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Reading Lists Online (RLO) is a reading list application that provides students with quick and easy access to books, e-books, journal articles and websites recommended for the modules they have registered for.

Library Services recommends that all academic staff use Reading Lists Online to create their reading lists. It gives students one consistent place to access their readings, and it enhances the students' learning experience. 

What are the benefits?

The Reading Lists Online software enables academic staff to:

• Organise the list to suit the module structure. Quickly rearrange the order of the topics and resources listed. 
• Incorporate different types of material, including print and online resources, websites, streaming videos. 
• Add and remove items from your list of resources at any time.
• Add notes to individual items to provide guidance for your students.
• Integrate the reading list into Moodle.
• Notify the Library about items we should purchase or digitise for your module.
• Collaborate with other staff editing and populating the reading list. 

Before you can add Reading List to your module, you will need to create one a reading list on Reading Lists Online. To do this:

• Contact your subject librarian who will support you in creating your first reading list. You can email them at readinglists@city.ac.uk.
  • For more information on reading lists please see the Library's Reading Lists Online guidance.
• Once you have created your list in collaboration with your subject librarian, they will also help ensure that your reading list is available to your students via the Moodle module.

The module Reading List is automatically added to modules using City Course Format. This is available in the Quick links panel of the Module dashboard.

You can also provide links to relevant readings in relevant sections or weeks using the Weekly reading activity. This provides students with quick and easy access to the books, articles and websites they need to read, analyse and refer at the right time. The Weekly reading activity displays in the Activities panel of the Module dashboard.

From 16th July 2024, the module Reading List will be automatically added to modules using the Grid format. This will display in the Module dashboard block in the block drawer.

Reading lists added as sections will display as Weekly reading in the dashboard.