LibraryGuides: Faculty Resources: Create

Creation Tools

Google Drive
Drive allows you to create web-hosted documents, presentations, forms etc. Each document can be linked to from D2L and centrally maintained (i.e. you can update the google document and it will automatically update within D2L). This can be useful especially if you are using the same material for multiple classes
How to use
OER Commons
Seeks to collect and distribute a variety of OER at a variety of levels and subjects
Pressbooks
"Easily create e-books, typeset PDFs, and web books. Choose from professionally designed book themes. One button publishing." Free and priced options.
Softchalk
Can be used to create interactive tutorials and mash up text/media
How to use

Screencast-o-matic
Easily record and edit videos of action on your computer screen
Tutorials
Youtube.com
The place to upload and store videos for viewing
How to upload
Adding or editing captions

See more OER authoring tools

Affordable Learning Georgia - Open Resources Accessibility Information
Includes a helpful list of questions about accessibility
BC Campus OpenEd Accessibility Toolkit
Addresses the needs of users with limited vision or other disabilities in accessing your OER
PCC Guide to Web Accessibility for Online Classes
Step by step guides to making course materials accessible, contact information for support at PCC, and a link to PCC's Web Accessibility Handbook

Below is an informative webinar where a librarian and instructors from Central Oregon Community College discuss their experience authoring OER.

Adapting and Authoring OER: Lessons Learned
An informative webinar where a librarian and instructors from Central Oregon Community College discuss their experience authoring OER

BC Campus OpenEd Authoring Guide
Recommended reading for adapting and authoring OER. Some content is campus specific. This comprehensive guide includes nuts and bolts details about authoring OER. It also contains a discussion of various formats for open textbooks and a helpful section about permission to adapt OER for those timid about borrowing or adapting content (see section titled "Permission to Adapt").
Best Practices for Attribution from Creative Commons
Includes helpful examples of proper attribution of content with Creative Commons licenses (for more on licensing, see the Copyright tab of this guide)
Creating and Modifying Open Educational Resources
From Affordable Learning Georgia, a guide to adapting OER; includes licensing and accessibility info
Open WA Attribution Builder
Helps create proper attribution/citations when using and adapting OER content
University of Saskatchewan OER Authoring Guide
Thorough guide to OER using Pressbooks