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The University of Arizona Libraries has developed "Guide on the Side," an innovative tutorial system designed to support students when they need help, scaling library instruction effectively. Based on positive student feedback, such as "It was fun, interactive, and useful," the tutorials have reached over 40,000 unique users. The program integrates seamlessly with the D2L course management system, allowing librarians and faculty to create customized guides, ensuring that library content is accessible and relevant to all courses.
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Super Widget Guide on the Side Tutorials Supporting students where they are when they need it scaling instruction at the University of Arizona Libraries. • Student Feedback:“It was fun, interactive, and useful.” • “learned more about jstor then I previously knew” • “the walk-through made it easy to understand” Picture of SW – in D2L designed to push course-appropriate library content and services to all courses using a course management system plans for modifying the tool so that faculty and librarians can work together to efficiently and easily create customized, integrated course guides Elizabeth Kline & Leslie Sult • Background: • Developed and piloted after librarians realized they did not have a good way of efficiently teaching a 150 person general education class. • The initial format was heavily reliant on librarians providing individualized feedback to students • The format has been adapted to allow the Library to reach greater numbers of students with less time through using multiple choice questions to provide students feedback • In the last year, the UA Libraries have created a means by which anyone in the Library can create a tutorial without the assistance of a programmer. We plan on sharing this software in the early summer. • In the past year, there have been 40,000 unique users of the various Guide on the Side tutorials that have been created at the UA Libraries.