Welcome back to school and to our first month of WSDLC “Flipped Classroom” training!
If you are new to WSDLC or want a refresher, this month’s Flipped Classroom is for you.
We have materials to get you started with the WSDLC OverDrive collection, and the OverDrive team is also ready to help with questions you have.
Sora
Want a refresher on Sora, the app that students use to access the collection? Try the Getting Started with Sora training module.
If videos are more your style, also available are a series of short How-To videos. From how to sign in to Sora, to how to access eBooks and Audiobooks, to personalizing your account, you can find it all here.
Marketplace
Marketplace is the administrative side of the house, where you can get MARC records, run reports, purchase titles (if you are buying for an Advantage account- see more about this below!) and more. Watch the Marketplace Overview video below to get an introduction on how you can use OverDrive Marketplace, then follow the additional links to get more detailed information on the areas you’d like to know more about.
Key concepts for understanding how the WSDLC collection works:
- Lending Models
OverDrive’s lending models are the purchasing and borrowing terms for the ebooks and audiobooks, determined by the publishers. There are five different lending models that digital content can be available under: One Copy One User (OC/OU), Metered Access (MA), Class Sets, Simultaneous Use (Sim Use), and Cost Per Circ (CPC).
View the video Understanding lending models to get an introduction to each of these lending models and what they mean for the WSDLC collection. To get a more in-depth description of each, watch the videos and/or view the PDFs of the slides below: - Curation
Marketplace has the option to create curated collections, which can help showcase digital content. Watch the Curating Collections for the Sora App video to get an overview on how curated collections work. - Insights
Marketplace offers a variety of tools and reports that users can run to get a feel for how their school’s students, staff, and faculty are using the collection. Watch Reports: Marketplace Insights Tab for K-12 Schools to get an overview on the kind of statistics you can get for your school. (We’ll be doing a more in-depth look at Marketplace Insights in January’s Flipped Classroom!)
Additionally, in June 2019, WSDLC and OverDrive held a webinar on usage statistics. Watch Marketplace Insights, the recording of this webinar.
You can find more training videos on additional topics at the Marketplace training page
Advantage Accounts
Briefly, advantage accounts allow you to purchase content that is available only to your students. View the Working with an OverDrive Advantage Account (K-12 Schools) video below to learn more, or download the PDF. (We’ll be going through a deeper review on Advantage accounts in November’s Flipped Classroom!)
That brings us to the end of this month’s Flipped Classroom training on Getting Started! Whether you are new to the WSDLC, or are a returning member, we hope you found this information helpful.
If you have any questions, or would just like to know more about getting started with OverDrive, we encourage you to schedule a 20-minute one-on-one session with OverDrive. Contact the WSDLC OverDrive team (wsdlc@overdrive.com) to schedule a session or ask a question.
If you have questions specifically about the WSDLC consortium, you can contact wsdlc-info@wils.org.
See you again in October for our next Flipped Classroom topic: MARC records!
You can view the full year’s training plan and revisit previous Flipped Classrooms here: WSDLC Training Schedule