If you are interested in exploring this course, some quick explanations
might be helpful. First, be aware that the headers that you see
on each page are active links to more material. For example,
to move directly to course content and structure, click on
in the headers at the top of this page. If you wish at any time
to return to the introduction page (e.g., to where you first started
from), click on the course logo header, e.g.
You may notice that the destination of a link such as these shows up at the bottom of your browser screen when your mouse is over the link that takes you there. For example, if you have your mouse over the top header on this page, the status bar on the bottom of a Netscape screen would show that a click there will take you to a hypertext markup language (e.g., html) file named intro.htm. Click on that header and you go back to the entry page of this site.
One of the problems you may encounter working with meaningful amounts of text through a browser (e.g., working with this site) is that reading on paper is much easier than reading on-screen. For one thing, reading on paper means you can scan more than 50 lines of text at a time. Reading on-screen means you generally see about 1/3rd of a page at a time (and for this I dropped all that money on a computer?). To alleviate this problem slightly, this site is designed so that you can turn off features in your web browser that take up screen space (e.g., in Netscape the toolbar, the location bar, and the directory buttons) and still navigate.
Think of the page headers as your MIS7520-specific toolbar. Remember that alt-left arrow will normally take you back to where you just left (same as Netscape's Back toolbar button).
Hopefully those two ideas will make your time in this site more tolerable and productive. Good luck.