-dev] Help text

[Mark Lucas]

I agree with Guy. There are cases such as the homework editor where more
focused help will be desired. If my instructors have to dive through the 
faq to find some of these details, frustration levels will be high.

						Mark

On Fri, 10 May 2002, Guy Albertelli II wrote:

> Hi Gerd,
> 
> > I actually had the following idea a little while ago:
> > 
> > We will put new headers on the admin pages anyway, so there will be a
> > header-producing routine in lonnet. It will look something like this:
> > 
> > $r->print(&Apache::lonnet::pageheader('Spreadsheet','grading'));
> > 
> > and puts up the correct role header. For "advanced" users, it also produces a
> > "Help" and a "Bug" link.
> 
> BUT this doesn't help the homework editor or other locations where a
> more detailed specific help message would work better.
> 
> Like the plotting code does taoday, and I want to do something similar
> owith the <script> environment and the list of functions.
> 
> 
> -- 
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