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What is the Book Creator App Store?

Enhance your creativity in Book Creator with built-in educational apps!

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Written by Dan Kemp
Updated over a week ago

The App Store lets teachers unlock even more tools (for themselves or their students) to create engaging, multimedia-rich books. You can access and enable third-party apps directly from within Book Creator, which makes it easy to integrate your favorite tools!

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What apps are available?

Some apps are free for all users, while others require a premium subscription.

Free for everyone:

Premium apps:

How to enable apps

You can enable apps in two ways:

  1. From the Teacher Dashboard, go to the Apps section to manage app access.

A webpage titled "Apps for Book Creator" with the text "Power up your Book Creator experience with these fantastic apps. Keep control - you decide whether these apps are enabled just for you or can be accessed by students too." There are several app options including Giphy, AI Image Generator, Bitmoji, Canva, Google Drive, Animated Emojis, Feedback Stickers, and Google Maps.

2. While editing a book, click the + button > Apps, to select and enable.

A video showing a user clicking the + button, then clicking on the Apps button. The user then clicks on the Animated emojis button.

Turning apps on for students

Once you click the Enable App button, you will have enabled it for yourself as the teacher for all of your libraries. To enable the app for your students, choose which libraries by simply checking the boxes and then selecting Done.

The image shows the Apps for Book Creator page with a pop-up window for Giphy settings. The pop-up window says "Enable for students? Choose specific libraries where students can use this app:" with options to select libraries, including "Our class library" and "#BookCreator chat."

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Admin Controls

Administrators can login to the Admin Dashboard to set the permissions for each App by selecting the Manage Apps tab on the left side of the screen. This will allow the Admin to grant specific permissions for students, teachers, or both for each App to ensure that all educational tools meet the District's privacy and security requirements. Learn more about Managing Apps here.

A screen shows the "Manage Apps" page. The text reads: "The Book Creator App Store allows teachers to enable additional Apps for their own use and optionally their students. Control which Apps your teachers can enable here." There is a table with the following columns: APP, PRIVACY, and PERMISSIONS. The permissions column has a dropdown menu with the options: Teachers and students, Teachers only, and Disabled for everyone.

Privacy & Security

Users should always check with the school district security policies before using any of third-party apps. Here are some things to note:

  1. Agreeing to the Book Creator terms of service does not automatically cover you for using these third-party apps.

  2. Each app has its own privacy card which you'll need to review before use. It will link to that app's terms of service which you may need to agree to.

  3. You will need to sign into some apps separately to use them inside Book Creator.

  4. We prevent tracking and data sharing to third-party services everywhere we are able to. Please review each app's Privacy card for more details.

✔️ Please review the Third-party service providers article for more information.

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