December 9, 2009

Adoption of Information Literacy Modules Continues

Inclusion of information literacy modules in course assignments continues across campus. Since June 2008, there have been:

• 16212 assessment completions by
• 5742 students in
• 200 course sections led by
• 107 faculty who created
• 441 instances of
• 8 information literacy modules with an average score of
• 89.73% across all module’s summative assessments.

Winding down and gearing up for the spring semester!

As the fall semester winds down and the new spring semester begins, we’d like to draw your attention to a few recommended procedures:

1. Download scores from the last term and save to your computer.If you have not already, we would suggest downloading scores from your instances and maintaining them with your student records. (As a reminder, you may use this same download process at any point in the term as the basis for uploading scores into MyUCFGrades, Webcourses@UCF, or any other grade book program that supports importing.)
2. Make new instances.We recommend creating new instances each term since scores are associated with specific instances permanently. Having spring term students using instances from a previous term would result in both sets of student data appearing on your score sheet. To make new instances, begin here: http://infolit.ucf.edu/faculty/getting-started/
3. Update any URLs that link to the old instances.Each instance URL ends with a unique ID number. You may simply change this number in order to update the URLs.
4. Delete old instances.In order to de-clutter your “My Instances” area, you might find it helpful to delete instances from previous semesters.
5. Provide link to log-in information when you provide instance URLs to students.Detailed information on logging in to the information literacy modules is available for students at http://infolit.ucf.edu/students/help/#article1
6. Provide tech support links to students when you provide instance URLs.Tech support for students (and faculty) is available through the Ask A Librarian service (http://library.ucf.edu/ask). Please encourage students to make contact with Ask A Librarian via phone, email, IM, or chat if they encounter any difficulties with content or technology. You might also refer students to the Frequently Asked Questions at http://infolit.ucf.edu/students/help. (If you choose to help students yourself, you might also find the faculty FAQs useful in addressing student issues: http://infolit.ucf.edu/faculty/faq.)