Source Reference

Source Reference integrates highly acclaimed reference content with instructional videos and tutorials to provide research instruction in the classroom and at the point of need. Prepare students for any kind of research or the rigors of academia by building their confidence and cultivating essential information literacy skills.

Highlights:

  • Intuitive interface: Source Reference‘s platform is designed to empower beginner researchers to navigate the platform and discover the information they need.
  • Exceptional reference content from the best academic publishers: Source Reference features more than 400 top-tier reference titles curated for grades 6–12, covering a wide range of subjects. 1.5 million entries cover 3 million topics related to secondary school studies such as biology, physics, mathematics, social sciences, world cultures, world history, and more.
    • Expertly curated, the collection features content from leading publishers like Dorling Kindersley, Barron’s, Lerner, and Houghton Mifflin. 
    • Also ideal for the visual learner, the collection includes 1,500 videos and more than 150,000 contextual visual aids, images, photographs, and maps across all subject areas. 
    • Click here for a list of reference titles included in Source Reference.
  • Information literacy development: Tools and features within the platform cultivate essential information literacy skills while students search.
  • Versatile teaching materials: 100+ minutes of instructional content for use within courses, one-shot sessions, and more.
  • Discover more: Search results include connections to your institution’s other databases, maximizing usage of all of your library’s trusted resources.
  • Collaborative features: User-friendly technology facilitates partnerships between the library and the classroom for easy integration of information literacy into the curriculum.

Features:

  • Build information literacy skills: The dozens of high-quality videos and tutorials in Source Reference cover a wide range of topics like evaluating sources, plagiarism, and more.
    • Incorporate multimedia materials into in-class teaching, flipped-classroom instruction, or point-of-need support.
    • Engage students in active learning with self-guided information literacy skill development.
    • Save time and resources—creating the same instructional multimedia content from scratch would take up to 600 hours! 
  • Federated search: Source Reference allows for the seamless integration of federated search results from your other library-licensed resources, leading students directly to deeper subject-specific resources.
  • Topic Pages: 11,000+ customizable Topic Pages provide background information and incorporate other library e-resources directly—great for background research, discovering library resources, and building keyword vocabulary!
  • Mind Map: One of Source Reference’s key features, the Mind Map is an interactive brainstorming tool for helping students visualize connections between and across topics. This feature is embeddable in course pages, LibGuides, and websites!
  • Pro/Con: Source Reference’s Pro/Con is a featured content category for helping students locate reliable reference materials on issues of real-time importance. Highly respected publishers add and update entries regularly, bringing authority and accuracy to students’ current events-related information needs.
  • Key Concepts: In Source Reference, relevant terms are displayed within search results to help users identify the focus of each article and provide guidance for additional keywords related to their topic.
  • Embeds: Source Reference allows users to embed reference content in their school’s learning management system, virtual learning environment, or other guides/websites. Any article (or Mind Map) may be embedded, including those with images, audio, or videos. This helps foster faculty collaboration while also bringing usage and awareness of the institution’s valued library e-resources.
  • Permalinks: Source Reference’s record URLs make it easy for students to return to previously viewed pages and allow users to create “custom collections on the fly.”
  • Citation management: With Source Reference, users can conveniently cite entries in MLA, Chicago, APA, and Harvard formats. 
  • Google Drive integration: Libraries can authenticate their Source Reference users with Google Authenticator, while users (via Google Authenticator or through their personal Gmail accounts) can save entries to Google Docs.
  • Integration options: Source Reference content can be embedded into LibGuides or any LMS that supports iFrame, including Canvas, D2L, Moodle, and Blackboard.
  • Responsive design: Source Reference‘s platform ensures a smooth user experience on any type of device.
  • Accessible content: Audio files and dictation of text content (downloadable in MP3 format) improve accessibility and provide different avenues for students to absorb information. Text content is translated into 60+ languages, helping learners of all backgrounds access reference material.

Information Literacy - Health Science

Extend your library’s reach with teaching materials that can be used in health science courses, one-shot sessions, and at the point of need. The health sciences rank among higher education’s most in-demand fields, and this instruction platform will help ensure these students acquire the foundational skills necessary for academic and career success. Furthermore, the Credo Insights analytics tool allows you to measure student outcomes and demonstrate the value of library instruction at your institution. 

