Leganto Guide

• Navigate to your module from MyLearningSpace
• Go to the Reading List tile
• Click Reading List to open

Access to the list relies on you being ‘assigned’ to it. If your teaching responsibilities have changed, you're new, or it's a new module, you may not have the relevant permissions to edit the list. Additionally, if the module has been renamed or changed term, you might find that a list has not automatically been generated or rolled over from the previous year.

Contact us at: library@abertay.ac.uk to sort out access, or we can copy lists from previous years, if required.

Once Leganto is open, ‘Lists’ in the left hand menu links you to all your lists, including previous year’s lists for reference. 

Whether you're working on a new list, or editing an existing one, you can organise your list into sections as required, eg essential/recommended, weekly readings, by topics, by teaching staff, or a mixture of these.

To add a section:

• Go to +Add
• New Section
• Name your section, eg Week 1

Sections can easily be reordered by using the ‘Drag’ icon (6-dot grid), visible when the section is closed.

To delete a section:

• Go to the section menu (3dots/ellipsis)
• Choose Delete section

Once a section has been created, you can now populate it. The  easiest way to add items to your list is from within Leganto, via LibrarySearch. To do this:

• Click +Add
• Choose Search the Library
• From ‘All Collections’, search by title, author, or keywords 
• Use the Filter to narrow your results as required
• For books, ‘Physical’ and ‘Electronic’ availability is shown
• Hover over the item you want to add
• Use the green + (plus) icon to select the section you wish to add it to
• Or use the ‘Drag’ icon to drag an item directly into your list. (The ‘Drag’ icon is visible as 6 dots to the left of an item as you hover over it)

If you wish to move items around within a section, look for the 6-dot Drag icon, visible when you hover over an item.

PRO TIP: If you use the same item more than once in your list, or across lists, you can Copy item:

• From the item menu/ellipsis,
• choose Copy item
• Select the list and section you wish to copy to
• Copy

It’s essential to ‘tag’ items. Not only is it good practice, but it’s beneficial to students. Tagging items according to importance, eg Essential or Recommended helps students to prioritise their reading. It also helps Library Services ensure best possible access to the item is available.

To add a tag(s):

• Click on the item to expand it
• Click within Add tags to choose from the selection available.
• More that one tag can be added , eg Essential, Tutorial

You can add notes to items; maybe to alert students to specific chapters? Or to highlight key points from the reading:

• Click on the title
• Scroll to Note for students
• Add comment eg “Read chapters 2-4”

Notes are saved automatically.

Cite it! is a bookmarking tool that allows you add external web content such as websites, videos, book suggestions, articles etc. to your reading list in Leganto.

It's available as a bookmarklet that can be saved to your bookmarks toolbar, and has more recently been made available as a browser extension.

Use Cite it! to add content to your lists that isn't available via LibrarySearch.  You can currently add the browser extension to Google Chrome, Edge, or Firefox.  If you are using Safari, or an alternative browser, then you can use the Cite it! Bookmarklet.

Full instructions for both the Browser Extension and the Bookmarklet can be found from the Leganto Cite it! bookmarking tool guide.

Installing Cite it!:

• In Leganto, go to Settings in top right corner
• Click on Cite it!
• Choose which to install
• You need to ensure your browsers bookmark toolbar is visible
• It is suggested that you pin the Cite It extension as a favourite for ease of use

Cite it! works from a list of supported websites. If you find you can't bookmark successfully from the site you need, try the browser extension instead.

To install the Browser Extension (in Chrome):

• Click the Browser extension option
• Click Copy institutional info
• From the Chrome Web Store, Add to Chrome
• Add extension
• From your Chrome Extensions list, you'll now see Leganto Cite it! listed
• To the right of the extension listing, select the More options menu, select Options
• Paste the institutional info already copied

Watch this short video: Leganto Cite it! - Browser Extension for Chrome.

To install the Bookmarklet:

• Click the Bookmarklet option
• Drag and drop the ‘CITE IT’ link to your bookmarks toolbar

Now that Cite it! is installed:

• Navigate to the webpage you would like to add
• Click Cite it! (either from your bookmarks toolbar, or your browser extension)
• If you're not already logged into Leganto, you'll be prompted to do so
• Edit the details if required, checking Type is set to the most appropriate category
• Choose which list and section.
• Add

Your list should update automatically. Otherwise, refresh  your list (ctrl-r) to see additions.

As well as adding books and articles, you can also link to websites inc. YouTube clips using a Leganto tool called Cite It! 

Installing CiteIt!:

• Go to Settings in top right corner
• Click on Cite It!
• Drag and drop the ‘CITE IT’ link to your bookmarks toolbar

This just needs to be done the once. Now that it’s in your toolbar:

• Navigate to the webpage you would like to add
• Click the Cite it!
• Edit the details if required, checking Type is set to the most appropriate category.
• Choose which list and section.
• Add

Refresh  your list (ctrl-r) to see additions.

A short video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u_kUxswFDc

If you would like to add a new book title to your list that we don't currently stock in the Library, contact library@abertay.ac.uk or your Academic Librarian for information on its availability.

Remember, if requesting titles that are only available in print, please allow sufficient time for them to arrive in the Library before your students need them. If books are available as ebooks, they're often available within a few days. 

We'll do our best to make as much available online as possible. If a book is not available online, we may be able to digitise a particular chapter you wish the students to read, within license permissions. 

If you would like a chapter digitised, email library@abertay.ac.uk with the book and chapter details inc. chapter title, chapter author, and page numbers. 

Remember, within copyright, we can only digitise one chapter or up to 10% of a title. If you would like your students to read more than one chapter, add a note for students, e.g. “Read Chapters 2–4.”

For more on why you should avoid uploading scanned PDFs yourself — and what to do instead — see our Uploading PDFs to the VLE guidance.

Yes. Go to:

• List menu (3-dots/ellipsis in top horizontal menu)
• View list as student

The student view is very similar to that of your own; just with the removal of list owner functionalities.

Yes. Hiding individual items is very straightforward:

• Click on the item you wish to hide
• Tick ‘Hide from students’
• Changes are saved automatically

When you close the item, you’ll see that the item icon has been greyed out. If you wanted to double check, View list as student. 

Hiding sections works in a different way:

• Go to Section menu
• Edit Section
• Choose a start and end date
• Select ‘display section during these dates only’

The section will now only be visible to students during the dates selected.