Educational Materials

Share the resources you used and/or developed to deliver educational programming during your project. You can upload materials throughout the life of your project or at its completion in your final report.

All project educational materials in digital form may be uploaded to the reporting site as they are developed, and are required as part of the Final Report. Educational materials include any materials that you are developing or have developed for the project. This may include resource materials that you will use from other projects, website URLS’s that contain links to specific educational course materials and/or curriculums, or other media materials such as educational CD’s and videos that provide risk management tools for participants. 

To upload material, select Add New Item.

For each educational material, enter the:

• Title

• Author(s)

• Publisher

• Publication Date

• Abstract – Write a brief abstract describing the educational material. This abstract will be used to describe the material in the Ag Risk and Farm Management Library, so it should not exceed two to five sentences. The abstract will be used to describe your document publicly in the Library, so write it appropriately to describe your documents to the public.

• Indicate if this resource was developed by ERME funds or not. All materials developed with ERME funds must include the proper ERME and USDA/NIFA funding acknowledgement. Visit the regional center websites for additional information.

• Once you save the uploaded document, verify that the link is working correctly by clicking “Test Link”.

If you have an electronic copy of the material, select Upload from the dropdown menu under “Format”. Click the Select button to find and select the file that you want to upload. After you have selected the file, click Save.

Some materials may not be available to upload. In this case, select Website or CD-ROM/DVD or other offline item from the dropdown menu under “Format”. If the material is available on a website, you will then be asked to provide a web link to the document, which means that you should enter the URL which will allow viewing of the material. If it is a CD/DVD, describe how it will be made available.