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Leganto
Leganto is a user-friendly course reading and copyright system.
Access it through your Akoraka | Learn course page.
New to Leganto? Read our "How to guides" below.
- upload readings: do a quick search and Leganto will auto populate citation details, managing your copyright behind the scenes
- link to an article/eBook the library subscribes to: Leganto ensures the link will work for students studying from home as well as on-campus
- link to web resources: Leganto’s browser bookmarklet makes this as easy as Pinterest
- request short loans: tick a box when you add it to Leganto instead of filling out a separate form
- engage with students: you and your class can collaboratively annotate uploaded readings.
How to guides - Leganto: the new version
This guide will help you create a new reading list for a new course - see our Creating a new reading list guide.
Concise instructions:
- Start on your course page in Akoraka | Learn.
- Turn on editing.
- Navigate to the desired section.
- Click on "Add an activity or resource" and then add an "External Tool".
- Select Preconfigured Tool = “Leganto Readings”
- Add a name (e.g. "Master Reading List")
- Then “Save and return to course”.
- Click on the new tool and you will be taken to Leganto to create your list.
More instructions can be found in our Creating a new reading list guide.
Concise instructions - using "Search":
- Start by clicking on your reading list in Akoraka | Learn, which will take you to Leganto.
- If asked, select the latest reading list.
- Click the "Add" button (top left of screen).
- Search for your item.
- Hover over your selected item and click the "+" icon.
- Click "Add".
- Always check the link.
If you are adding a book, e-book, or file, more instructions can be found in our Adding full text items to your Leganto reading list guide.
The guide will help you add web resources to your Leganto reading list - see our Adding web resources to your Leganto reading list guide.
Concise instructions:
Either add the web resources manually or using the "Add to Leganto" bookmarklet.
Manually
- In your Leganto reading list, click the "+" button.
- Use the "Manual entry" option to add an item.
- Choose Type, add a name and details.
"Add to Leganto" bookmarklet
- Add the "Add to Leganto" bookmarklet to your broswer's toolbar.
- Go to Akoraka|Learn, navigate to, and open your master reading list.
- Open another tab, and navigate to your web resource.
- Click the “Add to Leganto!” bookmarklet from your toolbar.
- Check the item details, particularly the type, are correct and complete enough for your students to use in a citation.
For a complete set of instructions, see our see our Adding web resources to your Leganto reading list guide.
This video will help you link Leganto resources to your course page - for more information, see our handout guide.
Concise instructions:
- Start on your Akoraka | Learn course page.
- Turn on editing and navigate to the appropriate section.
- Click "Add an activity or resource".
- Add the external tool "Leganto Readings".
- Click "Select content" and then "Select List".
- Select the appropriate section or resource.
- Click "Save and return to course".
For a complete set of instructions, see our see our Adding Leganto resources to your course guide.
Prior to rollover, your course list will show as "Draft" and "Locked: rollover to reuse".
This resource shows you how to rollover your reading list - see Rollover your reading list.
Concise rollover instructions:
- Click on the link to your reading list in Akoraka | Learn.
- Click on the latest reading list.
- Click on the "List menu" (the "..." icon).
- Click "Roll over list".
- If present, remove the previous year from the list name.
- Ensure the correct course code has been added.
- Click "Create list" and then "Publish".
For a complete set of instructions, see our Rollover for academics handout.
Students and lecturers can make suggestions to their course reading lists. Suggestions made are visible to the whole class.
After suggestions are made to a list, lecturers can view those suggestions and decide if they want to add those items to the reading list or remove them from the Suggestions list. Adding the suggestions to a list makes them more visible to students, and ‘endorses’ the suggestions. It also means that lecturers can add their own note for students, and it will rollover to future years the course runs.
For a complete set of instructions, see our suggestions feature for lecturers handout, and suggestions feature for students handout.
Troubleshooting and FAQs
It is recommended that you place the reading list in the “Welcome” section of your course page and then add links to specific readings, or reading list sections, in the relevant “Learning Content” topic.
This happens when the URL was copy-pasted – unfortunately when you do this, Leganto doesn’t know who’s clicking it or what they’re allowed access to. Reading list links must be created using the “External Tool” method, which passes authentication details through to Leganto.
Don’t worry, your reading list is still there. The links just get confused with cross-coded courses. Email LTL’s Digital Access team with your course code: we’ll fix the link for you and you’ll be good to go.
If you are making course readings available through other methods, such as Perusall, it is important that the resource is also uploaded into Leganto. If using a printed course book, the printer will also want a copyright coversheet – you can use this template.
So yes, readings in any format still need to be recorded in Leganto so we can meet our reporting requirements.
Note: if the excerpts are very short (eg a single figure or page) we may not need to report on them, but please discuss this with LTL to be sure all requirements of the Copyright Act 1994 section 44(3-4) have been met.
We normally advertise Copyright and Course Readings workshops that provide an introduction to Leganto before each semester, and Leganto is also covered in the Course pages - Reset, Gradebook, Panopto, Leganto and more workshops.
If you have more questions about:
- how to use Leganto in your course: email Teaching.Quality@lincoln.ac.nz
- copyright requirements: email EducationCopyright@lincoln.ac.nz
