A central library is a repository where admins and designated 'library managers' can curate and make books immediately available to every teacher in your Book Creator organization. You can easily share district-approved resources with every teacher, ensuring a consistent and high quality implementation.

A central library is immediately accessible to all teachers in your organization through their Teacher Dashboard without the need for an invitation. All teachers in your organization can browse the central libraries, read content, and copy the books into their own libraries for use in their classroom. Students cannot access a central library.

As an admin you can:

As a teacher you can:

Sign into https://app.bookcreator.com and navigate to the Teacher Dashboard (via the top left button). In the Libraries tab you will see a section at the bottom with the name of your school or district where you can create your first central library.

With your central library created you can then copy or move any existing books into it or create new books directly in the central library.

By default a newly created central library will be hidden from your teachers, allowing you to finish populating it before making it available. When you are ready for teachers to see it simply click on the eye icon to make it available.

Content which is locked to be read only can only be read by teachers - they cannot make a copy of it. Libraries and books can be set as read only, allowing you share content for all your district teachers with the access controls you need.
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To make an entire library read only, click on the three dot menu and select lock library.
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To set a book as read only, from within a central library, click the book options and select lock book.

Teachers will see any visible central libraries within their Teacher Dashboard. They can browse and read the books, and copy them to their own libraries for use in their classrooms. Teachers will not be able to add books into the central libraries unless you have given them explicit permission (see below).

Teachers will have read only access to the books within a locked library, whether the setting is at the library level or the book level. Teachers are prevented from copying.

Yes, within the Admin Dashboard you can assign specific teachers to be Library Managers. They can then manage the content within your central libraries in the same way as an admin.

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If you have a domain wide license of Book Creator then the Central Libraries feature is immediately available. Speak to your administrator or account manager for more details. If you’re a customer but not yet on a domain license, talk to your Teacher Success Manager about upgrading to take advantage of this feature.