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Communities

Lecture123 defines a community as a pool of user accounts with access only to content within that community's repository. The administrator of Lecture123 at your institution has worked with the Lecture123 team to organize these communities. If a Lecture123 community does not already exist for your use, then complete the new community request form and wait for someone from Lecture123 to respond that the community is ready for use. You may play with Lecture123 until then by using the free Demo community (key is demo).

Logins

• There is a Tools Menu on every Lecture123 web page that provides simple, fast access to content and tools. You may login by clicking on this menu.
• There's also login link on the main Lecture web page which directs you to a login page where you simply enter your login name and password.
• The first time you use Lecture123 you must create your login account. On the login page you will see "Don't have an account? Create one here. Clicking here brings you to a form where you create your login account. Someone in your organization, e.g. your instructor or administrator, will tell you the name and key of the community where you should create your login account. Enter this information along with other details and your password on this form. The community is the secret phrase that grants you access to a community and is only needed when you create your account or subscribe to a new community.
• New users may benefit from taking a tour. Additionally be sure that you have performed the one time installation instructions. There are 2 jump start pages to help new faculty and student users. Getting Started FAQs is an excellent place to get answers to common questions.
• Once you are logged in you will see a Tools Menu which shows your current login and community. If your login is enrolled in more than one community (e.g. if you are taking 2 classes), then you may change your current community to access content in any of your communities with your single login name.
• If you have more than one login name, you may logout and login back into the other account at any time. In general most users have only one login account.

Roles

There are 2 login roles:

• Student Role: May playback content within their community(ies). Sessions may be recorded with the Presenter only to the local disk, i.e. students can not publish the recorded session to the Lecture123 server repository.
• Instructor Role: Instructors have all the student features available. Additionally instructors may publish content to the Lecture123 server repository and may answer questions posted from students via the QA feature.

For Administrators

As the administrator of Lecture123 being used in your organization you work with the Lecture123 team to define the number and names of the communities you require, and the number of instructor and student users.

User members within a given community can only access content published in that community. You have your choice on how to define your communities. Here are some sample community arrangements:

• one community per course: students from all sections would be restricted to content only in that course.
• one community per section per course: students could only access content in their course section.
• one shared community for all courses: students could view any lecture in any course.
• you may also decide to use a combination of community approaches.

Within a given community the instructor may create folders that contain related content. You need to define the community/folder hierarchy that works best in your environment.

Once the communities are defined by Lecture123 as per your input, user accounts are created and self managed. As the administrator, you will receive a community name and key from Lecture123 for each community you requested. You will share this single key with the instructor in each community. First, the instructor uses this key to register for an instructor login account in their community on a simple web form.

Currently instructors must register before students and if there's more than one instructor in a community, we must manually set that up for you. In this case, please have all the instructors register for their login accounts. Please send these login account names via email to support@lecture123.com and ask us to enable these logins as instructors.

Once the instructor is registered, s/he will share this community key with the students who then register for their accounts. Students enrolled in more than one community (e.g. if they are taking 2 classes and each class has a separate community) only need to create one login account and then they can register this account across multiple communities. Users simply login by identifying their account ID and password, and then they can select their active community.

Support

Please contact us via email with any questions.