• What is LIT?

LIT is an educational and interactive Web site designed to introduce students to research sources and improve their library skills. The tutorial is made up of 6 modules:

• Module 1: Starting Smart - types of information sources that are appropriate for academic research
• Module 2: Choosing a Topic - topic selection and how to identify keywords to search your topic
• Module 3: Using the Catalog - how to search Western Libraries' Library Catalog
• Module 4: Finding Articles - how to use online databases (also called article indexes) to identify articles on a subject
• Module 5: Using the Web - critical and efficient searching on the Internet
• Module 6: Citing Sources - citing sources, plagiarism, and copyright

Each module takes approximately 15 minutes to complete and concludes with a quiz. There is only one online quiz for Modules 1 and 2 which appears at the end of Module 2.

• Why use LIT?
• Objectives of LIT

• LIT is a tutorial in Blackboard. Place a request with Web services.

• How do the students register for LIT?
  
  Web services will make a copy of the course for you. All the students registered in your course are automatically added to the LIT tutorial for the course. Your students will see it as a separate Blackboard course when they log in to MyWestern.
  • Students can also go to the LIT web site at http://www.library.wwu.edu/lit/.
  • Click on the "WWU Students " link.
  • Log in to MyWestern.
  • Click on the Blackboard Library Information Tutorial.

• Viewing my student's quiz scores
  
  Instructors can view a student's progess as well as the final score in the Blackboard gradebook.

• Other points of interest:

• Quizzes can be taken more than once.
• The highest score of all the attempts will be the final grade.

• Additional Academic Resources

• Credits