Online Help

Navigation Buttons

Easy-to-use navigation buttons will help you move through the course. If you forget what a button does, click the Help button at any time.

The following button graphics are not active and will not do anything if clicked.

Next Next button Move forward one page in the current lesson.
Previous Previous button Move back one page in the current lesson.
Texts Texts button View texts referenced in the course.
Discussion Discussion button View course discussion board.
Feedback Feedback button Send comments or questions to BYU Independent Study.
Grades Grades button View scores on assignments you have already completed.
Help Help button View information on course navigation and troubleshooting.
Exit Exit button Save your place and exit the course.
Play Audio Play Audio button Download and play an audio clip.
Play Video Play Video button Play a video from the course CD-ROM.
Visit Site Visit Site button Visit a Web site related to the discussion material.

Common Technical Problems

Select one of the areas below for more information on a problem you might have encountered.

  1. General Course Problems
  2. Assignment Problems
  3. Discussion Board/Webboard Problems
  4. Video (Movie) Problems

Saving Your Place

Saving Your Place

As long as your browser is set to accept cookies (small, harmless text files), this course automatically saves your place when you use the Exit button. Your current location in the course is stored on your computer or network. When you visit the course again, it will ask whether or not you wish to return to your previous location. If you click OK, the previous location is loaded. If you exit the course in any other way, your place will not be saved. As long as you use the Exit button to leave the course, your place will always be saved. Exiting the course in the middle of a graded assignment is not a good idea because you will lose any answers you have already marked.

Visiting Other Sites

Throughout this course you will have many opportunities to visit course-related Web sites that are not administered by BYU. You can visit these sites by clicking a Visit Site button in the course material or by using the Sites button. Please keep in mind that BYU does not have any control over these external sites. It is possible that some of these sites may be down for maintenance, slow, or busy when you try to connect to them. Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do to remedy a problem with an external site. If you discover that a site has moved to a new location, please let us know by using the Feedback button.

When you do link to an external site, it will be displayed in the main window (or frame) of the course. The course navigation buttons and the table of contents remain in place while you are "away" visiting another site. You can return to the course by using the Back button on your browser, by using the Next or Previous buttons (in the upper-left hand corner of the screen), or by clicking on a lesson in the table of contents (on the left-hand side of the screen).