NEW Feature: Bookshare has a new feature that let Sponsors control how students on Organizational Accounts read books with the Download from Search feature that allows students to read any book they choose. Sponsors can enable this setting at the Organizatinon level for all students OR individually by student.
Please note: Once enabled at the Organization level, you can not change permissions student by student.
Reading Books
Bookshare’s default reading setting is that students on Organizational Accounts can only read books that their teacher has assigned to them.
With Bookshare’s new Download from Search feature, students can read any book they discover when searching, in addition to those assigned by their teachers. Previously only students with Individual Memberships could read books from the full collection.
Enable settings for your Organizational Account
- Under the Manage heading, select the Organization link from the dropdown menu on your Bookshare home page
- Under Organization Status, you’ll find the checkbox: “Allow free downloads from search” for the entire organization.
- Checking the box will apply to all members currently on the member roster and those added after the feature was selected.
- Once the Download from Search feature is enabled for the Organization, you can not make changes individually.
Enable settings individually
- Under the Manage heading, select “students/members” to view the Member Roster on your Bookshare home page.
- Select the pencil icon next to a student’s name.
- Under Account Details, check the “Allow Downloads from Search” check box.
Notes:
- When turned on at the Organizational level, the feature is turned on for every student on the member roster.
- The new download feature differs from the Individual Membership, which gives a student full access on their own, regardless of any sponsor setting and follows them even after they are no longer connected to their school or district Bookshare Account. Learn more about the benefits of an Individual Membership.