Self-study ability plays an extremely important role in the learning process of students, helping them to deeply understand, expand, consolidate and memorize knowledge, thereby being able to apply learned knowledge into solving new learning tasks. Information technology makes an important contribution to the development of students' self-study ability. The article focuses on clarifying the role of information technology in improving students' self-study ability and proposing some solutions to improve students' ability to use information technology in the learning process.