Selecting teaching resources: a guide: Manage and review

Click on the links under the headings below for further information.

Review and roll-over your Learning Resources list: 

The Learning Resources Subject Guide will assist you to:

• Create a new Learning Resources list
• Add the Learning Resources widget to Moodle
• Roll-over a previous list
• Getting help with Learning Resources

Evaluate your Learning Resources usage

Learning Resources educator insights helps you to:

• View levels of student engagement
• Identify less engaged students
• Identify high and low use resources within reading lists

Review your Moodle content for Quality, Academic Integrity and Accessibility

Learning Resources and Copyright checklist. The criteria in this checklist includes:

• Reading quality, currency and relevancy
• Academic Integrity, including correct attributions and usage rights
• Copyright warning notices
• Accessibility, including use of links throughout Moodle

Take responsible content custodianship

Guidelines: Learning and Teaching technologies. These guidelines cover L&T technologies at Federation University to support storage, communication, collaboration, assessment, evaluation activities etc.

Renew one-off licenses

Contact Learning Resources to renew a one-off license for a specific resource if appropriate. Email: learningresources@federation.edu.au 

Reading list template

Download the Word document below to develop your reading list.

This template will guide you in selecting readings and resources for teaching that meet quality and practical criteria. Any queries you have about your selected resources can be documented for the Library team to investigate.

Once you have created your list of citations in this template, simply email the whole document to learningresources@federation.edu.au.

Do: 

Utilise Learning Resources for reading lists so resources can be: 

• Managed and maintained for next teaching period (reduces teacher workload) 
• assessed for copyright permissions,  
• easily moved to other Moodle shells 

In Moodle show correct citations for all your content, including videos and other formats, so they can be easily identified, recovered and accessed by lecturers who may come after you. 

Manage the resources you use. Record any licencing agreements you have obtained for teaching materials in a centralised area. Identifying materials used under agreement must be recorded for evidence of such when required, for staff that come after you, and for longevity of use. 

Contact your Liaison Librarian for help with sourcing material and citations.

Don’t: 

• bury links in PowerPoints as these will not be maintained – instead, use citations only in PowerPoints 
• forget to cite your sources. A citation will help prevent misrepresentation or misuse of a source, avoid plagiarism, and will model academic honesty to your students.