Using the SmartSketch Learning Center

The SmartSketch® Learning Center is designed to get up and running quickly with SmartSketch. It  consists of eight separate tutorials designed to introduce you to SmartSketch's key features. In turn, each tutorial consists of a variety of individual lessons intended to give you hands-on practice using many of SmartSketch's most commonly used tools. 

You can save time when you use the Learning Center by understanding, before you start the tutorials and lessons, how instructions, keys to press, and so on are shown. Please take a moment to read the following list, which also points out helpful features of the Learning Center you may want to use.

Learning Center Commands

The Contents pane (left) lists all the tutorials  and lessons which make up the SmartSketch Learning Center.  Use it the same way you use Windows Explorer. Double-click on a tutorial to display that tutorial's lessons; double-click on a  lesson to display its contents.

The Learning Center toolbar (above the Contents pane) provides basic commands:

Icon	Command	What It Does . . .
	Home	Takes you back to the Welcome to the Learning Center screen.
	Topic Only	Collapses the Contents pane enabling the Topic pane to fill the entire Learning Center window.
	Contents	Redisplays the Contents pane. The Contents pane is organized like a book's table of contents. As you choose top-level topics (tutorials), you see a list of more detailed subtopics (lessons) from which to choose.
	Index	Displays the Index pane. The Index is organized like a book's index. Keywords for topics are organized alphabetically. You can either scroll through the list of keywords or type the keyword you want to find. You can then select from one or more lessons.
	Find	Displays the Find pane. In the Find pane, you can also enter a keyword. The main difference is that you get a list of all Learning Center tutorials and lessons in which that keyword appears.
	History	Displays all the lessons you have looked at so far.
	Print	Prints the active lesson.
	Help	Displays the Learning Center Help window.

The Navigation toolbar (below) provides commands that allow you to move through the tutorials and lessons listed in the navigation tree.

Icon	Command	What It Does . . .
	Show Me	Plays a video clip that demonstrates, step-by-step, a lesson's skills or procedure. (NOTE: If a lesson or tutorial does not have an accompanying video clip, this command is disabled.)
	Related Topics	Displays titles of other tutorials/lessons which contain information related to the current tutorial/lesson.
	Back	Displays the previous lesson or tutorial introduction in the navigation tree.  This command is disabled when viewing the introduction.
	Previous	Displays the last lesson accessed.
	Next	Displays the next lesson or tutorial introduction in the navigation tree.  This command is disabled when viewing the last lesson in the navigation tree.

Learning Center Conventions

As you work through the SmartSketch tutorials, make note of the following conventions:

• Text that you are to type appears in bold.
• A plus sign (+) between two key names means that you must press those keys simultaneously. For example, "Press Alt +Tab" means that you should hold down the Alt key while you press Tab.

The following icons identify the different kinds of supplementary material:

Icon	Text labeled as . . .	Alerts  you to . . .
	Note	Additional information about a step.
	Important	Essential information that you should check before continuing with the lesson.
	Caution	Pertinent information that could cause a problem if ignored.
	Tip	Suggestions about additional methods to perform a step or a helpful hint.
	Show Me	Skills or procedures that are demonstrated in multimedia files.