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Managing your Library Reserves

Adding sections to a list

Sections are used to group items in your Reserves List together. When creating a Reserves List from scratch you may have selected to create it from a weekly template, this will automatically create sections for each week. However, you can still edit the existing sections or create new ones to suit the structure of the list.

Steps:

  1. Starting from your course in Canvas, open the Course navigation menu and select Library Reserves.
  2. Once the list loads, select the Add button then New section:
  4. Add a section title and description (optional)
  5. Start and end dates (optional) show the section to students during these dates. 
  6. Decide on where the section should be created, choosing a position from the Add section menu, e.g. add as the last section in the list.
  7. Click the Add button to close the window:
  8. The new section is created and items can be added to it:

More options for sections

From the section menu, there are more options for working with sections, including:

  • Edit section - rename the section title, description and add or change the start and dates.
  • Copy section - either copy the section within the current list or to another list.
  • Export section - choose a variety of options for exporting a section such as PDF, Word, Excel or a reference manager.
  • Delete section - remove the section from the list (can't be undone).