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Hi, Apologies for the confusion - the 'Coming Soon' specifically refers to the Library which allows learning objects to be shared between courses in your insti

by shimms 14y ago

Hi, Apologies for the confusion - the 'Coming Soon' specifically refers to the Library which allows learning objects to be shared between courses in your institution. Access Control is current available and allows you to restrict the availability of content, quizzes and assignments by date range, as well as an overall visibility setting. You can enrol multiple students via a spreadsheet yes (as well as teachers and teaching assistants). Lexim has quite a powerful forums tool - the posts students make in it are visible only to students and teachers enrolled in the space with them. You can create multiple spaces (ie: one per course/section). Our current terms of service and privacy policy are available on the website, and outline our obligation and commitment to privacy/acceptable use etc. Let me know if I haven't adequately addressed your questions :) Cheers, Michael

keithpeter 14y ago
Thanks for responding, I'll create a trial account and have a play. Best of luck.
- shimms 14y ago
  Great, I'll keep an eye out for your account. Feel free to reach out to me directly at michael dot shimmins at getlexim.com if you'd like any more information or any assistance at all.
  - keithpeter 14y ago
    Attempt 1 "That looks like a personal email address. Please use your email address from your educational institution or company to sign up." OK, I understand why you are doing that. I always use my gmail account to try stuff out so I don't get endless marketing crap to my College account. I'll use the College account for this exercise (note: that means cranking up the Citrix ICA client and logging into my College desktop. The Citrix desktop has MSIE 6...) Attempt 2 "You need an .edu email address to signup to this plan. Looking for our corporate plans instead?" Are you really not interested in .ac.uk addresses? Cambridge University (whose logo you list on your landing page) staff may have some issues actually using your system, as will the other couple of hundred Universities and colleges in the UK.
    - shimms 14y ago
      Hi, Sorry to hear you're having difficulties signing up - you're quite correct that .ac.uk should be allowed. At present the signup page requires an email address that ends in '.edu' (or '.edu.*' for country specific edu emails) to qualify for the free plan. We're adding region specific exceptions (such as .ac.uk) as we come across them. The Cambridge users signed up for Lexim during the private beta period in which we had no restrictions on email addresses. I've flagged this as an issue with our development team, and it will be addressed within in the next 12 - 24 hours (it's currently just gone midnight on Monday morning here in Australia). In the interim if you'd still like to play with Lexim, feel free to shoot me your email address to my private email and I'll make sure you can get sorted on the free plan. Sorry again, appreciate your interest and feedback! Thanks, Michael
      - keithpeter 14y ago
        I'll give it another go Monday evening UK time. While you are doing a support ticket for the email address filter, uk schools use sch.uk.
      - keithpeter 14y ago
        ac.uk addresses are recognised now so I set a 'free forever' course up, added a YouTube video for students to see, created a couple of dummy students, and am now awaiting the confirmation emails for the dummy students so they know how to log on. The system accepts non ac.uk emails for students so I have used a gmail account, I hope this has not simply dropped into a black hole. I started with a blank course because I learn by randomly clicking around and working out how to add things. Others may like the 'sample content' course with one of everything. Some comments - Fresh bright and nice looking pages, younger students will like it. As soon as I can get a dummy student account activated, I'll have a look at it on my phone, which is how teenagers access Web content on their own time (PCs are strictly College things, office appliances) - Clicking on the YouTube button brings up a search box. There appears to be no place to put a direct link. I had to think of search terms to find my own YouTube videos! If there is a way of simply adding a 'share' link, can that be pointed out? - email validation for younger students may slow things down a bit, teenagers don't do email much now, and they all seem to have hotmail accounts which get blocked &c. Our own Moodle server allows us to simply create the accounts and then give the student a link, username and password. Has potential. PS Free forever because no member of staff can commit the institution to any kind of liability without a lot of form filling.

by shimms 14y ago

keithpeter 14y ago

Thanks for responding, I'll create a trial account and have a play. Best of luck.

shimms 14y ago
Great, I'll keep an eye out for your account. Feel free to reach out to me directly at michael dot shimmins at getlexim.com if you'd like any more information or any assistance at all.
- keithpeter 14y ago
  Attempt 1 "That looks like a personal email address. Please use your email address from your educational institution or company to sign up." OK, I understand why you are doing that. I always use my gmail account to try stuff out so I don't get endless marketing crap to my College account. I'll use the College account for this exercise (note: that means cranking up the Citrix ICA client and logging into my College desktop. The Citrix desktop has MSIE 6...) Attempt 2 "You need an .edu email address to signup to this plan. Looking for our corporate plans instead?" Are you really not interested in .ac.uk addresses? Cambridge University (whose logo you list on your landing page) staff may have some issues actually using your system, as will the other couple of hundred Universities and colleges in the UK.
  - shimms 14y ago
    Hi, Sorry to hear you're having difficulties signing up - you're quite correct that .ac.uk should be allowed. At present the signup page requires an email address that ends in '.edu' (or '.edu.*' for country specific edu emails) to qualify for the free plan. We're adding region specific exceptions (such as .ac.uk) as we come across them. The Cambridge users signed up for Lexim during the private beta period in which we had no restrictions on email addresses. I've flagged this as an issue with our development team, and it will be addressed within in the next 12 - 24 hours (it's currently just gone midnight on Monday morning here in Australia). In the interim if you'd still like to play with Lexim, feel free to shoot me your email address to my private email and I'll make sure you can get sorted on the free plan. Sorry again, appreciate your interest and feedback! Thanks, Michael
    - keithpeter 14y ago
      I'll give it another go Monday evening UK time. While you are doing a support ticket for the email address filter, uk schools use sch.uk.
    - keithpeter 14y ago
      ac.uk addresses are recognised now so I set a 'free forever' course up, added a YouTube video for students to see, created a couple of dummy students, and am now awaiting the confirmation emails for the dummy students so they know how to log on. The system accepts non ac.uk emails for students so I have used a gmail account, I hope this has not simply dropped into a black hole. I started with a blank course because I learn by randomly clicking around and working out how to add things. Others may like the 'sample content' course with one of everything. Some comments - Fresh bright and nice looking pages, younger students will like it. As soon as I can get a dummy student account activated, I'll have a look at it on my phone, which is how teenagers access Web content on their own time (PCs are strictly College things, office appliances) - Clicking on the YouTube button brings up a search box. There appears to be no place to put a direct link. I had to think of search terms to find my own YouTube videos! If there is a way of simply adding a 'share' link, can that be pointed out? - email validation for younger students may slow things down a bit, teenagers don't do email much now, and they all seem to have hotmail accounts which get blocked &c. Our own Moodle server allows us to simply create the accounts and then give the student a link, username and password. Has potential. PS Free forever because no member of staff can commit the institution to any kind of liability without a lot of form filling.