A powerful web application designed to streamline assessment of students' information literacy and other skills. With Citing Insights, you can easily upload a student papers, the citations are detected and links to discovery tools make it easy to evaluate the sources. Discovery tools include Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar, and a Library's Alma Primo. Citing Insights is designed to automate using or editing AAC&U Information Literacy Value Rubrics, and other assessment rubrics, for assessing the student papers. You can also add annotation, and provide students feedback, or provide accrediting bodies with detailed assessment reports.
- Version
- Getting Started
- User Guide
- Rubrics
- Version 1.0 Features
- Future Features
- Known Issues
- Built With
- Contributing
- Authors
- Project Sponsor
- License
- Acknowledgments
1.0
For configuring the server, follow these instructions: CI Server Installation
A user guide was developed by the Citing Insights team to assist users.
Citing Insights Version 1 features:
- Enhanced PDF Search functionality
- Multiple evaluators mode, with inter-reliability testing / norming, and analytics
- Analytical reports & outcomes
- Group Administration Console
- Robust rubric resources
- More Improvements to Design
Citing Insights will continue to develop the application, including:
- Integration road-map with Learning Management System.
- Robust reports & outcomes, with data visualizations
- PDF viewer
- Search Tool: If multiple matches on the same line, all matches on that line will become highlighted
- PDF text font and size changes upon text selection
- MongoDB - database
- ExpressJS - web framework for nodeJS
- ReactJS - web framework for creating User Interfaces
- NodeJS - back-end framework
This is an open source project and we encourage anyone to build upon this outstanding achievement, as long as the intent is good. That being said, the authors will not be responsible for maintaining this project. Citing Insights will focus development on student features next year, if available funding is provided.
This project is licensed under the MIT License
A big thank you to our alpha and beta testers!
Sue Armitage, Joan Berman, Victoria Bruner, Josh Callahan, Adam Carter, Jim Graham, Chris Guillen, Sally Hang, Julia Heatherwick, Alison Holmes, Katia Karadjova, Cyril Oberlander, Jeremy Shellhase, Meghann Weldon, Joshua Zender, and everyone at the Humboldt State University Library. Also a big thank you to the Graduation Initiative 2025 from California State University, and Humboldt State University for their support of this project. HSU Library provide project based learning opportunities to solve challenges faced by higher education and the community at large. One of the key questions for Citing Insights is how can we make assessment easier.