Library Support for Shifting to Online Teaching

The library supports instruction in a number of ways:

• Increase your students' research skills by assigning one of UAL's information literacy or resource tutorials.
• Ask your librarian if they can teach or consult with your students via Zoom.
• Ask students to explore a particular database or resource via our online, step-by-step tutorials.
• Use a library-created subject guide or course guide.
• Assign your students to watch a film available through one of our streaming video services, such as Films on Demand. For course use, you'll need to request a streaming video so that we can make sure the video license is in place and the URL will work off campus. Learn more about video streaming.

Contact your Liaison Librarian at the Main Library or at the Health Sciences Library to talk about the possibilities. 

Below is a selected list of online tutorials to include in your D2L course:

You can link to to these tutorials or you can embed them in your D2L course. Embedding the tutorials will allow you to track quick results.  To embed, self-register for Library Tutorials on D2L.

• What Type of Sources Do I Need?
• How Do I Create a Search Strategy?
• Should I Rethink My Search?
• How Do I Evaluate Online Information?
• How Do I Give Credit to the Ideas of Other People?
• Scholarly Vs. Popular Sources
• Anatomy of a Scholarly Article
• Mind Mapping for Focusing Your Topic

Need help teaching or using a specific databases?
These tutorials will guide your students step-by-step.

All step-by step guides

We can develop online course guides to support student research. Please review our list of Subject & Course Guides to see what we have already created.

We would be happy to adapt or build upon any of this content to develop something new to support your research assignment(s). 

• Guides by Subject/Topic 
• Guides by Course/Program

To request the creation of a course guide or topic/subject guide, please submit a description of your request and any relevant course materials such as assignments and/or syllabi to your liaison librarian.