Faculty and Library Collaboration in Illinois Compass
Lori Mestre, Melody Allison & Robert Baird
Illinois Compass is already being extensively used at the University of Illinois as thousands of students use it everyday to take quizzes and assessments. Compass also lets section instructors post relevant course materials and links to other resources within the course homepage. However, for many courses, students have to access the library resources for more in-depth understanding of the material.
Lori Mestre, a Digital Learning Librarian here at the University, is working on integrating the necessary library resources and learning modules directly into Compass. The rationale here is that students will benefit from having all the relevant library material packaged nicely into their Compass course web site. In addition, the contact information of the department library liaison would be posted so students could get all the help they need.
Melody Allison is an Assistant Librarian in the Biology Department. She discusses the possibility of integrating library resources within the Biology Department into Compass. She stresses that these resources need to be integrated at the point of need. Since students usually physically travel to the library from another wired location (typically their dorm or apartment), this expenditure of time and effort can be avoided by having all this information in Compass. She also offers a guided tour of the various ways in which she has integrated Biology Learning Modules and resources into her Compass web site.
Robert Baird is the Senior Coordinator of Instructional Development for CITES EdTech and Assistant Professor of Cinema; at this session he demonstrates the various ways in which content can be implemented into Compass, from simple html linking to RSS feeds and shared templates.
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