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• To set up an account with LiveText, an email from [email protected] will be sent to your Lesley email address within two weeks after the add/drop date for classes and will contain your unique registration link. Click the link and a new screen will appear with your keycode pre-populated in hidden characters. Complete all necessary fields on the remainder of the page and create a username and password for the site. This link provides more details: https://support.lesley.edu/a/solutions/articles/4000058025?portalId=41463
• Log in to the  www.livetext.com  site with the username and password that was created for your account. Upon logging in you will be brought to your account’s Dashboard view where key assignments for your current courses are displayed.
•  To submit work for a key assignment, click the Begin Assignment button.
• The key assignment description will appear on the page with the assignment due date posted on the top right. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to where it reads Assignment Submission to submit work. To add a file, click the Attach button and then click the Upload button to browse for a file on your local device. If you wish to add comments, you may enter them in the comment box provided.
• To view the rubric that your key assignment will be scored on, click the Show More link on the right side of the page, and click Show More once again to view the rubric.
•  When you have finished adding ALL your key assignment work, click the Submit Assignment button to submit and then click Ok to confirm.
•  If there is an error with your submission, you may click the Withdraw Submission button at the bottom of the next page. If you are unable to withdraw your submission, this indicates that your instructor is in the process of assessing your work and your work cannot be retracted. For this scenario, reach out to your instructor directly and ask they click the Request Resubmission button. There are separate directions on how to do this labeled how do I undo a submission?

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8. To return to your dashboard, click the Dashboard tab where you may submit to addition key assignments as well as view assessment scores. 

10) The deadlines for submissions are the same as when your final assignment is due.  Once the semester is over, you can no longer submit.  If your professor needs you to submit because you were granted extended time, please reach out to your professor and have them reach out to [email protected] to open up the deadline.  The deadline can only be opened if your professor reaches out to MAP.

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LiveText is an electronic data system that has been adopted by over 400 universities across the country. Students use LiveText to submit assessments and other assignments to your instructors. LiveText offers other features including data storage, access to digital resources, tools for collaboration, and a platform for creating, storing, and providing access to your own personalized electronic teaching portfolio that can be shared with school districts and other potential employers.

All Teacher Education students, Elementary and Secondary, are required to register and use a LiveText Membership Field Experience Edition account for the distribution, collection and analysis of all college of education common assessments used for continuous improvement and accreditation efforts. The college of education uses student program fees to purchase individual LiveText accounts. These LiveText accounts are provided for each student when they enroll in specific educaiton courses. If LiveText is required for a course in which you are enrolled you will receive an automatically generated email from the LiveText by Watermark system that provides detailed instructions on how to register the provided account. *Students will not be reimbursed for LiveText accounts that they purchase outside of this process.

In 2011 the College of Education opted to join the TPAC (Teacher Performance Assessment Consortium), which is a national student teacher assessment project. To participate in this project, student assessments must be submitted to scorers located across the country. LiveText provides a platform for the submission and scoring of these Teacher Performance Assessments.

If you have any questions, please contact the Teacher Preparation and Advisiong Office by email: [email protected] , or phone: (307) 766-2230.

To go to the LiveText website, click on https://www.livetext.com/

As you begin working with the LiveText system, you will likely have questions. LiveText has good Help resources that should resolve most problems you may encounter.

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Student faq.

A useful resource LiveText provides is step-by-step instructions for many of the common tasks a student will need to complete.

Log in to LiveText.

Click on ‘Help’ at the upper right corner of the screen.

Click on the ‘For Students’ tab. You will see a list of tasks. Click on a question (for example ‘Q:  How do I add an attachment to a section on a page within a LiveText document?’) and the steps to complete the task will appear directly below.The ‘For Students’ tab also includes documents, forms, and detailed how-to information on many LiveText functions including creating documents, submitting assignments, and viewing your assessments.

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Description and Purpose of LiveText

LiveText is a web-based subscription that allows for:

• The creation and submission of projects and assignments online
• The creation and long-term storage of electronic portfolios, projects, and documents
• The storage of documents so that they are accessible to you from any computer in the world
• The creation of your student teaching or internship portfolio by easily linking to previous course assignments already in LiveText
• The revision of your portfolio by clicking the “copy” button and customizing it for your prospective employer to view
• Collaboration with other LiveText users worldwide (share/edit documents, but only at your discretion and with access that you grant)
• The creation of web pages that can be shared with anyone you choose to grant access to
• Faculty to use rubrics in order to assess a candidate’s work and give feedback
• The School of Education to collect and aggregate data for program evaluation and improvement
• The School of Education to develop and analyze reports for accreditation purposes based on the aggregate data

Purchasing and Registering a LiveText Account

Purchasing:.

