Customized Course Guides in D2L

Are you using D2L in your courses?  Are you interested in integrating library resources into your teaching and assignments?  A library course guide can be a very valuable tool for helping your students successfully identify and use library resources to complete assignments. 

We would be happy to set up a library guide for your course.  We welcome your input, but do not want to create more work for you.  We can start with a page that links to the basic resources in your discipline.  Then, if you desire more customization, just share your syllabus with us, or contact us with information about your specialized needs and we'll customize the resources offered for your assignments.

We can include direct links to :

Electronic reserves and/or your print reserve list in the library catalog.

A library catalog search box

Articles in library electronic databases

•  For example:  Reading for Feb. 9:

  • A Green Campus Culture in Wisconsin from Techniques

Direct links to databases that index articles or resources in your discipline

 

• For Example:  Academic Search Elite (Ebsco Index)
  

Quick Search article search - find articles by simultaneously searching multiple indexes - quick search sets can be general or discipline specific.  If you need a customized cross disciplinary set for your class contact the library.

Quicksearch for Articles

RSS feeds for journals, newspapers, blogs, websites

• For Example:  Set up an online alert to a specific section of the New York Times.

Online citation guides - quick guides for MLA or APA, links to websites with comprehensive citation guidance.  (If you use another citation style we can prepare a customized quick guide for you)

Reference assistance from librarians via email or phone

Recommended websites from our UWSP Virtual Reference Desk and other web highlights

Introduce your student to the library by adding a student produced video!

Links to additional Library services, such as Interlibrary loan, Universal Borrowing

Examples of Discipline based subject guides:

• Business
• Communication
• Education
• Natural Resources
• Psychology

Examples of Assignment based course guides

• Pro-Con research
• Biographical research
• Art Images
• Environmental Education
• Finding Poetry

Copyright Considerations - a guide to the TEACH Act and other copyright law for online education

For more information or to request a course guide contact:

Terri Muraski, Information Systems Librarian
Office:  LRC 209
Office Phone:  715-346-3349
Email:  tmuraski@uwsp.edu