The Redirect Tool is a Canvas App that allows you to add an item to your course navigation menu (at left) including internal pages and websites. With this tool, add 'Library' to your course navigation along with Modules, Discussions and Assignments so that students can easily connect with library resources.

Use the Redirect Tool to link to

A general library services page
The Library's online catalog
A course reading list
Copyright-friendly resources
MLA or APA citation help

How to Create a Course Navigation Link using the Redirect Tool:

Click on “Settings” in the left navigation.
Click on the Apps tab.
- Choose to 'Filter by name', entering "Redirect Tool' in the search box
- As you type, the system will narrow your options. The Redirect Tool is represented by a blue curved arrow []. Click on it and then choose to 'Add App'.
A small window will open. Name your link. The link name should be whatever you want to show up in the navigation menu, e.g., Library, Library Catalog, Course Readings, Journal Articles, Citation Help). The URL Redirect is where you will paste the URL for the page to which you want to link.
If you want to link to a reading list that you have created, first create a reading list with Curriculum Builder in Canvas (see module on Creating Reading Lists with Curriculum Builder), and then insert the page URL for your reading list when you add your link in the left-navigation with the Redirect Tool. Check the box next to “Show in Course Navigation.”
Refresh the page and you will see the new link that you have added to the course navigation at left (see example below). You can always remove this link by going back to 'Settings' and to the 'Apps' tab. Click on the View App Configurations button. This will show the redirect tool app that you have installed, and you can delete those tools.

Example:

Example link added to left navigation