Setting Up Your Course

SETTING UP YOUR COURSE

HELP USING CONNECT LUCAS

Getting started with Connect Lucas is a simple two-step process:

1. REGISTER. You are already registered if you have a username (starts with “Lprof”) and a password. You need to register just one time. You will use the same username and password from semester to semester.

2. SET UP YOUR COURSE. You currently must set up your course before the start of every new course period (semester, quarter, or other). To do this, just click REGISTRATION/COURSE SETUP REQUEST on the Connect Lucas landing page at www.connectlucas.com (marked with a red arrow below).

You’ll then be asked whether or not you are already registered. Click I ALREADY HAVE A CONNECT LUCAS ACCOUNT. Log in with your Connect Lucas username (starts with “Lprof”) and password, and on the screen that follows, tell us how many sections you will be teaching and provide names for those sections that the students will use when they register.

You can use the basic Connect Lucas offering, or customize it to match your needs more precisely. The basic Connect Lucas offering provides:

The full text of each chapter (for instructors and for students who have purchased the Connect Lucas Plus package)
Study questions and quizzes for each chapter
Five Speech Capture Assignments that you can assign to students in order to submit videos of their speeches
Speech preparation tools, videos, audio, assessment and evaluation forms, forums, etc. Please see the Quick Guided Tour for details on the features and tools available.

Some ways you may want to customize the basic Connect Lucas package include:

Incorporating your own quizzes
Naming Speech Capture assignments to match the way in which you run your course
Changing the sequence of chapters
Removing access to specific tools or features

To customize your course, simply email support@connectlucas.com with the specifics of your request. The Support team will implement the customizations for you. Please provide your customization requests as far in advance of the start of your course as you can; three weeks notice is recommended, although requests are sometimes implemented more quickly, depending on the time of year and the number of other requests in the queue.

Once your course is set up, you can customize the Home Page for each section with Instructor Announcements, Course Information, and Instructor information. Open the section you want to edit by clicking on the window icon to the right of each item (see red arrow below).

Then click Edit, and type in the information exactly as you wish it to appear. Select a start and end date for the announcement and click “Insert” to save it to the Home Page for students to see.

It’s probably easiest to get Announcements, Course Information, and Instructor Information exactly the way you want it for one section and then copy and paste each item of information to other sections. Use the SWITCH COURSES link under Instructor Tools to switch to different sections.

You will probably also want to start setting start and end dates (deadlines) for each assignment. You can do that by selecting INSTRUCTOR TOOLS in the navigation bar at the top of every Connect Lucas page; then select SET DEADLINES.

The page that will then display allows you to select the assignment(s) for which you want to set deadlines

Enter the start and end dates for the selected item at the bottom of the page, and click “Schedule.”

And now you should be all ready to go! See the links below if you have additional questions.

Related video tutorials

Registering for Connect Lucas

Related Help pages

Related FAQs