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UTSA Libraries Support for Virtual Teaching and Learning
Electronic Reserves
- Placing Course Materials on ReserveFaculty may submit requests to place course materials on reserve using this online form.
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Instruction online
Librarians are available to work with you to provide library instruction:
- Zoom lectures
- Recorded screencasts
- Research guides with quizzes
- Blackboard hours or Q&A's
- or anything else that would work with your class! Please contact your librarian directly:
Adding Librarian to Blackboard
Librarians can be added to your Blackboard course content to help provide content, host office hours, or to co-lead a discussion board on research or topic development.
- Open your Blackboard course to the course management page
- Click on Users and Groups
- Click on Users
- Click on Enroll New User
- Add the librarian by their abc123
Tutorials
UTSA Libraries have a variety of tutorials on basic research skills, topic building, and citation help. These tutorials can be linked directly to your class emails and Blackboard. They each have a final assessment that can be sent to the professor.
Open Educational Resources
- Tips from OpenStax on Moving Courses OnlineSupport for moving your course online with OpenStax.
- OpenStax TutorOpenStax Tutor is free to UTSA instructors. This research-based tool gives students the easy-to-use online courseware they need to stay engaged while reading and doing homework assignments. And you get insight into how your students are learning and where they need extra support.
If you teach a lab and are looking for online simulations, OASIS, linked below, is one tool for finding them.
- Use the search box below.
- Select your discipline and "interactive simulations" from the results page.
You can also browse open educational resources by discipline using our OER at UTSA or OER Course Matches guide.

Research Procedures and Lab Concepts in Library Databases
- JoVE Science Education This link opens in a new windowJoVE Science Education is a collection of instructional videos for biology, engineering, chemistry, physics and psychology students designed to help teachers supplement classroom instruction by providing visual examples of fundamental research techniques. The database features simple, easy-to-understand video demonstrations of basic research procedures and laboratory concepts. UTSA subscribes to all sections of JoVE Science Education as well as the JoVE Video Journal.
- Sage Research Methods Video This link opens in a new windowContains more than 120 hours of video, including tutorials, case studies, expert interviews, and more, covering the entire research methods and statistics curriculum. Videos are well-suited for flipped instruction, embedding in course management systems, and for use in-class. The videos can help to bring methods to life: instead of reading about how to conduct a focus group, students can watch one in action.
- Anatomy.tv This link opens in a new windowAnatomy.tv provides an interactive multimedia overview of the human body. The resource features 3D models with anatomical features that can be rotated, dissected, and peeled away. Animations are used to explain functions, biomechanics, and surgical procedures including anatomy of exercise, acupuncture, sports injuries, and resistance training. Also features common pathologies, radiological content, and customizable and interactive quizzes.