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OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network.

Neda Anasseri: Hello, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us for part two, CK-12 Integration. This is a second series. We have a third series for you, which is coming up. I'm Neda Anasseri. I'm a technology projects coordinator for OTAN. And I'm going to hand it to Debbie, who's going to introduce herself and then Lindsay. So Debbie?

Debbie Jensen: I'm Debbie Jensen. And I have worked in Adult Ed for 33 years in basic skills down in Southern California. Currently, I work for OTAN. And I love what I do. And I love CK-12. So I'm really excited to share that with you today.

Lindsay Kincaid: Hi, everybody. I'm Lindsay from CK-12. And CK-12 is based out of California, but I'm coming to you live from Overland Park, Kansas, today. I've worked for CK-12 for about six years. Before that, I spent 10 years teaching English and video production in a high school, public high school. So it's been so awesome working with Debbie and Neda on this project and trying to create books that are specially designed for adult learners. So happy to be your CK-12 point person on anything adult education.

Neda Anasseri: Thank you, Debbie and Lindsey. Hey, confirm for me, Debbie, if you can see my slides or the slides.

Debbie Jensen: Yes, I can see them.

Neda Anasseri: Perfect. Thank you. All right, so we're so happy again to recap and share that we do have a home on the CK-12 website ck12.org/adulted. And Lindsay shared with you our partnership, and we're very grateful. And you probably heard it in part one, so I won't spend too much time on it. But really, the idea is to-- the resources and the material on the CK-12 website is valuable and helpful and useful in adult Ed. And how do we use it, right? And how do we kind of know that this is a place where we can find resources for our adult learners? And so CK-12 listened, and they helped us create a page that will lead our educators and our students to access those materials.

So we're super grateful for CK-12. We're super grateful to have Lindsey. And we're very grateful to have Debbie as our leader to create some of this e-material that we're going to share with you today. So this is a URL, just as a reminder.

Today's objectives. We really want to show you how you can use CK-12 in your classrooms. So we're going to take a quick kind of review. I have already reviewed the website for you. And I'm going to review a couple more slides of what we talked about last week as far as part one.

And then how do you join? We're going to take you live into a FlexBook. We want to show you how to customize resources. So whether you're using it as a full-on material for your students-- that you have an economics student, or you have a student that's working on algebra, and those all resources. But maybe you just want to customize and use partial resources. We're going to show you all of that today. And then Linda is going to show us some live customization and then share with us some of the contact information as well. So it's going to be jam-packed full of good information on how to proceed and how to create content, or how to create your materials on CK-12.

Quick review, ABE e-resources already available already at your fingertips. Of course, it's not limited to the four books that you see on the Adult Ed page on CK-12, but it's a start. And so you have Foundational Math, Math for Adult Basic Ed, and then Pre-Algebra. And those are books that are ready to pick up and go. And then, like I said, we'll show you a little bit more of customization and what that looks like. But if you don't want to do that. And if you don't want to look through some of the other helpful resources that CK-12 might have, this is a good way to start. So thanks to Debbie and Lindsey for helping us create these books and making them accessible for our educators in California.

Now, they'll kind of share with you as well that-- they may have found books that were already created, and then they kind of moved them over to the Adult Ed page. And those are things that we can do on CK-12 as well. Again, the adult secondary items are also available for high school diploma and high school equivalency.

So if you have students that are struggling in government, you have resources in a book to help support them there. If you have students that are struggling in chemistry, you have resources that can help you there. And we know our adult Ed students need additional supplemental materials here and there. So this is a great way to start. If you are offering high school equivalency classes, and you need additional support for algebra or additional support-- I know when I was in the classroom, I needed additional support for my students in science and social studies. So those are additional items that you can find for your students on the CK-12 website.

OK, so that's a quick kind of recap of what we discussed last week. But we're going to go into kind of live, and some demos, and how to get started. And I'm going to hand it over to Lindsey, who's going to take us away with that. Thank you.

Lindsay Kincaid: Absolutely. Before we make sure that everybody's signed in and joined, and all that kind of stuff. There is a question that I just got in the Q&A asking about our nonprofit status. So this is a good time to remind everybody that the CK-12 Foundation is a nonprofit, a non-revenue nonprofit. So you're not going to see any advertising on our sites. There's no trick to it as far as-- we're never going to ask for any of your credit card information, things like that. We are free resources for everyone.

