Since Learn was selected as UC’s copyright management tool, the Copyright Project team has developed updates to the Learn Course Material tool to meet the standards necessary for our upcoming audit from Copyright Licensing New Zealand. The updates will be rolled out on Thursday 24th March.
Most of the changes will operate behind the scenes to collect data for the reports that will be run at the end of each semester. However, academic staff might notice some changes when they are uploading material to Learn. You may receive inquiries about the new uploading process. Training material will be available concurrently with the release, in the form of a Help Module in Learn. Academic Staff will be notified via the Learn news forum and Intercom.
The new features include:
- The ability to add online content via the Course Material tool using the URL or digital object identifiers (DOI). DOI’s are unique codes assigned to journal articles, and are more stable than traditional URLs/links.
- Learn will automatically add bibliographic information when given a DOI.
- Students will be able to download all items uploaded to a course as Course Material in a single PDF, with a title page and index.
- When dragging and dropping material into a course, Learn will recognize files that already exist in the system and instantly create a new resource with the appropriate bibliographic details.
- Background tools to ensure metadata quality/accurate citations.
Alison McIntyre
Academic Liaison Manager