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Welcome!

Lingco is excited to be hosting the National French Contest for 2025! We’ve created a modern online educational platform designed to help instructors more effectively teach students foreign languages. We’re doing everything we can to make the Contest this year as smooth as possible, and we’ve created this guide to walk you through the process of using Lingco to administer the Contest.

Proctoring Steps - Summary

  1. Log into Lingco (https://class.lingco.io)
    1. Use the login credentials created during the registration process or another method (ie: SSO from Canvas), if you’ve set it up
  2. Click on the French National Contest button (left side of the page)
  3. Select the course related to the Contest you’ll be administering (Level 1, Level 2, etc.)
  4. Click on the Modules link (right side of the page)
  5. Select the section you’ll be administering (Part A or Part B)
  6. Expand the Availability panel on the right side
  7. Locate the Secret Code. You’ll be giving this to your students shortly.
  8. Walk your students through Steps 1-7 above. They will need to follow those exact same steps on their own computer, except they will find their Contest course under the “Courses” menu on the left side.
  9. Give your students the Secret Code from step 8. They’ll need to enter this into the text input on their screen.
  10. Tell your students to click the Start Assignment button on their screen. That will start each student’s timer.
  11. Now you can navigate to the Submission page and refresh periodically if you’d like to monitor your student’s progress.

Technical requirements

Lingco is a modern web-based application that works best with the latest version of Google Chrome, running on a laptop or desktop computer (either Mac, PC or Chromebook).  It should also work on the last two versions of Safari, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge, but Chrome is highly recommended.  The activities used in the National French Contest are designed for larger screens, so we don’t support using mobile devices or tablets at this time.

In order to take the National French Contest on Lingco you’ll also need: