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Quick Guide for Summer Students

This guide is intended to provide new students with all of the information they need to get started at 91¿´Æ¬Íø. 

Academics

my.lakeforest

 is the college’s intranet. You will use it to register for classes, check grades, and many other things.  Click here to view a guide to my.lakeforest. 

Webmail

Your professor will use your 91¿´Æ¬Íø email account for most of the course communication. Please check this email at least twice per day. The easiest way to access this is via . You can also find a link to Webmail in the “Quicklinks” at the bottom of the website menu. 

Moodle

is a tool that you will use to communicate with your professors.

Microsoft Teams (for remote courses)

Remote summer courses meet synchronously every day and typically use Microsoft Teams for these live, video meetings (Teams works on Apple devices as well as Microsoft devices).  for directions on setting up and using Microsoft Teams. 

Billing

Your student account statement is available via my.lakeforest under Students—My Account—Billing Statement. You can pay online at . For questions concerning your bill, please contact Student Accounts at 847-735-5032 or  studentaccounts@lakeforest.edu.

Ordering Transcripts and Transferring Credits

You will see the grades from your course(s) on your my.courses page of My.Lakeforest. But your home institution will want a formal transcript.  A visiting student who wishes to have the credit transferred to their home institution should go to our  

At 91¿´Æ¬Íø, credit is earned, recorded, and tallied by course rather than by semester credit hours. For the purposes of definition and transfer of credit, a Lake Forest course is valued at  four semester credit hours or  six quarter credits.

Please wait two full weeks after receiving your final grade before you order your transcript.

Textbooks and the Bookstore

Textbooks for courses can be found at the campus  .


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