How-to Guides

How-to Guides instruct users in using a particular resource or a perfoming a specific process.

How-to Guides

How-to guides should be structured according to the best practices of instructional design, moving users through a process toward completion of specific goals. Examples might include:

  • Helping users to work in the R language to perform statistical analysis for economics research
  • Helping users to understand the whys and hows of managing scholarly citations
  • Providing participants of the Hesburgh Library Hackathon with logistics and other resources related to the event
Guide At-a-glance
example of a How-to Guide
Requirements
0 Must be based on the How-to Guide template. No constraints on the guide information architecture (structure of pages and boxes).
1 Requires author's profile box below left navigation on each page
2 No content may live beneath the profile box in the left navigation