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Library support for teachers

Library support for teachers

Resources and services to help you build your course content, augment your teaching, and improve the learning experience of your students.

Do you need teaching support?

Contact the Library Online Learning and Teaching (OLT) team for advice and support in these areas:

Reading Lists, including activation, publishing and rollover, request for training workshops and troubleshooting advice
Course Resource support for new course development and those undergoing a review process
Copyright and digitisation of course materials.

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Request teaching support

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Reading lists

Find out how to create and manage Reading Lists in Canvas. The Reading List app allows teaching staff to create and manage a dynamic reading list that connects students directly with their course learning materials.

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Support for your course

Discover how the Library can help you enhance the quality of course resources, making them copyright compliant and readily available to your students.

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Support for your students

The Library offers a range of training and customised workshops to help your students develop the skills needed to become lifelong learners.

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Guides and training

From online guides and Library Shorts to regular training webinars and talks by invited speakers, see what training opportunities the Library Teaching team has on offer.

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Copyright services

Our Copyright services will help ensure your learning and teaching activities at RMIT comply with copyright law. Includes consent forms.

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Open education

Open education is a core element of open scholarship. It supports teachers and learners to access, use and adapt educational resources to best suit their needs.

Press Play studios

The Press Play studios are self-service, digital production spaces co-managed by the Digital Development teams in the four colleges and maintained by the Library.

Find out more about the Press Play studios

Text And Media Video

Why I use Reading Lists

An RMIT teacher, Cathryn Nolan, explains the benefits of using Reading Lists (video 2:23 mins).

Why I use Reading Lists

An RMIT teacher, Cathryn Nolan, explains the benefits of using Reading Lists (video 2:23 mins).

Transcript

Cathryn Nolan: So, what do I love about reading lists?

Firstly, we spend a lot of time as teachers answering what we shouldn't call stupid questions but are where do I find such-and-such? What do I have to read? What do I have to do? Once reading list is set up, a whole lot of those questions go away.

Secondly, students are spending their time actually doing the reading instead of that time looking for them. Now clearly lots of students need to learn how to do research and that makes sense when they're doing research assignments but for getting their day-to-day reading done, I would much rather that they've spent their really valuable time reading and understanding the materials than looking for them.

Thirdly, once it's in the reading list it's there forever and that means that I don't have to work out whether or not copyright clearance is being sought and given, whether or not we've got permission to share things. It means that there aren't this ragtag bag of readings and excerpts that are sitting in Canvas being rolled over from semester to semester without any care or thought. If something ceases to be in license or if the publisher changes that it goes from ProQuest to Ebsco or whatever it is, then effectively you find out pretty easily and quickly and you can fix it. I've run out of numbers and I've used twice my time already. The next thing is I found that the library staff have been absolutely amazing at answering questions whether I ask them or whether the students do. I've had a whole heap less. I love trying out new things and trying different functionality and Canvas and stuff this is the first one that I've ever tried where the students have been on board since the very beginning. And it feels great to be doing something that really supports and helps the good students because so much of our time is spent helping those that are struggling it's really absolutely rewarding to be able to do something that really supports the students who were working hard.

Cheers

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