Scaling Up Library Resources for Students: Course Views at NCSU

1. Scaling Up Library Resources for Students:  Course Views at NCSU ______________________________________________ LITA National Forum October 17, 2008 Kim Duckett and Jason Casden

2. Background ______________________________________________

3. Our Environment ______________________________________________ • Large institution = 30,000+ students • Total courses = 6,000+ • Former WebCT campus • Current CMS environment is mixed • BlackBoard Vista • Moodle pilots • “WolfWare” locker system

4. History of Course Resources ______________________________________________ “Course pages” by subject specialists • Hand tailored to assignments • Used with library instruction sessions • Assignment focused

5. Problem: Limited Reach ______________________________________________

6. History of CMS Integration ______________________________________________ Request process in WebCT since 2004 • Links to subject specialists’ course pages • Faculty could select content • Web pages created off template • Links inserted by librarian

7. What is Course Views? ______________________________________________ A distillation of the most student-centric stuff the library offers. Branded: Library Tools Launch date: August 2008

8. Goals ______________________________________________

9. Goals ______________________________________________ • A Course View for every course

10. Goals A Course View for every course A scalable and sustainable system for library course content delivery ______________________________________________

11. Goals A Course View for every course A scalable and sustainable system for library course content delivery Library content customized as much as possible to the course ______________________________________________

12. Collaboration ______________________________________________ • Students • Faculty • Subject specialist librarians • Campus partners

13. Demo ______________________________________________

14. www.lib.ncsu.edu/course

15. Technical Architecture ______________________________________________

16. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/course/ENG/101

17. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/course/ENG/101

18. Course Identifiers Customized content based on existing institutional course identifiers. NC State example: ENG 101 • ‘ENG’ = curriculum code • ‘101’ = course number • ‘ENG 101’ = full course identifier

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23. Content Customization ______________________________________________

24. Cascading Selection ______________________________________________

25. Cascading Selection ______________________________________________

26. Cascading Selection ______________________________________________

27. Cascading Selection ______________________________________________ Course level: ENG 101 Kawanna

28. English 101 ______________________________________________

29. Cascading Selection ______________________________________________ Course level: ENG 333 Kim

30. English 333 ______________________________________________

31. Cascading Selection ______________________________________________ Cindy Curriculum level: ENG

32. English (default) ______________________________________________

33. Integration ______________________________________________

36. Blackboard Vista

37. Blackboard Vista

38. Moodle

39. Moodle

40. WolfWare

41. WolfWare

42. QuickSearch

43. QuickSearch

44. Library Homepage

45. Library Homepage

46. Learning Commons Website

47. Learning Commons Website

48. Usage ______________________________________________ Date range: 8/20/08 – 10/16/08

49. Project Information • Project home: www.lib.ncsu.edu/dli/projects/courseviews • Library Tools: www.lib.ncsu.edu/course Additional team members: Tito Sierra, Joe Ryan

50. Questions? ______________________________________________