And as far as how we're funded, we are funded by a family foundation. It's very generous. They've been supporting us since 2007. And so we're going to continue that support for the years to come. So we're a nonprofit. That's lucky that we aren't constantly looking for donations. That money has always been in place.

And that's why we're trying to be strategic about how to best use it to impact education. And I can tell you, our founder are so excited about adult education. We've really gone all in. And we're trying to-- again, this is the Getting-Started mode. And we're really looking for strategic partners in this space to help us make these books better, to identify areas where we can help with some training, and show some of your colleagues how to use CK-12. We're not selling anything. It's really just getting the word out, spreading it, and hoping that these books are going to save educators time. And then be a really great learning for your adult learners.

So last week-- and I wish I knew how many of you are here from last week. And I don't think I really have any way of judging that. But the first part here, I'm just going to do a little bit of review. And then we're going to talk specifically about customization. And most of that's going to be new because I didn't really get into a lesson last time and show you all the things that you can do to a lesson.

So keep in mind that a lot of today, like Neda said, we have resources ready for you to grab and go. So if you are not interested, and you don't have the bandwidth to do a lot-- more work to your books, you absolutely don't have to. But I'm hoping to intrigue you a little bit by the capabilities so that you might be enticed to do some localization specifically for your students.

So first things first, let's make sure that you guys have all signed up or signed in. I'm actually going to go live to the site. And let me show this because it's probably just as easy. Oops, it says I can't start my screen. So let's try now. I'm waiting for my screen to share.

OK, here we go. You guys should be looking at the CK-12 homepage. And I have signed in to a demo account. And you can tell that I've signed in because it has my name in the upper right-hand corner. And I am signed in as a teacher, which I would encourage all of you to do if you're playing the educator role. And this is the view that I get.

So if you have not signed in yet, go ahead and sign in. You've got options. You can sign in using Google. You can sign in with other single sign-ons. I can show you how I have set up my account, which again is a demo account. You have options to put in your name. That's the email address I'm using. You could tell that I have signed on with Google. You could sign on with Facebook, Twitter, or you Microsoft users you can just do that single-click sign-on as well. You can select your time zones.

And then this is where you're going to find some information about how you want to communicate with CK-12. So you have some control over your notifications. And then, if you ever wanted to do some deactivations and things like that, that's all here in your account.

If you aren't sure if you are a teacher or a student, under profile, if I say Change profile, it's going to pop up a box, and it shows me here that I'm a teacher. So if you sign up as a student and you want to change that to the teacher role, you're able to do that here. This information's all kind of optional. It's just that we have our system kind of serve up some recommendations for you that are catered to your subjects and whatnot.

Add a profile photo if you would like. And then that should keep you signed in. You'll occasionally be signed out where you'll need to sign in. Your students-- if you are using a learning management system, which I know a lot of you are. If you're using Google Classroom, or Canvas, or Schoology, our partnership with those learning management systems makes it. So your students don't have to create accounts on CK-12. When they click on the assignment from Google Classroom, or Canvas, or Schoology, our systems will talk to each other. And they don't need to be doing anything separate on CK-12.

If you are not using Google Classroom, Canvas, or Schoology, then you might want to consider creating classes on CK-12 that are totally free. Anybody can use it. You can build classes for many students or just a couple of students if you're tutoring or even if you're working with your own children at home. You can create individual classes to kind of track their progress.

So if students have a class code, there's lots of different ways for them to join. If you're creating a class, you can give everybody a, I believe, it's a five or six-digit code that they would type in to join the class, or you have the option to email information out to them to get them to join as well. So type in the Q&A if you still have. We're trying to pull up the Q&A again. If you still have-- let's see. There is a question. How does this work if I'm creating a masterclass for other teachers to use as well?

Interesting. So if you're using a CK-12 class, you have the option to have a co-teacher involved in your class. But in general, your account is pretty specific to you or the user. We don't do a whole lot of collaboration for a variety of reasons. So if you can't, as a department chair, create a bunch of accounts and blast them out to everybody. They would really-- the teacher who's wanting to track the student's progress would need to create their own classes and get their students in there. But like I said, you can come down to the members of a class. And you have the option to add a co-teacher to have visibility into this class as well.

