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Online Tracker Help Goals


Goal 4. Use Resource Stars



Fill in stars for articles you've read or videos you've watched,
and run a report to show all stars you've filled in.

Goal 3: Use Resource Stars and run Stars Reports in the Online Tracker.



Choices


AUse Resource Stars.


In each Choice, each step that links to an article or video has a star in front of the article or video icon. Clicking the star fills it in, to signify that you have read the article or watched the video for the corresponding star. This provides a handy way to see at a glance which articles and videos you have finished. For example, the graphic below indicates that a person has read the articles for steps 3 and 5:















Stars are also provided for most links to websites that are referenced in The Family History Guide.

To use the Resource Stars, follow these steps:

  1. Log in to the Online Tracker. If you do not have an Online Tracker account, you will need to create one in order to use the Resource Stars.
  2. Click a star that corresponds to the article, video, or website of interest. It is now filled in, and you can click it again to clear the star. Filled-in stars are saved to your user account.
  3. When you log out of the Online Tracker, the previously filled stars will temporarily appear to be empty. This also happens when the system logs you out of the Online Tracker after a period of inactivity. To restore the stars to their filled states, log in to the Online Tracker again. You may need to refresh your screen to display the filled stars.

BRun Stars reports.


When you have filled in one or more stars in Choices, you can run a report that lists all your filled stars in The Family History Guide.

  1. In the Tracker Home page, click Stars.

Below is a partial sample of a Stars report:




The following items are included in the report:

  • Project Name (in bold, such as Australia)
  • Link to the Goal in The Family History Guide (just below the Project Name)
  • Bullet list of links to articles and videos that you marked as "starred."
  • The date when each star was marked. If you remove a star marking, the date is removed; if you add it again, the date is reset.

Note: At this time, stars for databases and websites are not included in the Stars Report.