To create a new LibGuide, navigate to the LibApps login page and enter your credentials. This will take you to the LibGuides dashboard where you can click "Create Guide" to start a new guide. For consistency, all new guides should be started from the Alverno template by copying its content and layout. You can then edit the guide name and type before adding and editing content. Existing guides can be accessed in edit mode by selecting the guide from the "Edit Existing Guide" dropdown menu.

1. Creating a New LibGuide and
Accessing Edit Mode
THE BASICS

2. Navigate to the login page: https://Alverno.libapps.com/libapps/login.php
Enter your login information

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

4. How to Create a New Guide
From your LibGuides Dashboard, click the “Create Guide” option

5. You could start from scratch, but…try not to
For the sake of consistency across all our guides, all new guides should start with our template
Select the “Copy content/layout from an existing guide” button

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

7. 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.

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

9. Review everything and create your guide
For help adding/editing content, see the “Adding Content and Editing your LibGuide” tutorial

10. Accessing Edit Mode of a Preexisting Guide
From your LibGuides Dashboard, select the “Edit Existing Guide” drop down menu

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

12. 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

13. More questions?
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