Highlighting, Note-Taking, and Creating a Study Guide

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The eReader provides students with study tools like highlighting and note-taking to make studying more personalized and effective.

Highlighting

Highlighting text allows you to take an active role as a learner. Here is how to do it in our eReader:

1. If you are on a computer, click and drag your cursor to select the text you wish to highlight. If you are using a phone or tablet, press and hold with your finger and then drag.
2. Release the cursor/your finger to pull up a menu box.
3. Select one of the four colors (yellow, green, red, blue) from the menu box.

 Congrats, you've created a highlight!

Note-Taking

Creating notes is similar to creating highlights.  

1. If you are on a computer, click and drag your cursor to select the text you wish to annotate. If you are using a phone or tablet, press and hold with your finger and then drag.
2. Release the cursor/your finger to pull up the menu box.
3. Click the notepad icon (an image of a piece of paper with a pencil).
4. Type your notes in the text box which appears on the right side of the page.
5. Click the Save button on the lower right side of the text box.

Congrats! You’ve created a note!

Review Your Highlights and Notes

To view a note while reading, click on the colored circle on the right side of the page.

To review a particular note or highlight:

1. Click on the Sidebar Menu label in the top left corner of your window.
2. Select Notes & Highlights.
3. Search for specific notes by keyword in the search bar under Notes & Highlights or scroll to look through your notes in the order you created them.
4. Click on a note to jump to the text it references.

 

Creating a Study Guide

The Study Guide tool presents notes from multiple chapters in one place. To create a study guide:

1. Navigate to the Sidebar Menu and select Study Guide.
2. Select the desired chapters and click the Open Notes button at the bottom of the dropdown menu to see your highlights and notes together in one place. You’ve created a Study Guide!
3. Click the arrow to the right of the note to jump to the text it references.

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