For New Course Designer Users

Most new users learn how to use Course Designer simply by "playing around" with it. However, there are a number of very useful features in Course Designer that might not be obvious from the "playing around" method. For example, a user might not discover that multiple shapes can be rotated at once, or that all shapes have editable properties, even if no dialog box is displayed when the shape is created.

The most thorough way to learn Course Designer is to use these help files as a kind of tutorial. If you use the "Next" button above to read all of the next 28 help topics, and try each of the new features described, you will rapidly become a Course Designer expert. It only takes about 45 minutes to read all of the next 28 help topics, so this is not an unreasonable task. Even with the added time of trying all of the features described, you can become a Course Designer whiz in just a couple hours.

However, if you want to get up to speed more quickly, the ten help topics listed below are perhaps the most important ones to read. The topics below are the ones that describe the most important features that a user is unlikely to discover by just "playing around." To read these ten topics in order, use your browser's "Back" button to return to this page, after you read each help topic.

See also: Creating Shapes, Selecting Shapes, Moving Shapes, Rotating Shapes, Bending Shapes, Changing Shape Properties, Dog Path, Obstacle Labels, Text, Unusable Area