Integrate Research Support into Your Brightspace Course Using the Library LOR

If you've been exploring your new Brightspace course pages recently, you may have seen links to the "LOR."

A Brightspace Learning Object Repository (LOR) is an online collection of educational files, or "learning objects," that can be stored, organized, and shared.  A learning object can be a quiz, presentation, image, video, or any other kind of document or file you use to create course content.  Think of it as a helpful folder of educational materials that you can easily incorporate into your own courses.

The library has established its own LOR in Brightspace, which allows you to integrate research support into your Brightspace course.  In the Library LOR, you will find website links, downloadable document files, and embedded videos that provide student-targeted information on a variety of helpful subjects, including:

•        tutorials on effective database searching
•         citation and plagiarism resources
•         handouts on identifying and evaluating sources
•         links to our online calendar for individual research appointments

You can perform basic searches to locate objects in the Library LOR or you can narrow an object list by keyword tag, object type, usage rights, or other helpful filters.

How can you use the objects found in the Library LOR? 

You can easily add objects from the Library LOR directly into your course.  We have created simple step-by-step instructions that are available as a PDF file in the LOR, under "Instructions: Upload LOR Objects to Your Course," or you can download them here.

You can also create or read reviews for each object in the repository.  Give an object a starred rating and leave comments or feedback.  Your reviews might help your fellow faculty select appropriate objects and will be used by the library to determine how best to grow and improve our LOR.

Currently, there are more than thirty objects housed in the Library LOR.  But we are adding more and more content every day. 

Don't see what you need there?

Let us know! We can create or locate additional resources by request, and would love to hear suggestions for other materials or subject matter that might be useful to include in our repository.