Quick Guided Tour

The best way to get acquainted with all of the features that Connect Lucas has to offer you and your students is to just click around the navigation bar at the top of every page.

Click the HOME button at any time to return to the Connect Lucas Home Page.

Click GRADEBOOK to expose your CLASS GRADEBOOK, which you can use to:

Find assignments that have been submitted (They’ll be annotated with a “Grade me” link)
Review and grade completed assignments
See student status on completing readings and assignments
Review the grades you’ve given to each student

The CHAPTERS link in the navigation bar provides a way to navigate quickly to any specific chapter. When you are accessing a Connect Lucas Plus (with eBook) course, selecting a chapter will display the first page of that chapter, and when you are accessing a Connect Lucas course (no eBook), the chapter outline will display.

INSTRUCTOR TOOLS help you to manage your classes on Connect Lucas.

VIEW ROSTER links you to the roster of students in the course you are accessing. Within any of your classes, it’s possible that some students are using the Connect (without eBook) product while others are using the Connect Plus (with eBook) product. To get a complete roster for the specific class or section that interests you, you may have to SWITCH COURSES and view both the Connect and the Connect Plus rosters for the section.

DROP STUDENT lets you remove a person from the class roster if a student has left your class.

EXPORT GRADES lets you export grades to a .csv file, which can then be opened in Excel and used to update your CMS (such as Blackboard, WebCT, etc.). Note that only the grades of the students in the course you are accessing will be exported.

SET DEADLINES lets you set start and end dates (deadlines) for each assignment.

FORUMS provide private discussion areas for use by you and the students enrolled in your course.

EMAIL STUDENTS provides an easy way for you to send an email to every student in the course you are accessing.

INSTRUCTOR RESOURCES is a link to the McGraw-Hill Online Learning Center for the 10th edition of The Art of Public Speaking. To access Instructor Resources, you’ll need your McGraw-Hill Online Learning Center username and password.

PASSWORD is a link to a simple form that will let you change your password.

UPDATE E-MAIL lets you change the e-mail address you have registered on the Connect Lucas system. It is important to keep your e-mail address current in case any of your students wants to use the system to contact you, or in case Connect Lucas Support needs to send you an e-mail.

SWITCH COURSES lets you change to a different section – or to toggle between the Connect Plus (with eBook) and Connect (without eBook) portions of your class. When you SWITCH COURSES and select one of the courses listed, you’ll see a screen showing a message like this:

Select an item in the navigation bar to start working with the new course.

MEDIA LIBRARY houses the videos and audios for Connect Lucas.

VIDEO CLIPS are short excerpts of speeches that are referenced in The Art of Public Speaking.

FULL SPEECH VIDEOS are videos of speeches delivered by students.

SPEECHES WITH COMMENTARY links to the commentary that is available for some of the Full Speech Videos.

AUDIO ABRIDGEMENT allows users to listen to an abridged version of The Art of Public Speaking.

AUDIO SUMMARIES are short audible summaries of each chapter.

DOWNLOADS provides access to download audio and video files that can then be played on a portable media device such as an iPod or mp3 player.

SPEECH TOOLS are a collection of tools and guides that will help students in the preparation of their speeches.

SPEECH OUTLINER guides students in preparing an outline, which can then be exported to a format readable by most word processing software.

OUTLINE EXERCISES give practice exercises on creating outlines.

BIBLIOMAKER guides student in preparing a Bibliography, which can be linked to an outline created with Speech Outliners and exported to a format readable by most word processing software.

BIBLIOGRAPHY FORMATS illustrate citations covering more than 30 types of source material for both MLA and APA formats.

QUESTIONNAIRE MAKER allows students to create a questionnaire that will help students learn enough about their audience to prepare an appropriate speech. Surveys and responses are sent through email, and tallied online or exported into an Excel-readable format.

POWERPOINT TUTORIALS cover some of the finer points of using PowerPoint 2003 or PowerPoint 2007.

CHECKLISTS help students stay organized and cover a variety of speech preparation topics.

WORKSHEETS help students to internalize public speaking concepts. Topics include listening, audience analysis and adaptation, library and Internet research, and informative and persuasive speech preparation.

ASSESSMENT TOOLS give you access to Speech Evaluation Forms, Self-Assessments, and recommended Evaluation Criteria.

RESEARCH LIBRARY houses key research tools for students.

TOPIC FINDER helps students brainstorm topics for their speeches

TOP 100 AMERICAN SPEECHES lists the Top 100 American speeches of the 20th century, based on research by Stephen E. Lucas and Martin J. Medhurst. Transcripts are provided, along with audio and video, if available.

INTERNET CONNECTIONS provides links to websites that are relevant to the content of The Art of Public Speaking.

Note that your students will see a slightly different navigation bar. Of course, they do not see INSTRUCTOR TOOLS. MY COURSEWORK provides them access to their own grades only, and MY COMMUNITY houses the ability to email you or other members of the class, participate in Forums, and change their password or email address.

More questions? See the links below, or select another item from the Instructor Help Menu.

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