• What Kinds of Things Can I Do in Study?
• How Do I Answer the Practice Problems?
• Why am I Back in This Lesson? I Thought I had Exited It.
• How Do I Quit from Study?
• What Does the Toolbar Do?

Expanding Images - Some lesson pages have pictures, drawings, charts and maps. To fit on the page with the text, sometimes they are reduced in size. When you see one that you want to take a closer look at, just select it. Many will open in their own window and expand to their full size. Select again anywhere on the picture's window to close it.

Scrolling Images and Lists - When creating a lesson, a teacher may want to include a list or a very large picture, drawing, chart or map that can't fit on the screen. Instead of expanding these images, you look at them using scroll bars. A window with scroll bars lets you look at a small part of a larger object. Just like you use the scroll bar to look down your A+LS assignment list, you could use a scroll bar to work your way down and across a large map.

Internet Links - Your teacher may add Internet links to some of your lessons. Web sites on the Internet can provide you with more information to go with your A+LS Study. Select the underlined text and a separate browser window will open for the Web site. When you close the Web site's window you will find your A+LS Study screen underneath, waiting for you.

Web pages may also be built into the lessons themselves. There they may open a browser or they may display the content within the lesson page itself.

Hint - If you try an Internet link and it doesn't work, don't worry. Sometimes the problem isn't with your computer or the A+LS lesson. The Internet may have a problem or the web site might not be on the Internet right now. But if you have tried the Internet link on two or three different days, you may want to report the problem to your teacher or system administrator. They will need to know what lesson you were in, so you should write down the Internet link for them (the underlined text).

Hint - Sometimes the computer says your answer was wrong, but you are sure it was right. You need to carefully reread the question and instructions. Also, think about what you were studying on the pages before the practice problem, then answer the problem again.

Multiple Choice - You are usually given three or four choices and you pick the right answer. Sometimes the answers are words or phrases, other times they are pictures or drawings. You click on the answer and the computer checks it. The computer then tells you if the answer was right or wrong.

Fill-in the Blank - Fill-in questions need you to type in your answer, so they give you a box to type it in. The computer will have a list of answers that are correct and your answer must match one of them exactly to be graded as right. The computer can't guess what you meant to say, it can only grade you on what you typed in the answer box. This means that you need to follow the instructions carefully and spell words correctly.

Math Fill-in with Calculator - This type of problem works just like the normal fill-in question, but it also provides a calculator to help with the math. The Calculator button looks like a small box with rows of small buttons.

Math Fill-in with Formulas - Math formulas sometimes require specialized numbers, such as fractions and exponents. These characters aren't available on a computer's keyboard. The A+LS math lessons that require formulas provide you with special commands that let you create the necessary numbers. To make it easy, every formula page has instructions on how to create a formula. Selecting the help window closes it, returning you to the page with the formula question.