Overview

Welcome to lesson 6 of 13 in the Accessible Reading for Educators Course. In this lesson you will learn how students’ access, search, and download books from Accessible Libraries.

Lesson Objectives

After studying this lesson, you will be able to:

• Recall the steps students must take to access an Accessible Library from within the EasyReader App.
• Describe how to log in to an Accessible Library using student credentials and navigate its search functions.
• Demonstrate how students download books from a library and access them in the “My Books” section.
• Differentiate between text-based and audio-based downloads in terms of file size and download time.
• Recommend best practices for teachers to support students with selecting and downloading the correct book format.

This lesson should take no more than 15 minutes to complete.

Watch - Demonstrating downloading a book

Downloading books from an Accessible Library

So far on this course, you have learnt about:

1. Signing up your school and students to an Accessible Library.
2. Creating student logins for the EasyReader Education Plan.
3. Installing the EasyReader App and the login process for students.

Now let us explore how students can download books from Accessible Libraries.

To do this:

1. From the "Side menu", select the library. If the library is not listed, select "Manage libraries" and choose the library from the available list.
2. Enter the student library login credentials. Students will require their library login credentials the first time they access the library. Students should ensure they have this information at hand.
3. Use the library’s facilities to search for and view a book’s properties. Students should ensure they choose the book in the teacher’s requested format. Ideally, teachers will have chosen and added the book to the student’s assignment or reading list folder.
4. Select the "Download" button. Students can continue to browse and queue other books to download while the current book is downloading.
5. Use the "Back" button to return to the "Side menu" and choose "My Books".

Tip: Book download times may vary considerably. This will depend on file size and Internet speed. Text-based books will download in seconds while audio-based books may take several minutes to complete. 

The books students download appear in the "My Books" screen. This is the first screen that appears when the App opens. Students can return to the "My Books" screen at any time by selecting it from the Side menu.

When you choose to open a book, it opens in the Reader screen. You will learn more about the Reader screen in the next lesson.

Available book formats

When students search for a book, they may often find the book offered in different formats. These can be broadly categorised into text-based books, audio-based books, and synchronised text-and-audio-based books.

Except for BRF files, EasyReader App supports all popular file formats available from Accessible Libraries. EasyReader App also supports other format types including Plain Text and HTML.

Summary

In this lesson you learnt how students login, find, and download books from an Accessible Library using their student account from within the EasyReader App. You also discovered the different format types in which books may be available.

Quiz

Below are three sample quiz questions based on this lesson. Please spend no more than five minutes considering the answers to these questions.

1. What must students have the first time they attempt to access an Accessible Library through the EasyReader App?
   1. Their username and password for the Accessible Library.
   2. A QR Code.
   3. An unlock code.
2. Accessible Libraries include a search facility to help students find the books they require. Is this statement true?
   1. Yes.
   2. No.
3. Which of the following statements is true?
   1. The books students download from Accessible Libraries through the EasyReader App appear on the "My Books" screen.
   2. The books students download from Accessible Libraries through the EasyReader App appear in the Downloads folder.
   3. Books available from Accessible Libraries cannot be downloaded, they can only be streamed over the Internet.

End of lesson

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But before you move on, here are the answers to the quiz questions:

1. Their username and password for the Accessible Library.
2. Yes.
3. The books students download from Accessible Libraries through the EasyReader App appear on the "My Books" screen.