Click Reading Lists in the menu on the left.

Note: If you do not see Reading Lists in your menu, you will need to add it. To add the Reading List tool to a Canvas course:

• Click Settings - this displays the Canvas course site settings page
• Click the Navigation tab
• Go to Hidden Tools at the bottom of the screen and drag the Reading List tool to the Active Tools
• Go down to the bottom and click Save. This will add the Reading Lists tool to your course site

Library staff may have created a list for you if you already requested to place materials on reserve for the course. If so, the list will open, and you can make additions and edits if you wish.

If your course does not yet have a list, you’ll see two options:

• Create a new list from scratch
  • Continue below to create a new list from scratch
• Create list from an existing list
  • If you’d like to copy and update an existing list from a previous semester, which we recommend if you have one, see instructions for how to reuse a previous semester's list.
    • If you want to reuse a list, please do so from the beginning, rather than creating a new list from scratch and then going back to try to reuse a previous one
    • You must be the owner/creator of the previous course to use this feature

The next screen gives you options for organizing your list by creating sections.

The “Organize list by” menu offers two options, Default or Weeks.

Default creates one section called Resources.

Choose Weeks to create a separate section for each week of the semester. Enter the number of weeks in the “Default Number of Sections” field.

To learn more about Sections, visit How do I structure the list by weeks or topics?

You’re now ready to add library items to the reading list.