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The Digital Learning Commons offers a variety of open educational resources, including videos, guides, templates and handouts, created by employees of the University of Guelph Library.

These resources are designed to help students, instructors, and researchers develop academic and professional skills, such as time management, research and writing strategies, data and digital literacy skills, and more.

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Content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 International License unless otherwise stated.

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  • RStudio Workshop Series: Pearson Correlation (Video)
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  • RStudio Workshop Series: Inferential Statistics (Video)
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  • RStudio Workshop Series: Descriptive Statistics - Descriptives (Video)
  • RStudio Workshop Series: Data Types (Video)
  • RStudio Workshop Series: Importing Data (Video)
  • RStudio Workshop Series: Opening A Dataset (Video)
  • RStudio Workshop Series: The Interface (Video)
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  • Video: How to Search Factiva
  • OpenRefine Tutorial Series: Video 4
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  • OpenRefine Tutorial Series: Video 2
  • OpenRefine Tutorial Series: Video 1
  • Using AI to Write Your Papers: Five Things You Should Know
  • Handout - NVivo Workshop Series: Supplementary Materials
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  • AI and Your Unpublished Writing: Risks of Using Large Language Models
  • Using AI for your Writing: Five Things You Should Know
  • Guide: Write a Research Question
  • Video: Five Benefits of Open Access
  • Assessing Accessibility of Course Materials
  • Video: How to Book a Study Room
  • Video: Why Accessible Education Matters
  • Video: Introduction to the POUR Principle in Higher Education
  • Video: Introduction to Microsoft Accessibility Assistant
  • Guide: Instructor Toolkit: Accessible Course Materials
  • Handout: Four Strategies to Make Your Studying More Productive
  • AI Workshop-in-a-Box: UG Library All Staff Day Session
  • Video: Troubleshooting Irrelevant Search Results In Academic Databases
  • Handout: Responding to Feedback
  • Theory, Model, or Method-Building – Single Source Sheet Template.
  • Theory Building: Multiple Sources - Note-taking Analysis Worksheet Template.
  • Single Source – Note-taking Analysis Worksheet Template.
  • Traditional Research Article (or Book) Mapping Template.
  • Handout: Organizing Your Research Proposal
  • Annotated Bibliography – Note-taking Sheet Template.
  • Multiple Sources - Note-taking Analysis Worksheet
  • Handout: Grouping Topics or Conversations in the Literature Review
  • Daily Writing Log Template
  • Video - Research Basics: Choosing the Right Search Tool
  • Video: Multiple Linear Regression
  • Video: Repeated Measures ANOVA
  • Video: Friedman Test
  • Video: Simple Linear Regression
  • Video: Spearman Correlation
  • Video: Pearson Correlation
  • Video: Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test (Two Sample)
  • Video: Paired Samples T-Test
  • Video: One Way ANOVA
  • Video: Kruskal-Wallis H Test
  • Video: Mann-Whitney U Test
  • Video: Independent Samples T-Test
  • Guide: Using Open Access Repositories
  • Video: Inferential Statistics
  • Video: Descriptive Statistics – Crosstabs
  • Video: Descriptive Statistics – Frequencies
  • Video: Descriptive Statistics: Descriptives
  • Video: Accessing SPSS for U of G Students, Faculty, and Staff
  • Video: Data Types
  • Video: How to Use SPSS: The Basics
  • Video: SPSS Chi-Square
  • Video: Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test (One Sample Equivalent)
  • Video: One Sample T-Test
  • Tutorial: Formatting Thesis Page Numbering in Microsoft Word
  • Guide: U of G Research Data Repositories
  • Guide: Conduct A Knowledge Synthesis
  • Video: Get Full-Text Articles in One Click with LibKey Nomad
  • Guide: Student Staff Accessibility Resources
  • Guide: Assistive Technology at Library Accessibility Services Guide
  • Guide: Printing, Photocopying, and Scanning at the Library
  • Guide: Literature Searching in Ovid MEDLINE
  • Video: Using Copyright Protected Content
  • Tutorial: Graphic Design
  • Tutorial: Writing Alt Text
  • Guide: Using Kurzweil 3000
  • Guide: Getting Started with Omni
  • Tutorial: Create an Accessible Word Document
  • Guide: Building Vocabulary for Reading and Speaking
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  • Guide: Write a History Paper
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  • Guide: Use Creative Commons Licenses
  • Guide: Tri-Agency Open Access Policy
  • Guide: Search for Open Educational Resources (OER)
  • Guide: Licensing Datasets in the U of G Research Data Repositories
  • Guide: Making Pressbooks Accessible
  • Guide: Record a Podcast
  • Guide: Present like a Pro
  • Guide: Install LibKey Nomad
  • Guide: French: Improve Your Writing
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  • Guide: Edit Video: iMovie
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  • Guide: Digital Tools for Teaching and Learning
  • Guide: Cite Your Sources - Chicago Author-Date
  • Guide: Audacity Tutorial
  • Guide: Atrium Institutional Repository
  • Guide: Create and Animated Video Using Powtoon
  • Guide: Instructor Toolkit: Create a Digital Assignment
  • Guide: Faculty Toolkit: University Essay
  • Guide: Instructor Toolkit: Multiple Choice Exams
  • Video: How to Search Omni
  • Video: How to Find Sources Through PsycINFO
  • Video: What Is Grey Literature?
