Category: K-12 Schools
Back-To-School Picks for Your Students from OverDrive Librarians (October 2024)
Get ready to elevate your digital collection this back-to-school season with recommendations from OverDrive’s expert staff librarians! In this webinar, we’ll guide you through the must-have books landing on your digital shelves for the upcoming season.
What You’ll Learn:
- Top Picks for Every Age Group: Discover the best titles for K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12 students.
- Diverse Genres and Interests: Explore a range of genres designed to captivate and engage all readers.
- Exclusive Shopping Link: Shop all the featured titles and enhance your digital library.
Level Up Your Sora Promotion (September 2024)
Join us for a 30-minute webinar aimed at helping you increase Sora’s visibility and usage in your school. In this session, our K-12 experts will provide practical strategies and tips for promoting Sora effectively. You’ll also get access to ready-to-use resources and hear success stories from educators who have successfully engaged their communities with Sora. Don’t miss this chance to enhance your digital library promotion and make the most of Sora in your school!
Enhance Student Reading in Sora with Public Library CONNECT (August 2024)
Get ready to launch into the new school year with Sora!
Join us for an enlightening session on Public Library CONNECT — a feature crafted to enhance student reading and elevate the circulation of juvenile and young adult materials. Explore how this tool simplifies access to age-appropriate ebooks and audiobooks from both school and local public libraries. Our experts will deliver an overview of Public Library CONNECT, highlight its benefits, and demonstrate its ease of use. Don’t miss out on transforming your reading initiatives!
Customize curation for Advantage accounts
Lending models chart
Sora Bursts Series – Week 6
You did it! In this final video, we’ll review what we’ve covered so far and walk you through next steps for success.
Click Download PDF, below, to download a checklist of Sora Burst activities to keep at your desk for easy reference.
Sora Bursts Series – Week 5
In this week’s video, we chat about ways to build your Sora “roadmap” with four simple overarching concepts.
Click Download PDF, below, to download the accompanying worksheet that helps with plotting your journey to Sora success.
Sora Bursts Series – Week 4
In this week’s video, we offer 10 tips for “leveling up” your digital librarian skills.
Click Download PDF, below, to get a one-sheeter with all 10 tips listed out for easy reference!
Sora Bursts Series – Week 3
This week’s video covers ways to make your Sora data “actionable” for goal setting, getting more students reading, and reporting out on ways Sora is having a positive impact on your school community.
Click Download PDF, below, to get this week’s worksheet about taking your reading metrics to the next level.
Sora Bursts Series – Week 2
Discover ways to turbo-charge your circulation with this week’s video.
Click Download PDF, below, to get a copy of our worksheet to help brainstorm ways to get more students reading in Sora.
Sora Bursts Series – Week 1
Get inspired with this week’s video all about our most requested topic: elevator pitches to hook teachers with Sora and digital reading!
Click Download PDF, below, to get a copy of our Sora “elevator pitch” template!
Manage and maintain User Login Manager
Digital holds overview
Manage Content Access Levels
Manage content access levels in OverDrive Marketplace:
- When and how to manage content access levels – 0:13-0:55
- Automatically assign access levels at purchase – 0:56-3:16
- Manually assign access levels at purchase – 3:17-5:32
- Edit access levels for existing titles – 5:33-8:26
- Content access levels & Advantage – 8:27-9:30
Content Access Levels overview
Read to Me
Edit and rearrange collections
Learn to edit and change the order of collections for the Sora app.
Learn From the Experts: Getting Students Reading Through Social Media (March 2024)
Are you a K-12 educator who is passionate about promoting reading to your students through social media? If so, this session is for you!
Join us virtually to gain valuable insights into the journeys of K-12 social media influencers, their content creation process, and tips for using social media to get students reading. Joining us will be K-12 librarians and influencers:
- Amanda Hunt (@thenextgenlibrarian),
- KC Boyd (@boss_librarian) and
- Melanie Wood (@melanie_in_the_library).
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to enhance your approach to promoting literacy in the digital age!
Refine and understand search results
User Login Manager
Create and review Metered Access Manager plans
Learn how to create and review Metered Access Manager plans.
Metered Access Manager overview
Get browser notifications
Learn how to receive browser notifications for Sora
Quick tips to connect your whole classroom with digital magazines (November 2023)
How can digital magazines change your approach to lesson planning? What kinds of magazines can you even get digitally? (Spoiler alert: A lot!) And just how many students can read them at one time?
For answers to all these pressing questions and more, don’t miss this presentation from the Sora app’s digital reading experts. You’ll get a peek at all the different possibilities with periodicals, including:
- Key benefits that make the magazines package a must-have for your school.
- New and always-available titles that can keep your students reading over breaks.
- Classroom ideas to help you cut back on paper (and save you from paper cuts!)
- Success stories from educators like you who are making the most of their digital magazines.
Add shelf talkers
Learn how to bring more voices and expertise into Sora.