Maximizing Efficiency with WIDS Libraries and Banks

WIDS provides eight pre-populated libraries of instructional design data. Each library serves as tool to assist you in the design of your organizational, program and course outcomes, learning plans and performance assessment tasks.

The eight populated libraries in WIDS include:

• Academic Skills Library
• Activity Library
• Employability Skills Library
• Grading Information Library
• Guidelines Library
• PAT/Performance Standards
• Rating Scale Library
• Verb Library

The banks feature in WIDS allows you to copy instructional design data from another program or course in WIDS to reuse or revise in the current course or program.  For example, if you use the same textbook in two courses, if you enter the textbook information in the first course, you can use the bank to copy the same textbook information into the second course.

Libraries and banks are not available on every page.  WIDS allows access to libraries and banks on pages where there are helpful in completing a design task.  

How to Use the Library or Bank

Bank:  WIDS prompts you to search for the project you want to copy from.  Search for the project and click on it.  WIDS presents the data available for copy.  Select the data you want to copy.  (If WIDS does not return any options for copy, the project did not have any data available for copy.)

Library:  WIDS opens the library.  Select the item(s) you want to use.  Often a preview of the full item is available.