You started OK. Good morning. And thank you for attending this morning. We're going to be talking about library integrations with Canvas. My name is a Nietzsche, and I am the English and American literature librarian. And I do a few other assorted things OF library. I want to introduce my colleague, Maria barefoot, who is brand-new our Online Learning Librarian. You should definitely consider her a resource moving forward. But since she just started with us in December, I think the beginning of December, I'm going to be the one doing the talking today. We didn't want to put her on the spot right away, but she's here to answer questions with me as well. Ok, so I am going to share screen. I'm also sharing the link to my slides in the chat. Hopefully, we'll have that I'll share again at the end. Because I know it won't show for the people who come in later. Key. Yes. So I need to share my whole screen cuz I'm gonna be doing some around, okay? Hopefully you see my slides. Okay. Yes, Maria's giving me an odd that's good. So our both of our email addresses are here, minus very simple G at Yale that enhances and bar. And you're welcome to contact us with questions any time. So I'm going to talk about basically three main ways that you can integrate library resources into your Canvas course. And those are linking to library resources, embedding some library resources directly into your course pages, and embedding a librarian into your course. So I'll get to those in more detail as we move forward. Okay, so first, why should you link to the library resources? Maybe you have a PDF file of an article that you want your students to read, you may be tempted to just post that. I attach it to a page and your course, we asked you if at all possible not to do that. And there're some reasons why if the material is available through the library, it's preferable to link to it rather than just posting a copy for one thing because it helps us avoid violating our licensing agreements and copyright restrictions. That's the technical reason, but there are some really good reasons for your students to, it helps them get used to navigating the library resources a little bit familiarizing themselves with how journals and databases and ebooks work on the library's site. It also helps the library capture data about which of our resources are in demand, which ones are getting used for your courses. And that helps us make decisions about what to buy more of, what to keep, went to let go when we have to make those tough choices like this here. So that information is very helpful for us and for that reason, very hopeful to your students in the future. So how do you link to library resources now that I've convinced you, hopefully that you should, well, the main thing to do is to look for the permanent link. The problem with that is that in whatever database you might be using, those things might be called different things. They look a little bit different. So the permanent link, permalink or stable URL basically all mean the same thing. It's e, fixed address for that material on. So while the link that shows in your browser address bar may expire because it may have sessions, search session information, or it just may not be a link that's meant to last for years and years. A stable URL should work year after year if you need to get back to it. And I see that there is something in the chat. Quick peek up got. So if you want students to get experience searching for things, yes, I'm going to talk about that when we do instruction in various forums to help students learn how to do that kind of stuff. And we can talk more about that later. I'm going to let Maria and answer checksums. Who's got it, just let me know if you mean addressed something. So I've put some examples on this slide. At the very first one on the upper left is what you will see Adele cat discovery, the library catalog. So those are great links to use if you can find an article listed in Dell cat or if you want to link to a video that's Adele cat or an ebook that's Adele cat. Those links will always work. You don't have to worry about whether they prompt your students to login to access the material. Not because they'll do that once they get there and you don't have to do anything else, That's the easiest way for you to do it. There are cases where that won't necessarily work out and you want to link to a specific part of an e-book or are you need to link them directly to an article that happens to you on a publisher's site for that journal. And in that case, you want to grab something like a stable URL that I'm showing in the middle here. Bounds a chaste or one, or a DOI, which stands for Digital Object Identifier. Sometimes you'll see them as sort of a code, but often you'll see them as a URL like this one is, that's the one that you would want to grab. And sometimes they'll be hidden in some of our EPS go and databases under things like share or Save Options. And then when you click on those kinds of icons, you'll see an option to grab a permalink under there. So if you ever run into trouble figuring out, how do I find this leaf? What do I grab? That's a great time to check with the library. We can probably helped me really quickly. And I'm going to show a demo of this once. Said to me. Let's try this again. Okay? Alright, so as I