Highlights: 

  • Teach undergraduate and graduate students essential foundational skills that are shown to positively impact retention, GPA levels, graduation rates, and overall student success.
  • Engage users with high-quality videos and tutorials on topics of profound importance to their current studies and lifelong goals. 
  • Simplify collaboration with faculty by providing instructional content that is easy to embed in learning management systems and in LibGuides. 
  • Save time and resources compared to creating materials from scratch and keeping them updated. 
  • Devote more time to hands-on instruction by using multimedia to “flip the class.”
  • Assess student progress and adjust your instruction strategy based on reliable evidence.
  • Maintain accreditation requirements around information literacy and critical-thinking standards.

Features: 

  • Multimedia content: 30+ customizable e-learning objects support librarians’ teaching of foundational skills within the health science disciplines.
  • Flexibility: Information Literacy – Health Science lets users mix and match tutorials, videos, and quizzes to address the demands of different courses and specific students.
  • Customization: Tailor Information Literacy – Health Science to your institution’s specific needs with on-demand customization of tutorials, quizzes, and student platform. 
  • Information Literacy Standards: Information Literacy – Health Science materials align with multiple standards including the ACRL framework and standards, SCONUL 7 pillars, ANZIIL standards, and the AAC&U Information Literacy VALUE Rubric.
  • Credo Insights: With Information Literacy – Health Science, users can measure student progress with robust analytics for assessment and usage reporting.
    • Drill down into the data on specific quizzes, questions, and answer choices.
    • See specific students’ and classes’ performance on particular assessments and over time.
    • Generate usage reports for the number of students using the platform as well as the frequency of their usage.
    • Filter and compare reports by month and by course.
    • Combine any number of filters for the exact report you need using Insights’ business analytics engine and dynamically generated reports.
    • Illustrate the value of foundational skills instruction to other stakeholders at your institution.
  • Faculty Engagement: Users can benefit from free resources like this Faculty LibGuide for Information Literacy – Health Science to support their collaboration efforts. 
  • Administrator dashboard: Information Literacy – Health Science lets users conveniently manage assessment downloads and tutorial/quiz customizations.
  • Integration options: The Credo Courseware platform offers a wide range of integration options, including LibGuides and learning management systems (D2L, Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, etc.). Each item may be added as a digital object, and assessments may be integrated into instructors’ gradebooks. 
  • Instructor access to Credo Insights via LTI: Instructors may access Credo Insights to see student assessment data for themselves, in addition to seeing the grades in their LMS gradebook.
  • FERPA compliance: To ensure students’ privacy, the Credo Courseware platform is fully FERPA-compliant. 
  • ADA compliance: Information Literacy – Health Science is fully ADA-compliant, enabling accessibility for all learners. 

Learning Tools

 

 

Higher education institutions struggle to equip students with the foundational skills they need to succeed. Today’s students require information literacy, critical thinking, communication, and other skills to excel throughout their education and in the workplace. From teaching first-year students to supporting distance and online learners to honing the techniques of more experienced researchers, your library can play a pivotal role in this institution-wide instruction goal with Credo’s learning tools ...


Every institution, no matter the size, has a unique path towards successful library instruction.
Let’s get you started with the Credo learning tool that’s right for you.
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How do you decide what’s right for your institution?

Let's take a look at Deborah and Charlie.Both librarians are on a path towards a successful library instruction program. However, each is at a different point in their program implementation and has different needs.

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Deborah
Instruct

Deborah has spent several years building an effective library instruction initiative and enjoys a strong network of support with faculty all across her campus. But how does she continue to develop her program when she and her staff only have so many hours in each week? With Credo Instruct, Deborah enhances the content of her current instruction sessions while extending library services to offer curricular support to additional courses in the form of embedded videos and tutorials. Instruct has also helped her improve the quality and depth of her assessment capabilities; its tutorials, quizzes, and pre- and post-tests function as formative and summative assessments respectively. Her new reporting capabilities mean that her library can play a larger institutional role in assessing foundational skills of students campus-wide.

Deborah
View

Charlie is launching a new information literacy program at his institution. He’s reached out to faculty and has made some good inroads, but hasn’t reached the level of engagement he knows he’ll need to get the program off the ground. With Credo View, he saves time and resources by using professionally created videos for in-class, online, and point-of-need instruction, which allows him to focus on other aspects of his strategy. Right off the bat, Charlie notices a difference when he assigns videos on IL basics to students as homework, allowing him to spend in-class time delving deeper into students’ specific areas of need. He also offers to help faculty embed videos on topics like proper citations and academic integrity onto their course pages, building partnerships he will later use to expand his IL instruction program even further.

