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Library Skills training online

A guide to share best practice and support UCL library staff in designing and delivering online library skills training materials and activities.

Choosing a template

All of the surveys used across Library Surveys are listed on the Surveys page, and are grouped in folders.

To find a survey, browse the folders or use the search box to search by title, or sort by author or date.

Library trainers should copy one of the survey templates, from the 'Templates' folder', to create their own feedback survey for synchronous or asynchronous training activities. See Creating your survey.

  1. TEMPLATE Asynchronous training tutorial feedback survey should be copied for asynchronous materials, e.g. Articulate tutorials.
  2. TEMPLATE training session feedback survey should be copied for synchronous (live training) sessions.
  3. TEMPLATE Blended session feedback survey should be copied.for training consisting of both asynchronous and synchronous elements, such as a 'flipped' lesson where students watch a video or work through a tuorial before then attending a live session.
  4. TEMPLATE 1-to-1 session feedback - Survey  should be copied for feedback from students attending one-to-one consultations with a librarian.

Each survey template consists of a set of questions which comprise a ‘core’.  Once you have created your own survey questions may be replaced, edited, or added to as required. A question bank holds additional questions from which to select.

Please note: If you need a feedback survey for material or session which are part of the LibrarySkills@UCL Scheduled Programme. The templates, and the LibrarySkills@UCL survey should not be changed or edited. Please follow instructions on Surveys for LibarySkills@UCL scheduled programme sessions to generate a unique URL for the survey for your session.

Creating your survey

 To create your survey, first make a copy of the template:

Important: Please note you do not need to create a new survey for every training session that you deliver, if you will be using the same questions. You can use the survey that you have created to generate feedback surveys for as many different sessions as you would like. Please use this approach to facilitate analysis of the data and to avoid creating too many surveys in LibWizard. To create a feedback survey for a specific session, follow the instructions for using custom URLs to pre-fill the session/tutorial title.

  • Make sure you are not within a folder. In the surveys page, which includes a list of all existing surveys, select the blue +Create New button in the top-left corner.
  • In the Create a new survey pop-up window, select the survey you want to copy using the Start with drop-down menu.
  • Choose from one of the TEMPLATE surveys to copy as appropriate.
  • Give your survey a name beginning with the site or subject (or librarian name for 1-1 consultations). For example. Queen Square Library: online sessions. The name will be visible to survey respondents, but must be generic enough that it can be applicable to all of the different training activities that this survey will be used for.
  • Please change the friendly URL from the default provided when you create a copy (it will be appended _copy). For exampe, the Queen Square Library online sessions survey has a friendly URL extension of neurology-online-sessions  (which results in a full URL of https://ucl-global.libwizard.com/f/neurology-online-sessions )
  • You also have the option of giving your survey a description (this is only for internal use and does not display on the public survey). It is not a searchable field so cannot be used to find your survey from the surveys list.
  • Once these fields are completed, select Save at the base of the pop-up window.