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Lesson Plan November 9, 2026

Introduction to Overleaf Workshop

Submitted by Tricia Martone

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Short Description

This is a series of two one hour code-along workshops that can be taught as standalones. These are designed to be approachable to novices and can be taught by librarians with beginner to intermediate Overleaf (LaTeX) knowledge as well as experts. Part 1 covers equations, figures, and bibliographies. Part 2 covers lists, footnotes, and tables.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will be able to understand the structure of an Overleaf project and the different files that can make up a project. They will be able to use basic commands, add packages, add figures and cross-reference them in the text, use and differentiate inline and display math mode, add citations and a bibliography, create lists, build tables, and add a title page, table of contents, and footnotes to a project. Participants will be able to refer to the documentation to add additional elements and complexity to their projects and understand how to navigate a template.

Information Literacy Concepts

Information Creation as Process (Frame 2)

Participation Type

Individual

Teaching Approach

This is to be taught as a code along, where participants follow along with your coding process as you all create the same document from scratch in Overleaf. Narrate everything as you type it and explain each feature. Stop at certain checkpoints to make sure everyone is ready to move ahead in the code along, including when everyone has created a blank project, when everyone has uploaded the two images to their project, and when everyone has created a .bib file successfully. Stop for questions at the end of each section.
Teaching Context
Research University

Course Context (e.g. how it was implemented or integrated):

These have been taught as two one hour co-curricular workshops. I have combined content from the two and taught this in a 75 minute one-shot class for engineering graduate students as well.

Suggested Citation

Martone, Tricia. "Introduction to Overleaf Workshop." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments). 2026. https://projectcora.org/lesson/introduction-overleaf-workshop
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