OK, so I'm going to press this logo. You're going to see me doing this a lot. I like this, the CK-12 logo to go back to my homepage here. And last week, again, we dove in a little bit. I encourage you to use this Explore menu. I showed you what a simulation looks like. I showed you how a PLIX looks like, the school's page where you can find other books that are near you, and then encouraged you to use the search bar to search for things.

I'm going to look up language arts because that's an area that's CK-12 is fairly enlightened as specialists and the math and science areas. And I told you that you can come over here to this Community Contributed term. And this is just everything CK-12 has, but when I come over to Community Contributed, there are books that our users have submitted here that I may want to use.

The 6th Grade Language Arts book, I don't know anything about it. It's written by Lauren B. I could open it up. I can see that this was created or it was last modified in 2020. It actually looks like a combination of some of the CK-12 materials we have. But anyway, I can open up these books, learn about them, look in here and see if I want to use anything for my own books.

So you're going to be able to take content from other people and add it to a Flex Book that you create. So more on that in a minute. For now, now that you know how to search, you're signed in, you know where to find the Explore menu, with lots of different resources. Look, if I scroll down here, I get to view What Do You Want To Teach Today? And any of these adult Ed topics take me to that ck12.org/adulted page.

And so Neda just walked you through some of our offerings here, which is just our starter content. I would love it if any of you start working on some other subjects in the adult Ed world. We will get your books featured up here. It's just again a paying world. If you're going to spend all the time creating it, we would love for others to be able to modify it for their needs and to take advantage of it.

Let's dive. I don't what book I want to jump into. Let's jump into biology for a minute. So this is our Flex Book 2.0 platform. And about 2 and 1/2 years ago, we switched over from our original Flex Books, where if you were paying attention to that yellow A, that book was in the original Flex Book. And then this is Flex Book 2.0. What's the difference? Our Flex Book 2.0 has brought in all the resources together and really integrated them into an easy-to-use super-intelligent platform.

So most of what we're talking about today are pretty much-- all about what we're going to be talking about today is going to be here in Flex Book 2.0. Let's see which of these look interesting. Cell structure. You get other ways to learn a lesson. And then when I start the lesson-- our lessons look like this, where there's an image at the top.

Sometimes there are things embedded like a video. We're getting-- maybe you're going to see a simulation or a PLIX. I showed you the Adaptive Practice that's attached. And we can talk about how to swap that out with a quiz that you create. I showed you how you can use the different languages down here to instantly translate into other languages.

And then this toolbar is where we're going to be spending a lot of time today talking more about this customization, adding things to Flex Book 2.0, making sure that you can download your books as a PDF if you need to. So don't forget that you've got a toolbar here with the learning tools for students, as far as being able to do some highlights or seeing some of that related content. But we're going to be down here.

And also, if it helps with your students too, under the More category, we do have some display settings. They're not maybe as robust as I would like. I'd love to build on this. But you can increase the size of the font or decrease it, which helps if you're projecting or not. And then, students can also select a background or their line spacing. So that's individual to each account. So they have their own choices on their Display Setting.

So that's just a few things to show you. Hopefully, that's a good kind of warm-up. Use the Q&A window to type in some of those questions. But I'm going to let-- I think I'm handing it back to Debbie, who's going to really start talking about the steps to customization of-- if you see something on our site, and you say, that's great, but I want to make a few modifications. We're going to show you how to do that.

Debbie Jensen: Thank you. Let's go to slide 9. Learn more. There you go. All right. And I'll share my experience of how I got with CK-12. And I was an EDE teacher, and I needed math. And so that's where I started. The ways you can search. You can search by subjects. You can search by Explore. You can use the search box. But I also want to tell you that you can use Google.

And then, if you were using Google, you would write in the topic. And then you'd put the colon. And you'll put CK-12. And they will then find all the materials, the resources at CK-12 that will fit your need. And so they will look. And I've used that many, many times to get that.

All right. So we're looking for a resource. That's where I started. And I want to look for a resource. Next slide. Let me show you which one of them that I started with-- Well, let me show you this one. OK, this is one that is currently under our high school equivalency. It's called Algebra Basics for High School equivalency. And let's say you look at it and you say, this is good. This is good.

