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Course Resources: Information for Instructors

The library can put your the course reading materials on virtual course reserves that can be integrated into your online class.

How to submit your resource list

Your best option for creating and submitting course resources is to email your syllabi or resource list to libreserves@wlu.ca.

However, you can create your course in Ares and submit the items yourself. Staff will review your submissions for copyright, accessibility, and availability before materials are made available to students. Staff will source all materials and nothing needs to be provided. Follow the steps under Using Ares for creating and submitting your requests. 

Please note: If you indicate the weeks when the readings are scheduled, it will help the Library make required readings available for students at the beginning of classes

Submission dates

To ensure your requests are available by the start of classes they should be submitted by:

  • Fall term: July 15
  • Winter term: November 15
  • Spring/Summer term: March 15

Even those submitted after the deadline will be processed as expediently as possible on a first-come basis. We aim to complete the first six weeks of course resources of each list submitted to equitability accommodate the large amount of requests. 

What can/can't I put on reserve?

Using Ares

Creating a course and submitting items

1. Log into Ares using your Laurier Network Login credentials

Ares login screen

2. Find the Class and Add Items: Your classes for the current term are listed in the middle of the screen. You can also find past classes by clicking on Previous Classes in the left menu, and classes scheduled for future terms (if you have submitted reserve requests for them already) by clicking on Upcoming Classes in the left menu.

"Ares sub-menu containing the previous and upcoming classes links available to instructors

To add items to a class, click on the class title to see details for that class. Then, click on Add Reserve Items.

Choose the format of the item you want to put on reserve: book, article, web site, audio, file, etc.

Item types available at the add reserves item form

Fill out the form with information about the item you want to put on reserve, and submit. Repeat as needed. Your items will be processed and added to your class.

3. Reuse reserves from past classes. If you have several readings from a previous class you want to reuse in a new one, save time by cloning the previous class. To do this, click on the title of your previous class. In the left menu, click on Clone Class.

Ares sub-menu containing the clone class link available to instructors

Fill out the form with information about your new class, and select the reserve items you want. Your new class will be created with the readings you selected.

4. No existing classes? If you have no current, previous or upcoming classes you can create a class. In the left menu, click on Add Reserve Items to a New Course.

Ares sub-menu containing add reserve items to a new course link available to instructors

Click on the type of item you want to put on reserve: book, article, etc.

Item types available at the add reserves item form

Fill out the form with information about the item and submit. Repeat as needed. Your new class will be created and your item(s) processed for that class.

Viewing items and usage

To find out how many times an item has been opened.

  • How instructors view items. 

  • To view items the way students will see them, use Student Mode. In the left menu, click on Switch to Student Mode, then Main Menu, and click on the desired class.

Ares sub-menu containing switch to student mode link available to instructors 

  • How to find usage. This will not tell you anything other than how many times an item has been opened. Click on the title of a class. In the left menu, click on Reserve Item Usage.

"Ares sub-menu containing reserve item usage link available to instructors

Problems?

Fill in this form if you are having access issues

If you don't have a Laurier Network Login account, you will need to contact ICT to get one.

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