How To Use This Course

Learning is straightforward and easy when taking this course. All you need to know to get started are the following simple steps.

Course Structure

This course is divided into chapters listed on the left sidebar. This self-paced tutorial is designed to be studied in a linear fashion, but at any time you can jump to another chapter. At the beginning of each chapter is a summary of what you will learn in the chapter and a list of the chapter subjects. While we suggest that you read the chapter subjects in order, you can click a subject title to jump directly to that subject page.

On the subject pages, you will find icons that you can click to access additional information.

	Link to additional information
	Link to an interactive feature about the subject
	Link to recommended resources on the Internet related to the subject

	Link to a visual guide that provides a detailed explanation of how to use a particular tool

Services Bar

The course has a services bar that contains one or more of the following features. To access any of these features, simply click on the word.

Home: Displays the course introduction page
Site Map: Displays a hypertext list (Table of Contents) of all subject pages
Contact Us: Displays a list of additional sources for help on the course

Side Bar

The course also has a side bar that has a list of links to the various chapters in the course. You can click on these links to get to the first page of the specific chapter. You can expand or collapse the tree view by clicking on the plus (+) and minus (-) signs respectively.

Moving About

Any time you see text that is underlined and in color, you can click it and jump directly to another page of information. This is known as hypertext. You can also click certain graphics, known as hyperlinks or hot links to access other resources. How do you know which images are links? Watch the cursor. When you move it over hypertext or a hyperlinked graphic, the cursor changes from an arrow to a hand.

To continue to the next page, click the Next button

To return to the previous page, click the Back button.

You can also use your browser's Back button to return to the previous page.

Ready to continue? Click Next to start learning.