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1.1       www         1: \label{General_Intro}
                      2: \section*{Introduction}
1.3     ! albertel    3: Help screens like this one will be available a certain points across the system.
1.1       www         4: You can recognize them by the blue question mark symbol.
                      5: 
                      6: After you log into LON-CAPA, you will see a list of roles which you currently
                      7: have in the system.
                      8: 
                      9: You will also see a little window on the site, which is the so-called Remote
                     10: Control.  A good arrangement of the windows will be to have both the 
                     11: Remote Control and the content window available next to each other. To get
                     12: a description of the shorthand buttons on the Remote Control, you can press 
1.2       www        13: the blue \textbf{EXTENDED DISPLAY} button.
1.1       www        14: 
1.2       www        15: On the screen listing your roles, you probably want to select a certain role, 
                     16: for example that of being a student
                     17: in a certain course 
                     18: (hit the \textbf{Select} button next to the course you want to enter).
1.1       www        19: \section*{Navigating a Course}
                     20: You can move forward and backward in the content with the respective buttons 
1.2       www        21: in  the Remote Control. 
                     22: You can press the \textbf{NAV} (``Navigate Content'') 
                     23: button to quickly move to a page 
1.1       www        24: in the course.
                     25: \section*{Homework}
                     26: Your course might offer online homework. You can identify homework by the
                     27: colorful symbols (yellow - available; green - solved; red - past due) in the
1.2       www        28: \textbf{NAV} screen. You might have
1.1       www        29: more than one try to solve a homework problem, and the system 
                     30: stores all attempts.
                     31: 
                     32: As you solve a problem, the computer will give you a receipt number. 
                     33: Please write down this number in your records, it is your proof that you have 
                     34: solved the homework.
                     35: \section*{Communication}
                     36: LON-CAPA has built-in communication support. You can send messages regarding 
1.2       www        37: the course content using the \textbf{FDBK} (``Feedback'') 
                     38: button in the Remote Control. 
1.1       www        39: You can choose different categories of feedback, including a contribution to 
                     40: the course discussion. 
                     41: 
                     42: Normal feedback gets routed to the TAs and course faculty. 
                     43: 
                     44: Course discussions are page-specific bulletin boards and come up right under 
                     45: the page that you are viewing. You can choose to post anonymously, in which 
                     46: case only the course faculty can see your name.
                     47: 
1.2       www        48: To send internal email, or look at replies to your feedback, use the 
                     49: \textbf{COM} 
1.1       www        50: (``Communication'') button.
                     51: 
                     52: Please use the built-in communication rather than normal email, since it 
                     53: automatically provides context for your questions and concerns.