Import Help

• * Title - Create a title
• * Text - Copy and paste your text here.
• Upload audio - If you have the audio file for this lesson on your computer, you can upload it here.You can also input an audio URL if the audio file is located on the web. Make sure to enter the duration in seconds for audio URLs.
• Upload image - If you would like to upload an image to make your lesson look better, upload it from your computer here.
• Tags - These are optional and could include category, type, accent, or keywords.
• Original URL - If you imported this text from the web, you can include the original URL which will be displayed to other members if you give this lesson a rose which will share it on the Exchange.
• Level - Attach a difficulty level.
• Course - Choose a course from the Course dropdown to group lessons into courses or attach a lesson to an existing course.
• Description - Create a description. The first few sentences of the article will do. This field is optional.
• Provider - Add a Provider to provide attribution to the content creator or to establish your own brand as a provider. You can include links and images for providers.
• Resources - You can add videos, translations, other scripts, lesson notes, exercises and attachments in the Resources Tab. Just choose the type of resource and its language.

* Only Title and Text are needed when importing private lessons.

When you create a Course, the Title, Description and Image are for the Course. You will still be able to create individual Titles, Descriptions and Images for Lessons in the Course.

To add an external URL instead of uploading a sound file, click Add Url on the left of the page. Paste the URL into the box under Add Url. Enter the Duration of the audio file in seconds.

When uploading content to share on LingQ, please refer to the following guidelines:

1. You must upload text, audio (mp3) and an image for all content.
2. Content must be free of copyright or you must have permission from the copyright holder.
3. Content should not contain questionable subject matter, ie. profanity, pornography
4. Please try to ensure good sound quality by using a good quality microphone.
5. Audio files must be mp3 files saved at 64 Kbps and 11025, 22050 or 44100 Hz. (Use a program like Audacity to record your sound files and prepare them in the right format.
6. You must include an image with all content items.
7. We reserve the right to accept or reject any content that we feel doesn't meet the guidelines above.
8. All Shared content will appear in the Library right away.

A Course is a way of grouping similar lessons. When importing content, you can either create a lesson or you can create a course to which you then add lessons. When you have a Lesson opened, pick your course from the Course dropdown at the top right.

When you import audio that has been saved at a frequency other than 11025 khz, 22050 khz, 44100 khz it will sound funny in our audio player. You will have to edit your sound file in Audacity and re-upload it to fix the problem.
To change the frequency in Audacity do the following:

1. Open the file in Audacity
2. Change the Project Rate (bottom left corner) to 22050 Hz
3. Click on File -> Export
4. Choose a name
5. Change file format to MP3
6. Click Options, change Quality to 80kbps
7. Re-import the new audio file to the lesson you created

All formatting except for paragraphs is removed from imported text because this formatting can interfere with the way texts are handled on the site.

When you share content in the Library, you will want to identify yourself as the content Provider. To make your own Provider:

1. Open up an existing Lesson or create a new Lesson in the import section.
2. Change the status from Private to Shared.
3. Click the Add new link beside the Provider dropdown.
4. Enter a Provider Title, Description, Url and Image. The Url can be the url of your own website or blog.
5. Once you have created your Provider, you will be able to select it from the Provider dropdown. All Providers you create will be identified by an asterisk.

Your provider information will then be displayed at the bottom of the lesson.

The topic of adding images has come up recently on the Forum. In order to remove the risk of infringing copyright laws, we are recommending you use Flickr as a source for images. Here is how to add an image from Flickr:

1. Go to www.flickr.com
2. Click on the Search link or Search button
3. Click on the Advanced Search link beside the Search button on the Search page
4. Enter your search term and tick the two options shown here in the Creative Commons area of the search page. Then click Search.
   
5. All images shown in the results are free for you to use as long as you acknowledge the source of the images in your Item or Course description. You may also have to indicate the licence of the image if you see "Some right reserved" under Additional Information about the picture.
6. When adding the image to your Item or Course on LingQ, indicate the Flickr username and profile url in the description field. ie. Image courtesy of mark (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mark/)
7. If necessary, indicate the licence terms of the image here as well. ie. Some rights reserved (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/). You can just copy this text and link here.
8. Here is an example from the site:

   

Yes, you can. You can import anything you like into your own account for your private use. All content you import is private unless you explicitly share it after you have imported it.

1. Copy the text from the PDF and paste it into Word.
2. After you copy the text there should be a little icon of a clipboard and piece of paper that you can click next to the last word that you copied. If you hover your mouse over this button it reads, "Paste Options"
3. Click the button and select, "Match Destination Formatting".
4. Click "Format", and then select "Auto Format". A window should pop up.
5. Make sure "Auto format", and "general document" are selected and then click "ok".