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Link or embed resources in courses

How to link or embed resources in your Learn.UQ (Blackboard) course.

Use our digital learning objects

Digital learning objects (DLO) are resources that explain key concepts in engaging ways and can be used in your courses to help build your students’ research and digital skills.

Digital Learning Hub

Find a digital learning object to use in your course:

Use our Digital Learning Hub

The next sections explain features of the Digital Learning Hub and have instructions on how to reuse the different object formats in your course:

Log in for extra features

UQ teaching staff (and students) can log in to the Digital Learning Hub to access additional features.

Quick access to your favourite objects

  1. Go to any object record and click the star icon. The object will then appear at the top of the list for easy access.
  2. Unselect the star in the object record to remove it from your favourites.

Keep up to date

You can select to be notified when an object you are using is updated. We will email you when we make significant changes to the object, such as a new URL. You can feel confident that objects you use in your course are always up to date.

Submit your object to the Digital Learning Hub

Use the link in the Digital Learning Hub to request to submit your digital learning object. This will allow others to easily find and use your object. Read more about submitting a request.

H5P

You can choose to embed the H5P object in your course or simply share the direct object link.

You can use the embed code or get a H5P account to embed it in your course:

Download the H5P

  1. Go to the H5P object
  2. Click Reuse then Download as a .h5p file. Or you can just copy the embed code.Reuse and download options

Add the H5P to your course

If you would like to check your students' responses and completion of the activity you can:

  • Embed the object in your course - to view completions in H5P Reports.
  • Link the object in your course -  to allow results for questions to be transferred to Grade Centre and view completions in H5P Reports.

Get instructions:

Pressbooks

You can choose to embed or link the Pressbook in your course. The modules are also available for your students to download in EPUB, PDF and HTML format to help with accessibility.

Embed a Pressbook in Learn.UQ

Embed a Pressbook in Blackboard (Ultra)

  1. Copy the URL of the Pressbook.
  2. Click to open the Learning Resources section in your Blackboard Ultra course.
  3. Click the + sign. A drop-down list will open.
  4. Select Create.
  5. Click Teaching tools with LTI connection:
    1. Click to edit the title (where it has New LTI Link...) to enter your Pressbook's title.
    2. Change to Visible to students.
    3. At Configuration URL enter your Pressbook's URL.
    4. Add a Description.
  6. Click Save.

Note: You can click the More options dots to go back to edit the entry after you have saved it.

Add a link to the Pressbook in Blackboard (Ultra)

You can create a weblink or course link in the weekly folders in Learning Resources e.g. If you want your students to read the chapters in particular weeks.

Embed a Pressbook in Blackboard (Original)

  1. Go to the module home page.
  2. Select Common Cartridge (Web Links) under the Download this book options.
  3. Go to your Blackboard course.
  4. Go to Course Management.
  5. Click Import Package/View Logs.
  6. Click Import Package.
  7. Click Select a Package and navigate to the .imscc file you downloaded from the module.
  8. Scroll down to Select Course Materials and select all the options.
  9. Click Submit.

In your course site, the module will appear in a new content area in your course. Each module chapter will be a section. You can copy, move and delete the chapters in your course.

Video

You can link to the video in the Digital Learning Hub or embed the video in your course.

Embed a YouTube video in Learn.UQ

  1. Copy the video URL.
  2. Follow the instructions to embed a YouTube video in your course:

Submit your object to the Digital Learning Hub

You can submit a request to add your digital learning object to the Digital Learning Hub. A link to submit is available via the hub.

If you would like to submit an object for inclusion, the object must be:

  • created by UQ staff or students
  • licensed for reuse, e.g. an open licence. UQ copyright is acceptable to allow reuse by UQ users
  • using only material owned by the author or used with permission
  • accessible
  • suitable for a broad audience or at a faculty or discipline level, rather than for a specific course or assessment task
  • created using a UQ template if the format is Word or PowerPoint
  • reviewed annually and updated where required.

Note: Objects that are not reviewed within a 12-month period will be unpublished from the Hub until they are updated. The Digital Learning Hub is a portal for current content, rather than a repository. It is not used to store files or for version control.

edit Instructions for submitting or editing your object

You will need to complete all the required fields to be able to save and submit the form.

Publishing user

Set to your UQ username.

Owning team

  1. Select Create a team (if your team is not already listed).
  2. You can add your own details to the name of Team, Team manager and Team email if it is not appropriate to add a team name or email.

Last Review Date

Enter the date that you last reviewed the object.

You will receive an email 12 months after the Last Review Date to remind you to review your object.