mentioned, if you grab that link for del chi discovery, you don't need to do anything else. You can just share that link with your students and that'll get them back to the right place. If you grab a link from a publisher's website or within one of the databases, or ideal wildly like this fine on this slide. Then you would need to add the EZ proxy prefix to that. And what that does is, no matter where your students are, they can log in with their UD credentials. That adding that part, I'm only prompts that log in. It gives them access to the full text from off campus. When you're sharing links on campus, you don't have to worry about it. But since most of us are away right now, and for the foreseeable future, it's good practice. So what does all this mean? Annuity probably sounds abstract. I'll show you a couple of examples. Let me see who's going to get out of there. Okay, so this is results page in the library catalog. Hopefully. See that couple of books about environmental humanities. Let's say I'm looking at this one on the Rutledge Companion to environmental humanities hears detailed record on the right side of the page. And you'll see the option that says link, and it has the little link icon with the chain links. And you click on that, shows you the URL and you can just copy and paste that URL. It will bring you right back to this page anytime. So that is a great way to link tool materials for your students because they can, oops, I'm sorry. Drag, turn to drag these pictures. They can they can just click the blue beam e-book button and they authenticate themselves and you don't have to worry about doing their part for them. Now, the caveat with eBooks isn't a problem with journals. It isn't a problem with our streaming videos. But a lot of ebook licenses that we subscribe to these materials through only give access to one user at a time. So that's something that you'd want to check before you tell all of your students to read the same chapter of a book, they might be competing to get access to that chapter at the same time. So one way that you can check is to click through the UE book. If you haven't logged in, it would prompt you to log in with your credentials at this time. I'm already logged in a million. So you can see that kind of information. Here under availability, it says your institution has access to one copy of this book. Now, this would be another case where you want to reach out to us. You can just go to ask for library and start your questionnaire where you can go to your subject librarian and I'll show you how to do that a little bit later. We can, in some cases, get a more lenient license so that all of your students will be able to access a book at the same time. If we're not able to do that will tell you and we'll let you know what other things might be available that do have less restricted place citizens. So as I said, this isn't an issue for articles. Articles are always available to any number of students at a given time. And it isn't an issue for our shooting videos either. It's just an e-book and it's not all would-be e-books. So if I go back out to this results page, let's see, here's another book on environmental humanities. And this one is telling me that it's a J storybook. I happen to know that all of the J's to where books are available to us with an unlimited number of users. So that would be one thing to look for once you get to know those things, if it's in JSTOR Or some of our other packages, any number of your students could read that material at the same time. If not, then you would need to work something out and see that there are questions in the chat. Anything that I need to answer, Maria Thoreau had Melanie. My question was just about the EZ proxy URL billing creator. I'm I'm so sorry I missed. Is that for every link that we need to put it through that you don't have to do it for Dell cat links at all. And it gets a little more complicated after that. Basically, it never hurts to add it there or somewhere. It's not really necessary. But if you don't know, I would always recommend adding it. Now and I'll show how to do that to perfect that while I'm doing demos, let's go to another tab. I'm going to close this tab. So here's an article title that I know I want my students to read. I can often find articles just copying and pasting the title into the del cat search box. Not all articles are going to be in there, but a lot of them are. And when I find that record, also, as you probably know, scholarly article tails are probably specific enough that you'll get the right result at the top of your search. So I'm going to click on that title. And I could just use to tell Catlin to send my students here and then they can log in to view the full texts from here. That's absolutely okay. Or if I want to click through to the full text myself and link them directly to that. It's going to take a moment. Here I am, I'm on the Taylor and Francis site for that journal, Environmental Sociology. Here's the DOI. So if I copy that and I come over to easy proxy link creator, I'm gonna paste that DUI in there. Click the Create EZ proxy firmly, and there's my link that my students with me. This link will prompt them to log in and have full access from wherever they are. So I can come over into my Canvas site. And I've already made a page saying, read