Instructors enter bibliographic details of instructional materials for their assigned classes.

Course Material Types include: Article, Book, Cassette Recording, Chapter, Computer File, Electronic Resource, Film or Movie, Journal/Periodical, Map, Microform/Microfilm, Mixed Formats, Recording, and Score.

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Textbook details may be entered in three ways on a row:

  1. Copy instructional materials from other class sections;

  2. Use the integrated WebSearch function; and

3. Manually.

When applicable, enter copy textbooks rows first as it will overwrite existing textbook details. 


The PDF attached will give you all of the necessary steps to enter your textbooks for the classes that you're teaching.


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