{"id":1701,"date":"2016-03-30T16:40:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T20:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2016-05-20T13:43:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T17:43:53","slug":"honing-your-skills-with-lynda-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/2016\/03\/30\/honing-your-skills-with-lynda-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Hone Your Skills with Lynda.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right;padding: 15px;padding-top: 0;margin: 15px;margin-top: 0;margin-right: 0;width: 200px;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lynda.com\/home\/VideoPlayer.aspx?lpk4=73\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1707\" style=\"border: 0\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/files\/2016\/03\/lynda-video-1-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lynda.com logo and video link\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 13px\">Brief intro by Lynda, herself<\/span><\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lynda.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lynda.com<\/a>, you&#8217;ll probably be very happy to know\u00a0that UVM now has a full subscription to the service!<\/p>\n<p>Lynda.com began in 1995 and has since grown to be one of the world&#8217;s leading providers of online trainings for creative, business, software, and technology skills.<\/p>\n<p>On the topic of Blackboard, for instance, there are courses with video tutorials on topics such as how to use the course <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lynda.com\/Blackboard-tutorials\/Touring-Control-Panel\/70197\/86444-4.html\" target=\"_blank\">control panel<\/a>, (<strong>note:<\/strong> these links will work <em>after<\/em> you&#8217;ve logged in. See the log in link, below) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lynda.com\/Blackboard-tutorials\/Setting-course-availability\/70197\/86434-4.html\" target=\"_blank\">setting course availability<\/a>, viewing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lynda.com\/Blackboard-tutorials\/Viewing-grade-histories\/70197\/86470-4.html\" target=\"_blank\">grade history<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lynda.com\/Blackboard-tutorials\/Weighting-grades-Grade-Center\/70197\/86477-4.html\" target=\"_blank\">weighting grades<\/a> in the grade center, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lynda.com\/Blackboard-tutorials\/Setting-test-availability-deploying-test\/70197\/86496-4.html\" target=\"_blank\">test availability and deployment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other topics that may be helpful are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Using a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lynda.com\/Higher-Education-tutorials\/Using-research-database\/368046\/420121-4.html\" target=\"_blank\">research database<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Learning to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lynda.com\/Office-tutorials\/Learn-PowerPoint-2016-Basics\/430075-2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Powerpoint<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lynda.com\/Excel-tutorials\/Up-Running-Excel-2016\/420303-2.html\">Excel<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Annotating\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lynda.com\/YouTube-tutorials\/Using-annotations\/118960\/133977-4.html\" target=\"_blank\">videos<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lynda.com\/ArcGIS-tutorials\/Adding-map-annotations\/180108\/234053-4.html\">maps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lynda.com\/Acrobat-tutorials\/Creating-Accessible-PDFs-2014\/147579-2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Creating accessible PDFs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/shib.lynda.com\/Shibboleth.sso\/InCommon?providerId=https:\/\/idp.uvm.edu\/idp\/shibboleth&amp;target=https:\/\/shib.lynda.com\/InCommon\" target=\"_blank\">LOG IN:<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>will take you first through the UVM authentication page.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Tips for\u00a0Using the Site:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lynda.com\/Business-tutorials\/How-use-Lynda-com\/77683-2.html\" target=\"_blank\">This course<\/a>, titled &#8220;How to Use Lynda.com,&#8221; is great for learning how to search and navigate the site. (<em>Helpful Tip: Clicking on text in a video&#8217;s\u00a0transcript allows you to skip to that part of the video.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brief intro by Lynda, herself If you&#8217;ve heard of Lynda.com, you&#8217;ll probably be very happy to know\u00a0that UVM now has a full subscription to the service! Lynda.com began in 1995 and has since grown to be one of the world&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/2016\/03\/30\/honing-your-skills-with-lynda-com\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6875,26,454],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promote-to-ctl-home-page","category-learning","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1733,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions\/1733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}