Educational resource and reference tools
Contact the Digital Learning team for help, support and advice for any digital learning tool or task.
Affordances
Enhance teaching and learning with features to help organise, share, and manage resources for staff and students.
Reading lists
- Collate and grow your modules' reading material
- Allow students to read further materials on topics of interest
- Provide insight into the scope of materials and publications on topics
Referencing Software (Endnote)
- Organise and manage citations
- Collaborate on bibliographies and shared references
- Sync references across devices and platforms
Information gathering tools (OneNote)
- Discover new resources and research materials
- Save and organize resources for future reference
- Collaborate on resource collections
Reading Lists / Talis Aspire
The Library team works with Academics to create 1000s of reading lists that can be delivered alongside teaching material on Moodle.
- Reading List block automatically links Moodle to Talis Aspire, and a click takes students to Module specific reading material
- Add notes and identify the importance of each item in your reading list for students
- Organise your reading list into subsections and pages based on your teaching structure
- Include links to printed and digital library resources
- Use Talis Aspire to help the Library Team ensure access to core reading materials for students
- 'Get It For Me' links in Further Reading bookmarks that allow students to trigger an urgent order for the item, reserving the item.
EndNote
(or other reference management tools like Zotero, Mendeley)
EndNote provides robust reference management, helping users store, organize, and cite sources. While it's typically used for personal reference management, it allows some collaboration and sharing of resources with others. EndNote is more focused on citation management for research projects than curated reading lists for courses. It doesn’t have the same direct integration with academic courses or the library resources setup that Talis Aspire has.
OneNote
OneNote is more of a general productivity tool than one purpose-built for academic content curation and management. It allows users to organise, collate and annotate materials, making it useful for note-taking and sharing course-related content with students or peers. Users can link to web resources and even upload PDFs and other materials for easy access.