Get Busy This Summer With Free Productivity Training from Lynda.com

Learning a new skill? It's easy to get started with free courses from Lynda.com.
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Learning a new skill? It's easy to get started with free courses from Lynda.com.

Investing time to learn new productivity tools this summer can pay off in a big way this fall. Ramp up your productivity skills with Lynda.com tutorials, free of charge to University of Arkansas students, faculty and staff.

Lynda.com video tutorials span a variety of hard skills that can help you make the most of your time, including Office 365, Gmail apps, SharePoint and others. The site can also help you build soft skills in areas such as time management, leadership and collaboration. Take advantage of these tutorials for an extra edge in school and your career.

Become an expert in that thing you've always wanted to know more about by creating your own tutorial playlists or browsing Lynda.com's "Learning Paths," which are series of bundled tutorials designed to provide a crash course for a particular topic.

Lynda.com courses are taught by industry professionals with real-world experience and can be filtered by category, length, skill level and more to provide a personalized, reliable learning experience.

The University of Arkansas provides students, faculty and staff free, unlimited access to Lynda.com, an online library home to thousands of high-quality instructional videos.

Signing up for Lynda.com is easy and intuitive! Go to lynda.uark.edu, click the icon to "Log into lynda.com" and you will be redirected to the sign-up page. From there you will be prompted to log in with your University of Arkansas username and password.

For more information about online learning with Lynda.com, visit lynda.uark.edu.

Contacts

Erin C. Griffin, content strategy and IA specialist
Information Technology Services
479-575-2901, ecgriff@uark.edu

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