Getting Started with Lt

Signing up to Lt as an educator

You will learn how to accept your invitation to Lt and the basics of the administrator interface.

Lt Instance Administration

You will learn how to customize your Lt instance by modifying the general settings, inviting administrators, and creating or modifying staff roles.

Staff can check the status of kuraCloud and sign up for important notifications about the platform here.

Setting up a course

You will learn how to create new courses, modify their settings (including grading workflow and example data options), and invite course-specific staff members.

Adding content to your course

The Getting Started Lessons

These lessons provide an introduction to Lt for educators and students. Make sure you add the Lt Student Starter module to all student courses.

How to teach an online lab in Lt

How to switch example data on by default

Transitioning your content into Lt

See how easy it is to move your content from Microsoft Office(Word, Excel, Powerpoint) Google Drive and LabChart into Lt.

Inviting students to Lt

You will learn how to add and remove students from your course (individually or in bulk), edit their details, manage student sections, and send invitation emails.

Support Article: Importing Students into Lt

Example .csv file for importing students

Download example .csv

Student Admin Resource Pack

Download resource pack

• Lesson checklist - pre-release to students
  This checklist will help you make sure your lessons are ready for students.

• Lt student pre-invitation template
  A template for a quick introductory email to your students, explaining what Lt is and how to sign up. We strongly recommend sending this email out before you invite students to your course.

• Lt student invitation template
  This template is formatted in a way that allows you to import students to Lt. See our Support Article here: Importing Students into Lt

• Student experience - login and exploration
  An introductory video for students. You may want to share this video with your students at the same time you invite them.

Managing sections in Lt

Here's a feature that lets you manage the sections in your course in a flexible and intuitive way.

Publishing a lesson

You will learn how to publish lessons and modules, and how to make them available to students.

Publishing a module

Support Article: Publishing a Module in Lt

If you update a lesson and then publish it, only students who have not yet started the lesson will see the updates. Students who have already started the lesson will continue to see the old version. Therefore, before publishing a lesson, be certain it is the final version. If you want to make all students see the latest version, you’ll need to reset the progress of those that have already started the original version. This is a critical process that can’t be undone, so do so with consideration.

Publishing checklist

See here for a more in-depth checklist before publishing and making content available to students. Some key points to note are:

• The content is up-to-date and ready to be accessed by students
• You’ve decided if the lesson will be published individually or in a module
• The lesson has a poster (thumbnail) icon
• Once published, the lesson is available to students at the correct date(s) and time(s).
  • I’ve selected ‘Student View’ and can see the content I expected is available to the students.

Before publishing content, consider if the content is best published as a stand-alone lesson or as one of a series of related lessons in a module. For example, a lesson introducing the course would likely be best published by as a stand-alone lesson. However, a pre-lab quiz lesson that precedes an associated lab would be best published within a module.

Note: It’s very important to only publish a lesson either individually or within a module. If a lesson is published both as an individual lesson and a lesson within a module, students can start and complete them separately.