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For what grade levels are your lessons intended?
Lessons vary in their complexity and difficulty. While we will provide guidance for you as to
the difficulty of our lessons, we urge you to browse through our catalog to find lessons
that fit well with your students.
How do I, or my students, view your lessons?
There are two ways to view, or 'launch,' our lessons: On our Lessons page, you will be given
two options. You can either browse our lesson catalog and launch lessons from there, or you
can move immediately to a lesson launch page. The catalog is intended for your use, as the
teacher, so that you might easily browse and select lessons.
The launch pages are intended for student use. Once you have selected a lesson,
you can direct your students to a lesson launch page. Each lesson launch page is
stripped of all links except for the lesson launch button. This will keep students
from navigating away from the lesson you intend for them to view.
How can I track student progress and learning with your lessons?
If you wish, you can register on our system as an Educator. Once our system recognizes you
as an educator, you can register your class, providing usernames and passwords for each
student in your class. Once registered, students' scores on pretests and post-tests
will help you assess student learning. For a downloadable instruction sheet on
registering your students, click here.
Is registration required to access your lessons?
No. You may work through our lessons without registering. You will have access to all
lesson resources, except for pretests and post-tests. These require registration,
so that we may track test scores.
Must I supply personal information about my students when I register them?
No. We will never ask you to compromise the privacy of your students. The only piece of
information about a student which you need to register is their name. This information is
purely for your use, so you can easily and accurately track your students' progress.
Why must I provide information about myself in order to register as an Educator?
When you register as an educator, we provide you with the ability to store information in our
system. For security reasons, we need to verify that you are an educator who wants to
use our system for legitimate, educational reasons.
Do you ever submit my or my students' information to individuals outside your office?
Absolutely not. As a Federally funded program, we must make regular reports to justify our
funding. However, when we make our reports, we report how many individuals are using our
lessons and where they are in the country. All other information, such as name and address,
remains within our office.
What are the educational goals of your lessons? What can my students expect to learn?
We have a number of educational goals, the most important of which is to promote the use of
the Library of Congress (LOC). Our lessons provide students with the opportunity to
perform guided research on the LOC, searching for and working with some of the millions
of online resources provided by the LOC.
Our second educational goal is to increase student proficiency in and comfort with the online
education format (generally known as 'eLearning'). Online education is quickly becoming a
standard method of learning and will become more common as your students progress through their
education. Our lessons provide students with the opportunity to hone the skills necessary to
successful completion of online lessons, such as technology skills, independent and critical
thinking skills and online research skills.
Do my students need a high level of computer knowledge in order to complete your lessons?
Most of our lessons presuppose little computer knowledge. Your students should know how to operate
a mouse, how to open windows, how to start applications, such as Microsoft Word and where they
are supposed to store their personal files (such as their My Documents folder). Beyond this
level of knowledge, our lessons provide a Basic Skills lesson, as well as brief technical tutorials.
In a lesson, when students are asked to perform a task, they are provided a link to a tutorial,
if they are unsure how to perform that task.
Our testing has shown that even students with weaker computer skills have a very quick learning
curve. You should expect to need to provide your students with assistance early in their
experience. However, they will quickly gain independence.
Where can I find a listing of typing tutorials?
Online typing programs are available for students to warm up their fingers from any
internet connected computer. We have compiled a list of Web sites that offer typing tutorials. These
tutorials include introduction and practice through exercises, timed writings, and games.
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