Student Computing Services (SCS) maintains
a set of accounts with the highly-regarded online
tutorial service Lynda.com (LDC). This
services allows interested
students to learn software
applications--particularly media production titles--online
without having to pay subscription fees. (OTS
Training manages a seperate set of LDC
accounts for faculty/staff use.) Our
reservation policy is designed to provide
occassional access to as many TU students as
possible, while still allowing more frequent access
when availability permits. Here's
how to get started.
You click the "Reserve LDC
Access" button in the upper
right corner of this page
to open the SCS Gear2Go reservation system.
If you would like these instructions
to remain accessible, then
right-click the button and select
open in new window.
You click the "Book" button
on the subsequent page and complete
the forms to reserve one
of the SCS LDC accounts for up to
five days. You must use your TU
email address.
You carefully read the reservation
confirmation email you
receive, and follow its
instructions.
SCS adds you
to the LDC user base (if this is
your first reservation) and
Lynda.com sends you an
email message
inviting you to activate your
account and set a password. Your TU
email address will be your username;
please do not
change your username. We will
routinely delete any users not
associated with a valid TU email
address.
You remember
your username and password, knowing you will
reuse it for all future
reservations.
SCS
ACTIVATES your account and
sends you an email
notification at the start of your
reservation period.
You open
www.lynda.com in your web
browser, log in
with the username and password you
set up in Step 4, and drink greedily
from the application knowledge
fountain. If you have used the
LDC via SCS service before, you will
see a record of your previous
activities.
SCS DEACTIVATES your account
at the end of your reservation
period, making access available for
the next student "in line." After
this, your are no longer able to log
in, but your course history remains
intact, ready for your next
reservation.
Additional Information
You may access
Lynda.com from any web browser (not
just those in the SCS suite) or an iPad/iPhone with the
free Lynda.com app
If you would like
to receive periodic email
announcements regarding new
Lynda.com titles, open
www.lynda.com, scroll to the
bottom of the page, click
"newsletter" and sign-up!
If you don't have
an immediate need for access, but
would like SCS to add you to the
user base to expedite your future
reservations, just send your name,
NetID and phone number to
rcave@towson.edu
If your attempts
to reserve access have been
frequently foiled by the conflicting
reservations of other TU knowledge
consumers,
let us know; your feedback will
weigh heavily in our determination
of whether additional accounts are
needed.
You may
make one reservation at a time,
up to five days in length.
You may make a subsequent
reservation on the final day of
your current reservation, provided that an
account is available. (Our self-reservation
system will not automatically enforce this
restriction;
thus, reservations made before the final day will
be removed manually.)
You may make a reservation up
to 11 days in advance.
We see it as our responsibility to insure fair,
occassional access to Lynda.com for as many TU
students as possible. We believe that our policy
achieves this. However, we also recognize that
frequent users may be inconvenienced by sporadic
availability during times of high demand. We
encourage students who require extended
periods of uninterupted access to Lynda.com to
purchase a personal subscription for their own
convenience.
