Moodle Library Course
The library has a Moodle course in addition to all of our other digital resources. This course is located under “Student Resources” on the main Moodle landing page as Library Orientation & Mini-Lessons. To register for this course, please use the following case-sensitive enrollment key: LibraryOrientation
Library Orientation
This course includes a comprehensive Library Orientation that students may complete to learn about the physical offerings of the library space, an overview of our website, and basic library research skills. We want you to have a solid foundation of how you can best use the library and its resources for your academic career. This orientation is self-paced.Mini-Lessons
These mini-lessons are designed to be a quick, comprehensive dive into a research or information literacy topic. They are self-paced and should take anywhere from 15-30 minutes. Listed under each topic are its learning outcomes. Time Management At the end of the mini-lesson, learners will be able to:- Articulate how the learner will use a time management technique or tip in a future assignment
- Explain why people employ procrastination when presented with a task to accomplish
- Define misinformation and how it differs from disinformation
- Articulate 2 out of the 5 different types of misinformation presented in the mini-lesson
- Explain what steps the learner would take to authenticate a story, source, or photograph using the SIFT method
- Correctly create an APA citation for a type of source that was demonstrated in the mini-lesson
- Explain the correct order of the 4 basic elements of an APA citation
- Articulate where the learner could find more information on creating APA citations
- Correctly create a MLA citation for a type of source that was demonstrated in the mini-lesson
- Explain the correct order of the basic elements of a MLA citation
- Articulate where the learner could find more information on creating MLA citations
- Explain what plagiarism is.
- Articulate how their scholarship is part of the greater conversation around their chosen topic (IL Framework: Scholarship as Conversation)
- Identify at least three different ways that plagiarism may present.
- Articulate an example of how citation may be used as a tool for social justice
- Explain where to find Trocaire College’s Academic Integrity Policy
- Explain what is meant by “lateral reading”
- Select the sources from the assessment activity that are unauthoritative with 100% success
- Identify 2 fact-checker website they could use for future assignments
- Define what a search query is
- Articulate how to use AND to narrow down a search query
- Articulate how to use OR to broaden a search query
- Articulate how to use NOT to exclude terms from search query
- Define truncation
- Articulate how to use * for truncation for a search term
- Explain how to do phrase searching in a search query
- Correctly create MLA in-text citations from citations given in the assessment portion
- Correctly create APA in-text citations from citations given in the assessment portion
- Articulate one difference between the MLA and APA’s style of in-text citation
- Articulate what makes an article “scholarly”
- Articulate the peer review process
- Identify scholarly works from popular ones