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Control. A good arrangement of the windows will be to have both the
Remote Control and the content window available next to each other. To get
a description of the shorthand buttons on the Remote Control, you can press
-the blue ``Extended Display'' button.
+the blue \textbf{EXTENDED DISPLAY} button.
-You probably want to select a certain role, for example that of being a student
-in a certain course.
+On the screen listing your roles, you probably want to select a certain role,
+for example that of being a student
+in a certain course
+(hit the \textbf{Select} button next to the course you want to enter).
\section*{Navigating a Course}
You can move forward and backward in the content with the respective buttons
-in the Remote Control (the small extra window that comes up).
-You can press the NAV (``Navigate Content'') button to quickly move to a page
+in the Remote Control.
+You can press the \textbf{NAV} (``Navigate Content'')
+button to quickly move to a page
in the course.
\section*{Homework}
Your course might offer online homework. You can identify homework by the
colorful symbols (yellow - available; green - solved; red - past due) in the
-NAV screen. You might have
+\textbf{NAV} screen. You might have
more than one try to solve a homework problem, and the system
stores all attempts.
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solved the homework.
\section*{Communication}
LON-CAPA has built-in communication support. You can send messages regarding
-the course content using the FDBK (``Feedback'') button in the Remote Control.
+the course content using the \textbf{FDBK} (``Feedback'')
+button in the Remote Control.
You can choose different categories of feedback, including a contribution to
the course discussion.
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the page that you are viewing. You can choose to post anonymously, in which
case only the course faculty can see your name.
-To send internal email, or look at replies to your feedback, use the COM
+To send internal email, or look at replies to your feedback, use the
+\textbf{COM}
(``Communication'') button.
Please use the built-in communication rather than normal email, since it