Moodle is the perfect place for students to reach out to Librarians for help with research and library resources. To make this easier, Moodle administrators have made it possible for faculty to assign the role of "Librarian" to their designated subject or course librarian in Moodle. This will help their Librarian to:
The library liaison will not see grades, but with faculty approval they will be able to add Library resources and activities, post forum messages, etc.
Want to give it a try? Please follow the instructions below or see the attached pdf:
If your course is research intensive, it may be useful to create a Library Questions forum where students can post questions about library resources and research. Select the 'auto' or 'forced subscription' option to ensure that all students (including the librarian) receive a copy of the forum questions and answers in their email inbox.
For more information, please contact your subject librarian or submit a UT Help ticket for assistance.
See below for "how to" add a Library Guide directly to Moodle.
Would you like the students to interact directly with the Librarian through Moodle? You may wish to create a Library Discussion Forum. To do so:
Once set up, librarians may answer student questions or post library information and research tips. With your "go ahead," the Librarian may be able to set this up on their own, much depends on their designated role in Moodle.
The Library's goal is to get our resources to our students at their point of need. What better place to begin but in Moodle? It's possible to have a Library Guide with relevant resources embedded directly in your Moodle course. Take a look at the example below...clickable links to Library databases or other resources right through Moodle. How? Faculty may set this up by following a few simple steps as shown on the following screenshots....or better yet: assign your Librarian his/her role in Moodle and he/she will do it for you! Take a look at the next couple of slides to see details...
After turning editing on in Moodle, in the course topic section where you wish to add the Library Guide select “add an activity or resource’. Scroll down on the resulting pop up window and under “Resources,” select “Page” and then click “add.”
You will now see a new page with two areas to add content.
To add the guide to Moodle, you will need to insert HTML code that includes the location of the Library Guide. To do this, in Moodle first click on the small blue "arrow" as shown in the screen shot (by #1). Then click the small brackets as shown below (by #2). This will now allow you to enter the appropriate code. The basic format for the code is <iframe width="100%" height="500" src="insertlibguideurlhere"></iframe>. Make sure to insert the correct url for the library guide you wish to include in the course page.
A couple of things to keep in mind
To encourage use,
Under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, content from this LibGuide has been adapted from the "Integrating the Library into Moodle" LibGuide by Jennifer Hamilton at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
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