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How It Works
We create a beautiful, customized eLibrary for your school, brimming with amazing titles
Our curators maintain the shared elibrary collections, suited to your school's grade levels. Leading international titles in eBook and Audiobook formats will captivate your students. You are in full control and can add new titles (1,000,000+ to choose from), age restrict or disable titles as required.
Student access is straightforward with your school's 'single sign-on', making it easy for them to borrow books and enjoy your extensive digital collection.
Explore Our Shared Collections
eBooks
Our eBook collection is split into primary and secondary collections, each curated to suit specific year levels, interests, and curriculum needs. With a broad mix of fiction, classics, and nonfiction, it supports classroom learning, recreational reading, and independent study. It’s a flexible, engaging way to build a rich digital library for your whole school. Learn more about our eBook Collections.
Audiobooks
The audiobook collection is available in separate primary and secondary collections, with age-appropriate fiction and nonfiction across genres, authors, and reading levels. Titles support classroom texts, literacy development, and reading for pleasure. Audiobooks are ideal for students who benefit from listening, alternative access, or who are building fluency through audio. Learn more about our Audiobook Collections.
Decodable Readers
Designed for early years, this collection includes hundreds of decodable books aligned with a clear phonics sequence. It features both fiction and nonfiction with controlled text, engaging content, and levelled progression to match synthetic phonics instruction. It also includes BookLife and Blastoff Levelled Readers — providing flexible options for early readers and EAL/D support. Learn more about our Decodable Readers.
Wellbeing
The Wellness Collection supports secondary students with titles on identity, resilience, self-esteem, anxiety, and mental health. Curated with input from counsellors and wellbeing practitioners, it reflects the diverse needs and lived experiences of students. These resources offer a safe entry point into wellbeing conversations, both in and beyond the classroom. Learn more about our Wellness Collections.
Who Builds the Collection?
Everybody gets involved
This is a collaborative effort. The core of the collection is built around the statistical data we have from the thousands of school eLibraries that we already provide, so we can see what's popular for what age groups in each country we serve. From there, we canvas suggestions from member schools who may have special requirements and suggestions. We ensure that each title from our Shared Collections has appeal to more than just one member so that the most relevant collection is built to serve the member community.
Your School's Own eLibrary
Shared Collection But You Are In Control
Even though you will be joining a Shared Collection, you'll be in control of many aspects of your ePlatform. You can choose the look and feel, web address, school logo to match your school's branding, and you can customise other aspects such as special messages to students. You will also be able to age restrict titles, manage your student's access and view usage reports.
Fair Use
Sharing - Some Things You Should Know
If you have a private collection, your students can borrow all the books in the collection, however in our Shared Collections, we need to ensure each member school has equal access to the titles. We do this by having generous limits on simultaneous loans and loans per month. We've set these limits generously and ensured the collection has the depth to support them. Contact us for details but we are sure you will find they easily exceed your expected student usage.
Private Collections
Want More Control?
For the great majority of schools, ePlatform's Shared Collections meet their needs, providing collection breadth, which would be very expensive to match in a private collection. However, some schools have special requirements for titles not in the shared collection or may want more copies of some titles for class set purposes. In these cases, you can build a private collection by purchasing books via the ePlatform shop which are then immediately available and visible to your students.
With you every step of the way
Customising your ePlatform
Preparing your ePlatform to look amazing with your look and logo is easy. Often we create the banner header area for you using elements from your school's webpage and images - if you are happy with this there is nothing for you to do. In other cases schools prefer to prepare and supply us with their own graphics and that's completely fine.
Adding Students (aka Authentication)
Adding students to access your eLibrary can be daunting, but we have made this super easy by offering some extremely simple methods that will not require IT department assistance and will have you sorted in minutes. Of course we also support LMS integrated methods such as LDAP and SIP2. We suggest start with the simple method to keep momentum going and then switch to the LMS integrated method later. More information on this here.
Promoting to Students
Once your new eLibrary is looking fantastic it's time to launch it to your students. We are absolutely passionate about student usage. We will help you by providing promotional materials such as posters, bookmarks, shelf wobblers that you can display in the library. We also have a large range of digital assets that you can use to promote the eLibrary on your school's homepage.
Frequently Asked Questions
ePlatform’s shared collections are carefully selected digital consortiums that multiple schools can join. They offer an affordable way to access a wide range of popular titles, curriculum-aligned books, and audiobooks without the cost of individual licenses, significantly broadening resource availability.
Schools subscribing to shared collections gain immediate, collective access to a professionally curated collection of digital resources. This subscription model reduces costs by eliminating the need for schools to individually license or purchase every title, allowing easier management and broader content availability.
Absolutely. While using shared collections, schools can also effortlessly add their chosen eBooks and audiobooks, enabling the creation of customised digital libraries that reflect specific school interests, curriculum requirements, and student preferences.
Yes, ePlatform’s shared collections prominently feature curriculum-aligned texts specifically selected to support classroom teaching and learning objectives across various subjects and year levels, complementing regular coursework and lesson planning.