What is lynda.com?
- California-based company specializing in
online software training
- Offers 999 video courses, with new courses
added every week
- Offers training in a wide variety of software
types, including productivity, design, web
development, animation, photography, 3D, and
common web applications, such as Facebook
and eBay.
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How has Princeton licensed lynda.com?
We have purchased a site license to
lynda.com
Anyone with a valid Princeton netid can use
the service
Authentication is through a special
Princeton portal to lynda.com, and users
authenticate via CAS
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How do I get to the Princeton lynda login?
http://lynda.princeton.edu
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Log in through CAS
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Cookies!
Enable them . . . or the authentication
process will give you a scary error – griffins
and all! Linda.com requires cookies to
work.
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First-time use only: customize your interface
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Entering personal information is optional
The site will remember your login as a unique
user if you enter information or not.
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Enter email only if you might have a future
lynda.com account, or want to subscribe to a
lynda.com newsletter.
If you use this email later when you get a
new account, your training history will
transfer to the new account.
You can add an address now or later if you
want to subscribe to a lynda newsletter.
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Additional instructions for some IE8 users!
If the dropdown menus do not work, change your browser
settings to “Compatibility View”
From the “Tools” menu . . . . or from your navigation bar
(There are no known issues with other browsers.)
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Set your site preferences
- Movie player options: Quick Time movies work with course
transcripts searches to jump to an exact place in a course.
- Quick Time and Windows Media players allow you to play
movies at different speeds
- Flash movies allow you to maximize the screen.
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Sign up for news and email
“Following” information:
@lyndadotcom on Twitter , lynda.com on
Facebook, or http://blog.lynda.com/ for info
on new courses.
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. . . . or sign up for the RSS feed
Latest releases are featured on the home
page, along with a link to the RSS feed for
new releases.
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Course features
Many courses have the following features:
- Closed captioning
- Exercise files
- Transcripts
- Recommended prerequisites
(Some older and the newest course may
not yet have transcripts, but lynda.com is
working to cover that gap.)
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Courses are offered at various depths, and
in varying types
Depending on the complexity of a software
package, training is usually delivered at
levels suitable for students who have never
used the software before -- to the most
advanced users who are familiar with the
previous release.
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Logging out . . . and logging back in
a
x
You can log out of lynda using the log out
option on lynda.com
You CANNOT log back in using the log in button
on lynda.com
Return to http://lynda.princeton.edu to re-log
(You will still be logged into CAS)
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Cool stuff: iPhone app
Use the web portal access (scroll down)
Use the URL https://princeton.edu
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iPhone app, continued
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Cool stuff: iPad app
Use the web portal log in
Use the url https://princeton.edu
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iPad app, continued . . .
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Cool stuff: the Office Ribbon plugin (beta)
Download the plugin from the “products” tab
Get contextualized lynda content while using
any MS Office application! (Office 2007 and above)
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Using the Office Ribbon in PowerPoint
Don’t log in here,
log into lynda.princeton.edu in a browser.
The lynda.com
ribbon tab
A list of contextualized help
appears here.
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More info:
jtemos@princeton.edu
(web page coming soon)
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