Manage titles and approve audience levels

If you manage titles at the district level, you can view a book's details, see its location, edit its title, and set an audience level. You have the option to set audience levels individually and push them to all classroom libraries in the district.

If you already have a list of titles with audience levels, you can import it via a CSV file. When these titles are added to classrooms, the audience level is automatically set.

Notes:

  • For more information, watch this video.
  • Title Management settings are turned off by default.

To manage audience levels for titles:

  1. Log in to Destiny as a district-level administrator.
  2. At the top of the page, click Classroom Library. The Classroom Directory page appears.
  3. Click the Title Management tab.

    Note: The Title Management tab only appears if you enable it. To do so:

    1. At the top of the page, click the Settings tab.
    2. Select the Start district management of classroom titles checkbox.

      Start district management of classroom titles permission on the Settings tab.

    3. Click Apply.

  4. From the Title Management tab, do any of the following:
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    View title details (in Titlewave®)

    Do one of the following:

    • Next to the desired title, click Details icon..
    • Click a title. From the pop-up, click the title or Details icon..

    Titlewave® opens to the title details page.

    Title Details page in Titlewave.

    Notes:

    • To see title details, teachers must select books from Titlewave® when adding them to their library. Otherwise, titles will not have clickable links.
    • If you edit a title, the connection to Titlewave® will remain, regardless of any changes you make to the title's information.

    View a book's location

    Click a title. Details of the book's location – including the school, classroom, and class grade – appear.

    Title details page with school, classroom, and class grade.

    Edit a title
    1. Click a title. A pop-up appears.

      Title details page with Edit Title highlighted.

    2. Click Edit Title.
    3. Make any changes, and then click Save Title.

      Note: If your changes result in a duplicate title record, you can merge titles. From the pop-up that appears, select the record you want to keep, and then click Merge Titles.

    Search by title, author, or ISBN

    Enter a title, author, or ISBN in the field. A list of search results appears.

    Notes:

    • You can search for titles with 10-digit or 13-digit ISBNs. Titles with 10-digit ISBNs are automatically converted.
    • Search results remain until you click Clear search icon. or enter another search term in the field.

    Filter titles

     

    1. Click Filter icon..
    2. Click Drop-down icon. to filter by Date Added, Approved For Audience Level, Interest Level, and Site.

    Export titles

    Click Export icon.. The CSV file is downloaded to your browser's Downloads folder.

    Note: To export a specific list of titles, select the checkboxes next to the titles you want to include. Then, click Export.

    Sort titles by date

    In the MOST RECENT column, click the drop-down to change the sort order.

    Set an audience level for a title(s) and add a reason (optional)

    Do one of the following:

    • To set the audience level for a single title, in the APPROVED FOR column, choose an option from the drop-down.
    • To set the audience level for multiple titles, select the checkboxes next to the desired titles. In the bottom-right corner, choose an option from the drop-down.

    Notes:

    • If you want to add a reason for the audience level you selected, type it in the field, and then click Set Audience Level. The field has a maximum limit of 100 characters.

      Audience Level pop-up with option to add a reason.

    • When you set the audience level for a specific title, you are assigning it to every copy in your district. The SITES and CLASSES columns show you the number of schools and classrooms with that title.

To push audience levels to the district:

After you assign audience levels to your titles, you can enforce them by pushing them to all classroom libraries in the district. Teachers can see which titles have not been approved for their classroom.

You can set approval levels for all titles or only specific ones. If you choose all titles, then any new title a teacher adds to their library is automatically assigned a Pending status until an audience level is set by the district. If you only want to set levels for specific titles, then any new title a teacher adds to their library is automatically approved for everyone unless you change its level.

Titles without a level are not visible to students. Students can only see titles with a level that is equal to or lower than their primary grade.

Notes:

  • If the Enforce audience levels for All Titles checkbox is enabled and a teacher adds a new title to their library, you will see a notification Notification icon. in the Destiny header. Click the notification to go directly to the Title Management page to set the audience level. Any title without an audience level appears.

    A list of titles on the Title Management page with no audience level set.

  • When you set the audience level and a title's status changes (such as from Pending to Approved), teachers will see a notification Notification icon. in the Destiny header.

Important: If the Enforce audience levels for checkbox is disabled and the Start district management of classroom titles checkbox is enabled, district-level administrators can set audience levels without pushing them to the district.
  1. Log in to Destiny as a district-level administrator.
  2. At the top of the page, click Classroom Library. The Classroom Directory page appears.
  3. Click the Settings tab.
  4. Select the Enforce audience levels for checkbox.

     Enforce audience levels for titles permission on the Settings tab.

  5. From the drop-down, select one of the following:
    • All Titles: assign audience levels to all titles in the district. Titles added to classroom libraries are automatically pending until you set an audience level.
    • Specific Titles: assign audience levels to only specific titles in the district. Titles added to classroom libraries are automatically approved unless you change an audience level.
  6. Click Apply.

To add multiple audience levels via a CSV file:

  1. Log in to Destiny as a district-level administrator.
  2. At the top of the page, click Classroom Library. The Classroom Directory page appears.
  3. Click the Settings tab.
  4. From the Task drop-down, select Set Audience Levels.

    Task drop-down with Set Audience Levels option.

  5. Click Browse, and then select the desired CSV file from your computer.
  6. Click Import. The number of audience levels updated appears.

    Set Audience Levels drop-down with the number of audience levels updated highlighted.

Note: If you need an import template for your audience levels, do the following:

  1. From Import CSV > Set Audience Levels, click Get Import Template.

    Get Audience Level Import Template pop-up.

  2. Click Download Template. The template downloads to your browser.