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Faculty, you may also wish to read the Faculty Jump Start.

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Introducing Lecture123

Simply put, Lecture123 allows instructors to present/record sessions with voice, PowerPoint and whiteboard slides, and annotations. Publish the session for collaborative playback on the web, anytime, anyplace. Students click to ask questions during playback. Questions with instructors' answers are seamlessly integrated into the original presentation benefiting all participants. All content including slide and questions/answers (QA) is searchable, e.g. as a study tool.

The Lecture123 product suite includes: (a) Presenter program to present, record, and publish content; (b) web content management, usage monitoring, search, and delivery platform; (c) Player with streamed playback and collaboration; (d) podcasted content delivery, e.g. for playback on audio and video iPods.

Student First Steps

See also Faculty Jump Start First Steps

1. Install Lecture123: follow instructions on the install web page.
2. Create Your User Account: go to the create account web page, select your community, enter the key and the rest of the information. The community name and key are typically provided to you by the owner of the community (e.g. your instructor). Note: the free trial community is Demo with the key demo.
3. Start recording, publishing, playing back, podcasting, collaborating: review the Getting Started Web Page.

Getting Started Resources

• START HERE: Getting Started Web Page -- Answers to common questions. This is your best starting place.
• Lecture123 User Manual -- An excellent reference. We highly recommend that you review this document to become familiar with all the features of Lecture123 and the process workflow. Contains screenshots with tutorial text.
• Installing Lecture123
• Your Lecture123 Community -- Your instructor will give you the community name and key (similar to a course code).
• Create Your Lecture123 Account
• Hands On Tour -- This self guided tutorial is an excellent way to step through most of the typical uses including recording, publishing, playing back, asking and answering questions, and searches.
• Watch a Lecture123 Demo -- Mitch Germansky, Lecture123 CEO, demo Lecture123 (28 minutes) (requires RealPlayer).
• Podcasting -- All your sessions can be made available for audio and/or video podcasts.
• Support -- We are available to answer any questions to make your use of Lecture123 a success. Please contact us via email to support@lecture123.com.

Usage Overview

This quick tutorial will get you started using Lecture123. Please review the Lecture123 User Manual to see screenshots and details for these steps.

Install Lecture123 on your computer and create a user account using the community and key as provided by your instructor. Login to Lecture123 in your web browser.

• If you will only playback sessions...
  Click on "Play" in the blue toolbar and click on a lecture name link on that page. This will launch the Lecture123 Player. Click the "Play" button in the Player once it loads on your computer. You may right-click your mouse on any slide location and "Ask a Question". Click on the "podcast" link on"Play" page to subscribe to podcasts.
   
  
• If you will be recording sessions...
  Click "Record" in the blue toolbar, and click the "Presenter" to start the recording program. Record a quick test session, and publish it perhaps into a folder named "test" in your community. Click "Play" in the blue toolbar and click the name of your published session. During playback right-click your mouse to "Ask a Question". Exit the player and click on the URL in an email you get for the question asked. Answer and approve the question and play the session again so you can see the QA embedded in the original session. Finally, click "Search" in the blue toolbar and find a word that was on a slide or in a QA. Enable podcasts when you publish your recorded session; subscribe by clicking "podcast" on the "Play" page.

We wish you an excellent experience using Lecture123. Please contact us at support@lecture123.com with any questions. Thank you.