View Course Readings at a 100% view to see the accompanying text identifying each icon.
There are 8 ways to manage your readings or reading list.
Note: At minimum, we recommend that you refer to and follow up (if applicable) with reading list status, reading status and hide/unhide readings from students as they affect the visibility of the readings to students.
Each reading list has a status which can impact the availability of readings within it.
Notes:
Reading list status |
Explanation |
Action required from faculty (if any) |
Active |
Reading list itself is visible to students once it has been published. However, visibility and accessibility of the readings within it depend on each reading status and if the readings are hidden/unhidden. |
None |
Future |
Reading list and its readings are not yet visible to students (e.g. the start date of the reading list has not commenced yet). |
None
|
Past |
Reading list and its readings are no longer available to students (e.g. duration set for reading list has passed). |
None. |
Each reading has a status which may impact the availability of the reading.
Notes:
Reading status |
Explanation |
Action required from faculty (if any) |
Active |
Visible to students once: |
None |
Declaration required | Copyright declaration for this reading has not been done. |
Please ensure that the reading is copyright compliant and then select it for copyright declaration.
Example of Copyright declaration process
Zoom in of what is to be selected |
Expired |
No longer available to students (e.g. duration set for reading list has expired). |
None. |
Need review |
Needs your review. This may be due to circumstances such as missing data in the mandatory fields or readings that have multiple matches. |
Select
|
Pending |
Approved but not yet visible to students (e.g. the start date of the reading list has not commenced yet). |
None |
Processing |
Being processed by library staff. After processing, you may receive an email if further action is required. |
None |
Rejected |
This request has been rejected. |
Please mouse over the rejected status to find out why the reading request was rejected. An email is also sent to you with the reason for the rejection. If you have any queries, please send an email to clbfrm05@nus.edu.sg |
Removed |
Request was rejected while active. |
An email is sent to you with the reason for the removal. If you have any queries, please send an email to clbfrm05@nus.edu.sg |
Submitted |
Submitted to library staff for processing. If action needs to be taken, you will receive an email. |
None. |
Hiding an active reading means the reading will not be visible to students.
Unhiding an active reading means that the reading will be visible to students once the reading list has been published.
Readings with other statuses are not visible to students.
If you do need to change the reading importance of a reading on a reading list, please note that this can only be done for some readings (e.g. readings that have an Active, Pending or Needs Review status).
1. On the right of the reading within the reading list, select .
2. Choose the appropriate Reading Importance : Required are Compulsory Readings while Recommended are Supplementary/Additional Readings.
3. Click on Submit or Update.
Submit usually appears for readings with an Active or Pending status while Update usually appears for reading with a Needs Review status.
By default, all readings within each Course Reading list are first placed in a group known as Ungrouped readings.
You can create multiple groups and then move the readings into the group of your choice thereafter.
The readings can be moved into their intended groups either a single reading or multiple readings at a time.
Move single reading – Drag and drop
Move single reading – Use Move to
Move multiple readings from within the same group – Select then drag and drop.
Move multiple readings from same or different groups – Use Move to
The options you select in Course Settings will be applicable to all readings and reading lists within the same Course.
Individual reading
Reading statistics show the total number of accesses for each reading per student.
These counts are reset each time a reading is re-used.
Overall student usage of readings
The total active students and their accesses are captured across the readings.
Course Readings allows you to either delete 1 reading or the entire reading list and its readings.
Please be careful in deleting readings or lists as they cannot be restored in most cases.
Delete single reading
Delete entire list and its readings