Features for instructors

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Features for Instructors

• Create and edit classes, with full control over class number, section number, and name
• Classes an instructor is teaching automatically appear in their "MyReserves" list for easy location
• Easy creation of class crosslistings
• Ability to upload any type of computer file, including PDF, Microsoft Office files, text documents, web pages, images, sound files, video files, data sets, and much more
• Multiple ways to add items to a class, including:
  • upload documents
  • add URLs
  • search the ReservesDirect document archive for previously used items. All items loaded into ReservesDirect are available for instructors to search and add to their classes. (Instructors can mark their own items as "personal" when they create them to prevent other instructors from finding them in a search)
  • fax items for automatic conversion to PDF (optional)
• Sort items--by title, author, or custom order
• Annotate items with notes that appear to students
• Add headings to reserves lists to group readings by syllabus date or category. Headings function like folders, which you can add materials to.
• Activate or deactivate items by date. Instructors can choose what items display to students and can "hide" items until a given date
• Team teaching capability, allowing multiple instructors to add, edit, sort, annotate and delete. Instructors may add other instructors to their classes, or staff may do it for them.
• Proxy access for instructor assistants. Proxies are generally students that are assisting an instructor in teaching a class or helping to manage their materials. Proxies have access only to the class that the instructor (or staff) assigns them to. Proxies may add, edit, or delete items, and generally manage the class they are assigned to.
• Class reactivation. All classes taught by an instructor are archived at the end of a semester. With a few clicks, an instructor can reactivate any course they have taught in the past, including all readings, co-instructors, and crosslistings. Items can be selectively reactivated so that an instructor can exclude items used in a previous class that he or she no longer wishes to use
• Easily copy documents from one class to another
• Export reserves lists to courseware, such as Blackboard. Link is dynamic, so changes in ReservesDirect appear automatically in the courseware class.
• Dynamic, contextual help system that provides a fully-searchable, user-taggable set of help articles that provide help contextual to the page a user is currently looking at.