Model academic integrity for students. Give credit and cite the original source on all handouts.
You may provide handouts of a short excerpt from a copyright protected work to:
The amount of content copied must be fair.
NSCC faculty, staff and students should follow the NSCC Fair Dealing Guidelines when copying or sharing copyrighted works.
Need to copy more than NSCC Fair Dealing Guidelines recommend?
Please consult with your Campus Librarian for assistance.
Copyright rights and responsibilities apply to your use of Brightspace. You have the same education users’ rights teaching in Brightspace that you have in the physical classroom; and the same responsibilities to use content in a manner that meets the conditions set in NSCC Policies and the Copyright Act.
Full copyright protection is the default license attached to works. While facts are not protected by copyright, the expression or representation of facts can be. So be careful, copyright applies to all content you find on the internet (including photographs and visuals) as well as more traditional print and audio-visual sources.
You can make a digital copy of a print resource to load into Brightspace when:
Sharing links to content on the web (as an alternative to copying) is a recommended practice as long as the content on the website is
Loading Recorded Lessons
Educational institutions can transmit lessons to students in real time over the Internet or make a recording of a lesson available on-line. However, there is a requirement to remove access to the recorded lessons within 30 days of students enrolled in the course receiving their final evaluations.
When the course is finished, instructors should remove their lessons and content from Brightspace, and save the files in a private location. When the course is offered again, create a new class in Brightspace and load the saved content. You may reuse the saved versions of lessons from previous courses.
Digital Locks
A digital lock is a technological protection measure (a password, or encryption) that restricts access to the content with the objective of protecting the content from copying.
The Copyright Act prohibits breaking a digital lock. Always! The presence of a digital lock trumps all other rights.
DVDs
You cannot load a DVD into Brightspace. Consult with your Campus Librarian about alternatives.
Audio Visual Options
Use streaming video. Streaming video can be linked to or embedded into your Brightspace class.
Contact the Copyright Office or your Campus Library for support.
You can reproduce copyright protected content in order to display it for an educational purpose in the classroom.
Commercially Available
The right does does not apply if the work or other subject-matter is commercially available in a medium that is appropriate.
Copyright Act, Section 29.4(1)
You may include an artistic work (including a painting, print, photograph, diagram, drawing, map, chart and plan) as a class handout or as a posting to a learning or course management system if:
If you would like to use an artistic work -- for example an architectural drawing -- that is not part of larger work (exists alone and is not part of a book or article) use of the image does not fall under fair dealing. Please contact the copyright owner for permission to copy and re-use.
For content from websites your copying may meet the requirements for the educational exception to copy content from the internet (see the websites tab on this box).
Instructors may play music or other sound recordings in the classroom if:
This provision may not apply to a performance at an off-campus venue that is not at an educational institution.
A SOCAN license for music performance may be obtained for events that do not meet this criteria.
Check with SOCAN or your Campus Library, for more information.
Most educational publishers provide supplementary resources like PowerPoints and test banks to support the use of their textbooks in the classroom.
You can modify the slide decks or quizzes to match your outcomes. All added content must meet academic integrity standards and include attribution statements.
Your right to use publisher supplied supplementary materials is connected to the textbook. You have the right to use the supplementary materials as long as your students are required to purchase the textbook.
The Copyright Act includes an exception for tests or examinations. You can:
Section 29.5 in the Copyright Act allows teachers and students to show films and documentaries on campus for educational or training purposes if the following conditions are met:
For social, fundraiser, or non-educational events, a public performance rights licence is required to show films. Audio Cine Films and Criterion Pictures provide various licencing options such as one-time screening, annual performance, etc. Please contact your Campus Library if you would like more information.
NSCC has licensed access to high quality streaming video collections. Faculty, staff and students can access these collections through the library website.
You can copy content from websites for an educational purpose if your copying meets the following conditions:
Important Note: This exception does not apply if the educational institution or person acting in their educational role knows or should have known that the work or other subject-matter was made available through the Internet without the consent of the copyright owner. In other words, if you suspect the content is not a legal copy don't use it.
The Copyright Act of Canada defines a technological protection measure (commonly referred tp as a digital lock) as:
any effective technology, device or component that, in the ordinary course of its operation,
(a) controls access to a work, to a performer’s performance fixed in a sound recording or to a sound recording and whose use is authorized by the copyright owner; or
(b) restricts the doing — with respect to a work, to a performer’s performance fixed in a sound recording or to a sound recording — of any act referred to in section 3, 15 or 18 and any act for which remuneration is payable under section 19.
