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Sora is our digital reading platform that is available 24/7--even when school is out. It is a paid subscription in all middle and high schools and select elementary schools.
Middle and High Schools have both shared and advantage (school level) collections.
Elementary schools have advantage (school level) collections only.
For questions regarding Sora accounts and collections, librarians should contact their Sora leads.
Elementary- No point of contact since there is not a shared collection.
Middle- Tracy Pierce and Chad Wilkerson
High- Laura Martin and Stephanie Powell
Accessing Sora
Starting on the Classlink page
Students click on the Sora App icon (it’s the one with the cute little blue, Sora bird)
First time use- choose your school. School choice will always be “Clarksville-Montgomery County School District.”
Accessing Sora through Classlink should automatically login students, but if prompted for a username or password, it will be the same login credentials for everything CMCSS.
Students can access additional materials using the public library’s Sora titles through Tennessee READS. Students do not need a library card. In a partnership with the Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library, all students need is to be logged into Sora using their CMCSS login credentials.
Click on the three horizontal lines in the upper right hand corner
Students can see their profile and view the current district collection. To unlock the Tennessee READS collection, students should click “add a library.”
Type “TennesseeREADS” into the search bar and then select, “this is my library.”
The greatest part is that students only have to complete these steps once and both of the libraries will be saved. Then, students will be able to toggle between the two collections to browse. All checkouts can be found on the students' individual shelves regardless of which collection. This also works seamlessly across all devices just like all of the other features in Sora.
To Run School Advantage Collection Title List:
You can run a report of your collection through Marketplace, our backend admin portal. Make sure you are logged into your school-specific advantage account.
Once there, go to INSIGHTS>>Title Status & Usage Report. You can follow these steps to run the report.
On the report options, you will want to keep the date range empty and filter to Weed Status= in collection. This will pull back all books currently in the collection.
You can then export this report to excel with the “create worksheet” button.
To weed (or unweed) titles:
Sign into OverDrive Marketplace.
In the Admin drop-down, select Weeding.
Select Search collection.
In the search box, enter any search criteria for the titles you'd like to weed (or unweed).
If you'd like to weed titles, make sure that your "Weed status" is set to Not weeded.
If you'd like to unweed titles, make sure that your "Weed status" is set to Weeded.
Click Search.
Check the box next to the titles you'd like to weed (or unweed).
7. Click Weed title(s) or Unweed title(s).
8. Select Confirm.
When you weed a title, any users who borrowed it won't be able to renew their loan. Users who have holds on the title won't be notified of its removal, so you'll need to manually remove their holds.
Weeded titles may take up to 24 hours to disappear from your collection.
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