Legal

Observe intellectual property and copyright legislation. The college has the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) Further Education (FE) License, this allows you to:

• Make copies from digital and print books, magazines, journals and websites.

• Share copies with students and staff.

• Use copies with digital whiteboards, VLEs and presentation software programs.

• Copy up to one article, chapter, one short story or poem or 5% of the total, whichever is greater.

• Copy publications from the UK plus 38 international territories.

You can check copyright permissions online of what can be copied, shared or reused under the CLAFE License.

Refer to the Library Copyright Guide for further detail on college subscribed resources covering, sound, images, text and video. Link to useful websites rather than copying text directly into a course. To understand how to quote, paraphrase or cite text, consult the Library Referencing Guide for further guidance.

• Licensed resources can be found through the library service. View the Library A-Z of digital collections. Use your college username and password to access. You can also search the Library Catalogue to find books, eBooks, open textbooks and open journal articles.

• Ensure all students are informed about potential data protection (GDPR) issues, when they are asked to use non-College systems. An alternative internal system must be provided if students refuse to register with an external service.

• Ensure student-generated content is stored on a password protected system (e.g. discussion boards, blogs, wikis, videos). Non-password protected sites should only be used if students are aware the material is publicly available, and are satisfied with the implications of this e.g. their full names may appear alongside their work.

• Remember to clearly attribute and reference any material that you use that you did not create. Use the College Library service, Cite Them Right, this will support you in creating Harvard style referencing for all your content.

• Open Educational Resources (OER). If you are using open resources licensed by Creative Commons (CC), the license should describe how to attribute each resource. Best practise is to follow Title, Author, Source License (TASL). Consider sharing your own resources by applying a Creative Commons license to encourage other educators and practitioners to use your content. View the Library's curated list of OER's.

• Students own their work as it is of original creation. However, if they have used copyrighted material within their work under Section 30 Fair Dealing with the purpose of criticism and review, this must be acknowledged/attributed clearly.

To understand how to quote, paraphrase or cite text, students should be referred to the Library Referencing Guide. If the student intends to use their work within a public setting (outside of college systems and organisational boundaries), all copyrighted material must be removed, or permission must be sought to exploit it commercially.