LON-CAPA Help

LON-CAPA provides three types of resources for organizing your course website. LON-CAPA refers to these resources as Content Pages, Problems, and Maps. Maps may be either of two types: Sequences or Pages. You will use these LON-CAPA resources to build the outline, or structure, for the presentation of your course to your students.

• A Content Page displays course content. It is essentially a conventional HTML page. These resources use the extension ".html".

• A Problem resource represents problems for the students to solve, with answers stored in the system. These resources are stored in files that must use the extension ".problem".

• A Sequence is a type of Map which is used to link other resources together. The users of this resource can use directional buttons on their remote or the NAV button to follow the sequence. Sequences are stored in files that must use the extension ".sequence". Sequences can contain other sequences and pages.

• A Page is a type of Map which is used to join other resources together into one HTML page. For example, a page of problems will appears as a problem set. These resources are stored in files that must use the extension ".page".