Creating a New LibGuide and Accessing Edit Mode

THE BASICS

Navigate to the login page: https://Alverno.libapps.com/libapps/login.phpEnter your login information

This brings you to the LibApps DashboardAC only subscribes to LibGuides, so it’s the only SpringShare product you’ll seeClick the LibGuides link, not the public URL (libguides.alverno.edu), to go to your LibGuide Dashboard

How to Create a New Guide

From your LibGuides Dashboard, click the “Create Guide” option

You could start from scratch, but…try not toFor the sake of consistency across all our guides, all new guides should start with our templateSelect the “Copy content/layout from an existing guide” button

Click in the “Search for a guide” box and start typing “Template” – the Alverno Template will appear

The guide’s name, by default, will by “Copy of Alverno Template”Change it to whatever your new guide will be called – ebooks, Nursing, Citing Sources, etc.

Determine what type of guide it is – Course, Subject, Topic, etc.

Review everything and create your guide

For help adding/editing content, see the “Adding Content and Editing your LibGuide” tutorial

Accessing Edit Mode of a Preexisting Guide

From your LibGuides Dashboard, select the “Edit Existing Guide” drop down menu

Select the guide you wish to edit from the drop down menu

This will take you directly to the edit mode of the selected guide

For help adding/editing content, see the “Adding Content and Editing your LibGuide” tutorial

More questions?

Check back soon for more tutorials or contact me directly.

Thanks!