Ares Course Reserves: Adding Items to Ares

You can add items directly to your Ares course. Adding items to Ares yourself gives you the ability to add tags, upload your own PDFs, or request the library to find or create PDFs of materials. 

Approval Period

Depending on the type of material you add to Ares, it will either be available to students right away or it may go through an approval process. The approval process allows the library to ensure all materials follow Canadian Copyright Law and JIBC Copyright Policies. 

Detailed instructions for adding reserve items are on this page. For all other actions, please review the PDF document below.

Follow the instructions below to add a reserve item to Ares.

Instructions also available in PDF in the Add, Edit, Clone, Remove Items in Ares document. 

1. Open Ares Course Readings from within the Blackboard course. Ares is usually available in the left-hand menu and labelled as 'Course Readings'. 
   
   
    
2. In the top menu of Ares, under Instructor Course Tools, select Add Reserve Items.
   
   
    
3. Select Item Type under the 'What would you like to place on Reserves?' options.
   
   
    
4. Complete the accompanying online form. 
   • Note: Enter author’s name as ‘last name, first name’
      
5. Some item forms ask, ‘How will this item be supplied?’
   • If you select ‘I will upload a file’, you will be prompted to upload the file after you click Submit.
      
6. Instructors may limit item availability by date range, if desired - (default availability is the course start and end dates).
    
7. Click Submit.
    
8. Submitted items are reviewed by the library for copyright compliance before becoming available in the Student View.