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…
Make a splash in August with new K-12 webinars: Sora, Marketplace and more!
By: Lisa Mullins, Product Trainer Here at OverDrive, the Training team is thrilled to be preparing for live webinars after a short break. Join us to learn about Sora, explore access, and expand your digital collection with new content. Sora Essentials LIVE WEBCAST HAS CONCLUDED:…
What’s new with Training – August 2022
By: Sydney Kalnay, Training Manager Have you met Sora’s Training team yet? If not, don’t worry – we have plans to formally introduce ourselves before the year is out so you can get to know us and the work we do behind the scenes at…
Introducing the “Sora for PK-3 readers” Training Kit
By: Gabby Cregan, Training Specialist and Sydney Kalnay, Training Manager Once a teacher, always a teacher. Many of us here at OverDrive are former educators, translating our love for the classroom into actionable ways to help teachers, media specialists, school librarians, and others adapt and…
Learn best practices for OverDrive Marketplace with our new training kit
By: Gabby Cregan, Training Specialist At this hectic time of year, learn new skills when and how it’s convenient for you: all at once, or bit by bit. While we’ve always offered webinars and short how-to videos on popular topics, this year we introduced e-learning…
Upcoming webinars: Getting Started with Sora & Getting Started with OverDrive Marketplace
With the school year in full swing, OverDrive’s Training team is hard at work making sure you have the tools and resources you need to succeed when it comes to building your digital collection and leveraging the Sora student reading app for classroom instruction. Whether…
OverDrive training kits: Planning tools for the virtual classroom
By: Gabby Cregan, Training Specialist and Sydney Kalnay, Training Manager Is this the new normal? The 2020 school year has been like nothing we’ve seen before in our careers as educators. Virtual trainings, digital materials, social media updates — we’re constantly innovating to try and…
One Copy/One User, Metered Access & more: A practical guide to purchasing models
By: Sydney Kalnay, Training Manager and Alecia Mouhanna, Marketing & Communications Specialist Meet Denise Brown. Denise is a (fictional) school librarian who serves her entire K-12 community of students and educators at Blue Sky Academy. In addition to managing Blue Sky’s print collection, Denise purchases…
Back-to-School Webinar Series — Fun, fast and free!
By: Sydney Kalnay, Training Manager For most educators, “back-to-school,” isn’t the specific day they return to school after summer break or even a general time of year — it’s a state of mind. And, typically, the state of that mind is busy! Once the back-to-school…