this article for week one. I'm so torn, I want to see your faces, but I also need to see the screen. Okay, so I'm editing my little page here and I'm just going to leave the title with a link I just created. So there's the link option going to paste that in there. To kind of, you can say. And if I click on that link, it should take me back to that article. So that's what you want it to do. You do have to create a link like that. I always recommend testing it. And if you have any trouble, that's something that you could contact the library about to actually help with. That. Hopefully that made some sense. Ok, great. I'm just curious, can you try it with the student view, the glasses right there at the top ranking? Yes, sure. Oh, I haven't published a or sorry. We have Student View. And then yeah, now let's try. So it's because it's in my demo, it sim, that site hasn't been told or that module hasn't been publishing. Sorry, hang on. We'll get there. Yeah. I didn't prepare to do this part. Sorry. I appreciate union rooming. No problem. So narrative and like I said, at the point where they click on the link, that's where they would be prompted to log in because I'm already logged in. It's not asking me to do that. So it goes as our article where yeah, it'll take them right to the publisher's page where they can read the full text of the article. Okay. Thank you. Yeah, of course. And like I said, sometimes it's easier to find these things that other time. So if we can help, don't be shy, just let us know. We're we're old, old hands out. It practiced a lot. So I'm going to go away from demoing firm and then back to the slides. So what else did I want to say here? If the library does not have electronic access to an article that you want to share with your students display, but we haven't print. We do have an electronic course, reserve service that kept scan a chapter of a book and put it on reserve for your course. And they would set that up for you, make sure your students can get to it. So feel free to let it. Just get in touch with the library if you need to do that at any point. Okay, so going forward, so that's linking. You can link to our streaming video collections just like you can link to articles and e-books and things like that. But with streaming video, The nice thing is that you can also embed those videos right into your Canvas. Pages, discussions and assignments anywhere where you have that rich text box where you can edit. So you want to look for the embed code on the site where you're finding the video, you can imbed YouTube clips to obvious David, I'm focusing on the library resources. Basically canopy academic video online are two huge streaming video packages, but we have some other ones too. And then once you copy that code from that resource, take it back over to Canvas. Look for, they've just changed this. I think recently, there's now a little cloud icon and when you hover over it, it says embed. And when you click on it, it gives you a pop-up box where you can paste that code. And so I'll show you how that looks quickly too. Let me come back over to my page. C. Can get rid of this article number. Okay, so I found a video that I want my students to watch, Symphony of the Soil. And this one happens to be in canopy. Due notice. Notice that the videos that are in canopy are licensed for a year at a time. So they do you have expiration dates? If you need to show a film after it's current expiration date, please contact the library because we can most likely arranged for renewal that, but we need to know that you need it in order to do that. So I'm going to click the link to you now and that will take me into the canopy collection. And I'm not sure if it's going to make me do. Now, I've already logged in. When you first log when you first click into canopy, it makes you log in, click log in like two or three types. It's sort of strange, but once it though that your ID. And then if I want to grab that code for my students, I can click where it says share here. And then choose embed. And there's the code that ID and I'm going to copy. And then if I go back over to my canvas site, this time, I'm going to add age. As much of this. Whoops. I could make this a discussion, you know, watch and post a question about the film or comment or something like that. And it gets a cloud icon I mentioned is all the way on the right. And just put the embed code, click Submit. And I haven't had a trouble with these so far, but if you run into some, we can always let us know. Our film and video coordinator. I'm some of you may know Megan Matt, what Chuck is, our fill expert and she could help troubleshoot these kinds of problems if you have any. So there is, then you can play it right from here. Hopefully. Yeah, I'm starting salary goes. Foot's not too too tough to do that. Okay, so in addition to videos, another resource that you can embed our library, research guides. So some of you may have used subject guides before we have them for every academic discipline at UT, programs. That kind of stuff. We also make course specific guides. So you're welcome to work with your subject librarian to create a research guide that has resources tailored toward a research assignment in your course. And then you can embed those guides at a few different levels in your Canvas site. So