Fair Dealing is the most robust users' right for using material for an educational purpose. Evaluate your proposed use of web-based content under fair dealing first. If your use does not fall within fair dealing evaluate under the Education Institution right to use work available from websites.
Sharing links or using embed codes to direct students to content on websites (as an alternative to copying) is a recommended best practice.
Reserve Readings (or Reserves) are high demand materials that you, the faculty member, identify as useful for students in a particular course. These materials have short loan periods to ensure students in your course have fair and equal access to the resources.
You can put materials on reserve for 1, 2, 3 or 24 hour loan, or on 2, 3, or 7 day loan.
You can place original work (i.e. books, journal issues, or DVDs); links to electronic resources (such as full text journal articles) in the Library's licensed databases; or copies of work that complies with NSCC’s Fair Dealing Policy or where permission has been received from the copyright owner.
Fair Dealing applies to copying and communicating a short excerpt of a copyright-protected work for library reserves. The short excerpt may be copied onto paper, or copied and communicated in electronic form, from any copyright-protected course materials, including a course pack, provided that the following safeguards are met:
Copy is made onto paper:
This copy was made pursuant to the Fair Dealing Policy of NSCC which may be found at http://subjectguides.nscc.ca/copyright/fairdealing. The copy may only be used for the purpose of research, private study, criticism, review, news reporting, education, satire or parody. The use of this copy for any other purpose may require the permission of the copyright owner.
Copy is made in electronic form
Student coursework is also protected by copyright and may only be placed on library reserve with the permission of that student. Faculty are required to obtain the student’s written consent to have their material placed on reserve and must remove the student’s name and student ID number from the coursework. Any additional personal information contained in the coursework must be identified by the student and removed at his or her request.
Contact your campus Library staff if you need material from another Novanet Library. Most Novanet libraries support lending their materials to NSCC libraries for Reserve collections. Each request is treated individually and Novanet libraries may exercise the option to not loan their materials.
Copying, scanning, or printing pages from products sold as a workbook intended for one-time use is not allowed.
Workbooks and exercise books are intended for one-time use, with students' answers written directly on the book's pages. Any copying from materials intended for one-time use exposes the person making the copy, the instructor, and the College to liability for copyright infringement.
This prohibition does not apply to reproducibles or materials with a Creative Commons (CC) license.
A reproducible is not intended for one-time use, but is sold or provided with the rights holder’s authorization to reproduce it for educational use.
Teaching and learning resources with Creative Commons (CC) copyright licenses like Open Educational Resource (OER) can be freely shared, copied, reused, and in most cases revised and adapted.
For more information on OERS go to the NSCC Guide on Open Educational Resources (OERs).
NSCC has a Course Pack Repository accessible from each of the School web pages in the Curriculum Repository. The Course Pack Repository provides quick access to the most recent, copyright approved version of course materials for your programs for ease of sharing, printing and uploading to D2L.
The repository includes:
The copyright detail section of the Print Services Order Form does not have to be completed for materials in the cleared repository. This information was submitted and documented as part of the clearance process.
Open Textbooks
If you have any questions about the Course Pack Repository or are interested in determining if your materials are eligible for inclusion, please contact the Copyright Office at copyright@nscc.ca.
To request printing of copyright cleared items from this repository through Print Services:
Plagiarism1 is presenting, in any format, someone else’s ideas, presentations, writing, artistic work, or creations, whether verbal, print, structural, design or electronic, in whole or in part, as one’s own, by failing to credit the source. Plagiarism can be intentional or occur through carelessness.
Model academic integrity for your students.
If you require your students to use a specific citation style, use the citation style in your instructional material.
A citation style provides a standardized way to provide attribution. The style defines what information is included in the reference and how the information is ordered and presented; punctuation and formatting rules are defined.
APA (American Psychological Association)
Brief in-text citations are placed in the text in parenthesis. Each in-text citation is linked to an entry in the reference list.
MLA (Modern Languages Association)
Brief in-text citations are placed in the text in parenthesis. Each in-text citation is linked to an entry in the reference list.
Chicago (The Chicago Manual of Style)
Notes and Bibliography system. A raised superscript number is placed in the text. The number is connected to numbered footnotes placed at the bottom of the page. The sources are also listed in a separate bibliography.
