A List Management System to Enhance Course Lists for Student Success
Leganto list management system is an integrated solution that creates, maintains, and shares interactive course resource lists, optimizing the use of library collections, reducing the administrative burden on faculty, and making higher education a lot more affordable.
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Making course resource lists a two-way street
Leganto’s structured course resource lists are interactive and provide easy access to all materials in an environment familiar to both students and faculty.
- Instructors can engage students by enriching resource lists with tags, notes and due dates
- Students can share feedback and suggest additional content for any resource list
- Barriers such as broken links and paywalls are eliminated
Quality course materials are a click away
With Leganto list management system, incorporating high-quality low- or no-cost materials in course resource lists is easy, fast and secure, providing flexibility in course content and helping keep costs down.
- Multiple open access and OER collections (e.g., Open SUNY, OpenStax, Open Textbook
Library) are fully discoverable - Searches are easily filtered for OER and open access resources
- Leganto automatically suggests relevant OER material
Engage students and staff - wherever they are
An intuitive, cloud-based user interface, available on any device, is seamlessly integrated into the learning management system with key features, customization options, and task management tools
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- A rich set of APIs enable remote interaction with institutional and third-party systems,
mobile apps, citation tools, and more - Librarians manage course materials and administer Leganto with integrated Alma workflows
- Easily scaled up to support as many courses as needed
Schools and students save money with Leganto
Leganto list management system maximizes the value and use of a wide array of library collections and collaborations, reducing the cost of course materials and increasing student affordability.
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- Librarians can promote selected resources
- Leganto automatically embeds direct links to free library-owned items
- Leganto drives the use of pay-per-use models and open educational resources
- Students can easily access valuable librarian expertise and services
Actionable insights to improve course materials
Powerful analytics and a smooth interface reveal true student engagement with course resources, giving instructors, librarians and administrators insight to define workflows - what is working, what is missing, and what is needed.
- Leganto monitors in real time how course resources are used
- Analytics indicate which resources are being used as expected and which are not
- Custom reports show the library’s institutional value, budgetary needs and constraints
Reducing the administrative burden
Leganto is a one-stop shop, with automated management and advanced features provisioning workflows that increase productivity, save time and enhance the library’s role.
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- Faculty can easily add resources directly from any source, edit the list, and roll it over to the
following term - Automated Alma-based workflows make it easy to scale up for additional courses
- Integrated copyright clearance with automated licensing ensures compliance
Leganto
Making course resource lists a two-way street
- Instructors can engage students by enriching resource lists with tags, notes and due dates
- Students can share feedback and suggest additional content for any resource list
- Barriers such as broken links and paywalls are eliminated
Quality course materials are a click away
- Multiple open access and OER collections (e.g., Open SUNY, OpenStax, Open Textbook
Library) are fully discoverable - Searches are easily filtered for OER and open access resources
- Leganto automatically suggests relevant OER material
Engage students and staff - wherever they are
- A rich set of APIs enable remote interaction with institutional and third-party systems,
mobile apps, citation tools, and more - Librarians manage course materials and administer Leganto with integrated Alma workflows
- Easily scaled up to support as many courses as needed
Schools and students save money with Leganto
- Librarians can promote selected resources
- Leganto automatically embeds direct links to free library-owned items
- Leganto drives the use of pay-per-use models and open educational resources
- Students can easily access valuable librarian expertise and services
Actionable insights to improve course materials
- Leganto monitors in real time how course resources are used
- Analytics indicate which resources are being used as expected and which are not
- Custom reports show the library’s institutional value, budgetary needs and constraints
Reducing the administrative burden
- Faculty can easily add resources directly from any source, edit the list, and roll it over to the
following term - Automated Alma-based workflows make it easy to scale up for additional courses
- Integrated copyright clearance with automated licensing ensures compliance
"Having an open solution is important because it allows us to connect all of our systems to other systems across campus."
Eduardo Prieto
University of Miami
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List management refers to the process of managing reading lists or course reserves within academic libraries. Leganto is a system developed by Ex Libris, specifically designed for this purpose. Its functions include list creation, list organization, and collaboration, integration with library systems, accessibility and compliance, and analytics and data usage.
A list management system like Leganto, which is also an overall course resource management system, streamlines the process of providing access to relevant resources for academic courses, enhances collaboration, and ensures compliance with copyright and accessibility requirements.
Leganto drives teaching excellence and student success. Instructors save time and effort, and help their students succeed in their courses by easily assembling course resources of all types into a structured, annotated resource list management system that is embedded in the LMS. Faculty can then monitor student engagement, project tasks, and decide to reuse and modify the list term over term.
Instructors can engage students from within the course resource list and students access course materials through the LMS in a consistent way across all their courses. Leganto list management system also provides library-generated links to on-campus assets and online resources, eliminating paywalls and broken links, and providing clear availability information about physical materials. This lowers costs and increases student affordability.
Leganto promotes the library as a teaching and learning partner. It enables the library to work collaboratively with teaching staff to assemble and organize quality course materials at low- or no-cost for students. Using Leganto as a course resource management system, the library is automatically informed about teaching needs, has streamlined workflows for addressing these needs, and can measure and report the library contribution to teaching and learning.
Yes. First of all, as a solution on the Ex Libris Higher Ed Platform, Leganto is tightly integrated with Alma, Primo and Rialto. Secondly, like all Ex Libris products, Leganto list management system offers a rich set of APIs for seamless integration with institutional and third-party systems. Leganto meets faculty and students where they are, by embedding relevant library resources and services directly into the learning management system.
Leganto was initially developed with several customer partners and the Ex Libris team continues to work closely with customers as the product evolves. Collaboration takes place through established channels such as the PWG, NERS and Idea Exchange, as well as through focus group and ad hoc discussions. Input from the community is a key driver of Leganto development.
Leganto lives on the Ex Libris Higher Ed Platform, where it enjoys all the data security and privacy measures of the Alma environment. For example, unique content is protected by the Amazon S3 cloud storage service, file integrity is continually verified, and any checksum discrepancies are automatically corrected. These safeguards are integral to Alma’s library management system, relieving the library of all set-up and maintenance worries.
Absolutely not! Leganto includes an easy-to-use, intuitive end-user interface for instructors and students, which is seamlessly embedded in their institution’s learning management system. Librarians manage course materials easily through the course resource management system, and administer Leganto through Alma, the system that they use every day.
Certainly. Leganto allows faculty to easily incorporate OER into their course resource lists. The Ex Libris Central Discovery Index includes multiple open access and OER collections – such as Open SUNY, OpenStax, and Open Textbook Library – which are fully discoverable in Leganto. Leganto automatically scans these OER collections and suggests relevant resources for instructors to include in their course resource lists.
Leganto as a course resource management system helps save money on course materials by offering streamlined access to resources available within the library’s collection or freely available as open access resources.