USC LibGuides Committee Toolkit

LibWizard is a platform for creating, sharing, and analyzing forms, surveys, quizzes, and tutorials/assessments. USC Libraries subscribes to LibWizard Full, which includes the ability to create graded quizzes and interactive tutorials with an option for a certificate of completion. 

• Surveys can be used to collect feedback/assessment for instruction and other types of user engagement activities. Surveys are easily integrated with LibCal Events and LibGuides. 
• Quizzes and interactive tutorials can be used to replace or supplement synchronous instruction. 
  • Tutorials can be Standalone or Embedded (Standalone is more common)

Help:

Articles about LibWizard:

Hover your curser over the title to learn about the tutorial purpose and how it is being used. 

You've made a LibWizard tutorial (great job!), but how do you get users to complete it? 

1. Collaborate with faculty from your liaison group to assign the tutorial as a requirement in a course or program. One way to do this is to link to the tutorial and create an assignment in the learning management system for the course or program. Students would then submit the certificate of completion to the assignment in the learning management system for course points or credit/no credit. 
2. Make the tutorial available on the Tutorials page or a research guide for users to complete or faculty to assign. 
3. Promote the tutorial via email, social media, and other similar methods. 

Additional tips:

• See the USC Libraries Intranet Tutorials page for best practices for creating tutorials and instructions for adding tutorials to the Tutorials page on the USC Libraries website. 
• Tutorials should be reviewed and tested by other librarians and teaching faculty for appropriate difficulty level, question design, functionality, content, formatting, typos, length, and more.
• Review, test, and update tutorials regularly, ideally before every semester or period in which students will be completing the tutorial.
• Use Universal Design for Learning Guidelines. 
• Include a pre-and post-evaluation with quantitative measurements to assess user confidence in their ability to meet the learning objectives before and after completing the tutorial as well as an open-ended question for comments and suggestions for qualitative assessment.
• Consider including a pre- and post-test to assess user skills or knowledge before and after completing the tutorial and/or integrate quizzes or questions throughout.