So I'm going to look at this. And when I click on that Choose button, it's green right there in the center. And when you look at the menu that comes, you see, Customize. We're not going to do that yet. First, I want to just add it to my library. Because your library is like this repository of things that you found. It's like-- if you go in a library, and you just grab all the books off the shelf that you may want to look at someday, and you put them all in your library, then you can find them easily when you come back.

And so the first step is to add it to your library. OK, so the other things, though, that are also in the same button, you can Assign it, you can Customize it, we'll go over that in a few minutes. You can share it, but also notice down there where it says Download PDF. Sometimes you need a hard copy, and this can be done that way as well. And so that's wonderful.

Next slide. OK, when I clicked on Customize. Then this is the next thing that I get. And these are the things that I can do. I can change the name of the book, which is super cool because then I can say it's Debbie's Math Class, or I can say it's Baldwin Park Adult and Community Education Math Class. I can say anything. I can name the book, change the cover, I can edit or delete lessons. And I can rearrange them.

And for me in math, this was really important because I didn't teach in the same order as the lessons that were there. And so I could rearrange them. And you can add your own. And that is not hard. So you're established teacher. You got lessons that you like. And she rather than making this an addendum to your stuff, you can put your stuff in here. And one of the teachers that I read her the testimonial was that she loved the fact that she no longer had to take a whole bunch of stuff home. She put it all in the CK-12 and was able to work from there. And so you can do that.

Next slide. These are the ones that I did at the very beginning when I made my Math B class. And all I did was I change the image, and I change the name. And I was good to go. So let's go to the next one. Be sure you save it. So when you click Save. So you've got it.

Also, Lindsay taught me this. I was always going back to the CK-12 logo to move around to get to the various places on the screen. But if you go over to your name, there is a little drop-down menu right there. And you can go to the dashboard, but you can go to My Classes, or you can go to My Library right there. And so that cuts a lot of steps out. And so that is very, very convenient. So definitely use that shortcut.

Next slide. If you do have an LMS system-- I used Google Classroom. And so I wasn't so interested in setting up my own-- to setting up a classroom in CK-12. So there are-- you can use Google Classroom, Canvas, or Schoology. And when you use those, they will automatically put the grade into your-- for me, it was my Google Classroom. Let me show you that. Let's go to the next slide. And you'll see exactly what I'm talking about.

OK, Oh, this slide first. Let me do this slide first. But if you do not have Schoology, or you don't have Canvas, or you don't have Google Classroom, you can set up a class here. And then all of the wonderful features that we're going to show you, all of the insights, all the automatic grading, all of those things will be here. And so it's very, very simple to do that.

Now, we did have a question about what happens if I have Moodle? You can link CK-12 to all of these places. But that automatic grading, you'll still have to go back to CK-12 for that feature. So you'd have to go back there to grade.

OK, so let's go to the next slide. And this was my experience when I used Google Classroom. And it was my ABE Math class. And you can see in the center one where it has circled the CK-12 lesson that I put in. OK, and next slide. Then you'll see the grade board. And you'll see the score. So when the student did it, the score automatically went here. So that was pretty amazing.

OK, next slide. Now, that was what I did originally, which wasn't much. I rearranged a few things. I may have taken out one lesson, but for the most part, it was CK-12. The way the CK-12 was just a little rearranging, changing the name, and that was my book. But then I wanted to create a new one. And this one, there was no course that I could just take readily from CK-12. I wanted to create a course called cosmetology for my cosmetology department.

OK, so this is what I did. First, I searched for skin and nails. I gathered everything I could get from CK-12 into my library. And then, I looked at them because CK-12 has written material at different levels. They've got middle school, they've got high school, and they've got college. And so, especially with cosmetology, I needed to know-- and this would be a cosmetology teacher that would be in the final say on this. If I were to let you look at my cosmetology course right now, you would see that there are three lessons on nails. And that's because they're at different reading levels and different-- the depth content. That's OK. You can take out what you want to take out, you can add what you want to, and you can then utilize what is there.

Let's go to the next slide. Another tip on Search there up at the top. And Lindsay showed you this was the toolbar. It's the little grid or waffle pattern. When you go there, you're able to add things to your library right from this screen. That's very convenient. And you can-- so you can also customize the screen. And so the screen is useful. And you'll refer to it. Next slide.

