How To Use
this interactive version


This "interactive" version of the course features logins for single or multiple users on the World-Wide Web or on a LAN, ease of navigation using the menu button in the upper-left corner, automatic Bible passage lookup, questions for discussion with students or in small groups, interactive quizzes and instant self-tests.

If you choose, you can enroll in a class of other students and discuss each lesson with them, have your written assignments graded by a qualified instructor, take a proctored test at the end of each semester, and have the opportunity to receive a Certificate of Completion when you finish all six courses.

Let's Look At Each Of These:

We have designed this interactive course so that you can use it ~

You're welcome to use this course as our guest as much as you like. Here's how to login:
* NOTE: Do this at the very start of each working session!
* On the login screen, after "USERNAME:" please enter "guest" (or the User-ID we give you),
* after "PASSWORD:" please enter "TryMe" (or the pasword we give you),
* then press the "Login" button.

This guest login is all you need to take the course online over the Web by yourself! But when students enroll (see below), we will give them their own login and password so they can take the course with other students over the Internet.

Ease of navigation

Our courses use a CSS "slider" (mini-hamburger) menu in the upper-left corner of the screen, which slides out when you click on the three-bar button and disappears when you click it again. They also use HTML5 "objects" instead of frames. If you change the window size or change from horizontal (landscape) to vertical (portrait) mode, the objects will automatically resize to fit the entire window.

Automatic Bible passage lookup

These lessons contain references to hundreds of Bible passages. Imagine how much time you would take to look up all those references by hand! To speed things up, we've transformed each reference into a hypertext link to the World English Bible on our website that will appear at the bottom of the screen.

Interactive quizzes and instant self-tests

Your graded answers to the discussion questions and quizzes will be sent to the same email address that you use when you register for these courses. There are several pop-up windows throughout the lessons that give extra information or are just for fun, to keep you involved. The pop-up windows sometimes are activated when your mouse pointer goes over a hypertext link, sometimes when your mouse pointer moves off a hypertext link, and sometimes you'll see "double-click" when your mouse pointer rests on the link: double-click on it, and you'll see the pop-up message.

Sometimes these hypertext links with pop-ups are arranged two or three together, to form a multiple-choice instant self-test. If you double-click on one of the links, you'll find out if you selected the right answer. These aren't sent to the instructor, they are just for your benefit.

In all of the lessons you'll find questions mixed in with the lesson content. Usually there is no more than one viewarea full of content, then a quiz question to help you review and aquire the information you've just read. These quiz questions use "radio buttons" and "check boxes" that you click to select your desired answer. After selecting an answer, please use your scroll bar, or press the Page-Up/Page-Down keys to move up or down in this document. Using your up-arrow or down-arrow may change the answer!

All of the above - automatic Bible passage lookup, interactive quizzes and instant self-tests - are free of charge. We encourage you to go through the course with a small group in your home or your church. These lessons required hundreds of hours to write and again hundreds of hours of programming work, so you know how valuable they are, but they are our gift to you in the name of Jesus! May His Kingdom increase!

Discuss Each Lesson With Other Students

It's a proven fact that we learn just about as much from the structured, guided discussions with other students in a class as we learn from the instructor or the textbook. Thus, you will get much more out of the course if you enroll so that you can discuss the topics shown in each lesson with other students. Some of the discussion questions are for the entire class, and if the class size is large enough some may be for a small group of 3-5 students. Please send in the registration form!

Receive A Certificate After Six Courses

When you finish all six courses and pass the exams, you will receive a Certificate of Completion. This certificate will be evidence of having completed the courses, and together with your course records may be recognized for credit at various Bible schools or seminaries. Of course, we can't guarantee this: you will have to contact the educational institution about it. We have, however, taught this same six-course program on campus and online at accredited educational institutions.

How To Enroll In A Class Of Other Students

If you click on "Introduction" in the menu and scroll down to the end of the page you can see the Enrollment Form and the current or next class schedule for the course. Please fill out the form in order to enroll in the next course. By doing each lesson according to the class schedule, you will be studying the material along with other students and interacting with them. This enhances the learning process and greatly increases the percent of students who "stick with it to the end." Without having a schedule, other students who take the course along with you and an instructor who meets with you over the Internet, most people (about 80%) drop out of traditional correspondence courses. But with these features added into the course, most students complete the course!

For each session we request a very small donation, only about 1/10 of what a similar course would cost at a Bible college or seminary, because you don't have to pay for the "bricks-and-mortar" (classrooms, libraries, administrative and instructor offices, dormitories, cafeterias, bookstores, etc.) of a traditional educational institution. If you're taking these courses for a Certificate of Completion, the course instructor will record your objective quiz grades and manually grade your written work, and in the middle and at the end of each course you will have to take an exam, which we will grade manually.

When we receive your enrollment form, we will add your name, email address and password to the master login file on our Web-server. You can study "online" directly on our servers even if you don't have your own computer - simply login and enter your password at: www.agape-restoration-society.org/plugins/athanasius or www.agape-restoration-society.org/welcome or www.agape-restoration-society.org/enroll or the link for the specific course that your instructor will send to you.

If you share a computer with other people ~

As the Internet develops into "Internet-3" with very-high-speed communication, we've added more images, graphics, music, voice chat and even video. At first, though, we designed these courses in 2001 and others like them to work over the WWW and email, with your own computer or at a shared computer.

We have tried to "Keep things as simple as possible - but no simpler" (Einstein)
We hope you like it!