How can I assign a tutorial as a graded assignment?
All of our library tutorials give students the option to download a PDF certificate of completion, which will look similar to this:
Certificates include a student's first and last name, the name of the tutorial, and the date and time they completed the tutorial.
To set up a tutorial assignment in Blackboard
- Add a link to the tutorial in your Blackboard course in a place where students can easily find it, along with a due date and a brief explanation for how the assigned tutorial will benefit students or fit into the course.
Example: For your upcoming assignment, you’ll need to find and use at least two scholarly articles. This tutorial will show you how to use OneSearch, the library catalog, to locate those sources.
We also recommend including this information in your syllabus, if possible.
- Create an assignment in Blackboard. Set a due date and number of possible points. We recommend using the library’s tutorials as “low-stakes” assessments and weighing the grade for a tutorial with an equivalent to participation points (e.g. 5/5), just for completing the tutorial.
- Once students have completed the tutorial, they will be directed to download their certificate of completion and submit it to their course assignment.
Students may complete these tutorial in other classes. Consider allowing them to upload a previously earned certificate to fulfill your course assignment.
How does the library protect student privacy?
Library tutorials collect the following information once you click the Submit button at the end:
- First & Lame Name
- University email
- Date & Time Completed
- All responses from required questions
- Anything students choose to include in a non-required question
- The website that referred the tutorial link (e.g. Blackboard, library website, Google search)
- Web browser used to completed the tutorial
- IP address
The library's information literacy program is committed to only using data from our tutorials to:
- protect people from harm
- support student success
- improve our instructional materials and techniques
We value data internally and ethical research procedures that protect people (e.g. Institutional Review Boards), but we believe that data shared with us belongs to their original creators, unless otherwise stated.
We primarily use tutorial responses to assess learning in our information literacy program.
If you or your students are concerned about how we use of their personal and academic information from a library tutorial, please contact us and we will find an alternative.
Are library tutorials accessible?
We are committed to making our online instructional materials as accessible as we can. Please ask your students about their needs, and if you know that a student cannot complete a tutorial for technical reasons, please contact us (library@uni.edu) and we will provide you and your student with an accessible alternative to learn the same material.
