Curriculum Libraries create a scalable foundation for school, trust, or district-wide curriculum that enhances consistency and quality using shared curriculum, while reducing teacher effort in translating these resources into classroom-ready lessons.
While Personal Libraries provide individual teachers with a workspace to organise their own unique classroom materials, Curriculum Libraries enable school or trust learning teams to centrally manage and share curriculum content across multiple teachers.
With Curriculum Libraries, schools can:
Centralize curriculum delivery in the place where lesson delivery is happening.
Allow learning leads to curate consistent, high-quality resources.
Encourage teacher collaboration and consolidate resources, reducing planning silos and duplication of effort.
💡 Curriculum Libraries are available exclusively on the web with Showbie Insights. If your school or district is interested in accessing Curriculum Libraries, ask your Showbie Administrators to contact their Account Manager to learn more!
Before Using Curriculum Libraries
Curriculum Libraries require initial setup by your Showbie Admins or school leadership team. This involves deciding on a library structure and rollout strategy, identifying who will manage and update its content, assigning staff access and permissions, and planning how the library will be shared with teachers.
If you are responsible for planning or requesting a new Curriculum Library, see Setting Up Curriculum Libraries. Once your library has been created and you have been given access, continue below to learn how to use it as a Viewer or Editor.
Understanding Library Roles & Permissions
A Curriculum Library offers two role types, Viewer and Editor, each with its own set of permissions and capabilities:
| Viewer Role | Editor Role |
Library Content Management | ✔️ Copy library content (assignments) to existing classes
✔️ View Library content
❌ Add or edit any content | ✔️ Copy library content (assignments) to existing classes
✔️ Add, edit & archive Library content |
Library Folders Management | ✔️ Copy library content (folders) to existing classes
✔️ View folder content
❌ Add or edit any folders | ✔️ Copy folder content to existing classes
✔️ Add, edit & archive Library folders |
Library Member management | ✔️ Leave a Library
❌ View library settings
❌ View Library members
| ✔️ View Library settings
✔️ View Library members
✔️ Manage (upgrade & downgrade library members)
✔️ Leave a Library |
✍️ A Library Editor can leave a library at any time. If the last remaining editor chooses to leave, a new editor will need to be reassigned first.
Managing Curriculum Libraries
A Library Editor can edit Library settings, as well as view all members and manage access permissions of a Curriculum Library. Editors are also responsible for creating and maintaining your school's preferred Folder Structure (as decided when Setting Up Curriculum Libraries).
Managing Library Members
A Library Editor is able to view its members and their assigned roles.
Click the Libraries Icon and click to the Library you would like to view information on.
Click the Settings Menu (3-dot ellipses icon).
Click Members.
Creating Folders in a Library
Curriculum Libraries help bridge curriculum content with daily instructional delivery. Library editors should maintain their school's preferred folder structure so that learning resources are organised in a way that supports teachers while aligning with instructional plans and sequencing.
To create folders in a Curriculum Library:
Open the Libraries tab and select the preferred Curriculum Library.
You can also navigate to a folder within a Curriculum to create a sub-folder.
Select the plus icon (+) and choose Folder.
Give your Folder a name, select a folder colour, and click Save.
Ensure your newly created folder and sub-folders match your school's preferred folder structure.
Creating New Assignments within a Library Folder
Library Editors can add new assignments to a Library:
Open the Libraries tab and select Curriculum Library in which to create an assignment.
Select the plus icon (+) and choose Assignment.
Give your new Assignment a Name, a brief description, select the Grading format you wish to use for this assignment, and set the student access level.
Click Create Assignment.
Assignment Settings within Curriculum Libraries
Assignment Settings within a Library can be adjusted by Editors. These settings allow Library contributors to define how an assignment should be presented and used, and they are preserved when the assignment is copied into a class.
To access Assignment Settings:
Open the assignment within the Curriculum Library.
Select the Settings Menu (ellipsis icon).
Select Assignment Settings.
Available settings include:
Assignment name
Description
Gradebook inclusion
Grading format
Student access level
Archive assignment
Using Curriculum Libraries
Joining a Curriculum Library
Once your Curriculum Libraries are set up, they’ll be accessible from the Libraries item in your main navigation menu.
To join a new library:
Click the Libraries Icon.
Select the + button.
Click Join a Library.
Enter the Join Code.
By default, teachers are added as Viewer to a Library.
Once you join a Library you will see it listed in your Library list.
Copying Content from a Curriculum Library
Both Library Viewers and Editors can copy content from a Curriculum Library into an existing class, including entire folders or individual assignments.
Copy an Assignment or Folder to an Existing Class
While in the Libraries tab, open the preferred Curriculum Library you wish to copy from.
Navigate to the the preferred assignment or folder and tap the Settings menu (ellipsis icon).
Select Copy to Existing Class.
Select where you would like the assignment/folder to be copied to and click Copy Assignment/Folder.
💡The Assignment settings from the Curriculum Library are preserved when an assignment is copied to a class.