INSTRUCT vs. VIEW Quick Comparison and Inclusions Chart

Credo's Learning Tools, Instruct and View, can help you progress through your library instruction goals. Let us help you decide which Learning Tool is right for your institution!

Information Literacy - Core

Broaden your library’s instructional reach with standards-aligned multimedia content that can be used in courses, one-shot sessions, and at the point of need. Information Literacy – Core (also known as InfoLit – Core) uses innovative technology and proven pedagogy to build essential information literacy and critical-thinking skills that will help students thrive in their academic careers and beyond. Furthermore, the Credo Insights analytics tool allows you to measure student outcomes and demonstrate the value of foundational skills instruction at your institution. 

Highlights: 

  • Teach students essential foundational skills that are shown to impact retention, GPA levels, graduation rates, and overall student success.
  • Engage users with high-quality videos and tutorials on topics of profound importance to their current studies and lifelong goals. 
  • Simplify collaboration with faculty by providing in-demand instructional content that is easy to embed in learning management systems and LibGuides. 
  • Save time and resources compared to creating materials from scratch. 
  • Devote more time to hands-on instruction by using multimedia to “flip the class.”
  • Assess student progress and adjust your instruction strategy based on real evidence.
  • Maintain accreditation requirements around information literacy and critical thinking standards.

Features: 

  • Multimedia content: 100+ customizable e-learning objects support librarians’ teaching of information literacy and critical-thinking skills.
  • Flexibility: InfoLit – Core lets users mix and match tutorials, videos, and quizzes to address the demands of different courses and specific students.
  • Customization: Tailor InfoLit – Core to your institution’s specific needs with on-demand customization of tutorials, quizzes, and student platform. 
  • Information Literacy Standards: InfoLit – Core materials align with multiple standards, including the ACRL standards, SCONUL 7 pillars, ANZIIL standards, and the AAC&U Information Literacy VALUE Rubric.
  • Credo Insights: With InfoLit – Core, useres can measure student progress with robust analytics for assessment and usage reporting.
    • Drill down into the data on specific quizzes, questions, and answer choices.
    • See specific students’ and classes’ performance on particular assessments and over time.
    • Generate usage reports for the number of students using the platform as well as the frequency of their usage.
    • Filter and compare reports by month and by course.
    • Combine any number of filters for the exact report you need using Insights’ business analytics engine and dynamically generated reports.
    • Illustrate the value of foundational skills instruction to other stakeholders at your institution.
  • Faculty Engagement Module: Faculty-focused content is included in InfoLit – Core, alongside ready-made teaching guides with activity ideas, discussion topics, and standards mapping.
    • Tutorials and videos cover faculty-centered topics such as “Why Information Literacy Matters.”
    • Resources provide best practices and processes for designing effective research assignments.
    • Additional materials (including fliers and PDFs) help librarians market InfoLit – Core internally to their faculty.
    • Teaching Guides accompany each module and include suggestions on how to align assets to course syllabi.
    • Technical “how-to’s” explain the process for embedding assets in course pages and LibGuides.
    • Templates help faculty integrate assets with research assignments and curriculum mapping.
  • Administrator dashboard: InfoLit – Core lets users conveniently manage assessment downloads and tutorial/quiz customizations.
  • Integration options: The Credo Courseware platform offers a wide range of integration options, including LibGuides and learning management systems (D2L, Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, etc). Each item may be added as a digital object, and assessments may be integrated into instructors’ gradebooks. 
  • Instructor access to Credo Insights via LTI: Instructors may access Credo Insights to see student assessment data for themselves, in addition to seeing the grades in their LMS gradebook.
  • FERPA compliance: To ensure students’ privacy, the Credo Courseware platform is fully FERPA-compliant. 
  • ADA compliance: InfoLit – Core is fully ADA-compliant, enabling accessibility for all learners. 

Critical Thinking Expansion Pack

Expand Your InfoLit Modules' Instructional Reach by Adding the Critical Thinking Expansion Pack 

Don’t limit instruction to just information literacy—tackle critical thinking and other highly sought-after foundational skills by adding the Critical Thinking (CT) Expansion Pack to your InfoLit Modules subscription.

36 high-quality instructional videos and quizzes cover topics including:

  • Communication/Visual Literacy

  • Logic & Reasoning

  • Critical Thinking

  • Culture & Citizenship

These additional videos and quizzes seamlessly integrate with your InfoLit Modules platform to provide the same level of flexibility, assessment, and reporting.

 

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Screenshot of the CT Modules, which looks similar to the InfoLit Modules however with different videos and tutorials 

  

 

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