Faculty Resources

The UMSL Triton Store Verba Collect System

All instructors with courses assigned for the upcoming semester in PeopleSoft will be emailed a personalized link to access  the Verba Collect site.  Once you access the site, you will be prompted through the process of submitting adoptions for your assigned courses.

Walk-through for Professors

These four short videos walk through the process of submitting adoptions using Verba Collect:

Video 1: Getting Started

Video 2: Copying From Other Adoptions

Video 3: Adding Materials Manually

Video 4: Submitting Your Adoption

You should receive an email from UMSL Triton Store that includes your personalized link to adopt the materials for your assigned courses. If you don’t receive that link or don’t see all your courses listed, please contact Stephanie Eaton at stephanie@umsl.edu.

Once Verba Collect requisitions are submitted and approved, they download into our store inventory management system for us to review and make adjustments if necessary.

Open Educational Resources (OER), Open Access Content

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student or self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations, and many more resources contained in digital media collections from around the world.
From OpenEducationalResources.pbworks.com

Many instructors are using OER and Open Access Content to replace or supplement their existing course materials. There are many websites dedicated to providing OER and Open Access Content, our campus library is also a great place to begin any OER search. (Please Note: the copyright license or parameters of use differ with each item. Be sure to check the usage guidelines for the product you are interested in to make sure that you understand how you may use it.)

If you want to provide your students options, you can work with UMSL Publishing to offer these materials as Print on Demand.
If you have questions about OER and Open Access Content please do not hesitate to contact us at stephanie@umsl.edu

UMSL Publishing

What’s your teaching style?
Do you use readings from several sources in order to fully teach a subject? Do you use only selected chapters out of books? Do you use PowerPoint slides or study sheets? What about homework assignments? Add your syllabus and lecture notes to make it fully functional. With UMSL Publishing, you can compile your own course book(s) to fit YOUR teaching style.

UMSL Publishing will work with you to create your custom course reader/packet and ensure that it is copyright compliant. Whether it is an Out of Print book, old exams or a selection of readings from journals/books/online sources – UMSL Publishing can assist you in creating a custom book that suits your teaching style and meets the needs of your students.

With a focus on saving students money, we work with you to create a custom reader that truly is Your Concept. Created.

For more information contact Stephanie Eaton at stephanie@umsl.edu

AutoAccess

In 2014, we launched AutoAccess, a partnership with the UMSL Triton Store, publishers and faculty that provides course content via the campus learning management system (LMS) at a reduced cost. We work with over 20 different publishers (McGraw Hill, Pearson, Cengage, ect.).  UMSL students enrolled in this program have saved over $7 million compared to new prices since 2014.
Learn More about AutoAccess

Unique Course Material Items

Does your class require specialized course material items or custom kits such as Art kits, Drafting kits, Rock kits, Geology kits, Robotics kits, Architecture model building material or something else? We can create custom kits to meet your needs! Contact us at tritonstore@umsl.eduand let us know what you need!

We're here to help you with course material and provide savings to our students,