Materials likely created at a faculty member’s own initiative with usual resources:

lecture notes, transparencies, case examples, textbooks, interactive texts, works of nonfiction or novels, CD-ROMs, articles, books, literary works, poems, musical compositions, visual works of art and other artistic creations.

Examples of materials commissioned by University administrators, created using unusual U-M resources:

elaborate Web materials, online course materials or courseware, requiring other University expertise to create; materials used in teaching, research or patient care that a person is hired specifically to create.