All guides: Using Images in Canvas: Images and your course

Teaching Spotlights

Accessibility and disability

This session is for staff who want to embed inclusive actions into their practice ensuring diverse perspectives of students with disability are considered and easily adopted. This session will be delivered by Dr Ronny Andrade, RMIT Digital Accessibility Lead, and Jacinta Jones-O'Meara, Coordinator, Disability.

Wed 3 May 2023 2:30-3:15 PM

In this guide ...

Discover how the Library may assist in ensuring the images you use in your teaching are copyright compliant.

This guides covers:

finding licensed and open-web images to be used in your teaching and learning
ensuring copyright compliance of images used in your teaching and learning
instructions on how to register images with the eReserve service
referencing images used in your Canvas course

Further information about using resources in your Canvas course can be found on the library guide: Adding library resources to Canvas.

Questions?

General teaching enquiries may be sent to the Library Online Learning and Teaching team.

Finding images

The Library provides several resources to aid in finding images that you can use in your Canvas course, these include:

Image Databases
Find high-quality images from reputable sources covering architecture, art, fashion, health and medical, media, advertising, science, and engineering.

Please check the SHOW LICENSE button on the LibrarySearch record to display the licence terms for each database. Make sure you verify that you can use the images for your intended purpose, e.g. teaching.

Digital Collections Repository
Explore the Image collections, Laboratory Medicine slides, and OERs available.
eReserve Graphics
This collection includes images that are communicated under the Statutory Licence pursuant to s113P(1) of the Copyright Act 1968 for the educational purposes of the University.
OERs - Images
A library guide providing links to Open Educational Resources Images.
Adobe Stock images
1) Select 'Sign in' in the top menu.
2) Enter your RMIT email address and select 'Continue'.
3) If it asks you to select an account, select 'Company or School Account'.
4) This will take you to the familiar RMIT Apps Portal where you can log in as usual. If you're already logged in, then it might skip this step.

After that, you should be taken to the stock photos site where you can browse for photos which have an Education licence.

Staff members have access to an Education license on this platform. Look for images with the blue 'Licensed' tick before downloading a high-res, un-watermarked image to your computer.

Images should be attributed as (© Author Name - stock.adobe.com)

Images, Copyright and Canvas (Library Short)

Images, Copyright and Canvas (4:22 mins), RMIT University Library, Microsoft Stream. (RMIT login required)

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