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

8. Goals ______________________________________________

9. Goals 1.A Course View for every course ______________________________________________

10. Goals 1.A Course View for every course 2.A scalable and sustainable system for library course content delivery ______________________________________________

11. Goals 1.A Course View for every course 2.A scalable and sustainable system for library course content delivery 3.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

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. Course level: ENG 101 Kawanna Cascading Selection ______________________________________________

28. English 101 ______________________________________________

29. Course level: ENG 333 Kim Cascading Selection ______________________________________________

30. English 333 ______________________________________________

31. Curriculum level: ENG Cindy Cascading Selection ______________________________________________

32. English (default) ______________________________________________

33. Integration ______________________________________________

36. Blackboard Vista

38. Moodle

40. WolfWare

42. QuickSearch

44. Library Homepage

46. 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 www.lib.ncsu.edu/dli/projects/courseviews Library Tools: www.lib.ncsu.edu/course Additional team members: Tito Sierra, Joe Ryan

50. Questions? ______________________________________________

51. Contact Us Kim Duckett Principal Librarian for Digital Technologies and Learning kim_duckett@ncsu.edu Jason Casden Digital Technologies Development Librarian jason_casden@ncsu.edu ______________________________________________