Check, Please! was an open online course and curriculum teaching the SIFT method through interactive lessons that could be dropped into any college course or taken as self-study. First prototyped in early 2019 and released as the "Starter Course" in August 2019, the approximately three-hour module walked students through Stop, Investigate, Find, and Trace with real-world examples.
The project grew directly from the Rita Allen/RTI Misinformation Solutions Prize. In developing it, Caulfield used an innovative approach: Selenium (a headless browser) automatically walked through fact-checking steps while taking screenshots, generating hyper-specific tutorials that could be shared on social media — turning the verification process itself into shareable content. The walkthroughs on this site are examples of that output.
The course materials were released under CC-BY licensing, making them freely remixable, and were adopted by educators across disciplines at hundreds of institutions. Check, Please! represented an important bridge between the Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers textbook and the broader adoption of SIFT as a standard teaching method in university libraries and classrooms.