Once the toolbar is visible, you can click Show/Hide at the far right of the toolbar to display the Courseview in the left panel of the course display. When you load a course, it will appear in the left pane. You can hide it by clicking Show/Hide again.

Once a course is loaded, you can navigate through it using the Previous and Next buttons to the right of the course's name on the toolbar. This is not the same as your browser's Forward and Back buttons. Previous and Next cycle only through modules in the loaded course. Should you leave the course to display another web page, Previous and Next will display the previous and next modules in the course sequence.

To change the size of the Courseview panel, click the yellow portion of the vertical bar between courseview and drag the box to size the panel. If you click the yellow bar once or if you drag the bar to less than the minimum panel size, the panel collapses. Click the yellow bar once to open the panel again.

To load a course, click the Course link at the top of the Courseview panel. Then select Open from the drop-down menu. See Figure 4(a).

Figure 4: Opening a course

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This opens a dialog box for selecting a course. See Figure 4(b). Choose a course from the list and click OK. This loads your course and displays the list of modules in the Courseview. See Figure 5.

Figure 5: Courseview

To begin navigating through a course, click the first module title of the course. If the first item in the course is a grouping of modules instead of a single module (denoted by a box with a plus "+" sign to the left of the title), click the box or double-click the grouping title to expand the grouping, and then click the first module title in the grouping. The module loads into the center window. The title of the currently displayed module is highlighted in the Courseview panel. When you expand a grouping title, the plus sign in the box is replaced by a minus "-" sign.

You can view other modules in the course by clicking their titles. Or you can follow the path of the course by using the Previous and Next buttons on the toolbar.

When you display another module in the currently loaded course, the title in the Courseview for the new module is highlighted automatically. This happens regardless of how you loaded the new module - by typing in the URL, by clicking Previous and Next on the toolbar, or by clicking a link in one module that takes you to another module in the course. The title of the module being displayed is highlighted as long as it is within the loaded course. If you leave the course, the title of the last course module you viewed is highlighted.

To view an annotation, click the icon. A dialog box opens and displays the annotation. Course annotations appear in a "Course Annotation" dialog box. Personal annotations appear in an "Annotation Body" dialog box. The icons in the text vary according to the annotation type. You can hide the annotation icons if you consider them distracting while reading the text of the course or module. To show or hide the annotation icons, use the following steps:

To enter personal annotations in the text of a course or module, use the following steps:

To remove an annotation, view the annotation and click Delete. This button only appears in the "Annotation Body" dialog when you display an existing annotation. Connexions deletes the annotation and removes the annotation's icon from the text.