Since ITS started offering all faculty, staff, and students unlimited access to Lynda.com in late April 2017, 659 unique people have viewed over 6,800 videos. Here is the list of the top 25 videos for our community so far, ranked by the number of unique viewers to use a course:
- Learning Office 365
- Learning Canvas 2016
- How to use Lynda.com
- Excel 2013 Essential Training
- Office 365: Learning Outlook
- Windows 10 Essential Training
- Learning with Lynda.com
- Office 365: Learning Excel
- Thomas A. Stewart and Patricia O’Connell on Designing and Delivering Great Customer Experience
- Outlook 2016 Essential Training
- Excel 2016 Essential Training
- Migrating from Office 2010 to Office 2016
- Customer Advocacy
- Statistics Foundations: 1
- SPSS Statistics Essential Training
- Office 2016 and Office 365 New Features
- Outlook 2016: Time Management with Calendar and Tasks
- OneNote 2016 Essential Training
- Microsoft Planner First Look
- Microsoft Teams Essential Training
- Learning Python
- HTML Essential Training
- Team Collaboration in Office 365
- Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals
- WordPress Essential Training
Understandably, there’s a heavy emphasis on Office 365 and Canvas training so far. It’s worth noting that there’s also interest in both technical skill development in areas such as programming languages and general professional development on business topics, such as customer service and time management.
An emerging trend in the usage data points to faculty who may be using Lynda.com as supplemental learning materials for their courses. For instance, we’ve heard positive feedback about the quality of the statistics package training available. Let us know if you’d like more information about assigning Lynda.com courses and playlists to your students.
Get Started
Just visit lynda.widener.edu. Use your Widener login ID and password—the same one you use for Office 365. Even if you don’t have time to dig into the material right now, search for topics that interest you. You can easily add them to your personal playlist to try out later.
Have a Lynda.com success story you’d like to share? Please let us know!