Te Kete Wānaka
Learning, Teaching and Library
Leganto
Leganto is a one-stop shop for all the journal articles, books, websites and other readings you want to provide your course.
Leganto is a user-friendly course reading list system. Access it through your Akoraka | Learn course page and follow our useful “How to” guides. Leganto allows you to easily manage your course reading copyrights, as well as link to library resources, include web resources, request short loans and more.
Introducing Leganto
- 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.
Introducing Leganto
- 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.
More about Leganto
Accessing Leganto
Start at your Akoraka | Learn course page and:
- Add an activity
- External tool
- Type in “Reading list” (or other name you want to give the link)
- Select Preconfigured Tool = Leganto, then Save
- Click on the link you created: it will take you to Leganto. Now pick a guide below to continue.
Creating a reading list
We have dedicated guides for creating a reading list depending on where you’re starting from:
Creating a list from scratch – for courses that have never used either Equella or Leganto
Creating a list based on Equella – for courses where you have previously had content in Equella and have never used Leganto before
Duplicating a list from another Leganto course list – for when you want to reuse content from a different course or from a different semester of the same course
Rolling over a Leganto list from previous years – handout and video (2min) – for reusing or updating your Leganto list from a previous year of the same course and same semester
Adding items to your reading list
These handouts and videos cover a range of basic Leganto functions.
Leganto Tips – an overview handout that covers linking from Akoraka | Learn, creating sections, adding items, and requesting copyright clearance
Adding an item to your Leganto reading list (1 min) – for when the library has full-text access
Adding an item when the library does not have full text access (3 min) – uploading a PDF and requesting copyright clearance
Adding web resources into your reading list
Other Leganto functions
Linking from Learn to a specific Leganto reading (2 min)
Short loans: Usually when you add a book or eBook to your list, Leganto will ask you whether you want it on short loan and we’ll handle it automatically. If you change your mind later, follow the instructions at Requesting short loan for books and e-books (2 min) to let us know.
My link is broken and gives the error message “Illegal institution”.
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.
Oh no! I created a reading list but when I follow the link, it’s asking me to create it again.
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.
I’m sharing course readings with my class in a printed course book (or other method). Do I still have to use Leganto?
Yes, readings in any format still need to be recorded in Leganto so we can meet our reporting requirements. The printer will also want a copyright coversheet – you can use this template. 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 introduction to Leganto workshops before each semester, and will be including rollover instructions in the Akoraka | Learn reset 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
