LON-CAPA Help

Remote Control

LON-CAPA also offers a Remote Control menu. The Remote Control is a separate pop-up browser window, and is automatically sized and placed in the upper left of the screen. To enable and experiment with the Remote Control menu, navigate to: Main Menu > My Space > Set my user preferences > Content Display Settings > Launch Remote Control. To exit from the remote, either close the window, or look for the inline menu command to exit on the upper right of the parent browser window.

Hints for each button appear when hovering over the buttons. Click the words Extended Display immediately above the remote command display to obtain a list of hints.

The commands available on the remote change depending on whether you are in a authoring role or course role, and, in the case of a course role, change depending on the functionality available to your current role for the screen currently displayed in the main browser window. Some of the important commands on the Remote Control are:

• ROLES (CHOOSE ROLE) opens the roles screen for you to select which user role to assume.

• CCAT (COURSE CATALOG) opens search for courses/communities.

• CUSR (CHANGE USER PRIV) add/manage user privileges.

• AUTH (AUTHORING SPACE) displays the authoring space for your account.

• RES (RESOURCE SPACE) allows you to browse the LON-CAPA network directory. (Searching resource space is usually preferred unless you know where to look for a particular resource.)

• COM (COMMUNICATION) allows you to access the communication functions in the system.

• SRCH (SEARCH LIBRARY) brings up a screen that lets you search the LON-CAPA resources using multiple criteria.

• PREF (PREFERENCES) brings up a screen that allows you to change some preferences.

• EXIT (LOGOUT) will log you out of the LON-CAPA system.