Boise State University has many transfer students from the College of Western Idaho (CWI). The CWI Library also offers a microcourse with some overlap in content and at the same general skill level as the Albertsons Library Research and Critical Inquiry Microcourse (RCIM). In a joint effort with the College of Western Idaho library, our RCIM team developed a shortened Microcourse in Canvas specifically for those CWI transfer students.
We recognize that as a CWI transfer student you have already learned many of the skills that the full RCIM course covers. This CWI Microcourse reviews some of the most important skills you have already learned and introduces you to some of those not covered in the CWI course. It will help you become familiar with the Boise State University Albertsons Library, our databases, what the library offers, and how we can provide research assistance throughout your career at Boise State.
You will access the course through Canvas. It will show up just the same as other courses.
Login to Canvas and click either “Courses” or “Dashboard.”
Select the course called Research and Critical Inquiry Microcourse CWI.
Click “Begin Course” and work your way through each section.
Steps and sections must be completed in order. To move to the next section, select “Mark as Done” and then “Next.”
Sections will only open if the previous section is completed and you have received the required points.
These two assignments are exceptions to this:
Do a Search of Your Own
Lateral Reading
These assignments are graded by librarians. You will need to be sure to go back into the course and check your grade on these as you will need to resubmit if you do not receive the full required points.
Once you have completed the entire course:
Check your Grades to verify you have received passing grades on each assignment.
Go through all the steps of module 4 to get your badge certificate.
Save the completion certificate as a pdf and upload it in your University Foundations Canvas course as proof of completion.
You will receive credit for completing the Research and Critical Inquiry Microcourse without needing to complete the full RCIM.
Click the Students: Your Guide to the RCIM tab above to review more useful information.
If you are a CWI transfer student AND you have completed the CWI Library Badges course:
When we receive your email with proof of completion for the CWI Library Badges, we will enroll you in the RCIM - CWI Transfer course.
[NOTE: Once you are registered in the transfer course, you can disregard the other version of the course. If you do not complete the CWI Transfer Microcourse, you will need to complete the full Microcourse.]