MLA Format: MLA

1. Login into your GV Google account

2. Click on any Google feature that is tied to GV (Drive, gmail)

3. Go to the "waffle menu" on the top right of the screen. 

4. Scroll to the bottom of the menu and there will be an app for Noodletools. This app will not show up if you click on the waffle menu on a screen that is not tied to a GV account, such as the Google search screen

5. Click on the app and you can sync an old Noodletools account or create a new one.

*If you get logged out of Noodletools, you cannot log back in. Click on the waffle menu and the Noodletools app again. The only exception to this is the administrator login that the librarians have.

*If a freshman cannot see teacher dropboxes they need to click on "my account" and change the school from the middle to the high school.

  

Noodletools is a program that will help you cite your sources, take notes and organize your research.

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 Why should you use NoodleTools?

Using NoodleTools to create your bibliography is smarter than using Easy Bib for many reasons

• If you make a mistake in EasyBib, you have to start over. In NoodleTools, you can edit your citations at any time without re-entering all of the information.

• NoodleTools offers more citation templates, including ones for Tweets, blogs, online video clips, and podcasts. It is also more accurate than EasyBib

• NoodleTools also offers tutorials for each format with visual examples of what resources fall under each category - including quality evaluation tips and where to find the information needed for the citation.

• EasyBib requires you to build your bibliography in another document. NoodleTools stores all of your citations for you.

• NoodleTools also serves as a bookmarking tool for websites - one click can take you back to the source article

• The citations in NoodleTools tie into the notecard feature which makes it was to keep track of where you got your information from.

• NoodleTools alphabetizes, formats and removes hyperlinks from citations

• You can open a word document that has your citations perfectly formatted, alphabetized, hyperlinks removed and ready to print.

• You can also run an analysis to check how many items you have in each format.

• You can also print annotated bibliographies.