again, you can embed it anywhere where you have the external tool option. So a page and assignment discussion, you can also just do it under a module using the external tool option. You can embed a full guide. So that would be all five pages of this Environmental Humanities guide. It would, would appear in there just like this. Or you can choose to embed just one of these pages. Maybe you just want it to do the one on scholarly articles, or you can choose to embed just a single box. So maybe I just wanted to embed this box that says Getting Started reference sources. I'm on my guide and I could to any of those, you could embed one box and then another box if you only need to do to say you have a lot of options there. This is another thing that librarians can help you do if you choose to embed us in your Canvas course. And I'll talk about in just a moment. But I'll do a quick demo of this so you see how it works to see here tonight. Okay. I'm gonna close this tab, new closing tabs. Okay, so I'm just going to stay in my Canvas demo site. And let's see, I want to do add to my module. I'm going to use the plus. And right here I can choose External Tool. And I'm going to look for the research guide option. There are more and more options in here all the time. So research guides. When you click on research guides, it asks you to select the site, but you really only have one choice, which is Guides dot lib dot double.edu. Okay, so here's where it starts asking you, you want to embed a MOU? Would do you want to embed a full guy, a single page or just one box, and you can pick any of those you want. I'll do the full guide first to so you can see that. And then you can type in the name of the guy that you want to embed. So there's environmental humanities. I could still choose a page here if I wanted to. So that's nice. That gives me that option. But I'm going to take the whole thing and embed content and add item. And then let's go ahead and publish it so we can look at it from students. Publish. Let's see. So if I'm a student and I click there, now, I will see that full research guy right there in my course. I don't have to go find it on the library site. So that can be really helpful for your students. That just makes it streamlines the process for them and gets them to the resources we want them to see just a little bit faster. So this is the kind of thing we could do. We could go ahead and embed this guide in a page for you and send it to you. Or we could be part of your course in the role I'm kind of jumping ahead as resource assistant in Canvas, you can add us to your course and that particular role. We can go into your course and add content like this or other things which I'll talk about now. Let me do one more instance where since we have plenty of time, I'll show how to get to the box level. I'm I've gotta leaves. So well, let me show from a page instead so that we know what that looks like. So let's make a new page. I'm just gonna call it research guy. Making typos in front of people is one of them. My job hazards continues. And now I have my rich text editing box. And I'm going to look for, gosh, I have to admit I did not do this, so I gotta find the external tool option. And here now, somebody going to help me though you can do a job where the lake Okay. Thank you. Sorry, I externally glow link. Sorry. No, that's not the only way in which we're trying to do the external tool option. Maybe it's this one. Yeah. You're trying to pull in a link. Yeah, here it is. Okay. So this canvas keeps changing the interface, sorry. Okay, so it's this one that says Apps. Gotcha. And now I can choose to be searched guides that I used to do that. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. I should've double-check. I was overconfident. So I'm going to say a content box this time. I'm still going to choose my environmental humanity and God is the one that's on the page. And the new getting started reference sources box that I wanted to show. And I'm just going to click embed content. Now that box, it's right there in my rich text box, zeta here. So thanks for bearing with me while I figure that out. So there it is. And once I published it, we can hopefully look at it as well. Should look just yet. So there it is. So that is another way that you can share links to library resources with your students using the guide as an intermediary. Okay. That's how we used to be distinct. So embedding a librarian, I've already sort of alluded to this. You can contact your subject librarian to discuss the possibilities. So as I mentioned, you can add us to your Canvas course under people, you just look us up and at us and the role of resource assistant. And I've linked here to the announcement that was made about that if our fall started, what the role entails, basically, we won't be able to see your grade. We don't want to anyway. Right. Or any other confidential information if we could just give us the opportunity to help add content to your course as we discuss, to participate in a discussion that we could create. Where you could create, where your students asked a question about the library or research and me help answer those. Or we could work together on creating a low stakes assignment, like a topic development related assignment, where they submit a draft and we help them