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Digital Text Services for Faculty
Digital Copies of Course Texts & Handouts
Creating Personalized Coursepacks & Textbooks
Locating Digital Copies of Course Texts
Student Requests
Questions?
Digital Copies of Course Texts & Handouts
How do I arrange for my texts to be scanned?
- The Digital Text Services Coordinator automatically receives an extra copy of each title ordered by an instructor from the Bookstore.
- Books received after the 1st week of classes begin will be scanned on first come, first serve basis.
How do I get digital copies of my course handouts (supplemental readings), like quizzes, readings, and/or assignments?
- “Digitize” with Word:
- If you have already created the handout (readings, quizzes, assignments) in Microsoft Word, it is a simple and straightforward process to share this digital copy with your students.
- Log into the College network, open the document, and do a Save As to your course’s folder on the Shared S drive folder. You and your students already have access rights to this folder.
- Simply ask students to first open Kurzweil and then open the Word document in the shared folder. Kurzweil has no difficulties reading most Word fonts.
- Link to online readings:
- If the reading is online, you can type or copy the URL onto a Word doc, title it, and then save the doc (even if it only contains the URL or link) in your class’s shared folder; then the students will need only to open the doc and click on the URL, rather than having to type the lengthy cumbersome URL.
- Students who have had Kurzweil training with Kathy Burris know to use Mozilla Firefox rather than Internet Explorer for reading text online with Kurzweil.
Creating Personalized Coursepacks & Textbooks
How do I create a coursepack?
- You select what you would like your students to read: which chapters, short stories or poems from books; or articles from journals or from the web.
- You collate them to be made by Coursepacks, Etc. into a copryright-cleared and photocopied course pack to be sold for a modest price at the Bookstore.
DTS can help:
- Provide you with the hard copies from any of the books that the Bookstore has purchased for courses that have been scanned.
- Obtain clean copies of articles. Copies of copies, copies with highlighting or margin notes will copy and scan poorly.
- Collate your "pack" with every text prepared in the same way with duplexed clean copies.
How do I create a textbook?
Locating Digital Copies of Course Texts
Where can I search for digital course texts available from the publishers?
- Finding a book at CourseSmart will save the students money; faculty get a free digital copy of the text; the text book is available 24 hours 7 days a week from on or off campus.
CourseSmart http://www.coursesmart.com
How do I find the digital copies of my texts?
Student Requests
What do I tell my students who need a Kurzweil version of my texts?
Questions?
Contact Candace Brown for help:
802.387.6448
dts@landmark.edu
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