1. Activating ARES
  2. Adding an Ares Course Reserve Item link in Modules 
  3. Adding an Ares Course Reserve Item link in a Text Area
  4. Adding the ARES Course Reserves Home Link in Modules 

Ares is Carleton’s library reserve management system that allows students (and instructors) to access reserved material through a single access point. Ares also supports copyright compliance. Instructors can submit a list of course reading materials to theLibrary Reserves (course.reserves@carleton.ca) and it will be available to students registered in their course through D2L Brightspace.

Activating ARES
This section contains step-by-step instructions on how to create a link to Ares in your course. 

  1. Log in to Brightspace with your MyCarletonOne  credentials.  
  2. On the Brightspace homepage, locate your course in one of the following ways:
      • Click on the course tile under the My Courses widget.
      • Click the Course Selector Grid  and select the course from the drop-down menu. If you are enrolled in more than 20 courses, you can search for the course name using the search bar.
  3. In the navbar, click Tools.         Screenshot of Brightspace navbar with Tools option highlighted by a red box
  4. In the drop-down menu, select ARES Reserves. This will bring you to a new page. 
  5. Click Choose a semester and select the semester in which you would like to add ARES.  
  6. Click Create Course. ARES will automatically open.
    NOTE: You can type the word ARES on the pop-up search box to locate it. Once you see the ARES Reserves link, click it.
  7. ARES is now visible to students registered in the course. Reserve materials will be ready once the library has posted them. 

Adding an Ares Course Reserve Item link in Modules 
It is also possible to add links to individual Ares reserve items within a module or several modules in a course. 

  1. Log in to Brightspace with your MyCarletonOne credentials.  
  2. On the Brightspace homepage, locate your course in one of the following ways:
      • Click on the course tile under the My Courses widget.
      • Click the Course Selector Grid  and select the course from the drop-down menu. If you are enrolled in more than 20 courses, you can search for the course name using the search bar.
  3. In the navbar, click Content.      Screenshot of Brightspace navbar with Content link highlighted by a red box
  4. Click on the module where you want to add the ARES Ares Course Reserve Item link. 
  5. Click the Existing Activities button.                                                                                    Screenshot of Ares Course Reserve Item option in the Existing Activities menu.
  6. From the options, click Ares Course Reserve Item. This will take you to an Add Activity pop-up window displaying your Ares Course Reserve Homepage.                                         Screenshot of the Add Activity window.
  7. Scroll down your Ares Course Reserve Homepage to find the item that you want to add and click the Select button and the link will appear in your module.
  8. Repeat this action in additional modules, as needed.  

Adding an Ares Course Reserve Item link in a Text Area
It is also possible to add links to individual Ares reserve items within any text area in the course using the Brightspace Editor. For example, you can add an Ares reserve item to a module description, assignment instructions, an announcement, or discussion post.

  1. Log in to Brightspace with your MyCarletonOne credentials.  
  2. On the Brightspace homepage, locate your course in one of the following ways:
      • Click on the course tile under the My Courses widget.
      • Click the Course Selector Grid  and select the course from the drop-down menu. If you are enrolled in more than 20 courses, you can search for the course name using the search bar.
  3. Access the Brightspace Editor in the content area or activity you wish to add the Ares reserve item to.
  4. Click the Insert Stuff button in the Editor toolbar 
  5. In the Insert Stuff pop-up window, select Ares Course Reserve Item. This will take you to an Add Activity pop-up window displaying your Ares Course Reserve Homepage.
    Screenshot of the Add Activity window.
  6. Scroll down your Ares Course Reserve Homepage to find the item that you want to add and click the Select button.
  7. You will be shown a preview of what the link will look like. Click Insert and the link will appear in your text area.
  8. Click Update to save the changes to the Brightspace Editor.
  9. Repeat this action in additional modules, as needed.  

Adding the ARES Course Reserves Home Link in Modules 
It is also possible to add additional links to the Ares Course Reserve Home Link within a module or several modules in a course. 

  1. Log in to Brightspace with your MyCarletonOne credentials.  
  2. On the Brightspace homepage, locate your course in one of the following ways:
      • Click on the course tile under the My Courses widget.
      • Click the Course Selector Grid  and select the course from the drop-down menu. If you are enrolled in more than 20 courses, you can search for the course name using the search bar.
  3. In the navbar, click Content.                              Screenshot of Brightspace navbar with Content link highlighted by a red box
  4. Click on the module where you want to add the ARES link. 
  5. Click the Existing Activities button. 
  6. From the options, click External Learning Tools. This will take you to an Add Activity pop-up window. 
  7. Select ARES Reserves and the link will appear in your module.
    NOTE:You can type the word ARES on the pop-up search box to locate it. Once you see the ARES Reserves link, click it.
  8. Repeat this action in additional modules, as needed.  

For more information on ARES, please follow the links below (they will take you to the MacOdrum Library):

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