The WSDLC and OverDrive provide training in a variety of formats to help suit members’ time, needs, and learning styles.
Flipped Classrooms | Webinars | Tiny Case Studies
One-on-One Sessions with OverDrive Staff | OverDrive Training Resources
Flipped Classrooms
WSDLC provides training materials in a Flipped Classroom format, designed to help new members get acquainted with OverDrive, as well as acting as a library of resources and refresher materials for all WSDLC members. In addition to being highlighted at different times of the year (particularly September-December as the new school year begins), these training materials are made available on-demand.
Flipped Classroom content is intended for Library Media Specialists and anyone else that may help to manage school/district library resources, OverDrive Advantage purchasing, and digital classroom materials.
Getting Started
Advantage Accounts & Marketplace
Purchasing
Adavantge/Sora Features (Coming Soon!)
Marketing and Training
Managing Holds
Curation
Usage statistics
During Flipped Classroom months, materials are available for members to review on their own and OverDrive staff are ready to schedule one-on-one 20-minute sessions to answer members’ questions.
You can contact the WSDLC OverDrive Team at wsdlc@overdrive.com to schedule your session.
Webinars
There are currently no WSDLC-specific webinars scheduled.
You can view upcoming webinars from OverDrive here:
Upcoming Webinars
On-Demand Webinars
Tiny Case Studies
The WSDLC hosts some very short case studies where your peers share a WSDLC-related problem they had and how they solved it.
⪼ Library E-Readers Instead of Screens for Ebooks
⪼ Graphic Novel Genre Study During Schoolwide Literacy Period
One-on-One Training with OverDrive Staff
You can schedule one-on-one meetings with OverDrive staff at any time at wsdlc@overdrive.com. Whether you have questions about content access levels, how to access certain statistics, or need a walkthrough on how Sora and/or Marketplace works, OverDrive’s WSDLC team is eager to help.
OverDrive’s Training Resources
OverDrive hosts a collection of training videos, PDFs, webinars, and modules filled with content to help library staff, teachers, administrators, students, and even parents become comfortable with the Sora platform. (You’ll also find many of these resources included in the Flipped Training courses.)