The Best Resources section is an organized library of links/resources that you wish to share with your users. It uses a catalog structure and a quick navigation component so that your users can easily sort through the library and find the resources they are looking for. Users can always mark a resource as "Favorite" or start a discussion on it.
1. Click on Settings → Learning Apps → Best Resources.
2. To add a new top-level category within which you will add your first link, click on the + (plus) icon. You can also add a new category by clicking on Add Category.
3. Write the title and the description of your top-level category and click on Add.
4. Click on the category you created and click the + plus icon to add a subcategory.
5. Provide a title and description for your subcategory and click on Add.
6. Browse to the subcategory you just created and click on the + plus icon to insert the desired link.
7. Add the title, URL, and a short description of your resource.
If you wish to see the fetched images and get a Preview of the resources you have added, click on the top Preview button. Those images are automatically fetched from the respective external link's metadata information.
If you want to edit any existing content, click on the Edit (pencil icon).
Best Resources & Topbar Navigation
For your logged-in users to be able to access the Best Resources, you can add the respective Best Resources topbar link in your After login topbar. You will find more information in this article.
How to Customize your Best Resources page
Hide the default metadata images
There can be a case when you wish to completely hide the metadata images fetched from the links/resources you added. All you need to do is add in your school's Custom Code <style> (CSS) for built-in pages (i.e social, profile, workpad, my account) the following snippet:
.slug-workpad .basic-card-image {
display: none;
}All the fetched images will then get hidden.
Hide the Twitter icon
Additionally, you may want to hide the Twitter icons.
In that case, add in your school's Custom Code <style> (CSS) for built-in pages (i.e social, profile, workpad, my account) the following snippet:
.slug-workpad .basic-card-caption-but-wrapper .tweet-action {
display: none;
}Hide the Red ribbons
You may want to hide the default red ribbons on the corners:
Add in your school's Custom Code <style> (CSS) for built-in pages (i.e social, profile, workpad, my account) the following snippet:
.slug-workpad .ribbon-corner-right{
display: none;
}
.slug-workpad .ribbon-corner-left{
display: none;
}Hide the whole cards
To hide the whole cards add in your school's Custom Code <style> (CSS) for built-in pages (i.e social, profile, workpad, my account) the below snippet:
#wpWrapper {display: none;}Users will see no cards but will still be able to choose the resources on the left catalog menu.
Hide the My Notebook cards
To entirely hide the My Notebook Best Resources option add in your school's Custom Code <style> (CSS) for built-in pages (i.e social, profile, workpad, my account) the following snippet:
#workpadWrapper
.ilistviewcontents> .ilistitem.first-level-card:first-child{ opacity: 0; }
#workpadWrapper.ilistviewcontents> .ilistitem.first-level-card:nth-child(2){ margin-top: -85px; }
My Notebook
My Notebook is the resource of each user's personal collection of ebook notes & highlights. When a user is studying an Ebook learning activity they can highlight the text, make notes, add stars, or comment on social media for a particular part of the text. You will find more information about it in this article.
After keeping their personal ebook notes and highlights users can visit My Notebook in the Best Resources, view all of them, and visit the respective Ebook learning activity that is linked under each note/highlight.
Notes:
- When you perform a search via the search bar, it returns results from the Best Resources as well as results from the Daily News app.
- To change the order of the resources, you can edit them and add numbers [ i.e. 1) or 1.) or 1. ] at the beginning of the title of each category.
Offer Downloadable Material
If you wish to offer downloadable material in your Best Resources, you can upload the respective file/document to an external cloud service like Google Drive.
Ensure your file's visibility in Google Drive is set to "Anyone with the link." If it's set to "Restricted", then only people who are logged in to Google and have been granted access to the file will be able to open the direct link. Once you upload it, make sure it is public to everyone and copy the shareable Google Drive URL (e.g https://drive.google.com/15ImdqIsY55LAJ1FcU_I3T/view?usp=sharing) and paste it into your Best Resources. Users can open the file in Google Drive and download it to their devices.
If you wish the users to click on the file via the Best Resources and download it directly, then you can transform your Google Drive links to direct download links here: https://sites.google.com/site/gdocs2direct/.
Best Resources is not available on Mobile Apps.