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Faculty Guide to Credo Information Literacy Modules

How to integrate Credo Information Literacy modules with your Canvas course content.

Introduction and Pre-Test

  • Welcome to Credo Instruct
  • Information Literacy Pre-Test

Getting Started with Research

  • Tutorial: Why Information Literacy Matters
  • Video: Life in the Information Age
  • Video Tutorial: The Research Process
  • Tutorial: Developing a Research Focus
  • Video: How to Narrow Your Topic
  • Tutorial: Background Research Tips
  • Video Tutorial: Beginning Research with Wikipedia/Google
  • Video: Thesis Statements
  • Quiz: Thesis Statements
  • Tutorial: Scholarship as Conversation
  • Quiz: The Research Process
  • Tutorial: Research for Persuasive Writing
  • Video: Creating a Research Plan
  • Video: Framing a Problem
  • Quiz: Research Strategies

Sources of Information

  • Video: Data, Information, and Knowledge
  • Video: Primary and Secondary Research
  • Video: Peer Review
  • Quiz: Peer Review
  • Video: Types of Sources
  • Tutorial: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources
  • Quiz: Primary and Secondary Sources
  • Tutorial: Source Types
  • Quiz: Types of Sources
  • Tutorial: How to Read Scholarly Materials
  • Video: How to Read Scholarly Materials
  • Tutorial: Selecting Appropriate Digital Sources

Searching for Information

  • Video Tutorial: Searching as Exploration
  • Video: Choosing a Database
  • Quiz: Choosing a Database
  • Tutorial: Choosing and Using Keywords
  • Quiz: Choosing and Using Keywords
  • Tutorial: Search Techniques, Part 1
  • Tutorial: Search Techniques, Part 2
  • Video: Refining Search Results
  • Quiz: Search Techniques

Evaluating Information

  • Video: What is Authority
  • Video: Introduction to Bias
  • Video: Types of Bias
  • Quiz: Bias
  • Video: Evaluating Sources
  • Tutorial: Evaluating Information
  • Video Tutorial: Understanding Misinformation
  • Quiz: Misinformation
  • Quiz: Evaluating Information
  • Tutorial: Evaluating Digital Sources Using Lateral Reading
  • Tutorial: Evaluating Sources for Diverse Points of View
  • Tutorial: News Reporting vs. Opinion Pieces in Journalism
  • Tutorial: Fact Checking

Presenting and Organizing Information

  • Video: Synthesis
  • Tutorial: Synthesizing Information for Academic Writing
  • Quiz: Synthesizing Information for Academic Writing
  • Tutorial: Annotated Bibliography
  • Video: Anatomy of a Research Paper
  • Quiz: Anatomy of a Research Paper
  • Video: Writing Help
  • Tutorial: Study Skills
  • Tutorial: Paraphrasing, Quoting, and Summarizing
  • Video: Academic Writing
  • Tutorial: Oral Communication
  • Video: Presentation Skills
  • Video: Understanding the Communication Need
  • Quiz: Writing and Communication

Information Ethics

  • Tutorial: Academic Integrity
  • Video: Plagiarism
  • Tutorial: Information Has Value
  • Tutorial: Copyright
  • Quiz: Information Ethics
  • Tutorial: Digital Privacy
  • Tutorial: Introduction to Digital Citizenship
  • Tutorial: Digital Citizenship in Practice
  • Quiz: Digital Citizenship in Practice
  • Tutorial: Student Guide to AI
  • Quiz: Student Guide to AI
  • Tutorial: Multimodal AI: Using AI for Data, Images and Video
  • Tutorial: Using Gen AI Systems for Research

Citations

  • Tutorial: Why Citations Matter
  • Tutorial: APA Citations 7th Edition
  • Quiz: APA 7th Edition Citations
  • Video: MLA 9th Edition Citation Style
  • Tutorial: MLA 9th Edition Citation Style
  • Quiz: MLA 9th Edition Citations
  • Video: Turabian Citation Style 9th Edition
  • Quiz: Turabian Citations
  • Video: Harvard Citation Style
  • Video: Chicago Style 17th Edition: Journals
  • Video: Chicago Style 17th Edition: Books and eBooks
  • Video: Chicago Style 17th Edition: Websites and Social Media
  • Quiz: Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition
  • Video: Chicago Style 18th Edition: Journals
  • Video: Chicago Style 18th Edition: Books and eBooks
  • Video: Chicago Style 18th Edition: Websites and Social Media
  • Quiz: Chicago Style 18th Edition

Visual and Quantitative Literacy Section

  • Video: Searching for Images
  • Video: Interpreting Images
  • Tutorial: Why Does Visual Literacy Matter?
  • Quiz: Visual Literacy
  • Tutorial: Introduction to Geographic Literacy and Maps
  • Video: Using Quantitative Data
  • Video: Evaluating Statistics
  • Quiz: Quantitative Reasoning

Using Critical Thinking and Logic Section

  • Video: Why Thinking Matters
  • Video: Inquiry
  • Tutorial: Logical Reasoning
  • Video: Evidence-Based Reasoning
  • Tutorial: Analyzing Information

Culture and Citizenship Section

  • Video: Introduction to Cultural Issues
  • Video: Global Citizenship
  • Quiz: Culture and Citizenship
  • Video: Introduction to Civic Engagement
  • Video: Introduction to Civic Action
  • Quiz: Civic Engagement and Civic Action

Post Test

Information Literacy Post Test

FAculty Modules

  • Getting Started Using Credo Instruct
  • Video: Why Information Literacy Matters to Faculty
  • Tutorial: Designing Effective Research Assignments
  • Tutorial: Faculty Guide to AI
  • Tutorial Teaching Resources: AI Literacy
  • Module Timings