  • Video: 3 Steps to Create An Effective Search Query
  • Video: Truth or Treason? Sources for the Study of the Jacobites - Archives Exhibition
  • Video: How to Photocopy at the University of Guelph Library
  • Video: How to find sources through bibliography of British and Irish history
  • Video: How to Find Sources Through America: History and Life
  • Video: How to Find Sources Through International Medieval Bibliography
  • Video: How to Find Sources Through Historical Abstracts
  • Video: What is Peer Review?
  • Video: How to Read an Academic Book
  • Guide: Organizing Your Research Data
  • Guide: Indigenous Data Sovereignty
  • Video: Creating Media Clips from Copyright Protected Content
  • Tutorial: PowerPoint Tutorials for Your Academic Poster
  • Video: Managing Nervousness Before Your Presentation
  • Video: Managing Nervousness During Your Presentation
  • Video: Searching for MeSH Headings Using the Mesh Browser
  • Handout - Tool for Determining Allowable Uses of AI with Writing Assignments
  • Video: Note-taking and writing tips to avoid accidental plagiarism
  • Handout: Using Articles in English Grammar: Indefinite (A, An) and Definite (The)
  • Handout: The ABCs of Answering Difficult Questions in Academic Presentations
  • Template: Templates for writing thesis statements
  • Handout: Search modifiers cheat sheet
  • Handout: 5 types of thesis statements
  • Handout: Developing a research question.
  • Handout: Dive deeper: Deep reflection 101.
  • Handout: How to give awesome feedback.
  • Handout: 5 questions to strengthen your thesis statement
  • Handout: Boolean Operators cheat sheet
  • Handout: How to Create a Poster
  • Template: Academic Poster Templates
  • Video: Integrating Controlled Terms Into A Keyword Search Using Search History in Ovid Medline
  • Video: Dissertation Writing Retreat - Online and In-Person
  • Video: Zotero: How to Organize Your References
  • Video: How to Create a Matrix Chart
  • Video: How to Read an Academic Article
  • Video: Using A Worksheet to Compare Academic Readings
  • Video: Articles, Journals, and Databases: What's the difference?
  • video: How to Request An item In Omni
  • Video: How to scan a USB at McLaughlin Library
  • Video: Finding Journal Articles Using PubMed
  • Video: Connecting Google Scholar with the University of Guelph
  • Video: Introduction to U of G’s Archival & Special Collections
  • Guide: Online learning.
  • Video: Is this a scholarly journal article?
  • Guide: Find ESG data
  • Video: What is Digital Storytelling?
  • Guide: Create a Digital Story
  • Video: What is Anova?
  • Video: What is the difference between data and statistics?
  • Guide: Film a Pitch video or video resume
  • Video: Find freely licensed media to use in your digital project
  • Guide: Succeed at exams: Analyzing Exam Errors
  • Video: How to Develop Keywords
  • Video: How to integrate critical voice into your literature review.
  • Guide: Write Clearly: Using Evidence Effectively.
  • Write Clearly: Style
  • Guide: Using Quotations in Your Essay
  • Guide: Make your digital media projects accessible
  • Guide: Create an Academic Poster.
  • Guide: Write a Critical Review of a Scientific Journal Article
  • Guide: Use the postal code conversion file (PCCF)
  • Guide: Use Stata
  • Guide: Use Matlab
  • Guide: Seminar Participation and Discussion
  • Guide: Find open data
  • Guide: Data visualization
  • Guide: Clean and prepare your data
  • Guide: Create Music & Record Audio with GarageBand
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  • Guide: Analyze data: SPSS
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  • Guide: Analyze data: R and RStudio
  • Guide: Apply Graphic Design Principles
  • Guide: Create a Storyboard for Your Digital Project
  • Guide: Create a Digital Design with Canva
  • Guide: Create a Script for Your Digital Project
  • Guide: Edit Video: WeVideo
  • Guide: Record Audio with Audacity
  • Guide: Manage Your Sources: Zotero
  • Guide: Succeed at Exams: Writing Essay Exams
  • Guide: Master Time Management: Using Weekday Time Effectively
  • Guide: Find Video Collections
  • Guide: Write a university essay.
