Course Reserves for Instructors

Students can participate in social annotations through the course reserves software.  

Social annotations are only possible on PDFs. If you intend to use social annotations, please add a note to the item on your reading list that you need a PDF so we know not to link an ebook or online journal article when processing your request.  

To add a note, hover over the item, click on “Full details,” click to the “library discussion” tab, type your message in the box at the bottom of the screen, and click “send.” You can also email us at preserve@temple.edu. 

All PDFs are subject to copyright limits – 20% of a title or two articles from the same issue of a journal, per course, per semester. 

To enable social annotations, open the PDF from course reserves and ensure that the “Public Annotations” toggle at the top right corner is switched on.  

To add public annotations, click over to the “Class discussion” tab under the item’s name.  

Highlight the text in the PDF that you’d like to annotate and click the “Comment” icon. A box will appear on the right side of the screen where you can write and publish a comment. You can also reply to others’ comments. 

Students can also take private notes on the document in the “My notes” tab. These notes are only visible to that student unless they click the three dots to the right of the comment and select “Set as public.”