While we cannot teach in-person in your classes in China, we can provide synchronous and asynchronous library instruction and/or create tutorials and learning support tools customized for your courses and research assignments. Library instruction can cover a wide range of topics, including information literacy, search strategies, using library resources, citations and more and we can deliver instruction in a variety of formats (video tutorials, Zoom meeting, course guide, or other learning tools). To discuss instruction options, contact the library liaison for your program.
To request library instruction for your course (via Zoom or video recording), please use this instruction request form or contact the library liaison for your program.
Forsyth Library created several instructional tools in English and Mandarin Chinese to help students navigate the research process and library resources. You can download these items from this guide and upload them into your Blackboard shell, mixing, matching, and adding them to wherever they fit in your lesson plans.
All cross-border faculty can access the provided bilingual video tutorials that may be helpful to our partnership students by logging into Blackboard at https://fhsu.blackboardchina.cn/. You will find a “course” called FHSU Cross-Border Resources. You’ll be able to copy single items from this location into your own courses as well. The following are the materials available to all faculty to share in their courses or use to enhance their teaching.
VidGrid Videos:
Interactive Tutorials:
Research Guides:
Forsyth Librarians can create custom Subject and Course Guides to provide research help for your international classes. This is a great way to incorporate research help from librarians and to embed selected databases, resources, and tutorials into one landing page for your students. Contact your library liaison to discuss options and get started.
Forsyth Library provides a bilingual research guide that will help your students in China become familiar with the library and library research. Faculty are encouraged to embed this research guide as a website link into Blackboard to make it easily accessible to your students in China.
Use the link below to explore the various video and interactive tutorials about Forsyth Library and how to find, evaluate, and use library resources. The video tutorials are hosted on VidGrid to easily integrate into your Blackboard course and to use in China: