How to use Reading Lists for Course Reserves

On this page, you will learn how to: 

• Associate a Reading List to multiple courses
• Duplicate a Reading List
• Roll over a Reading List to a new semester

There are subtle but important differences between these functions. 

Associate Reading List  if you want to use a Reading List with no alterations for another course. 

Duplicate a Reading List in order to reuse most of a Reading List for another course but make some alterations. 

Roll over a Reading List to reuse and resubmit a Readling List for a new semester. 

Associating multiple courses to an existing Reading List

Associate a Reading List with multiple courses when you want to reuse the content without making any alterations. 

1. Click the ellipsis next to your Reading List title
2. Select "Manage course association"
3. Add the unique course code for the other class. The search bar should autopopulate. 
4. Verify the semester dates and adjust if necessary
5. Associate the course
   1. If you want to add additional courses, click "+ Associate"
   2. Add additional courses
6. Click "Associate and Close"

Duplicate a Reading List

Duplicate a Reading List to make a copy that you want to add or delete items from for another course. 

1. Click the ellipsis next to your Reading List title
2. Select "Duplicate." Your list will be duplicated and will automatically load. 
3. Click the ellipsis next to your new Reading List
4. Select "Edit." You can change the name of the Reading List to be unique and add new information. 
5. Select "Manage course association"
6. Add the unique course code for the other class. The search bar should autopopulate. 
7. Verify the course dates and adjust if necessary
8. Click "Associate and close"

Rolling over a Reading List allows you to reuse a Reading List from one semester to another. Due to copyright reasons, Reading Lists expire at the end of the semester the same way traditional course reserves do. Rolling over a Reading List resubmits the materials request to the Library, which then restarts the necessary processing. 

Tags, permanent links, and public notes will copy over. Due dates and student discussions will reset. 

Repeat steps Adding a Reading List to Canvas. 

Instead of creating a new Reading List, click "Roll over."

1. Enter the course code of the Reading List you would like to resubmit. This field should auto populate. 
2. Update Reading List name
3. Select whether to copy or reset the collaborators and syllabus
4. Click "Roll over"