• Purchase Membership Key Code through the Liberty University Bookstore, OR
• Purchase directly through LiveText by clicking Purchase Membership.

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• Go to LiveText.
• Select Liberty University as your institution.
• Use your Liberty University email address.
• Use your 8-digit Liberty University student ID (be sure to include the “L” and “0” [zeros] at the beginning of your 8-digit student ID); you can obtain your official 8-digit Liberty University student ID in your account in ASIST.

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Tim Walz, Who Spent Decades as an Enlisted Soldier, Brings Years of Work on Vets Issues to Dem Ticket

A retired Army National Guard noncommissioned officer who was once the top Democrat on the House Veterans Affairs Committee could become the next vice president.

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris announced Tuesday that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will be her running mate. That puts someone with an enlisted background on both presidential tickets after Republican nominee former President Donald Trump chose Marine veteran Sen. JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate.

Patrick Murphy, an Army veteran who was Walz' roommate when they were both freshmen in Congress, called Walz a "soldier's soldier."

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"The two largest federal agencies are DoD and the VA, so someone who has intimate knowledge of both is incredibly important," Murphy, who served as Army under secretary during the Obama administration, said in a phone interview with Military.com. "He was a field artilleryman who has tinnitus as diagnosed by the VA, so he understands the plight of our brother and sister veterans."

Walz enlisted in the Army National Guard in Nebraska in 1981 and retired honorably in 2005 as the top enlisted soldier for 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery Regiment, in the Minnesota National Guard, according to a copy of his records provided by the Minnesota Guard. He reached the rank of command sergeant major and served in that role, but he officially retired as a master sergeant for benefits purposes because he didn't finish a required training course, according to the records and a statement from the Minnesota Guard.

His Guard career included responding to natural disasters in the United States, as well as a deployment to Italy to support U.S. operations in Afghanistan, according to a 2018 article by Minnesota Public Radio . Walz earned several awards, including the Army Commendation Medal and two Army Achievement Medals, according to his military records. Working a civilian job as a high school teacher and football coach, the Nebraska native was also named that state's Citizen Soldier of the Year in 1989, according to official biographies.

During the 2022 Minnesota governor's race, Walz' opponent accused him of leaving the Guard when he did in order to avoid a deployment to Iraq, though Walz maintained he retired in order to focus on running for Congress, according to the Star Tribune newspaper .

Far-right commentators and media resurfaced those allegations and knocked him for never serving in combat -- something he has never claimed to do -- in contrast with Vance's deployment to Iraq as a combat correspondent.

"Looks like it is time to bring back Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Oof. Walz is a really unforced error. He bailed on the military when they decided to send him to Iraq. JD Vance actually served," conservative talk radio host Erick Erickson posted on social media Tuesday.

Walz was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2006, becoming the highest-ranking retired enlisted soldier to serve in Congress.

His tenure in Congress included sitting on the House Veterans Affairs Committee, rising to be its ranking member in 2017.

"Walz' leadership on behalf of his fellow veterans when he was in the U.S. House of Representatives is notable at a time when our all-volunteer force continues to struggle to recruit," Allison Jaslow, CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, said in a statement praising the choice of a veteran to be vice presidential nominee. "How we care for our veterans is as important to our national security as how we care for our troops, and Walz has a record to prove that he understands that imperative."

As the top Democrat on the committee, Walz was a chief adversary for the Trump administration's Department of Veterans Affairs . He battled with then-acting VA Secretary Peter O'Rourke in 2018 during a standoff over O'Rourke's handling of the inspector general's office, and pushed for an investigation into the influence of a trio of informal VA advisers who were members of Trump's Mar-a-Lago club. An investigation by House Democrats completed after Walz left Congress concluded that the so-called Mar-a-Lago trio "violated the law and sought to exert improper influence over government officials to further their own personal interests."

Walz also opposed the Mission Act, the bill that expanded veterans' access to VA-funded care by non-VA doctors that Trump considers one of his signature achievements. Walz said in statements at the time that, while he agreed the program for veterans to seek outside care needed to be fixed, he believed the Mission Act did not have sustainable funding. VA officials in recent years have said community care costs have ballooned following the Mission Act.

