Welcome to LaunchPad Solo for Lunsford Handbooks

Setting Up and Customizing Your LaunchPad Course

LaunchPad Solo for Lunsford Handbooks is designed to work in tandem with your textbook to help students sharpen their critical thinking, reading, and writing skills and promote the development of digital literacy. We want you and your students to have an excellent experience. The resources below will help you get started, and the pages that follow will familiarize you with some of the resources and assignment types available in LaunchPad Solo for Lunsford Handbooks.

Create and Activate Your Course

To activate your course so students can enroll, please consult these resources:

Reference the Course Activation advice from the Knowledge Base.
After you click on the “Activate your course” link at the top of the screen, share the course activation email with students. Providing students with the direct link to your course will help be certain they’ve enrolled in the correct course.
Request Training.
Contact Technical Support with any issues, and refer students to Tech Support if they have problems joining your course.

Locate Materials You Want to Use

You can locate relevant materials by

Viewing a LaunchPad unit.
Knowledge Base.
Selecting the Resources panel to search or browse contents

Assign Activities

Creating your course assignments before students enroll is one of the keys to success with LaunchPad, and assigning is incredibly easy. You can assign a full unit or assign resources independently. Please be aware that some quizzes appear in the Resources panel and will only be available to students if you assign them (see the page in this Welcome unit titled “Types of Assessment in LaunchPad Solo for Lunsford Handbooks” for more information). Students can access LearningCurve without it being assigned.

To assign, please review these instructions:

Assigning a unit.
Assigning items within a unit.
Assigning items to groups or individuals.
Explore advanced assignment settings.

Debrief with Your Students

LaunchPad Solo for Lunsford Handbooks can tell you a lot about students’ mastery of course content. By talking with students about the trends you see in their results, you’ll affirm their online practice and have a better sense of their strengths and weaknesses.

To debrief with students, these instructions can help you talk about their results:

Diagnostic Reports
LearningCurve reports
LaunchPad Gradebook tutorial
Explaining Difficulty and Discrimination