Courseware Integration at Innovative Libraries

1. Courseware Integration at Innovative Libraries Denyse Seaman, Baylor University Jennifer Fritz, Dartmouth College John Culshaw, University of Colorado at Boulder Jonathan Jiras, Rochester Institute of Technology Barbara Doll, Saint Francis University Innovative Users Group Meeting May, 2006 – Session H4 Denver, Colorado

2. Baylor University • Courseware: Blackboard 7 • Needed a way to integrate BearCat electronic course reserves without having to reauthenticate • Libraries tab allows searching of BearCat from within Blackboard • Available in every course from within Blackboard

3. Libraries Tab in Blackboard

4. Blackboard Course Tools

5. BearCat Course Reserves

6. Blackboard Building Block • Code available with no guarantees or warranties • https://bearspace.baylor.edu/Group_Online_Teaching/Blackboard/Building%20Blocks/ Library%20Reserves/libraryreservesv21.war

7. Other Integrations • Audio Reserves To Go • Ipods • Streaming from a QuickTime server • Enhanced Syllabus available from Blackboard course • EzProxy, BearCat and Blackboard (BU InfoLinks)

8. Course Reserves—Enhanced Syllabus

9. Link to Audio Clips

10. Dartmouth College • Courseware: Blackboard • Solutions: • Refpacks • Innovative’s courseware integration product

11. The old way

12. Refpacks • Refpack modules are the convenient store, not the supermarket • Seven major categories • Each category has two sections: reference and journal databases • Limited resources (with exceptions)

13. Refpack set-up • Blackboard programmers create a module template • Bibliographers become module administrators

14. Module administration

15. Refpack administration

16. Editing the Refpack

17. Preview Refpack

18. Adding a Refpack

19. Refpack added

20. User customization of Refpack

21. Customized!

22. Layout customization

23. Courseware integration product • Catalog search module • Patron account module

24. CIB set-up • Numeric IP address of your Blackboard server. • Unique patron identifier • Millennium patron record and Blackboard user record MUST have a common identifier • Innovative provides two building blocks, your Bb admin installs them

25. CIB search module

26. Catalog passed through

27. Patron record pass through

28. 4:30 TODAY! • First Looks: Integrating Blackboard with Library Services • Gail Bonath - Grinnell College • DeeAnn Allison -University of Nebraska-Lincoln • Dinah Sanders - Innovative

29. Sakai John Culshaw University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries

30. What is Sakai? • “Community Source Software” • Collaboration and Learning Environment • Course Management model • Also supports research collaboration

31. Who is Sakai? • Core Schools (Michigan, Indiana, MIT, Stanford) • Sakai Educational Partners Program • Sakai Commercial Affiliates

32. Sakai Partners + Innovative • Carleton College • Dartmouth College • Northeastern University • Ohio State University • University of Colorado at Boulder • University of Nebraska • and more…

33. What to do with Sakai? • Institutions are in a variety of stages of exploration and implementation • Lots of pilots in Fall 2005 and Spring 2006 • Fullest implementation at core schools • Many sites running legacy CMS systems concurrently with Sakai pilot or production services

34. Sakai at Colorado • Pilot in Fall 2005 • Campus made decision to continue to monitor Sakai progress but opted to renew commitment to WebCT as primary CMS

35. Sakaibrary • Indiana and Michigan • 18-month project to integrate access to library licensed digital content within Sakai

38. Sakai: What’s Next • Many sites monitoring growth of the community and associated applications • Opportunities for sites with appropriate resources to help build the Sakai toolset

39. Rochester Institute of Technology • Courseware: Desire2Learn • Solution – Library Resources Link Server • Similar in concept to an OpenURL Link Server • Modular, ColdFusion application • Uses III Oracle Interface • Integrates library resources, contact information, and course reserves. • Resources are specific to the course, program, and/or academic department. • Available by default in every course and from every screen within Desire2Learn

40. Library Resources Link Server Library Website III ILS Desire2Learn CMS

41. Library Resources Link Server Course Number Role Library Website III ILS Desire2Learn CMS

42. Library Resources Link Server Course Number Role III Oracle Interface Library Website III ILS Desire2Learn CMS

43. Dynamically Generated Webpage Library Resources Link Server Course Number Role III Oracle Interface Library Website III ILS Desire2Learn CMS

44. Dynamically Generated Webpage Library Resources Link Server Course Number Role III Oracle Interface Links to Reserves Links to Resources Library Website III ILS Desire2Learn CMS

45. Rochester Institute of Technology

46. Rochester Institute of Technology

48. Additional Tabs

49. Enhancements • Use ERM Resource Records. • Special Resources for Graduate Students. • Integrate with other courseware systems. • Promote it as a service for professor authored course pages independent of the campus courseware application. • Make it a database driven application.

50. Rochester Institute of Technology More information: http://library.rit.edu/desire2learn/ • Flash video summary (6 minutes) • PDF handout • Screen shots • Live URLs • Sample code • Web accessible recorded presentations