New study period

Why can’t I use my old reading list in the new study period?

To ensure copyright compliance, readings are only made available to students for the duration of the defined study period. For more information about student access outside the study period, see the FAQ below, "Can students access readings outside of the dates of the reading list?"

Create a new list or roll over an existing list

To create a reading list for a new study period, you can either re-use an existing reading list or create a new list from scratch. If re-using an existing list, the list could be a past or current list from any course.

If no reading list has been set up for your course previously, you'll see the following welcome message:

You can create a reading list by following the steps below.

Choose New list from the Reading Lists menu button.
Choose a Predefined duration, select your study period from the dropdown list, and click on Next. Ensure that the duration will cover the duration of the course offering.
If you'd like to re-use an existing list, go to step 4.

If you'd like to start with a blank list, choose the Skip button then go to step 5.
To re-use an existing list, enter the course code or course name in the Unit field, then select the desired course from the results. Next, select the reading list you'd like to re-use from the Reading list drop-down menu.

You can re-use a list from any course.

The reading list you select will be displayed. Select All to re-use every reading on the list, or select individual readings to re-use by ticking the relevant checkboxes to the left of the readings.

When you're ready, select Next to continue. You'll see a preview of the readings you marked for reuse.
To confirm your new list, select Create.

Publish to course site

You control which reading list is visible to students by Publishing or Withdrawing a list to/from a course site. For students to be able to access readings, the list needs to be both active (i.e. with a current duration) and published.

When you have a list ready, first confirm that you are viewing the list you want to publish to the course site, by checking the name of the list on the left-hand side of the screen:

This should have the relevant study period and year displayed for predefined duration lists, or the custom list name if you created a custom list. The lozenge should also read active or future. Hover over the active/future lozenge to see the dates this reading list will be available to students once published.

If the list name and duration isn't correct, go to the lists drop-down menu and select the list you want to publish.

Once the correct list is displayed on your screen, select Publish from the top menu bar to publish the list to the course site:

A confirmation message as shown below will pop up; select Yes if you wish to proceed.

To check whether a list is published, look for the bookmark icon next to the list name on the top menu bar:

To remove a published list from student view, choose Withdraw from the top menu bar:

When the confirmation message pops up, select Yes if you wish to continue:

FAQs

Can I rename a reading list when using a predefined duration?

No. However, you can instead create a new custom list based on the existing list, giving the new custom list the desired name.

Can students access readings outside of the dates of the reading list?

To ensure copyright compliance, students can access readings via their course reading lists only while they're enrolled in each particular course.

However, they will have access to their reading lists once they've been made available by teaching staff, and for as long as they continue to have access to their course sites following course completion.

Therefore, they'll easily be able to access any link-based readings:

either by copying the links presented in the citations; or
by using the other citation information to search the Library Collection or Google Scholar from the Library website.

Please advise your students to contact Ask the Library for assistance in locating readings.

I am unable to publish my reading list to the course offering: It's already published to the course offering for an earlier study period.

This happens when you create a reading list for a course offering (e.g. for SP5) while an earlier course offering (e.g. SP2) for the same course is still active, and then inadvertently publish the new list to the active course offering.

In the example given in the previous paragraph, the list will be available to your SP5 students while there's a short period of overlap between the reading list durations for the two study periods; but when the SP2 list expires, so does access to its readings.

To resolve this, simply Withdraw the published list from the old course offering, then Publish it to the current course offering.

To avoid such circumstances arising in the future, please ensure you publish your reading lists to the correct course offering.

My course doesn't follow the standard UniSA academic calendar. Should I still choose a predefined study period?

Yes. All official UniSA study periods are configured in eReserve, include those for Open Universities Australia (OUA) and the Offshore academic calendar.

UniSA Online (UO) should use the predefined study periods for SP1, SP3, SP4 and SP6, which correspond to Terms 1–4. These study periods' end dates are extended to cover the UO secondary assessment period.

For courses with unusual teaching periods (e.g. short course programs), please contact Ask the Library to discuss creating a custom list.

When I roll over a reading list, will my notes to students be included?

Yes.

When setting up a reading list prior to the commencement of a course, is it necessary to publish the list before I can embed readings within the course site?

No. The Resources > eReadings link to eReserve will be present as soon as a course site is created, even if no reading lists have been created. By following that link to the eReserve page for that course code, you can manage your reading lists, add readings, and (returning to your course site) embed those readings on course pages. When you're ready for your students to be able to access the reading list, that's when you need to publish the reading list.

Publishing associates a reading list with a specific course site. Until a reading list has been published, your students won't be able to access it, even if the course site is live and the reading list has already passed its start date.

If the course site has been made available to your students and the reading list has been published, but the start date for the reading list is still in the future, the reading list will be accessible by students, but the link and download buttons won't be present.

Will embedded readings roll over to the new study period automatically? Will readings which are not yet available still display on my course site?

When you roll over your course site, any embedded readings will be included in that process. However, they will only display as citations (i.e. without access links) until the readings have been activated for the new study period. To activate these readings, simply roll over your new reading list for the new study period.

Why is my reading list not showing as having been created in the teaching dashboard?

There are several reasons why a reading may not be showing as created in the teaching dashboard:

Have you created/rolled over a reading list for the new/current study period? If not, please do so using the instructions on this page.
Have you published your reading list to the course offering? If not, please do so.
If you used a predefined duration for your reading list, does it match the relevant study period for your course? If not, this will affect learnonline's ability to acknowledge completion of this task.
How long ago did you publish your reading list? Sometimes it can take a little while for a reading list's status to update on the teaching dashboard. If you've only published the reading list in the last hour, please check back in a little while.

Can I embed my reading list on a course page?

Yes.

To embed your reading list:

In edit mode in learnOnline, at the location where you want to display the reading list, select Add an activity or resource; this will open a pop-up with a variety of activity/resource options.
Select External tool.
Enter an Activity name, and select the eReserve Plus Preconfigured tool.
Select Save and return to course.

To view the embedded reading list, select the newly-created Activity.

If you've already published your reading list, it will be displayed by default.
If you haven't yet published your reading list, a Welcome to eReserve Plus page will be displayed; from the Reading Lists drop-down menu, select the list associated with the course offering. (Note that your students won't be able to see the embedded list until you publish it.)