With your courses moving to Canvas, now’s the perfect time to review the materials you’re sharing with students. Are your courses bloated with lots of PDF scans? Are your course materials accessible and cost-effective? Are you concerned that you might have uploaded files that violate copyright law?

Join this workshop to help spring clean your courses: get rid of what you don’t need or aren’t supposed to be sharing, obtain better versions of existing materials, identify the easiest ways to share materials in Canvas, and maximize cost savings for your students. After the workshop, you will be better prepared to: 

• Interpret copyright and fair use rules for the LMS and avoid common copyright missteps when sharing materials with students or sharing student materials
• Find free versions of course materials at the library and beyond
• Find more accessible versions of course materials, instead of PDF scans
• Follow best practices for sharing web resources, including those from the library

We’ll leave time for questions and share resources to help you successfully spring clean your course.

This workshop will be recorded. If you cannot attend, please register to receive a link to the recording. For questions about open educational resources or using library resources as course materials, contact Jessica Kirschner (Open Educational Resources Librarian, kirschnerj2@vcu.edu). For questions about copyright and fair use, contact Hillary Miller (Scholarly Communications Librarian, hmiller5@vcu.edu). For questions about teaching from a distance and copyright considerations, contact Mike Schad (VCU Online Instructional Designer, schadml@vcu.edu). For general questions about Canvas, contact Academic Technologies. 

Sponsored by VCU Libraries, CTLE, Academic Technologies, and VCU Online.