Bookmarks, notes, and highlights

You can place bookmarks, notes, and highlights in specific resources of a Collection you have created.

Using Bookmarks

A bookmark is a saved location. You can jump back to the bookmark's location by selecting it. If you have a specific location in a resource you refer to often, place a bookmark there so it can be accessed more easily.

  1. Select Edit Collection for the Collection containing the resource you want to bookmark.
  2. Select Preview, open the left tray (), and use the Table of Contents to find the resource.
  3. Display the location you want to bookmark and select the Bookmark icon on the right side of the screen. Solid bookmark icon indicates a saved location.
  1. Select Edit Collection for the Collection containing the bookmarks you want to view.
  2. Select Preview and click Bookmarks from the left tray.
  1. Select Edit Collection for the Collection containing the resource you want to modify.
  2. Select Preview, open the left tray (), and use the Table of Contents to find the resource with the bookmark you want to remove.
  3. Click the Bookmark icon on the right side of the screen to remove the bookmark.

Using Notes and Highlights

Notes are comments about a resource. Pearson Collections supports private notes that only you see.

You can also highlight areas of text. These areas shade the text background and may have private notes associated with them.

  1. Select Edit Collection for the Collection containing the resource you want to change.
  2. Select Preview and locate the resource.
  3. Navigate in the resource to the location you want to highlight or comment upon.
  4. Click and drag to highlight text then select the color of the highlight. To add a private note, enter the text in the dialog box that appears. The text is automatically saved.
  1. Select Edit Collection for the Collection containing the highlights you want to view.
  2. Select Preview, open the left tray (), and select Notes.
  3. Select a note from the tray and then select the highlighted area in the resource to display the notes dialog box. To edit the note or highlight, use the dialog box to select a different highlight color and change the text. The text is saved automatically.

If you remove a highlighted area, the associated note is also removed.

  1. Select Edit Collection for the Collection containing the resource you want to change.
  2. Select Preview, open the left tray (), and click Notes.
  3. Select the highlighted area you want to remove and do one of the following steps:
    • To remove the private note and highlighted area, use the Trash icon of the annotation you want to delete.
    • To remove just the text of a private note:
      1. Select the highlighted area from the left tray.
      2. Select the highlighted area in the resource.
      3. Select all the text of the note and delete it. Your changes are automatically saved.

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