Reading Lists: Course Reserves

What are Reading Lists?

Reading lists is the next generation of course reserves and electronic reserves. With Reading Lists, you can assemble materials of all types—physical books, ebooks, digitized book chapters, scholarly articles, videos, newspaper articles, websites, and any other type of material—to create a structured, comprehensive list of readings for your course. You can build a resource list by yourself or collaborate with others, such as colleagues or librarians. Reading Lists connects to Moodle and Adelphi University Libraries’ OneSearch, making it simple for students to access all of the materials you’ve selected.

Why Use Reading Lists?

• All Materials in One Place: Include all kinds of material types from all sources in one list – easy for students to find right from Moodle!
• Easily Create and Modify Lists: Search the Libraries’ resources, add from web content and upload our own files. Organize your list for structure and context.
• Connect with Students: See where students are engaging with your choices and, if you like, enable discussions & let them suggest additional content.
• Support and Collaboration from the Libraries at Every Step: We help you make sure the materials are available to students at no cost with no access restrictions or broken links. Our staff are ready to digitize print material for you, subject to copyright restrictions. Our faculty librarians can even help find hard-to-locate material.
• Seamlessly Transfer Lists between Semesters: Create your list now, then easily duplicate it next term making adjustments as you go.
• Analytics: Analytics will show you the usage of an item on your Reading List.

How Do I Get Started?

The Libraries offer two different ways to create Reading Lists.

Self-Service Model (Preferred)

Most flexible. You add your own reading list, files, links, and library resources. The Libraries will complete any digitization requests you have, ensure that links work correctly, and move any books to reserves.

• To start, follow the instructions below to add Reading Lists to your Moodle course.
• Use the instructions to create your Reading List

Assisted Model

The Libraries will create the list for you. This option gives you less control over the Reading List. We will complete digitization requests and move books to reserves.

• To start, complete the Course Reserves request form.
• The Libraries will email you with any issues as well as instructions to add the Reading List to your Moodle course.

How do I add Reading Lists to my Moodle course?

Follow the simple steps below to activate Reading Lists in Moodle (you can also access Moodle via eCampus).

1. Open the Moodle shell for your course.
2. “Turn Editing On” using the green button at the top right of your Moodle shell.
   
3. With editing mode on, click on the “+Add an activity or resource” button in the body of your Moodle shell.
4. From the list of activities and resources, choose “External Tool,” and then select “Add.”
5. In the “Adding a new External tool” configuration screen, give the activity a name, such as “Reading List.” From the Preconfigured tool dropdown menu, choose “Reading List.” Then, click “Save and Display” at the bottom of the configuration menu.
6. You are now ready to start creating your reading list!