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A LOOK AT MINDLEADERS COURSE FEATURES WHY WEB BASED TRAINING? Training is available anywhere, anytime. Students progress at their own speed and can return to the courses for "just in time" reference. Skill Assessment helps students measure their progress. There is sound instructional design and consistent content for all students. SIGNING ON Courses can be taken on the Internet at http://www.mindleaders.com/ by choosing TAKE A COURSE. Students may be directed to an internal site if taking courses from a company Intranet or LAN. Follow the instructions to install the Authorware Web Player if they appear. Don't forget to close the browser before unzipping the Authorware file. Then return to the Sign-on screen in your browser to begin training. CHOOSING A COURSE After signing on, a student will see a list of available courses. Select a course by clicking once. To determine if a course contains the desired objectives, refer to the course outline in the catalog at www.mindleaders.com/products.asp. MINIMIZE SCROLLING Maximizing available screen work area can minimize scrolling. Remove the "Location Line" and other tool bars by choosing not to display them. This will almost entirely eliminate any need to scroll down to see the lower part of the screen in the course. This can be done using the browser's View menu, and can easily be reversed when a student is finished with the course for that day. PRE-TEST Before starting a course a student can take a "Pre-Test" to determine their starting level of knowledge on the course material. This will involve up to 30 multiple choice, text entry, matching or interactive simulation type questions selected at random from the various units in the course. The only feedback given will be whether the question was answered correctly or not. Once the pre- test is completed, a summary of scores by unit is displayed. A student can hot link from the scores page to any unit where a mastery level was not achieved. To skip the pre-test, select BEGIN THE COURSE. NAVIGATION & COURSE TOPICS/INDEX To move forward one screen in the course, click on the arrow in the NAVIGATE menu (found in the top right of the screen) that points to the right. To back up one screen, use the arrow that points to the left. Students can move around the course quickly using the Course Topics/Index feature. From the Navigate menu choose NAVIGATE> and then select COURSE TOPICS/INDEX. Course Topics shows the outline of the course. MASTER TOPICS & INDEX Also found from the Navigate button, this feature allows students to leap directly to the topic of interest regardless of which course it is in. Select the course of interest from the top half of the Master Topics window. The Topics and Index for that course will appear in the lower half of the window. Select any topic from the list to hyperlink to where that topic is discussed. The Master Topics/Index also includes a Find feature {CTRL-F} to help the student locate a key word or phrase quickly. GLOBAL BOOKMARK To mark their place, a student leaves the course using the EXIT button on the navigate bar. This Global Bookmarking feature remembers where a student was in the course. The next time the student logs on and selects that course, they return to where they left off. If the student is jumping into the course for quick reference only, and does not want to bookmark, they can leave the course by either closing the course by shutting down their browser, or using their browser to move to another URL. VIEWING SCORES While a student is taking the course, the system is tracking their scores on the questions. To view these scores a student selects SCORES on the NAVIGATE menu. This displays scores by unit. If the student has completed one or more Skills Assessments, it will also show the test scores. There are hyperlinks directly from the scores screen to any section in the course.