Walz supported another bill that Trump touts as a top achievement, the Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act, which sought to make it easier for the VA to fire employees accused of misconduct or poor performance. But the implementation of that law was later part of Walz' fight with O'Rourke . The law also faced legal challenges that prompted the Biden administration to stop using the expedited firing authorities granted by the bill.

Walz was also an early proponent of doing more for veterans exposed to toxins during their military service, sponsored a major veterans suicide prevention bill and advocated for the expansion of GI Bill benefits. And he repeatedly pushed the VA to study marijuana usage to treat PTSD and chronic pain, something that could come up in a future administration if the Department of Justice finalizes reclassifying marijuana into a category of drugs considered less dangerous.

Walz' time in Congress also included a stint on the House Armed Services Committee, a perch he used to advocate for benefits for members of the National Guard .

Walz consistently voted in support of the annual defense policy bill, as well as advocated for repealing the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that effectively banned gay and lesbian service members.

"He was my battle buddy in the fight to repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' and it wouldn't have happened if we didn't have Command Sgt. Maj. Tim Walz helping lead the fight," Murphy said.

Since becoming governor of Minnesota in 2019, Walz' role as commander in chief of the Minnesota National Guard has come under a spotlight several times. In response to a request from the Minneapolis mayor, he activated the Guard in May 2020 to assist law enforcement when some protests over the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd turned destructive. At the time, Minneapolis' mayor accused Walz of being too slow to order the deployment, a charge he denied.

"It is time to rebuild. Rebuild the city, rebuild our justice system, and rebuild the relationship between law enforcement and those they're charged to protect," Walz said in a statement when he announced the activation.

He also activated the Guard to protect the Minnesota state Capitol in January 2021 amid fears that Trump supporters could riot at state houses like they did at the U.S. Capitol that month. And he's used the Guard for missions that are more routine for the service, such as to help after heavy flooding earlier this summer .

As news broke Tuesday of Walz' selection, he quickly won praise from other Democratic veterans.

"Having a person who wore the uniform and who deployed around the world adds to the ticket someone who can connect with veterans and military families in a way that no one but a veteran can," Jon Soltz, chairman of liberal political action committee VoteVets, said in a statement.

-- Steve Beynon contributed to this story.

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Tim Walz's military record: What to know about potential VP's National Guard service

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate on Tuesday, choosing a progressive yet plain-spoken VP candidate from America’s heartland to help her win over rural, white voters.

“I’m pleased to share that I’ve made my decision: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz will join our campaign as my running mate,” Harris said via text to supporters. “Tim is a battle-tested leader who has an incredible track record of getting things done for Minnesota families. I know that he will bring that same principled leadership to our campaign, and to the office of the vice president.”

We look at Walz, a 60-year-old U.S. Army National Guard veteran, and his military career over the years.

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How long was Walz in the military?

Walz served in the military for 24 years, enlisting in the Nebraska National Guard at 17 in 1981 and then transferring to the Minnesota National Guard in 1996. He retired in 2005 to begin his successful run for the U.S. House, representing Minnesota as command sergeant major, among the highest ranks for enlisted soldiers. His battalion went on to deploy to Iraq shortly after Walz's retirement.

Walz specialized in heavy artillery and had proficiency ribbons in sharpshooting and hand grenades.

But during the 21 years that Walz spent working with large artillery pieces, he suffered hearing loss and tinnitus in both ears, Minnesota Public Radio reported. He was allowed to continue his service after undergoing surgery, which partially resolved his hearing loss.

Where did Walz serve, and what did he do in the National Guard?

During his service, Walz responded to natural disasters, including floods and tornadoes in Minnesota and Nebraska, and was deployed overseas for months at a time, according to MPR.

In 2003, he was sent to Italy, where he served with the European Security Force to support the war in Afghanistan. He was also stationed in Norway for joint training with other NATO militaries.

Walz told MPR that he reenlisted in the National Guard after the September 11 attacks but never saw active combat in his years in the military.

Stars and Stripes reported in 2020 that Walz credited his Army experience with helping him steer Minnesota through the COVID-19 pandemic as governor.

As governor of Minnesota, Walz is commander in chief of the 13,000-soldier Minnesota National Guard. “I’m certainly proud of my military service, but it’s one piece of me,” he told Minnesota Public Radio in 2018. “It doesn’t define me.”

Reuters and USA TODAY reporter Tom Vanden Brook contributed to this story.

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