Map
The Map button provides a view of the Perrin Printing and Publishing Co., depicted as a floor plan of the company's offices. The floor plan parallels the available course modules and provides navigation support. There are reception and conference rooms, as well as accounting and finance, procurement, sales-order processing, management and administration, sales and marketing, and manufacturing departments. Offices in each department are organized around a specific function; for example, the management and administration department has offices for management reporting, human resources management, and management planning.
Papers
Clicking on the Papers button gives you access to a virtual loose-leaf binder that accumulates information from each business department as you visit it. Like a paper binder in which you flip through a
consultant's notes, you can revisit this feature at any time.
Detail
You can click on the Detail button--which identifies business terms, processes, and functions--for more detailed explanations.
How?
This button accesses a reference for descriptions of how particular business functions or processes are performed.
Huh?
With the Huh? button, you can call from the reference system a high-level overview graphic that permits searching for specific business terms, processes, and functions.
Why?
The Why? button provides you with specific feedback based on actions previously taken.
Next?
This button suggests what to do next to complete an activity.
Play and Pause
The Play button toggles to Pause, causing the scroll bar to rewind or fast-forward voice and video clips. Both buttons are designed to increase the course's effectiveness over that of an instructor-led curriculum.
Help
The Help button offers tutorials containing specific instructions on w
hat to do to complete a module and how to navigate through the course.
Save
You can save your work to a floppy disk using the Save button.
Exit
Returns you to the reception area.
Illustration: The BPC map provides you with a bird's-eye view of the offices of the hypothetical Perrin Printing and Publishing Co., whose business procedures and problems are the subject of the CBT system. The map may also be used to navigate from the subject matter of one department to another.
A Palette of Buttons