OK, so I started up. I started with the lesson on Skin and Health. And I gave it a name. It wasn't called Skin and Health. It was a lesson in a biology book. And so I gave it to the name Cosmetology. I selected the plus button where it says Create a new Flex Book. And they give you a choice, a regular Flex Book or a Flex Book 2.0. You want the 2.0 because that's going to make it real simple for you to add your videos and all of these other things. So definitely do that. I had in my title. I clicked on Save. Next slide.

Now in the center of your Table of Contents, it says to Add. And then, in green, it's the Chapter. And then, in blue, New Read. And then there's or Search From CK-12 Library. OK. So on the next slide, you see what happened when I clicked from New Read. And I then added it to my Flex Book. And this is where it came. All of the new things that you gather will go to the bottom of the screen. That's just the place that they all come to. OK, so let's go to the next slide.

So the first thing-- after you've added all of these things, the next thing you're going to want to do is rearrange them. And so you'll see that thing that looks like two arrows that are crossed. And that is how you're going to rearrange them. At this point, they are all equal. And what we want to do is we want to make some of them chapters, which is like a heading. And then, the next part would be the lessons inside that chapter. So the first thing is to rearrange them. So what you see here is that I took the nails and hair, and I moved it up to the middle. OK, so that's the first thing I did is I just rearranged. OK, next slide.

Two terminologies that I want you to know, two terms. There is a little arrow beside the number one. And that's how you open up a chapter, OK? If there's something that is inside it as lessons, that's what you're going to click to find it. And the second one is over at 2. There's a little pencil icon. It's like an edit. And that's great. But all it does is change the title of that. It doesn't go into your lessons. And being able to modify and change lists. I'll show you where that is. OK, so now let's go to the next slide.

OK, the way that you're going to make it so that lessons are inside chapters is the three dots that are at the very end. Then what that does is it-- we opened up the menu. And it said-- it's listed all of your headings. They're all chapters, but they're all there. And so if I want Nails to go inside Nails and Hair, then that's where I would click on. OK.

And then on the second picture there on the slide, it shows you that under Nails and Hair now I have a 2.1, a 2.2, and a 2.3. OK, so those three dots are going to allow you to make chapters with lessons inside them. OK. All right, let's go to the next one.

Now, I'm done. I gathered my material. I threw it all in. I rearranged it. And then I sub-headed some of them. Some of them were lessons, and some of them are chapter heads. And so I take a look at this. And I'll see, OK, I've got Skin. I've got Nails and Hair. Yes, I've got my lessons inside, I've got the diseases of the lesson hand side. And then I've got this really big one that's college level. And this is cool. And so I've got all of that there. I'm going to finalize. And so the button on the left at the top is Finalize. And then you get the next screen. And I will say, OK, next slide.

Now, you're finished, unless you find something else. And the super, super cool thing here is that any time you want to add something, you can. This is not like, Oh, my goodness, Oh my goodness, I'm done. I don't dare add anything more. No, this is my textbook right now. Those are the chapters. The lessons are indented inside. And so if I clicked on those arrows, then you would see the lessons. So right now, I'm done. I'm ready to use this with my students. Unless I find something else, I want to add. OK, next slide.

Just a couple more things. And then I'm going to let Lindsay show you this whole thing live. There are really wonderful things that teachers have created. And this was one that I showed last week, but it's one of my very favorites. She wanted her adult students to know how to use CK-12. And so she created a series of videos that she then put in on how to-- introduction to the lessons, how do the lessons work, how to take notes, how to annotate, how to change languages, everything she thought that maybe the students might be confused about.

Now, you think, well, that's wonderful, but I don't have time to create it. But the philosophy of CK-12 is, let's share. These are educational resources for all of us so that we don't keep recreating the wheel. So that if I've done this cosmetology search, and it took a while to gather everything. I don't want you to have to do that. You use mine. You add what you want. You'll take my base, and then you take it to your level of adding your own lessons and things like that. So it's wonderful. So these things that you see you can use as well. Next slide.

Now the other thing that was new to me that is magnificent. And I'm just going to tell you really quickly about it. Well, there's two on this slide. OK, where one is the lower left. That guy's called Flexi. And he's there to help the students. And he's going to help them in marvelous ways, giving them hints, telling them-- maybe they're getting things wrong. And so he will tutor them through, but then he will also then give maybe a little easier problem, or maybe they're getting everything right, and so a little harder problems.

