Additionally, you can view/download a PDF of all authentication options that OverDrive supports:

You have some options:

• Have your students link directly to the WSDLC using the Sora browser version (https://soraapp.com/library/wsdlcwi). They would simply select their school from the dropdown and log in using their school credentials.
• To make it easier for your students to set up Sora using the app version, you can use a setup code that is specifically for your district or school.  Students would use this instead of the WSDLC code (wsdlcwi). Then, students can select their district or school from the dropdown and log in with their school credentials.
• Consider using User Login Manager for your youngest students.  You can set up short user names (as few as 5 characters) with the same password for all students.  You can implement this for any grades you choose while keep your existing authentication for the other grades.

When your school is set up on OverDrive, you’ll let them know two things

1. What field in your student information has the student’s grade level, graduation year, or other data you would like to use to determine what collections they have access to.
2. How the values in that field link to what collection(s) they should have access to.

For example, let’s say you have a field in your student information called “grade level”. The values in that field for your elementary school are “K”, “1”, “2”, “3”, “4”, or “5”. You’d like your K-4 students to have access to the K-5 collection, and your 5th grade students to have access to both the K-5 and 6-8 collections. You would let OverDrive know that the field you would like to use to set collection access is called “grade level” and if the field is set to “K”,”1″,”2″,”3″, or “4”, that student should have access to the K-5 collection and if the field is set to “5”, that student should have access to both the K-5 and 6-8 collection.

Schools are encouraged to reach out to their OverDrive team to further understand their two options.

1. Log in to Sora
2. Go to Explore
3. Select Preferences
4. Select Audience
5. Select the access levels they’d like to view. The default setting is “All” which will show them everything, but they can click on General Adult and Young Adult to filter out the Juvenile titles.

Use Advantage to:

• Add additional copies of titles exclusively for specific grades or schools
• Create a unique collection of titles for schools within a district

All Advantage titles will appear alongside the shared collection’s titles, making for a seamless experience for your students.

You can override lending periods, checkout limits, and content access levels by using a feature called “Title Assign.”

With Title Assign, you can assign a specific title to a student through MarketPlace.  You will have to know the students’ user ID and the student will have to have signed into OverDrive at least once. The title will then appear on the Home tab in Sora.

For more information about Title Assign, see the OverDrive Training How-To: Assigning Titles to your Students

Title assignments override lending periods, checkout limits and content access levels- which is why this can only be done with Advantage titles.

If you are using Follett authentication, it’s a little trickier.  Please contact Amanda Lawman {wsdlc@overdrive.com} for assistance.

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.

MARC records are free and available through Marketplace. See the How to get MARC records through Marketplace video for instructions.
MARC records downloaded from OverDrive are separated by the purchase order. In most cases, purchase orders are separated by the collection/content access level, so schools can easily get the records that apply to them. Some of the automated carts, such as RTL carts, are not separated by collection/content access level.

Additionally, OverDrive staff generates MARC records for all titles in the shared collection each quarter, separated by content access level. WSDLC Project Managers add these files to the WSDLC website, to the Collection Information and Circulation Policies page, and send an announcement to let members know that the new downloads are ready.

Whether or not you need to remove the MARC record depends on if the title was weeded (deselected), if a title is metered and expired, or if the publisher removes the title:

If a title is weeded: the project manager will let members know. Titles are rarely weeded, so this should not happen often.

If a title is metered (available for a certain amount of checkouts or time): the title stays in our OverDrive collection.  As soon as a hold is placed on it, it will be repurchased.   You do not need to remove these MARC records from your catalog.

If the publisher removes a title for any reason: the project manager may not immediately know, but let members know as soon as they are aware of the change.

Selected titles can be permanently deleted from the Destiny catalog by a manual process, outlined in this PDF:

Schools can add an external link to your login page for the WSDLC Sora site for ease of access, but OverDrive doesn’t generally recommend setting up authentication or integration between Sora and Clever. As of August 2021, Clever no longer passes the grade level or location of the students to Sora when students log in, so OverDrive’s systems are not able to set up content access levels or location reporting. This will result in all students seeing  all titles in the collection.

If you’d like to set up Clever for authentication anyways, OverDrive can set all users to the same access level as well, but that would either limit what older students can see, or give access to more mature titles for younger students, depending which level you choose to use.

Adding the external link will still allow students to access Sora through the Clever portal, but they will still log in with their email addresses.