For online courses, follow these additional best practices:
- Take down content from online courses as soon as the lesson or module is complete.
- Include a copyright notice in your course: “Materials on this web course may be protected under copyright. They are only for the use of students enrolled in this course for purposes associated with this course and may not be retained or further disseminated.”
- Password-protect documents to prevent them from being shared with and used by non-students.
- Use the permalink tool in the library databases to provide students with a link to articles and e-books in the library databases. Contracts with database vendors often prohibit sharing database content by other digital means such as posting the PDF on Canvas. See this video to learn how to find the permalink.