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Digital Copies of Course Texts & Handouts

Creating Personalized Coursepacks & Textbooks

Locating Digital Copies of Course Texts

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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.

Coursepacks, Etc. will even repaginate the coursepack for you if you wish.

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?

You can publish a custom book with Pearson Custom Publishing http://www.pearsoncustom.com/create

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.