FAQ

Click on “People” and click the blue “Add people” button. Share this code with your students to give them access to the site.

Yes, you can invite other instructors and teaching assistants. Click on “People” and click the blue “Add people” button. And then click “Add Instructors” in the popup.

You don’t need to download anything to use Lore — all you need is an internet browser. Because Lore uses some advanced technology, you should make sure you’re using one of the following browsers: IE8 or higher, Chrome, Safari 5 or higher, and Firefox 3.6 or higher.

Click your name on the top right to switch between courses.

The first thing you should do if you can’t log in is reset your password. To do this, go to lore.com, click on “Log In” and then “Forgot password?” in the top-right corner of the page. You’ll get an email with a password reset token (don’t forget to check your spam folder).

For now, it’s not possible to change the type of login you use on Lore. If you created the account with Facebook, you will need to continue to log in with Facebook.

Click your name in the top right, then “Settings,” and then “Courses.” You can click “Leave course” for any course and then “Save Changes,” which will effectively delete the course.

Click your name on the top right of the page and hit “Create New Course.”

Click your name in the top right, then “Settings,” and then “Courses.” You can click “Leave course” for any course and then “Save Changes.”

The Stream is for posting updates, links, and media for everyone in your course to see. You and your students can post to it!

Yep. To the left of Chat on the Stream, you will see the Browse column. You can use filters to narrow down the content on the left.

Yes — you can can delete anything on the stream. Also, your comments and likes get a special green treatment so they immediately stand out for your students.

Because you’re an instructor. Whenever you post or comment you’ll appear with a green border — this is so that you stick out while students are browsing.

It is not possible to edit a post or comment after it’s made. This is so people can be confident that the information they read in a post or comment won’t change or disappear later on.

Themes are used to tag content across your site. You can add or modify themes later from your Course Settings. It’s a great way to break the course up into topics or specific ideas.

Yes! You can add or modify themes later. Just go to the Settings tab at the top of the page, scroll to the bottom of the page, and add or edit as many themes as you like.

Each course has its own email address. To get it, click on the Lore logo on the top left and you’ll see the Course Card, which shows the specific course address. Emailing that address will post to your course’s Stream, and send your students an email notification. It therefore replaces email groups and listservs. You can also reply to emails you get about what students have posted — it will add your reply as a comment.

You bet. To do this, go to a student’s profile and click “Send Message.” The message you send will be delivered to their email and if they reply, their response will be sent directly to your email.

Yes, that’s one of Lore’s greatest features. Students can post to the course Stream, chat with individuals in the class, or chat with the whole class. This means less emails for you and a more efficient system of communication for the students, as well as a more informed class of students.

At Lore we organize courses around the calendar, because at its core, a course is a series of events: class meetings, assignments due, exams. So this is where you go to assign something. This is where you schedule an exam. Stream posts and resources can be “tagged” with items from the calendar. Students will submit their assignments directly on here.

Yes, when you create an assignment, your students are notified by default, but you can choose to turn this off for each assignment if you wish.

Absolutely. Just click the little print icon on the top right of the calendar and you’re all set.

Right now there’s no way to edit or delete all meeting times at one time, so you’d have to do them one by one. We’re working to make this easier.

Resources are any files, books, or links that are relevant to your course. When you attach a file to an item in the calendar, it’ll be added to the Resources page as well. Resources can also be tagged with themes.

Storage is unlimited. Just don’t abuse it!

Nope. You can upload any size file.

Just click on your name anywhere you see it, and you will be brought to your profile page where you can edit your title, add a picture, and add any additional information you want, such as references, experience, awards, and publications.

There is no limit, but adding many thousands of students would slow your course.

On the Calendar. They can submit assignments through a link on the Calendar for the course.

Lore is set up for use with individual students, but we are working on ways to make managing group projects easier. Some instructors have chosen to set up separate courses on Lore for each individual student group, so they can use the Stream to discuss their projects and submit group work. Another option is to designate team leaders for each group and have them submit all the work for the project through a “Not Graded” assignment in the main course. If you have suggestions, please get in touch: concierge@lore.com

At this time only document submissions can be done on Lore. Assessments aren’t currently supported.

Yes, absolutely. Just type in a period to create the decimal.

Yes, just click Export (.csv) on the right side. You can open that file in Excel. This file can be shared with
your university as well, if they request students’ grades.

Absolutely. You can either make your course public or make the course only accessible to the students
enrolled in it. You can even choose certain pieces to private or public. All this happens in the Course
Settings, under Privacy.

Yes! Most instructors create their syllabus on the course page or copy and paste their syllabus if they
have already created it. However, you can also upload a syllabus you have already created by going to
the Resources tab on your course’s homepage.

Lore was designed with state-of-the-art security measures in place. Sensitive student data will never be compromised.

Yep! They will receive an email notification every time something is changed or added, unless you choose
to have this notification not send out.

You do. Just as with services like Youtube and Gmail, you own your data. Lore is just a medium to
host it.

Yes, if you go to Course Settings and click Export, you will be able to generate an HTML version of your
course. You can save this and put it on a server as an archive.