Ilios incorporates a learning materials database built on the HEAL Metadata Schema v. 1 standard for health science learning objects.

• greatly enhancing and centralizing access to teaching modules, including images, video, written documents, Web sites and interactive tutorials.
• learning materials are searchable and more easily re-purposed from course to course, year to year.
• Ilios maintains a history of each objects use with in the curriculum to support the documentation of scholarship for the owner of the materials.

Example: Lecture Supplement: Pericardial Diseases

Faculty can upload their materials to Ilios and designate if the materials are a required or supplemental part of the lesson. They are also able to write instructions on how to use the material or provide deadlines for completion. This process can take place anytime, from anywhere and the material is instantly available to the students.