The shared School Library is a common repository of Nearpod lessons, videos, and activities curated to make Nearpod supplemental content easily available to all users in a school. A shared School Library allows all Nearpod teachers or users to access the same content an administrator or users have added into a set of shared folders.
With a shared School Library administrators can:
- Strengthen instructional consistency and collaboration with centralized sharing of Nearpod lessons, videos, and activities
- Drive instructional consistency with shared Nearpod lessons, videos, and activities across grade levels, subjects, PLCs, faculty meetings, whole-child initiatives, and more
School Library Settings
The gear next to School Library allows you to rename your School Library and grant or remove permission for all users in the school to add of your user's access to add lessons to the shared library.
Adding Folders to the School Library
As a School Administrator, you can add and organize folders in the School Library. You are also able to add sub-folders nested within any folder to further organize.
To add a folder within the School Library, click on the blue + Add to Library button and select New Folder.
A pop-up will prompt you to name the Folder.
Adding Lessons to a Folder
Once you have added a folder, add lessons by selecting “Add to Library” and “Find Lessons.” This will lead you to a search bar. Enter a term to search the Nearpod library and your district and school libraries.
Once you have selected a lesson to add, hover over it and click the "Add lesson" button. And, voila! You have added the lesson to your library!
When a lesson is added to the School or District Library, a version of the lesson is created that is not linked to the original. The name of the author of the original lesson will be displayed on the lesson card. Edits made to a lesson in the original author's library will not update the School or District Library version; the updated lesson would need to be re-added. If a teacher adds a lesson to a School or District Library and later leaves the school or district, the lesson remains in the shared library.