The Button Bar - Navigation Panel

Let's have a look at how the Button Bar can help you through the course notes. The most important feature of the Button Bar is the Navigation Panel (pictured right). This panel has a number of buttons that allow you to navigate through the course notes

Home: This button takes you back to the unit/module homepage. You can select this if you wish to go to another section in your unit/module (such as the communications centre) or if you wish to go back to the myTAFE VC page to select a different unit/module.

Content: By selecting this button you can go directly to the Course Content page. The Course Content page lists by title, all the content pages of your course. The content pages make up the Content Listing or Content path. You can open any content page directly by clicking on its title in the Content Path. In most cases however, you need only to click on the first title. The `pg fwd' button will then allow you to progress through the content pages in the order your teacher prefers.

Retrace: Using this button you can return to all the pages previously viewed in the session. You can retrace your path all the way back to where you first entered the course content.

Refresh: This button reloads the content page into the content frame of the window. This is very useful if you need to renew the page after visiting a subsection of the page or having accessed one of the button bar tools. It is similar to the `Reload' button on your browser.

Page back (pg back): If the materials you are viewing follow the Content Path the `pg back' button will return you to the last page you viewed.

Some course materials however are designed to use a combination of their own internal html links in addition to that of the Content Path.

If you are not returned to a page you have previously viewed, using the `pg back' button, try using the `Back' button on your browser instead.

Page forward (pg fwd): This takes you to the next page in the content path. You will use this button to progress through your materials in most cases.