Library support for teachers

Library support for teachers

Resources and services to help you build your course content, augment your teaching, and improve the learning experience of your students.

Do you need teaching support?

Contact the Library Teaching Support team for advice and support in these areas:

  • Reading lists; this includes activation, publishing and rollover, request for reading lists training, and troubleshooting advice
  • Course resource support for new course development and those undergoing a review process, including professional development workshops for staff and curriculum architecture activities
  • Curation of learning material resources on diverse voices and perspectives (e.g. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, non-Euro/Western centric, LGBQTI+) and Open Educational Resources (OER).
  • Copyright and digitisation of course materials.
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Time to request learning resources for 2026!

To ensure that the learning resources, such as textbooks, are available through the Library for courses offered in January-June 2026, please submit your request or confirmation by Friday 21 November.

Confirm or request learning resources
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Reading lists

Find out how to create and manage reading lists in Canvas. The Reading List app allows teaching staff to create and manage a dynamic reading list that connects students directly with their course learning materials.

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Support for your course

Discover how the Library can help you enhance the quality of course resources, making them copyright compliant and readily available to your students.

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Support for your students

The Library offers a range of training and customised workshops to help your students develop the skills needed to become lifelong learners.

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Guides and training

Explore guides, webinars and training opportunities offered by the Library Teaching Support team.

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Copyright services

Our Copyright services will help ensure your learning and teaching activities at RMIT comply with copyright law. Includes consent forms.

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Open education

Open education is a core element of open scholarship. It supports teachers and learners to access, use and adapt educational resources to best suit their needs.

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Press Play studios

The Press Play studios are self-service, digital production spaces co-managed by the Digital Development teams in the four colleges and maintained by the Library.
Find out more about this service
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Adobe Creative Campus at RMIT

All RMIT staff and students have free access to Adobe Express (Premium). Students who need more technical programs in the Adobe Creative Cloud suite for study or research have access to additional programs.
Find out more
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Artificial intelligence and teaching

This guide supports educators in understanding and applying Generative AI tools within teaching, learning, and assessment contexts.
Access the guide
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How to apply copyright best practice in your teaching

This program will guide you in using library resources, online materials, video, images and other copyright works in your online teaching.

Copyright Capability program (WorkDay)
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Report from the Australian Conference on Science and Mathematics Education (ACSME) 2025: 'Shaping the future with STEM education'.

Our colleague, Alina Lam, attended the ACSME conference recently, hosted by the University of Melbourne. This annual conference attracts science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) educators across the country.

Alina posted an insightful, three-part report on SharePoint, which we would like to share with you.

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Digital Storytelling Studio Event Series

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 23 Oct 2025 - 27 Nov 2025
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. RMIT City campus

As part of RMIT’s Digital Storytelling Studio, we are running a series of mixer events and workshops in Swanston Library, focused on storytelling across disciplines, manifestations and modalities. Everyone is invited.

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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