Object title

  • At least 8 characters.  
  • Usually, the same as the actual object. 

Description of the object

At least 100 characters. The description is displayed after the user clicks on the object in the result list.

Summary of object 

  • At least 20 characters. The summary is displayed in the list of results.
  • You can select to use a summary taken from your description.

Cultural advice

Select if the object includes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content that requires cultural advice. 

Web address

Add the URL of your object.

Instructions

Provide instructions for teaching staff to add or reuse the object in their course.

  • This can be as simple as - "Copy the URL to link the object in your course."
  • You can add more detailed instructions depending on what is required for your object.

Filters

  • All the filters are required except for Graduate Attributes.
  • All the filters allow multiple selections except Licence.

Topic

  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander – content has information on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, cultures, histories, languages, and contemporary issues.
  • Artificial intelligence (AI) – content on using AI tools responsibly and effectively, including the legal, ethical and social impacts of AI.
  • Assignments – content aimed at undergraduates to help them complete their assignments. The materials help students find subject-specific resources, develop search skills and evaluate information.
  • Digital skills – content to develop digital capabilities for the effective and safe use of online platforms and tools for study and work.
  • Employability – content to build essential digital literacy skills for the workplace.
  • Indigenising curriculum – content to help incorporate Indigenous knowledges, studies, perspectives and pedagogies in courses.
  • Referencing – content to learn how to properly attribute sources and follow academic standards for citations and bibliographies. Includes resources on EndNote referencing software.
  • Research – content on advanced research practices and effective information retrieval. Includes systems and platforms for storing, managing, and accessing scholarly works and research data.
  • Software – content to learn software applications, coding and programming. Includes resources on EndNote, Microsoft and Adobe products.

Audience

  • Undergraduate
  • Honours
  • Higher degree by research
  • Researchers
  • Teaching staff
  • Hospital staff.

Subject area

  • All (Cross-disciplinary)
  • Business, Economics and Law
  • Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
  • Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
  • Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
  • Science.

Graduate Attributes

These are defined on ITaLI's Graduate Attribute page. Check if the object content matches the description of the Graduate Attribute when assigning the filter.

Item type

  • Guide – mainly text content that explains how to do something (find information, complete processes).
  • Instructional object – specific instructions on one topic.
  • Interactive – content allows the user to interact in some way, quizzes (e.g. H5P content)  
  • Module – a structured collection of content with a number of sections and activities.
  • Presentation – content that provides an overview or introduces a topic (e.g. video or PowerPoint) . 
  • Training recording – recording of training sessions or workshops.
  • Video guide – video content that explains how to do something.
  • Other – content that doesn't fit into the other item types.

Media format

  • Audio
  • Dataset
  • H5P
  • Image
  • PowerPoint
  • Pressbook 
  • PDF
  • Spreadsheet
  • Video
  • Webpage
  • Word document
  • Other.

Licence

 Refer to Creative Commons Licence information for each licence type.  If you are unsure select Other.

  • CC0/Public domain 
  • CC BY Attribution 
  • CC BY-SA Attribution Share Alike 
  • CC BY-NC Attribution NonCommercial
  • CC BY-NC-SA Attribution NonCommercial Share Alike
  • CC BY-ND Attribution No-Derivatives
  • CC BY-NC-ND Attribution NonCommercial No-Derivatives
  • UQ Copyright – refer to the UQ Intellectual Property Policy.
  • Other – content that is not licensed with any of the other licence types (e.g. GNU licence). Add the licence type in the description of the object.

Tags

These are a set of controlled keywords to help users find related content.

  • You must select at least one.
  • If there is no suitable tag for your content, you can suggest a new one.
  • Your object is also discoverable via words in the title and description when users search from the homepage.

Notify following users?

You can select to notify subscribers when a digital learning object is updated and significant changes are made.  Users who chose to subscribe to the object will be sent an email with:

  • standard text (including object update notification message, link to the object in the Digital Learning Hub, unsubscribe option) 
  • text you manually add, via the option in the Digital Learning Hub, to explain what has been updated.  

The emails will only be sent once a day (overnight). If you make a mistake after you click Save, you can edit your note in the object record again and it will overwrite the previous message.

Save

Click Save when all fields are complete.  The form will be submitted. We will contact you to follow up on your object submission or to let you know the object record has been published.

Email the Digital Learning team dxdc@library.uq.edu.au if you have any questions.

Questions about our digital learning objects

question icon. If you would like help using an object or have any questions, suggestions or feedback about the Digital Learning Hub, you are welcome to: