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• Business: Explore a wide range of business skills from project management and negotiation to leadership skills and online marketing strategy. Lynda's professional development tutorials can help you learn SEO, spreadsheets, word processing, and more.
• Design: Whether you want to design a logo, create eBooks, or just learn how to use a Pen tool, Lynda's in-depth design tutorials can help. Get to know Illustrator and InDesign, explore typography, and learn the nuances of designing for print.
• Developer: Learn how to code, create, and build web applications, from the foundations of object-oriented programming in C and C++, to how to write Java. Lynda's developer tutorials can help you learn to develop and create mobile apps, work with PHP and MySQL databases, get started with the statistical processing language R, and much more.
• IT: Lynda's IT training helps you solve real-world practical computing issues and practice for certification exams. Dive into troubleshooting Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X; set up networks, servers, and client services; manage big data; and keep your organization's network secure.
• Marketing: Learn how to develop, implement, and measure a winning marketing strategy using today's tools and platforms. Lynda's marketing courses help you master traditional marketing skills and the latest digital tools and techniques—learn everything from branding and public relations to SEO, PPC, web analytics, and social media marketing.
• Web: Learn how to design and create a website with Lynda's web design tutorials. From hundreds of video courses, choose the right one to help you embed video, format text, design in CSS, create a content strategy, and analyze user experience design.
• ​And much more!

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Offline viewing is only available through the mobile app. At this time, videos cannot be downloaded on desktop or laptop devices.

• Download and open the Lynda.com app.
• Select “Already a member?”
• Change the tab from “Individual to “Organization.”
• Locate the second option down called “Web Portal.”
• Type in “georginalibrary.ca”
• Enter your 14-digit library card number, your PIN, and select “Log in.”

To access the navigation panel, select the three lines  located on the top left. From here, you can jump between your home page, library, playlists, downloads, course history, settings, and help.

Browse & Search: Navigation Panel

• Select the three lines on the top left.
• Select “Library.”
• Browse the page or select a specific field to find more relevant videos.
• Tap on the thumbnail of the video you want to start.

• Select the magnifying glass on the top right.
• Type your terms into the bar.
• Filter your results using the icon on the top right.

• Scroll to the very bottom of the home page.
• Select “Browse the Library.”
• Browse the page or select a specific field to find more relevant videos.
• Tap on the thumbnail of the video you want to start.

*Please note: To access downloaded content, log ino your Learning account. The app login is valid for 30 days, after which time the app will prompt you to re-authenticate your account credentials by signing in again.

• Select the grey “Create new playlist” button in left panel.
• Enter your playlist name (required) and description (optional).
• Select the “Save” button.

Create a Playlist on the Go

• Find a video you want to make a playlist including.
• Select the + sign below the thumbnail image.
• Select “Create New Playlist.”
• Enter the name of your playlist.

Delete a Playlist

• Select the playlist from the left panel.
• Scroll to the bottom of the playlist.
• Select the grey “Delete playlist” command on the bottom right.

• Select the playlist from the left panel.
• Locate the video you want to delete.
• Look to the far right of the title until you see the grey x and select it.

• In the column “Priority,” enter the number you want to move the video to.
• Select the arrow beside the number in list that the video is in and select it to make it the top priority.
• Click and drag the video up or down the list and release it when it is in the correct order.

Curated Playlists

Lynda.com has playlists that they curate that you can follow and work through.

• Hover over your profile on the top right.
• Select “Playlists.”
• Select “Go to Playlist Centre” on the bottom of the left panel.
• Find the playlist you want to follow and select the + sign.
• You will be brought back to your profile playlist page.

Learning Paths

Learning Paths are playlists created focusing on a specific career. Videos within this path will focus on specific skills, tasks or software that are essential for entering that career. This is a fantastic resource for anyone looking at completing post-secondary education to ensure they are going into the right field or to individuals looking to join a new workforce. The number and length of videos vary in each career. You can get an overview of this information once you select a learning path.

Learning Paths also tend to include certificates. Once you have completed a learning Learning Path that has a certificate attached to it, you will be able to access it and share it to your social media accounts by hovering over your name on the top right and choosing “Certificates.”

Interests are the topics and subjects you're interested in learning about at Lynda.com. Lynda's algorithm uses your interests to help identify relevant courses for you from our online library.

By updating your interests, you can generate more recommended courses for your online learning.

To update your interests:

1. Hover over Hi, [Your Name] in the top right of the page.
2. Click My Profile.
3. Click the My Interests tab.
4. Check the boxes next to your categories or topics of interest.
5. Click Save changes at the bottom of the page.

Notes:

• You can remove interests by unchecking any checked box on the My Interests page.
• Interests must be updated from a desktop site at this time.

