Enjoy superhero-sized savings during the October Comics Sale
Send your students on new reading adventures in the Sora app with their favorite fictional friends – all without breaking the bank! Shop our October Comics Sale to save up to 50% on hundreds of titles from publishers like DC Comics, IDW Publishing, Viz Media…
Ease into Autumn with Sora and Marketplace Training
By: Lisa Mullins, Product Trainer The promise of autumn is in the air at OverDrive’s Blue Sky Campus. Crisp mornings, changing leaves…and fall webinars! That’s right–we’re hosting daily live webinars on the essentials of Sora and Marketplace through mid-October. Won’t you join us? You can…
Classroom mantras for changing times
By: Tiffany Wincek, Product Liaison I refuse to believe September is almost over. In childhood, the beginning of any new school year brought excitement colored by anxious chaos: finding a new backpack with an adequate number of perfectly sized pockets, stressing about being forced to…
5 Sora tips for parents from parents
By: Gael Reyes, Product Support Specialist We’ve already shared some of our top Sora reading app tips for parents in a previous blog, but this time we want you to hear from the real experts who use Sora with their children every day. Whether you’re…
NEW: 80+ titles added to the All Access Comics package
Fans of our All Access Comics package for schools now have over 80 new Marvel-ous (and more!) reasons to say hooray. We’ve added new titles to our premium package of simultaneous-use comics from publishers like Disney, Dark Horse, Marvel, Image Comics and IDW*. Students can…
Unpack new student reading during our 2022 Back to School Sale!
It’s September, and that means that for many North American schools, the 2022 back-to-school season is in full swing. Amid all the hustle and bustle, this is also a great time to reevaluate and update your digital collection, so that your students can get off…
Sora Sweet Reads 2022 has ended! How’d we do?
That’s a wrap on another sweet summer of reading in the Sora app! The 2022 edition of Sora Sweet Reads (May 4 – Aug. 17) has officially concluded, and while we’re sad to see it go, we’re also excited to get back into the swing…
Sora Spotlight: Kara Montgomery-Roa, Teacher Specialist at Garey High School (CA)
In our recurring Sora Spotlight series, we feature a different librarian, media specialist or educator who’s become a Sora champion at their school, impressing us with their innovative methods for implementing the reading app and engaging with their students. We’ve asked them to share their…
Give students equal access to curriculum books with new On-Demand Class Sets
When you hear the phrase “class set”, it probably drudges up some interesting sensory memories. You might think of battered copies of books like The Great Gatsby and To Kill a Mockingbird, with broken spines and bent pages – or you might remember the panic…
Streamline students’ access to curriculum reading with the Sora Google Classroom add-on!
Google Classroom users seeking new integrations to streamline the way they provide learning resources to students now have a new option available to them: The Sora Google Classroom add-on! The Sora Google Classroom add-on* enables educators to manage reading assignments in the same place they…