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How to Edit Your Collection

You've Built your Collection, Now Let's Edit...

Once you've learned how to build a Collection you'll want to edit the details of the Collections as well as, all of the resources curated in the Collection. This blog post will review how to do the following:
  • How to Edit a Collection
  • How to Edit Curated Resources
  • How to Delete Curate Resources
Each of these important tasks is very simple to accomplish and quite intuitive to use once you've started to use Collections. I'll be "Captain Obvious" in this blog post just to lay out the directions in a step-by-step process. 

How to Edit a Collection

Once you've created your Collection you may want to edit the basic settings in the Collection. If you create a Collection form the +Add a Collection icon you'll most likely fill-out each of the steps in the 3-step process (Title/Description, Grade/Subject, Image/Color). However, if you add a new Collection from the BookMarklet app you will have to edit the Collection details once you return to the Collection homepage. Here's how you edit the Details of your Collection.

More Options Menu

Select the More Options menu icon (3 vertical ellipses) and select the Edit option. This will allow you to edit the Title/Description/Visibility fields on page 1; the Grade/Subject fields on page 2; and the Image/Color fields on page 3 of your Collection. 

Once you've accessed the edit mode of the Collection determine what you want the Title of your Collection to be. In our district, we've already started to use a standard naming convention for district created resources. You can also provide a description of the Collection. This could be useful when others are trying to search for your Collection should you label it public. Lastly, you'll want to set the visibility settings for your Collection. 

Once you've set the Title/Description fields you'll want to set the grade level and subject areas of your Collection. Educators will be able to search for Collections that match their grade level or the subject area they're teaching.

Lastly, you'll be able to add a picture to your Collection and set the color scheme. You can use this as a way to differentiate Collections from each other or create a common theme amongst a variety of Collections. You can print out the directions using Follett's Quick Reference Guide to Creating Collections.

The image below illustrates the 3-step process to editing your Collection.

The video below shows the simple process of editing the details of a Collection.

How to Edit Curated Resources

Once you've begun the process of building your Collection you'll want to edit the resources you've curated. The details of the resource provide you and the users in a Collection a lot of functionality to search for resources within a Collection. Once you begin to assemble hundreds of resources within a Collection it becomes essential to be able to search for resources quickly. The type of resource and the tagging tools provide a quick and easy way to search through a Collection. The image and the video below show the simple step-by-step process to edit a resource in a Collection.


How to Delete a Resources in a Collection

Once you've begun to use the Add to Collections BookMarklet you'll find that your Collection can contain unnecessary resources. Sometimes you'll find that you add a resource more than once. The solution is easy, just delete the resource. The video clip below shows the simple process to delete a resource from your Collection.

What's Up Next?

Once you've learned how to edit resources to your Collection, you'll want to know how to use Collections like a pro! There are so many use cases, and little tips that will help you and your colleagues discover the power of Collections. The next blog in this series will deal with how to ensure you've set the right permissions on Google Drive to get the visual appeal you're looking for. You'll also learn how to collaborate with others, share a Collection and use the PDF tool.

You can also access the prototype companion tool, LessonMore, lesson: "Lesson 5 - Editing a Collection". This will bring you through a step-by-step lesson plan for all of the topics covered in this blog post.
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