  • Guide: Control Procrastination: Understanding Procrastination
  • Guide: Find Theses & Dissertations
  • Guide: Study effectively: Learning from Textbooks
  • Guide: Master time management: Making a Task List
  • Guide: Find SWOT
  • Guide: Find standards
  • Guide: Study effectively: SQ4R
  • Guide: Control Procrastination: Short-Term Solutions
  • Guide: Succeed at Exams: Short-Answer Exams
  • Guide: Find Online Music Scores
  • Guide: Find Audio, Images and Videos for Remixing
  • Guide: Find sources: use one relevant source to find another
  • Guide: Control procrastination: 8 ways to get started
  • Guide: Succeed at Exams: Problem-Solving Exams
  • Guide: Find Primary, Secondary & Tertiary Sources in the Sciences
  • Guide: Succeed at exams: Preparing for Essay Exams
  • Guide: Write a PrĂ©cis.
  • Guide: Find Patents
  • Guide: Write an Online Discussion
  • Guide: Find Newspapers
  • Guide: Succeed at exams: Multiple choice
  • Guide: Cite Your Sources MLA
  • Guide: Find Market Research
  • Guide: Manage Your Sources
  • Guide: Study Effectively: 7 Strategies to Manage Distractions
  • Guide: Write a literature review.
  • Guide: Find Legislation : USA
  • Guide: Find Legislation: Canada
  • Guide: Find Legal Information
  • Guide: Write Lab and Research Reports
  • Guide: Succeed at exams: Lab exams
  • Guide: Find Sources: Identify Key Sources
  • Guide: Write Clearly: Punctuation
  • Guide: Write Clearly: Grammar
  • Guide: Find Industry Information
  • Guide: Work effectively in groups: Create an Online Study Group
  • Guide: Find grey literature
  • Guide: Find Government Publications
  • Guide: Find geospatial data
  • Guide: Find Systemic Reviews
  • Guide: Find Ancient Sources
  • Guide: Find data and statistics
  • Guide: Cite Your Sources: CSE (Name-Year)
  • Guide: Cite Your Sources: CSE (Citation-Name)
  • Guide: Write a Critical Review
  • Guide: Create Video and Audio Clips
  • Guide: Find country information
  • Guide: Study effectively: The Cornell Method of Note Taking
  • Guide: Study Effectively: Creating a Concept Map
  • Guide: Find Company Information
  • Guide: Write a close reading.
  • Guide: Cite your sources.
  • Guide: Cite your sources: Chicago notes and bibliography.
  • Guide: Master time management: Making the most of breaks & rewards
  • Guide: Find Books
  • Guide: Write a Book Review
  • Guide: Write a blog post.
  • Guide: Study effectively: 7 Steps to Better Concentration
  • Guide: Find background information
  • Guide: Find audio recordings
  • Guide: Cite Your Sources: ASA
  • Guide: Find scholarly articles
  • Guide: Cite your sources: APA.
  • Guide: Write an annotated bibliography
  • Guide: Present like a pro: Giving an academic presentation
  • Guide: Succeed at exams
  • Guide: Study effectively.
  • Guide: Master time management.
  • Guide: Study effectively: Reading critically
  • Guide: Plagiarism and academic integrity.
  • Guide: Control Procrastination.
  • Video: 5 Ways to Study with a Matrix Chart
  • Video: What is a t-test?
  • Video: Fair Dealing with Copyright Protected Works
  • Video: Reflecting on a course activity
  • Video: Reflecting on a Personal Experience Using the "What, So What, Now What" Model
  • Video: What is critical reflection?
  • Video: What is data?
  • Video: Finding primary sources: Background research
  • Video: What are primary sources?
  • Template: Excel task lists
  • Template: Excel Weekly Schedule Template
  • Video: 4 ways to check your paper for plagiarism.
  • Video: Have I accidentally plagiarized? How to Use Turnitin to Check for Plagiarism.
  • Video: 5 tips for managing group conflict.
  • Video: Four Steps to Narrow Your Research Topic.
  • Video: What are Creative Commons licenses?
  • Video: 5 reasons to use reference sources
  • Video: Asking questions to explore your topic
  • Video: Cite Your Sources: When and Why to Cite
  • Handout: Presentation planning 101.
  • Video: Understanding and avoiding plagiarism: Types of plagiarism.
  • Video: Schedule yourself: 6 easy steps to conquer your calendar.
  • Video: How to create a concept map.
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