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Guide to Library Resources in Canvas: University Libraries in Canvas Commons

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OU Libraries Content in Canvas Commons

As an instructor, you can add OU Libraries Canvas pages to your Canvas course. These resources will connect your students with OU Libraries and its resources while they are working in your course.

​Types of OU Libraries pages that can be imported into courses

  • Ask Us research help page: students will be able to submit research questions via chat or email.
  • Librarian contact pages: students can schedule consultation appointments or email the librarian, who can help connect them to OU Libraries' resources.
  • Research Guide pages: students can access OU Libraries' resources to start their research.

Access Canvas Commons

  • Login to Canvas.
  • Click on the Canvas Commons icon in the left sidebar.
Canvas Commons icon in left menu.

Import OU Libraries Content to Canvas Course

  • On the Canvas Commons search page, type OU Libraries Online in the search box.
Canvas Commons search page with OU Libraries used as the search terms.


 

  • Scroll through the search results until you find the page you want to import into your course.
Canvas Commons results from the OU Libraries Online search.


 

  • When you’ve selected the OU Libraries page that you want added to your course, click on the Import/Download button.
Canvas Commons page information with the import/download button.


 

  • Select a specific course or select the all course option.
  • Click on the Import Into Course button.
Select the course you want to import the page too.


 

  • After you’ve clicked on the import button, a message should appear that says you’ve successfully started the import.
  • After the import is finished, the page will be located in Pages on the course navigation sidebar.
Successful import message.

Adding the OU Libraries Page to a Module

After the page has been successfully imported into your course, you can make the OU Libraries page accessible to your students by adding it to a module. 


 

  • You can either create a brand new module or add the page to an existing module.
Adding a new module or adding a new page to a already created module in a Canvas course.


 

  • Select Page from the Add dropdown menu.
  • Select the OU Libraries page you imported.
  • Click on the Add Item button. 
Selecting the page to add to a module in Canvas.


 

  • Once the page is added to a module, your students will be able to access it and get help from OU Libraries while they are working in your Canvas course.
Student view of the new OU Libraries page in the Canvas course.

Adding Page Widgets to Course Components

If you don't use Modules in your Canvas course, you can edit the libraries' page you imported into your course in order to add the widgets onto a page, an assignment, an announcement, or discussion post that you've already created in Canvas.


 

  • Navigate to Pages and open the OU Libraries page you imported to your course.
Canvas course navigation to Pages then OU Libraries page.


 

  • On the libraries page, click on the Edit button.
Editing the OU Libraries page in the Canvas course.


 

  • On the Edit screen, click on HTML Editor. 
Page editor in Canvas.


 

  • In the HTML Editor, select all of the text from the first <iframe> tag to the last </iframe> tag.
  • Copy the selected text, and then click on the Save button.
Copy the iframe html tag.


 

  • Open the component you the widgets added.
  • Edit the component, and then click on HTML Editor. 
Course component that iframe html tags will pasted to.


 

  • In the HTML Editor, paste the <iframe></iframe> text you copied.
  • Click on Save.
HTML editor pasting iframe tags.


 

  • Once the widgets have been added to the component, your students will be able to access it and help from OU Libraries while they are working in your Canvas course.
OU Libraries Online widgets added to course components that have already been created.

Support

For assistance with creating and adding e-reserves to Canvas, please contact OU Libraries Reserves Department.  

For assistance adding other library resources to your Canvas course, please contact the librarian for your academic department.  

For assistance adding the University Libraries page to your Canvas course or using Canvas Commons to import University Libraries resources, please contact Magen Bednar.