The Learning Commons offers online videos on a wide variety of topics. These videos can help students improve their skills in writing, reading, speech, study skills, and Beginning Of Semester Success strategies. The Tutoring Tidbits videos are course specific and can help students enhance their understanding on specific course content.
- Creating Effective Infographics
- Creating Effective Visual Aids
- Test your Knowledge. Take the Creating Effective Visual Aids Quiz
- Creating Great Academic Posters
- Assistance Available for Speeches and Presentations:
- Attention Getters and Clinchers
- Test your Knowledge. Take the Attention Getters Quiz
- Compelling PowerPoint Slides
- CRAAP Sources - Presented by a Speech Librarian
- Creating Effective Visual Aids
- Test your Knowledge. Take the Creating Effective Visual Aids Quiz
- Creating Great Academic Posters
- Effective Business Presentations
- Google It: Start your Speech Research - Presented by a Speech Librarian
- Persuasive Speech Research - Presented by a Speech Librarian
- Fear of Public Speaking
- Test your Knowledge. Take the Fear of Public Speaking Quiz
- Oral Citations
- Test your Knowledge. Take the Oral Citations Quiz
- Recording Voice-Overs in PowerPoint
- Academic Success for Non-Native English Speakers
- Control Your College Destiny
- Crack Your Science Course - Biology
- Crack Your Science Course - Anatomy & Physiology
- Crack Your Science Course - Chemistry
- Crack Your Science Course - Physics
- Memory and Concentration
- Non-Traditional Learners: The New Normal
- Test Taking Strategies
- Time Management
- Effective Note-taking
- Adventures with Ampersands
- APA Formatting Using MS Word Version 6
- APA Formatting Using MS Word Version 7
- APA Formatting Using Google Docs Version 6
- APA Formatting Using Google Docs Version 7
- Avoiding Plagiarism
- Commas
- Commas with Coordinating Conjunctions (Grammar Tidbit)
- Dashes(Grammar Tidbits)
- Editing - Subject-Verb and Pronoun Agreement
- Effective Business Writing
- Effective Persuasion
- Hyphens (Grammar Tidbit)
- Hyphens and Dashes
- Legal Writing: 10 Legal Writing Tips
- MLA Formatting Using Google Docs
- MLA Formatting Using MS Word
- Modifiers(Grammar Tidbit)
- Paragraphs: Introductions and Conclusions
- Patterns of Organization in Academic Writing
- Run On Sentences
- Run On Sentences (Grammar Tidbit)
- SAP Financial Aid Appeal Letter
- Subject-Verb Agreement (Grammar Tidbit)
- Thesis Sentence
- Technical Writing
- Transfer and Scholarship Essays
- Using Formal and Informal Language
- Voice (Grammar Tidbit)
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Contact Information
Learning Commons
Student Resource Center (SRC), Room 2102
Call: (630) 942-3940
Email: learningcommons@cod.edu
Learning Commons Hours of Operation
Learning Commons West
Technical Education Center (TEC), Room 1016B, (630) 942-3960
Mathematics Assistance
(630) 942-3339
Email: mathassistancearea@cod.edu
Writing, Reading, and Speech Assistance
(630) 942-3355
Email: wrsa@cod.edu
Tutoring Services
(630) 942-3686
Email: tutoring@cod.edu