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Leganto for Course Reserves

Note for Students: If your instructor is using a Leganto resource list, it will appear when you are logged in to Canvas. Open your course in canvas and check the course menu for a link called Leganto Course Materials.

 

For Instructors:

Use the Leganto reading list platform to create and re-use course lists each semester. Through the Leganto interface, you can leverage licensed e-books, articles, and streaming media from the library’s collections to provide your students with efficient and affordable access to course materials, or upload your own files and links to web content.

 

How to Submit a Reserve Request Using Leganto

Option 1: Canvas

If you are using a Canvas page for your course, we recommend activating Leganto from within Canvas. This will allow your students to access library resources and other materials right from their course page. To get started, click the “Leganto Course Materials” tool link from your course menu and follow the on-screen instructions to activate the course and add a list. You will have the option to add an entirely new list or to roll over an existing reading list to attach to the latest version of your course:

 

Option 2: Leganto Homepage

Instructors who have used course reserves at Snell Library in the recent past (2018 to present) will be able to review a catalog of their previous reserve lists by signing into their Leganto homepage.

  • To re-submit an existing list for a new course, open the list and click the “My List is Ready” button at the top right of your list:

 

  • If you don’t have any previous lists, or if you need to create a new course list from scratch, click the “Create List” button at the top of your homepage to get started:

 

  • Note: a reading list created outside of Canvas can still be associated with a Canvas course at a later date by using the “Link to course” option at the top of your screen:

 

For fuller instructions on creating, curating, and submitting reading lists, take a look at our short, accessible how-to videos on the Leganto tutorials page:

Leganto User Guide 2024 : Panopto

Still have questions about using Leganto? Contact us by submitting the Leganto Help Request Form!

 

What Happens to Reserve Materials When the Semester Is Over?

The Library’s course reserve system is maintained on a semester-to-semester basis. Leganto reading lists are deactivated and returned to draft format at the end of each semester unless otherwise requested.

  • To re-activate a reading list that you have used for reserve in past semesters, please re-submit the list to the library through Leganto (see above).
  • To extend an active reading list into future semester(s), please contact us to request an extension before the current semester’s last day of final exams.
  • Between semesters, all library-owned print reserve items that have not been requested for extension will be taken off reserve and restored to general circulation in our stacks collection.

Copyright

Library staff accept course reserve materials in compliance with U.S. Copyright Law and the provisions of fair use.
Our course reserve service supports the teaching activities of Northeastern University. The Northeastern University Library exercises the right to determine conditions of use and to refuse materials for reserve for legal or other reasons.

Contact

Erin Beach
(617) 373-3397
[email protected]