Manage shared School and District Libraries as a District Administrator

The shared School and Libraries are a common repository of Nearpod lessons, videos, and activities curated to make Nearpod supplemental content easily available to all users in a school or entire district. A shared Nearpod 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 Nearpod 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, schools, and more

You can access the School and District libraries in the “Shared Libraries” section of the Navigation bar.

Within your district account, all users have access to lessons in:

  • The District Library
  • Their individual school's School Library

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Managing School Libraries

By selecting "School Library" on the gray left toolbar, you will be able to access the various School Libraries within your district.

On the top of the screen, you will see "School Library" and below it, the name of the Library you’re in with a small blue button with three dots in the middle next to it. This will allow you to switch between different libraries. The “School Library Settings” optionwill also allow you to enable or disable teachers' ability to add lessons to the school library. On the top of the screen, you will see "School Library" and a small blue button with three dots in the middle. This will allow you to switch between different libraries. It will also allow you to enable or disable teachers' ability to add lessons to the school library. 

 

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You can assign any teacher the access to admin rights to the School Library in the Manage Nearpod section. This means that they are able to add folders to the library and organize the library for teachers within that site. From Manage Nearpod, select “Manage Users” in the left navigation, and select “Manage” in the Permissions column.

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Managing the District Library

As a District Administrator, you can add and organize folders into the School Library and the District Library, the process for both is similar. You can also add sub-folders within any of the folders. 

Adding Folders

To add a folder, click on District Library. Next, click on the blue “+ Add to Library” button and select New Folder.

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A pop-up will prompt you to name the Folder.

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Adding Lessons to a Folder

Once you have added a folder, you can 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. 

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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!

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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.



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