An Introduction to the Self-Review Library
This archive contains 26 lecture modules, each covering basic topics in introductory astronomy. Our program is geared toward college students, non-science majors taking general education courses in astronomy, but anyone is welcome to use our resources to learn. Click on any of the 26 links listed above to review a set of lecture slides on each topic.
If this is your first time working with the self-review library, we recommend reading through several of the first lectures. You might also want to take a quick look through our FAQ. Then log in on the request page, and select a lecture or a series of lectures, and see how much you have learned. There are more than 12,000 astronomy questions available to you, so you can spend as much time as you wish on any topic and always see new questions.
You will be presented with a set of five questions covering material from your selected lecture topics. For each question, you'll have access to a link taking you back to a relevant lecture slide, to review the context of this topic. You'll also have a friendly hint button, to get you started if you are unsure how to approach the problem. Once you answer each question and submit your work, you'll receive feedback on every problem and complete solutions, so that you can check your work.
As you work with the self-review library, you may sometimes end up selecting your lecture topics from the student portal as well as from here. Because students are working for credit, they take a weekly quiz on two lecture topics in turn throughout the semester. These weekly for-credit quizzes do not contain any links to lecture slides or hints, but are otherwise identical to the review quizzes. Feel free to try taking one if you wish, and see how you do!