Curriculum Builder: an LMS Plugin Hosted by EBSCO

EBSCO Discovery Service brings you an easy way to create and manage course reading lists right from your Learning Management System (LMS) with the Curriculum Builder LMS plugin. Highly cost-effective, the Curriculum Builder enables you to bring the world of quality databases, ebooks, and other digital resources from the library’s discovery system easily and directly into the online learning environment.

• Assignment Builder is available within D2L as an "external tool" that enables you to search for articles, ebooks, and other digital resources from the libraries' collections and easily add links into the online learning environment to create a "reading list."
• Finding and using permalinks to articles is effortless, and links automatically update.
• Easily add notes or instructions to each of the resources that you bring in.
• Create one or more general notes to your students, such as a note covering the entire reading list or a note giving instructions for a specific assignment.
• Supplement your list with links to other web-based sites or materials, save your lists, and reuse them in part or whole.
• Keep your reading lists private or make them public so you can share them with others. 

Making a Reading List in D2L using UTSW Library's AcESo Curriculum Builder Tool (UT Southwestern)

NOTE: The Methodist College link in D2L is "Curriculum Builder" not "AceESO Reading Lists." 

Here are some ideas for making use of Curriculum Builder beyond the assigned readings, courtesy of Alicia Virtue at Santa Rosa Junior College:

• Forums: Hold weekly forum discussions based on assigned readings
• Glossaries: Increase class understanding of complex terminology by asking your students to build a shared glossary with definitions that students can search and browse based on assigned readings
• Questionnaires: Survey students to gather and share feedback on recommended issues-oriented websites or assigned topical readings
• Wikis: Build a shared study guide by asking each student to provide an annotated summary to an assigned reading
• Quizzes: Assign a graded quiz based on reading list selections
• Offline Assignments: Assign annotated summaries of reading list selections

from https://connect.ebsco.com/s/article/Curriculum-Builder-Reading-List-Ideas?language=en_US