This one hour web course would be taken concurrently with J200, the first journalism reporting class, and is quasi-self-paced. Students start and finish at the same time. For each lesson, there is a window of time they must complete each activity. The course has three lessons built around non-digital library resourses and digital library resources and on local government records. The other six lessons would be built around information on people, business, economy, community, state or nation, organizations, and ideas or experts.

The bulk of the course materials will reside on the School of Journalism's server, but the course is also intergrated with Oncourse's testing tools. Students must log into Oncourse to submit their answers to their posed problems in each lesson. Oncourse provides a feature to place a time restriction of when answers can be submitted.