either focus or broaden it as late as they might yield or choose what databases they might need to search to find the kind of information. Or it could be further along where they're sharing a preliminary bibliography and we're letting them know what that might be missing from that or else they might want to search. So we are happy to talk about the options, the possibilities. If you have something different in mind and you feel a little sheepish about bringing it up to us to use, don't we're happy to consider new options. We're happy to develop new ways of working together. So I hope you will take us up on that. See, you offer kind of live library instruction like the resume. Yeah, we do. Before I move away from this slide I just mentioned, if you don't know your subject librarian, that's something Murray and I can help you with before we leave today. Or I have also linked to the full list here on the slide to you. So, yes, so live library instruction is one of the other ways that the library can help with your course. So It's actually my, my second heading there, an instruction for your courses. We're not doing any in-person instruction right now. Most of us are still working remotely most of the time. So we can do zoom class sessions. We try not to make those entirely library demos like you might have seen if you came into the building because it's hard to engage students that way in z. And so we'd like to keep the demo part very brief or have students explore a guide or resources before we meet with them live and then have the live session be more interactive or activity based. So we can talk about those kinds of things. We also are available to do one-on-one. Consultations are consultations with small groups of students. If you have students working on a project in small groups, we can eat them. Like I said, we can also develop core specific research guides. So if there's a specific, if your topic is really specific or interdisciplinary and maybe one of the standard subject guides isn't going to meet the needs for that aren't courts. We can, we can work on making something more. Taylor, just for your course. The library also offers spes special support for multimedia assignments like if you want your students to do a podcast, or a video, or an infographic or something like that. Instead of everything being a, a paper that you have to read and grades. You could work with. Amanda McCollum, our colleague in the Student Multimedia Design Center, who coordinates support for those kinds of projects. And we're happy to make a referral introduce you to her or whatever we need to do there. So before I move away from that entirely, I'm going to let you know we can also help you fine text. So like I said, if we don't have something where we don't have the right license for something. We can look into that for you. We can also help you identify open educational resources. So things that are either in the public domain or released under Creative Commons or other kind of license that allows you to reuse, remix, and share those materials with your students. It takes a little time sometimes, so try to get in touch with us in advance when you can. But we're happy to talk to you about that. And we are very much in favor of reducing the cost of course texts for students, especially at this time, all the time. So I think that's all I have and I'm going to stop sharing my screen after I let you know that again, our email addresses are here. And I've also put the link to ask the library if you just have a general question or you want a quick answer, we have live chat service a lot of the time. Every day, for almost every day. So you're welcome to contact the library there in function so that we can see each other and have a few minutes. So that's great. We see there were a lot of checks. Did I miss a lot? Denser? I'm gonna put my slides, Lincoln there again in case anybody missed it at the beginning. Slides again. We're happy to answer it. Just everybody know their subject librarian. I know April balls, cuz it's me. Anyone L or how do you find out? So let me I guess I'll share again. Go back to you screen. I'm going to go to the library homepage, is that you will definitely be able to find from there. Right here in the center of library homepage is a fine you're Librarian button. And I have to take credit for advocating to put that there because I wanted you guys to be able to find us and sleek. So here, there, the list is alphabetical by departments. And you can scroll down and find your librarian. There. It won't give you click on this. See me. It'll take you to our profile and the research guide system so that you can see all of the research guides that we've already created for that subject area. So if you click on your library and you should see the list of guides that they have available to you. And then you can kinda talk to them about what works on those guides for your course and let you maybe could use that's different than stop sharing. Well, I'll give us all as you break if nobody has other questions, but I will thank you for your time and invite you again to contact us anytime. Thank you so much. This was really helpful. Guide livelihood. Our pleasure.
Library Integrations with Canvas
From Erin Sicuranza January 27, 2021
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