And all of these things are being recorded for you as a teacher so that you can know what the student is doing and how well the students are doing. So Flexi is there for the students. For you, the teacher, is up at the top on the right. And it's like a lightning bolt. They call it the-- I've heard they call it the lightning bolt icon. And it opens up the insights.

Now, I knew there were insights, but I've never seen him because I didn't set a class up and then get it going fast enough to be able to use this and see it. So what the brilliant people at CK-12 did is they created a demo class. And so when you open that, you can click-- on the left, you see where it says, Try Demo Class. And you can click on that. And then they're going to show you what the insights look like for a class. And you'll be able to see what's there. OK, let's go to the next slide and show you what you're going to see when you click on that lightning bolt.

You're going to see a graph showing where the students are, which ones they're having trouble with. Down below, you'll see the students that haven't finished. You'll also see the number of those that have turned in the inside-- have finished up, that's 9 out of 11 that have done it. You can get individual work on what each one has done it. They're listed by performance levels from low to high. OK, let's go to the next slide.

This is super. And then, you get this too. And this is-- they will-- these are their insights and their recommendations. Only three of my students who turned in this assignment have reached the adaptive practice goal of answering 10 questions correctly. We recommend to you that you remind the students that they need to answer all 10 questions correctly. OK, and then they do have the list of the students that, great, didn't get it done.

Then the next one, the top four questions students answered incorrectly or noted below. See, that's really useful to you to know which questions the students aren't getting, because so then you can readdress them and be able to help them with that. And then, they will even tell you the students that are doing exceptionally well. And so, you may want to assign them the next concept to keep them challenged. So all of those insights are there for you. It's like, whoa, they help the students succeed in the work, and then they help you in succeeding in the teaching. So it's really cool.

Now, we wanted to spend some time now with letting Lindsay show you how to do this customization live. So I'm turning it back over to her. And then you will be able to-- please ask your questions. And we'll let her know the questions in the Question and Answers so that we can help you with that. Go ahead, Lindsay.

Lindsay Kincaid: Absolutely. Let me go back to sharing my screen. We should be back on the Adult Ed page. Let me make sure my chat window and the Q&A is open. I'll try to keep an eye on that while I'm demoing. Please, any questions of-- as you can see, CK-12 we're a really, really robust platform. There's so much content on so many different areas. And then you've got the things that CK-12 has created over time. And the Hundreds of thousands of resources that our users have created over time. So it's a lot of stuff. So let's break it down into small bits here.

And I'd like to talk first about customization. And then I'm sure there'll be some questions more about what Debbie was showing with assignments, and checking student progress, and that kind of thing. But let's try to stay focused on-- if you found a book that you like, what do you do with it to make it your own?

So I'm on the Adult Education page. And we're assuming that maybe some of these books are where you would like to get a start. If you're not seeing anything on this page that excites you, and you want to create a book from scratch. I'll show you how to do that in just a minute. You can definitely start with a blank slate. And you can bring in content, either your own content or content from the CK-12 platform into your own Flex Book.

But let me scroll down. Let's choose something to customize. Let's go into Algebra Basics For High School Equivalency. And so once again, I'm going to 2.0 Flex Book here. Some information that you get, this says that this was last modified on February 13, 2021. You've got a little description about this book.

And then, under authors-- this is interesting because CK-12 authored a lot of this content. Shawn Reagan, who was a contractor and is now a CK-12 employee, he authored some of this content. And then Shana Friend, who's a CK-12 certified educator, she started customizing those for her GED students. And then Debbie in OTAN came along and further customize that book to make this Algebra Basics for High School Equivalency book that you see right now.

OK, and so you're going to see things like these Flex Book features. Debbie showed you a screenshot of this. This was created by Shanna. And this could be something that you want to keep in your book, or you might want to delete it. So I'll show you how to do that. And all of these chapters are expandable. And you can immediately go straight into the lessons.

So again, if you want to use this book, as is cool. You can share it. You can download it as a PDF. You can grab the link-up here and copy and paste the link and share it with people. You've got all those options ready to go. But I think a lot of you are going to want to do basic customization.

