About the Information Literacy Tutorial

Information Literacy is your ability to find, evaluate and use information in an ethical way. These are your skills in conducting research, finding great sources, organizing your information in a way that makes sense and giving credit to those who created your information sources. These are important skills for all students to master! This tutorial has been created to help refresh your abilities in this area and to prepare you to research effectively both in class and in your everyday life. The tutorial consists of the following:

• 10 Mini-modules that address information literacy competencies.(60 total points)
• Using the Library for Research (4 points)
• Types of Sources & Selecting Appropriate Sources (9 points)
• Search Terms and Strategies (6 points)
• Using Library Databases (6 points)
• Evaluating Sources (6 points)
• Google Like a Librarian (6 points)
• MLA Citation (8 points)
• Avoiding Plagiarism (5 points)
• Summarizing and In-text Citation (6 points)
• Ask A Librarian for Assistance (4 points)
• Score Submission (page 12) that allows you to submit tutorial scores to the librarian and create a printable certificate that summarized your performance on the *Test Your Knowledge* activities throughout the tutorial.

Earning Points:

Within each module, you will see multiple *Test Your Knowledge* items and other activities. You will need to complete each of these items as you work through the modules. This is how you will learn the material and earn points for this assignment.  When you have completed all modules, go to page 12 of the tutorial. Here you find directions on how to email a copy of your score report to the librarian and print a copy for yourself or submission to the instructor.

 

Best Browsers

The best browsers to use for the tutorials are Firefox and Explorer. It seems that the score summary (completion certificate) does not load properly when in Chrome.

 

Technical Requirements

This online tutorial requires the use of pop-ups for this website as well as ActiveX content. If you see a narrow yellow bar at the top of your browser window, be sure to click on it and enable ActiveX and/or pop-ups. This tutorial also requires Javascript to be enabled. Please follow the steps below for your browser.

Internet Explorer

1. Start Internet Explorer.
2. At the top, go to the Tools menu and choose Internet Options.
3. At the top, click the Security tab.
4. Click Default level. (If you don't want to use the Default level, then click Custom level. Scroll down to the Scripting section and under Active scripting select Enable. Click OK.)
5. Click OK.
6. Exit out of Internet Explorer. (File/Exit).
7. Re-start Internet Explorer. (You may need to refresh the browser if you go to the same web page.)

Firefox

1. Start Firefox.
2. At the top, go to the Tools menu and choose Options.
3. At the top, click the Content tab (icon).
4. Select the Enable JavaScript checkbox.
5. Click OK.
6. Exit out of Firefox. (File/Exit).
7. Re-start Firefox. (You may need to refresh the browser if you go to the same web page.)

Safari (on the Macintosh)

1. Start Safari.
2. At the top menu, select Preferences.
3. At the top, click the Security tab.
4. Select the Enable JavaScript checkbox.
5. Close the Preferences window.
6. Quit Safari.
7. Restart Safari (You may need to refresh the browser if you go to the same web page.)

 

 

 

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