When you first sign up for Book Creator, we automatically create a library for you called 'My library'. This is where you can start to create books, invite students or other users into your library, and manage your settings.
It's important to understand that these settings are specifically for controlling what your students can see and do. As a teacher, you have full access to all of these settings, unless your Admin has disabled something entirely in the Admin Dashboard for all users.
💬 Note: You'll only be able to change the settings for libraries you created yourself, or have been made a co-teacher of.
Access library settings
There are two ways to access your library settings:
From the Libraries Dashboard: Click the 3-dot menu on any library and select Settings then the Library Settings menu will appear.
Inside a Library: Click the Settings cog in the upper right of the toolbar and the Library Settings menu will appear.
Since these settings are specific to each individual library, you will need to adjust them for every library you create if you want to change them from the default settings.
💡 Top tip! Clicking the X to close will automatically save your changes.
Student library options
Here are your options for customizing each library, including their default settings:
Rename the library: A library cannot be created unless it has a name. To edit the name, just type over it.
Search for images: Yes (with dropdown options for Limited or No)
Edit their own books: On (toggle on/off)
Create multiple books: Yes (unlimited) (with dropdown options for Only 1, Up to 2, Up to 3, Up to 4, or Up to 5)
Read each other's books: On (toggle on/off)
Turn on collaboration: Off (toggle on/off)
Publish their books online: Off (toggle on/off)
Add comments: On (toggle on/off)
Use spell check: On (toggle on/off)
Translate: Off (toggle on/off) (with checkbox options for Select all, Entire book, Text, Audio, and Video)
Move their books to My Portfolio: Off (toggle on/off) (Domain customers only)
Speech to Text / Text to Speech: On (toggle on/off) (with checkbox options for Select all, Speech to Text and Text to speech)
Automatic image descriptions: On (toggle on/off)
Archive this library: link (available in library settings for a previously created library. This will make the library inaccessible to anyone else but you.)
Publish library online: button (opens the publishing modal to go through the steps to share a read-only version of the library online with a link or QR code.)
Managing users in a library
You can see all the users in a library by toggling to the users view at the top of the screen when you click inside a library. You can see the latest books a user has made and click on a book's cover to edit it. You can also click on the row for a user to see all the books they have made.
If you are the library owner, you can remove users from your library by clicking Actions > Remove user.
If the user is a teacher, you'll also have the option to promote them to co-teacher.
Additional resources
✨ Use this one-pager to share Library Settings with others!
👉 Check out this video on Library Settings:
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Q: Why can't I enable any Apps?
A: Your Admin has the ability to block all Apps in the Admin Dashboard from appearing for teachers. Please contact your Book Creator Admin if you do not have access to certain Apps or the App store.
Q: What does the Admin have the ability to control?
A: Your Admin has the ability to control the type of image search that is used by teachers and students, Apps that are available, Commenting functionality for teachers and students, and the use of image descriptions that uses AI for alt-text.
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