What is the Public Product Library?
The Public Product Library is a public-facing URL to your organization's LearnPlatform product library and is accessible by parents and others in the community. Parents, school leaders, and others in the community can view the Public Product Library and find information about all the digital edtech products your institution is using.
As a LearnPlatform administrator, you can enable and configure the Public Product Library to:
- Improve communication and transparency with parents and other interested parties
- Easily share an inventory of approved edtech products, relevant documents, contracts, and other important information with your parents and external stakeholders
- Allow parents and others to view product tutorials so they can help their students at home
- Establish best practices under the Future Ready Schools initiative or the CoSN Trusted Learning Environment Seal
For more information, you can explore the Public Product Library demo.
Note: You must be an Organization Administrator with a LearnPlatform District Professional subscription to enable and configure the Public Product Library. Once enabled, the Public Product Library is accessible by anyone with the URL and does not require a login or authentication.
Overview of Public Product Library
You can also watch this video on YouTube.
Open Public Product Library as Admin
To view the Public Product Library as a LearnPlatform administrator, use your custom URL, or click the Settings link [1], and then click the Public Product Library card [2].
Click the Manage link.
Go To Public Product Library
Click the Go To Library link.
View Public Product Library
As an administrator, you can view the library title and welcome message that all users see [1].
To make any changes to the title, welcome message, or to copy the public URL, enter Edit mode by clicking the Manage PPL button [2].
To view the Public Product Library products in a grid or a list, click the Grid View icon [3] or List View icon [4].
View Edit Mode
As an administrator in Edit mode, you can edit the title, message, or link [1].
To share with parents and community members, click the Copy Public URL button [2]. Paste the link into communications as needed.
Manage Column Display
In Edit mode, you can manage column visibility. To hide columns from the public user view, you can click the Visible icon [2].
Hidden columns display the Not Visible icon [3].
Note: You cannot hide the Product Name column.
Manage Product Settings
To manage some product details from the Public Library listings page, click any of the drop-down menus.
View Product Listings
In List view, you can view the following about each product:
- Product Name and description [1]: The product name and description from the product settings.
- Subject [2]: Subject tags are referenced from the LearnPlatform product database, but you can modify the subject tags to align with your organization’s use of each product on Edit Mode.
- Grade Level [3]: Grade level tags are referenced from the LearnPlatform product database, but you can configure the grade level tags to align with your organization’s use of each product in Edit Mode.
- Approval Status [4]: Displays the approval status of your organization.
- Privacy Status [5]: Displays the privacy status of your organization.
- Resources [6]: Displays the number of assets that have been shared publicly for each product.
Filter Product List
To find products, enter text into the Search field [1], or to limit the list by status, grade, type, subject, organization, click the Filters icon [2].
When filtering, click the filter category Expand icon [1]. Then, click the checkboxes for values in the filter category [2].
To apply the selected filters, click the Apply button [3].
Open Product Details
To view product details in List view, click the product name link [1] or the Resources link [2].
To open product details in Grid view, hover the cursor over the product card and click the Details link.
View Product Details
The product details page displays information such as:
- The publicly available terms of service and privacy policy published by the product provider
- Comments from your organization
- Publicly shared product resources uploaded in the organization’s product settings
Learn more about Enabling the Public Product Library and Configuring the Public Product Library.
