Integrate the Library into your Canvas Course
Your Canvas course site has a curated library research guide created by your Subject Librarian, accesible through the Library Resources link in your Canvas course navigation menu.
You can also direct students to the Research Guides page for help with disciplinary research, citation styles, and more. If you would like a custom guide created for your course or to support an assignment, please contact your Subject Librarian.
Canvas Commons Modules
Each semester, the Library updates its Welcome to the Wayne State Libraries! module. If you have a library research assignment in your course, download this module which provides students guidance on finding scholarly sources, searching library databases, using Interlibrary Loan, and more. To add the module to your course Login to Canvas, select Canvas Commons from the left navigation bar and search wsuls.
Librarians can create customized library research modules for your Canvas course, tailored to your course assignments and learning outcomes. For more information, contact your Subject Librarian.
Search for and link to library-licensed articles and streaming media directly from the Canvas Interface
ProQuest, EBSCO, and Academic Video Online (AVON) resources include articles, books, book chapters, reports, streaming media and more. You can search and link right from Canvas. This short video shows you how.
Adding Streaming Media, Articles, ebooks, and more directly in Canvas
You can use Canvas External Tools to search and add content directly from Academic Video Online (AVON), ProQuest, and EBSCOHost databases.
Watch this short video for a demonstration.
Questions? Contact your Subject Librarian.