How to navigate through this course



Scroll bars
Scroll bars are the grey strip at the very right hand edge of this screen. They have an arrow at each end. If you click in the grey area the view will jump down one screen. If you hold the mouse button down on the arrow the screen view will slowly move down.


Buttons
Using the mouse to click on a button will take you to another page of the course. There are buttons on every page of this course. If you have already been to where the button takes you the box surrounding the button will be red, if you have not been there yet it will be blue.


The buttons on the top of the page. (Browser Buttons)
"Back" - will take you to the last page you were on.
"Forward" - will take you to the page you were at before you pressed the back button.
"Home" - takes you to the page configured in the preferences to be your Browser's Home URL.
"Reload" - causes the current page to be reloaded. Holding down the "Option" (Mac) or "Control" (PC) key as you click this button causes an "Absolute" reload of the current page from the server.
"Images" - will display images on your page if your browser is not displaying them automatically.


Other buttons

In its various forms takes you to a "Contents" page of the current page

orTakes you to the previous page in a sequence

or Takes you to the next page in a sequence

Provides you with the answer to a question

or takes you to the glossary

or brings you to this help page



Hyper text
Hyper text are parts of the text that are links to take you to other pages. In most cases it links to the definition of the word in a glossary. You can tell which parts of the text are Hypertext by their underlining and because they are coloured.