You will want your students to have access to certain materials during their studies. These may be essential that they will need in order to progress, recommended resources that would be helpful, or simply background materials that you think they may find interesting.
The Aspire reading lists system is a quick and easy way of providing these. You can include all sorts of resources including print & e-books, journal articles, videos, podcasts, online resources, and websites. You can add a resource to a reading list in seconds which can also include:
If you create a reading list with different sections, you can add them to different parts of your Blackboard teaching materials. This means that, regardless of which module they're in, students will know what to look for to find their resources.
Use filters to quickly and easily find specific materials.
Resources with full bibliographic information, instead of basic file names.
Speed and efficiency!
Lists are quick to create and edit.
Adding resources is a really fast process. Much quicker than downloading and then re-uploading something into Blackboard.
In most cases you don’t even need to type any of the resource’s details in as the system does that for you.
Publishers don’t usually permit PDFs to be downloaded and uploaded for others to access. In a reading list you can provide a link instead, with full bibliographic information.
actual number of “clicks” can inform budgeting decisions
when one article is downloaded for a class of students to view, the Library doesn't know the full usage of that journal