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Digital resource library
I work in a secondary school in the UK. We have been using Teams since the beginning of this year. We are looking to find a way of cataloguing online curriculum resources, eg online publications, youtube, online galleries etc in our own 'digital library' and I'm wondering if there is an app available through Teams that we could use, rather than using a completely separate system.
The idea would be that when any teacher finds a useful resource online they can add it to the school's digital resource library, and teachers and students can then search the library for resources once they've been catalogued.
Thanks in advance of any ideas.
Hi Louise,
Welcome to the forums. If you're not wanting anything too glossy, than the native Teams toolset should be adequate. Teams acts as an aggregator for some other O365 resources, one of which is SharePoint online. A teams instance will have a SharePoint site created under the bonnet. The files tab that you can see actually resides within a SharePoint document library.
In it's most crude form, you can upload a series of document, images and so on to this SharePoint library. For pointing to external resources, such as videos and the like there is the "Link" option that acts as a literal pointer to these resources. Lastly, adding some metadata to this library helps allows you to manage and filter these resources as required.
If this is of interest, do let me know and I'll mock up a quick screenshot for you.
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Hi Louise,
Welcome to the forums. If you're not wanting anything too glossy, than the native Teams toolset should be adequate. Teams acts as an aggregator for some other O365 resources, one of which is SharePoint online. A teams instance will have a SharePoint site created under the bonnet. The files tab that you can see actually resides within a SharePoint document library.
In it's most crude form, you can upload a series of document, images and so on to this SharePoint library. For pointing to external resources, such as videos and the like there is the "Link" option that acts as a literal pointer to these resources. Lastly, adding some metadata to this library helps allows you to manage and filter these resources as required.
If this is of interest, do let me know and I'll mock up a quick screenshot for you.
Hi Steven. Thanks for your reply. This sounds interesting. One of the features we are looking for is the ability to search for tagged documents, links etc. Would this be possible using the suggestion you have given?
It would indeed. You can add specific metadata tags to the library and these are fully searchable.
If you can give me a few sample tags you've got in mind, I can whistle up a few screenshots for you so you've an idea of what to expect.
