Information Literacy Toolkit: Assignments

Use and Remix

• All assignments are under a creative commons license
• Feel free to edit for your classroom or context and to remix assignments with attribution

Guides for Students

• Many assignments have general research guides (like Find and Use eBooks) linked from the assignment description or the assignment itself
• These guides are a great way to allow students to teach themselves.

Work with a librarian

• Librarians are happy to help you scaffold research skills into your class. You can:
  • Meet with a librarian to discuss tailored version of assignments or scaffolding research skills into your class
  • Request a library session as part of your class
  • Request training for TAs on incorporating information literacy into your class
• Use this form for your requests - request a tailored assignment or session with a librarian 

Scaffolding Information Literacy

• Research skills are hard for first-year students. When assigning a research project, think about all of the skills students need to exhibit and consider ways to support those skills.
• Think about using the Assignment Design Rubric for Research Assignments to help you judge how supportive your assignment is. 
• Intermediate assignments like an annotated bibliography are a good way to stair step students up to a full research paper, speech, or other project.

The Toolkit uses Google Documents for most sample assignments. You can work with these assignments in a number of ways. If you have a Google account, clicking "file" -> "make a copy" once you have opened a Google Document will add a copy of the file to your Google Drive account. You can make any needed edits to this new file. 

If you do not have a Google Account, use the download link under each assignment to download a copy to your computer or click "file" -> "download as" once you have opened a Google Document. You can make any needed edits to the downloaded file.