You have a choice in what your student’s see on the Sora Explore page. You can choose to display the WSDLC curations, or create your own with Advantage (custom) Curation. Curations help students find books that interest them, and curations in the WSDLC are refreshed monthly.
Note: If your Advantage curation is turned on, students no longer see the regularly updated WSDLC curations.
Curated collections have unique, stable links, which means they can be shared out in marketing materials to your students.
Regardless of which curated collections your students are able to view, curations will honor content access levels. That is, a curated collection of New Audiobook Titles will show your students only the titles in that collection they are meant to see based on your district’s assigned CALs.
Additional Training Materials & FAQs
- Flipped Classroom: Curation
- OverDrive’s Help Page: Get help curating in Marketplace
- OverDrive’s Self-Paced Module: Create and publish a curated collection – Learn to create hand-picked lists to share with your students
Can I create my own curated collections?
With Sora, individual schools can curate their own featured collections that can include both Advantage and Consortium titles.
Are My Students Seeing WSDLC or Advantage curations?
How to Check if Your School’s Advantage Curation is On or Off:
- Sign into OverDrive Marketplace.
- In the Curate drop-down, select Standard curation.
- Look at the “Customize Advantage collections” toggle:
NO means your Advantage Curation is turned off, and students are viewing the WSDLC’s curations.
YES means your Advantage Curation is turned on, and students are viewing your schools’/districts curations. - If you’d like to update your settings, select the other option; then in the pop-up, click Save to confirm.
Note that if you change this setting back to No, you’ll lose any collections that you customized for Sora, and your collections will match the shared collection/consortium’s again.
If you want to update your individual Advantage curations: Click Here to access training resources on creating and publishing curations.
What happens if I turn ON curation at the Advantage level?
When curating at the Advantage level, consortium collections already in place will continue to update for the Advantage account. Any new consortium collections created after you switch to Advantage curation will not be updated to the Advantage curation. To change this setting, log into Marketplace, go to the Curate tab, select Organize Published Collections from the Curate drop-down menu and change the “Customize Advantage Collections” setting to Yes.
Please note: If you toggle back to “No” indicating you no longer want to maintain your own curated collections, all the curation you have done will be lost. Read more here: https://help.marketplace.overdrive.com/7010.htm.