Online reading lists - info for staff

Guidance for teaching staff on creating and editing online lists for their modules

Updating/editing your list

This page describes

  • processes for updating an existing reading list
  • making changes and actions you can take for sections and individual bookmarks
  • moving bookmarks and sections
  • other actions: changing the title of the list; removing an old list from view; inviting colleagues to become co-editors for a list.
     

Updating a list from a previous year

First, make sure you’re editing the most recent version of the list
Log in to the reading lists system at https://sta.rl.talis.com/index.html
In most cases the academic year the list relates to is shown near the top of the page.
If you’re viewing a list from a previous year you’ll see an alert like this:

‘Rolling over’ digitised readings

Scanned readings are set to ‘expire’ at the end of each academic session (in late August) – this is a requirement of our copyright licence. Readings that you want to use again need to be attached to the new copy of your reading list. Contact us (readinglists@st-andrews.ac.uk) to arrange for this to be done – you don’t need to place new digitisation requests for them.
 

Editing bookmarks and sections

Clicking thebuttons on the right of the page gives you a number of options for both bookmarks and sections.



There are also several actions available via thebuttons for individual bookmarks:


 

Moving bookmarks and sections

Moving bookmarks

If you want to quickly rearrange the order of readings you can use the Move arrow Image of move arrow icon - description followsto click and drag bookmarks.

You can also use the cut and paste feature on the Edit menu to move bookmarks - described below.

Moving sections

► Video guide: How to move sections

If you need to move sections around you can do this in two ways.

1. Moving one place up or down
If (e.g.) you added a subsection below the section you'd intended it to go in:

2. Moving whole sections
If you want to reorder the sections on your list (e.g. Week 4 becomes the new Week 2): 

You can now drop the section into the new position on the list:


 

Other actions

The Edit button at the top right of the page gives some further options, including: