E-Learning Resources: Instructional Videos

Instructional videos are highly effective educational tools used for a wide variety of concepts and demonstrations. Videos are a great way to engage a large number of students while providing specific and valuable information. They are an online library resource available 24/7 to support students in discovering discipline-related resources and learning research skills and concepts.

Some covered topics include:

• Citing sources and citation managers
• Searching in specific databases (ProQuest Central, PsycINFO, JSTOR, etc)
• Conducting literature reviews
• Choosing keywords or topics 

We can embed these materials in your Canvas course, in a Research Guide, or just send them to your students to review.

Please visit the library's YouTube page to discover our instructional videos. 

Librarians can also create customized instructional videos for instructors to utilize in the classroom or online. 

1. Open the video you'd like to utilize.
2. Copy the URL
3. Go to your Canvas course and to the page, announcement, or assignment, where you'd like to post the video.
4. Paste the URL. 
5. You can edit whether or not you'd like there to be a "preview" of the video.
6. If you'd like help embedding a video in your course, contact library.help@usu.edu.