To set your news and email preferences, from the navigation bar, go to your profile and select profile. Then you'll select the news and email options. And from this page, this is where you'll need to come when you need to change both email addresses associated with your membership account as well as the email address associated with any newsletters you opt into or receive from us. They may very well be the same email address, but just be aware that the address under the account notifications is the one to which we will be sending billing and account information.

If you prefer to receive newsletters at an alternate email address, enter that email address under the email subscriptions area. Basically, whichever email address is displayed or entered under the subscription email address heading is the email that will be affected by what you check or uncheck under the subscription options below here. You're free to select which newsletters you want to receive or not receive from Lynda.com, or click unsubscribe all if you don't want to subscribe to any of them.

But remember, this won't affect the emails we send to the email address listed up here at the top, which is where we'll be sending all of your billing and account information. You can also reach this page quickly by scrolling down to the footer, and under the support tab, selecting manage email preferences. And that's a quick way to jump right to this page. After you've made any selections, remember to click save to confirm.

Watch to learn how to set your news and email preferences.

Lynda.com Certificates of Completion are certifications you earn for the courses you have completely watched on Lynda.com. Upon completion of a course, a certificate is automatically generated that can be viewed online and shared.

The majority of Lynda.com courses are eligible for earning a Certificate of Completion. However, courses that are very short (under 10 minutes) or have frequent updates, such as Deke's Techniques or 10-Minute Tips, are not eligible for earning a Certificate of Completion because new content is always being added.

Note: You may also not receive a Certificate of Completion if you haven't watched every video for that specific course. Please scroll through the Contents tab to see which video(s) was skipped/missed. You can determine which videos you have watched since it will have a Viewed icon  to the right of the video title.

The Lynda.com system is able to track when a member watches and finishes a movie in a title. 
Note: You're not required to complete course assessments or exercise files to earn a Certificate of Completion.

The Certificates category will show all of the certificates obtained on the account. From here, you can share those certificates on social media including LinkedIn. Or print off certificates to impress your boss.
Watch the video to learn how to share your certificates across many platforms.

There is no official Certificate of Completion generated for completed Learning Paths. Once you have completed every course listed in the designated Learning Path, a banner will appear, notifying members that they can display their accomplishment on LinkedIn by clicking the Post To My Profile button. However, unlike Certificates for individual courses, a PDF document will not be provided to share/save/print.

However, please note that members will still receive a Certificate of Completion for each individual course that is completed for the Learning Path they choose to watch.

You can also print your certificate. When viewing your completed certificate, you can click "save as PDF," and then you can print the PDF (certificate).

Once you have downloaded the Lynda.com app, you can download Lynda.com courses and videos, and view offline content through the app.

Desktop app

To download a course on the desktop app:

1. Log in to your Lynda.com account via the Internet browser of your choice.
2. Navigate to the course you would like to download.
3. Click the View Offline tab located beneath the video player.
4. Click Start the Download.
5. If a pop-up box appears, select the Open Lynda.com Desktop App option.
6. Your desktop app will open and the course download will begin. 

iOS app

To download a course on an iOS device:

1. Log in to the Lynda.com app.
2. Navigate to the course you would like to download.
3. Tap the  Download icon located in the upper right corner of the page.
4. Tap Download Entire Course.

To download individual videos on an iOS device:

1. Log in to the Lynda.com app.
2. Navigate to the desired course.
3. Tap the  Download icon located to the right of each individual video.
• Note: If you’re holding your device vertically, tap the Videos tab if it isn’t already selected. You may then download the videos individually by tapping the  Download icon next to each video title.

• Select the three lines on the top left.
• Select “My Courses” to open the submenu.
• Select “Downloads.”

Download Course

Downloading a tutorial on your device will allow you to watch the video offline. Please note: By downloading the tutorials, this will take up memory space on the device.

• Find a video you want to download.
• Select the thumbnail image.
• Select the download symbol (arrow pointing down) on the top right.
• Select “Download Entire Course.”
• If you want to download only specific chapters of the video, select the arrow (pointing down) in the table of contents (below the video player).

Accessing Courses Offline

After the videos and/or courses have been downloaded, you can then view your content offline while logged into the appropriate app. Make sure that you are logged into the Lynda.com website so that downloading to your app just requires you to use the 1-click login.

Notes:

To access downloaded content, members must be logged in to their Lynda.com account. The app login is valid for 30 days, after which time the app will prompt members to re-authenticate their account credentials by signing in again.

To view a course or individual video on the desktop app: Open the Lynda.com desktop app.

Note: You may be prompted to log in to the app. Click the offline course you would like to watch. To pick up where you last left off, click the  Play icon on the video player. To watch an individual video, scroll through the Contents tab and click the desired video. Then, press the  Play icon to start viewing.

iOS and Android

To view a course or individual video offline on an Apple  or Android device: Open the Lynda.com app. 
Note: You may be prompted to log in to the app. Tap the Menu icon in the upper left of the page. Tap My Courses.
Tap Downloads. Tap the course or video you would like to watch to begin offline playback.