LibGuides: Help for Faculty: Canvas Integration

Library Resources

Instruction librarians can help you find, vet, and curate resources from our library collections.

Some examples:

Research Guides specific to your discipline are automatically linked in your Canvas course. Select the Library Resources folder to view them.
Link or embed resources such as a video, a favorite database for an assignment, ebooks, articles, or a full text run of a journal title.
Some of our ebooks allow for unlimited simultaneous users, making these texts perfect for affordable course textbooks.
Librarians can help you find OER (Open Educational Resources) to use or adapt as textbooks or supplemental materials for your class.

Collections of books allowing unlimited simultaneous users:

Credo Reference
Online reference library that provides access to a growing selection of reference books.

Online reference library that provides access to a growing selection of reference books. Includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations, and a range of subject-specific titles from art to accountancy and literature to law. Credo Reference generates a network of cross-references that provide an easy-to-follow trail to related information contained anywhere within the library.

Credo Reference Subject Guides
Gale eBooks
Encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources.

Gale eBooks is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Help videos
O’Reilly for Higher Education (OHE)
Provides unlimited access to over 45,000 ebooks in computer programming, information technology, business, math, science, and engineering. Includes streaming videos, case studies, expert playlists, and more. Need help?

Support at https://www.oreilly.com/online-learning/support/

• Download apps, sync all your devices, and never lose your place.
• Learn even when there’s no signal with offline access.
Sage Knowledge
Reference books including social science, green issues, and criminal justice.

SAGE Knowledge provides an interface to search SAGE Book, Business Case, Reference, and Video titles in the social sciences. Links to SAGE Journals and SAGE Research Methods are provided through a "SAGE Recommends" widget.

PDF Guide
Salem Press
Salem Press titles in literature, history, science, and health.

Salem Press titles in literature, history, science, and health. Includes Magill's Literary Annual 1977-current, Masterplots, Magill's Medical Guide, the Great Events and Great Lives from History reference series, and several science encyclopedias.

PDF Guide

Video Resources

These guides include links, descriptions, and guides for using the library video databases and other video resources. The guide for faculty includes instructions on using some advanced features such as creating clips and playlists, embedding or linking videos in Canvas, and requesting films to be added to the library collections.

Videos
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Streaming Media (For Faculty)
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Video Guides for Faculty

Here are a few quick links for faculty. Use the Streaming Media Guide for Faculty for details on using films and videos in your classes.

Streaming Media Guide (for faculty)
This guide has more detail on the various streaming services.
Digital Campus (Swank) Guide
Everything instructors need to know to use Digital Campus, including how to link to films in your Canvas courses and find/request additional films.
Films on Demand Guide
Details for faculty on creating clips & playlists, linking in Canvas and more.
Films on Demand: Quick Start Guide
A 6-page PDF from Films on Demand illustrating how to create clips, playlists, and more.