Francis A. Drexel Library Online Tutorials  

If you are planning to use these tutorials for your course, read over these best practices.

1. Please let us know that you plan to assign these tutorials.  It helps us keep track of how much the tutorials are being used.

2. If you would like to see that your students watch these, make the tutorials a requirement as opposed to an option.

3. Talk to a librarian about possible assessment measures you could take to make sure students have understood the material in the tutorials.  We can offer online quizzes that will help you keep students accountable for the skill sets they should gain in watching the tutorials.

4. Do understand that some students might have already seen these tutorials in other online courses.  If you assign it and students report that they have already seen the same tutorials for another class, suggest that they refresh their memory of any areas on which they might be unclear, but do not ask them to rewatch all of them beginning to end.

• A CURRENT version of Adobe Flash Player must be installed on your computer to view the tutorials that follow.
• Click on this Adobe link to find out what version is now loaded on your computer.  As of December 6, 2011 the most current version of Adobe Flash Player is 11.1.102.55.
• You can download the software for free at the Adobe Flash Player site.  After downloading, the software needs to be installed on your computer.
• The Adobe Flash Player support site has extensive information on installation, use, and troubleshooting for the Flash Player.
• Please contact a Reference Librarian if you need additional help: Help 24/7

We have several series of online tutorials already available to teach students about the Library, our online collections, and how to effectively search our databases for a particular program.

These options include:

Education (SJU Online) 

Tutorials on:
Introduction to our Databases
Finding Full-text Material
Preparing for a Search
Searching ERIC
Evaluating Information on the Open Web

Criminal Justice (SJU Online) --

Tutorials on:
Introduction to our Databases
Finding Full-text Material
Preparing for a Search
Searching SocIndex
Searching NCJRS
Evaluating Information on the Open Web

Citing Sources: APA Tutorial

Tutorials on:
Creating an APA References List
Creating In-text Citations Using APA Style
Formatting a Paper Using APA Style