iLearn's library favorites integration allows faculty to add items that have been favorited on the J Paul Leonard Library's website directly into an iLearn course as resources. The process has two parts to it: finding items on the library's website and favoriting them and adding them to iLearn.

Table of contents

• Searching for items
• Organizing favorites
• Adding a favorite as a resource
• Adding a favorite as a link in a text box

On the library's website

Searching for items

1. Navigate to https://library.sfsu.edu
2. Make sure you are signed in
   
   
3. Search for resources in the search box
   
4. Mark an item as a favorite by clicking on the pushpin icon next to the search result. You can also click on the pushpin icon on the item description page.
   
   

Organize your favorites

1. In the upper right corner of the library search page, click on the pushpin icon
   
2. Add labels to your favorites to organize them into groups. Labels show up as folders in iLearn.
   

 

Add favorites to iLearn

As a resource

1. With editing turned on, select Add an activity or resource on the course page
   
2. Select URL and then Add
   
3. Select Choose a link
   
   
4. In the File picker, select Library favorites
   
   
5. Individual favorited items appear as items in the file picker. If you have added labels to items, they appear as folders. Select the item you want to add
   
6. Give your link a Name. This will become the text of the link your students click on the course page
   
7. Select Save and return to course at the bottom of the page

Adding a link in a text box

1. In any text box in iLearn, type in the words you want linked and highlight them
2. Select the Link tool
   
3. Select Browse repositories
   
   
4. Select Library favorites in the file picker
5. Select the item you want to add
6. Your item will be linked
   

For additional assistance, contact Academic Technology: (415) 405-5555, at@sfsu.edu, LIB 80