Sharing Libraries

How Does Sharing Work?

Organizations with Institutional licenses have Executive Editor and Admin roles to make sharing even more efficient and valuable.

The Executive Editor can share libraries with all users or make libraries available for discovery. For example, institutions could develop their own academic writing comment library to support writing across the curriculum efforts or build a School Resources library, with information and links to school reference information. These libraries can be shared with all the faculty and managed centrally to ensure accuracy and relevance.

If sharing is enabled, individual users can also share libraries for discovery or with named colleagues.

Types of Sharing:

Shared with All: this option is only available to Admins and Exec Editors. It automatically adds the Library to an instructor’s list of Libraries.

Informal for Discovery: libraries created by individual faculty users and shared so that other users can discover and add them.

In both cases, the author of the content can decide whether users will be able to extend the content – personalize to suit their own style and add their own Groups and Comments. This option makes a Library available from the Manage Libraries page but requires manually adding the Library. It will not display in their list of Libraries until they manually add it. If users do extend the content their changes are not visible to any other users.

Shared with Named Colleagues: this is the most granular option. A Library can be shared directly with a subset of instructors. When this option is selected you can see a full list of colleagues or search by their email address.