So I'm going to click Customize on this book. And again, I don't know, if you have two screens open and you're following along with me, great. Or if you just want to sit back and relax and watch the demo and try to do it later. That's great, too. When I select Customize, what is doing this is basically making a copy of this book into my own personal library. You see Library up here. It's going to store all of the stuff that I start creating. So this book that was CK-12, Shwan, Shanna, and Debbie-- it's now going to be Lindsey too. So I'm going to call this Ms. Kincaid's Algebra Basics For High School Equivalency. Or maybe I think that's too long. I'm going to use HSC.

OK, so you can add a title. You can change the cover. You can change the image. And then you start getting into the scope and sequence where-- this is really where I recommend you start. I think this is the logical place, is to look at this book that you've decided to customize. And see, does it make sense for what I'm teaching my students? Doesn't match what I'm trying to cover in my semester or my year, or unit by unit?

If you know that you're never going to get to Polynomials, this is the nice thing about a digital Flex Book because I can just remove the whole chapter on Polynomials. And when I say, hey, we're not going to do the functions either. That's just not our agenda. I could remove that. And then slopes way down here at 8, but I'm going to do that prior to Inequalities.

So you can see here how I am rearranging using these handles to drag and drop. That works either at the chapter level or within the lessons inside of a chapter. So I can just move these around. And it renumbers. I can move things in between chapters where-- it probably doesn't make much sense to put this Inequalities into slope. But I'm going to do it because it's my book, and I can do what I want to do. So I just moved it up the slope. And there is--

This is all what's going on at the chapter level. And like Debbie said, this pencil and paper gives you some options to edit the chapter title. And then, you can also edit the chapter description, which shows up at the top of the book, and do some basic things like that. I don't spend much time doing much at the chapter level. It's more at this table of contents level or in an individual lesson.

So some things here, all right. Maybe I've got this book kind of how I want it, but I don't think-- well, here I'm going add my own Introduction here. So I'm going to add a new, what we call Read. And I'm going to call it Lindsay's Online Class Procedures. That's kind of boring and daunting. And so here is the basic lesson that I put under Introduction. And I can go in there. And I could add that at any time. --add to that lesson at any time.

If you are wanting to blend some books, and you're thinking, hey, I know CK-12 has some great resources on Polynomials. I didn't mean to delete it from my book. I actually wanted that Polynomials in here. You can come in, and you can search Polynomials. You can search CK-12. I can search within Flex Books. I can look for individual Reads. And then I can also look in my library. I think Debbie's way of using CK-12 is really cool, where she kind of does the bookmarking method, right? She finds resources she likes on CK-12, she adds them to her library. And then she can always just come over here to Library and pull those resources into her book. I said, hey, we're going to be talking about Multiplying Polynomials. I can add this to my book. And it just inserts it as a lesson down at the bottom. And then it's up to me to create a new chapter or to drag it into the chapter that it applies.

So that's one way to use this search for CK-12 library, a new Read, or a new chapter. OK, I'm going to go ahead and save this for a minute. And when I save it, remember nothing is ever final on CK-12. I can continue to edit it whenever I would like. I haven't published this book yet. So it's not available for everybody to search and find it. That's an option at the end when you actually select Publish.

Let me go to My Library. I'm going to show you where this book lives in My Library. It should be that the top thing here. Here's my Algebra Basics For High School. It shows that it was just updated. Right here, I can go in and change the metadata to get rid of the grades and things like that. So at any time, I want to continue editing this book. This is one place to do it. I would just click on this book again. And choose instead of customized since I already started customizing. From here on now, I'm going to see Edit. So I could just edit. And it would take me right back into that Book Mode Table of Contents to edit.

I'm going to actually go back to your library and show you a different way to approach things. If you were like Debbie, and you're thinking I'm going to do something-- she just created her Cosmetology book. I'm going to create a Flex Book 2.0 book. I taught a year of IB Film Studies, International Baccalaureate Film Studies. And I don't believe CK-12 has a whole lot that would make sense to bring into this. But I can go ahead and just create my own book from scratch. So I'm going to call this IB Film Studies. And eventually, I would get interested in changing the cover.

Resources. This is where I could add some additional resources. It's a great place if you have a PDF syllabus or something you want to add, and you can do that. And then I can come in, and I can start changing the details of this book to say what this looks like. And we've talked about-- we need to, kind of de-emphasize these grades and make a category that's appropriate for the adult learners. But I can come in here and add subjects and attributions, and all that kind of all those kinds of things in that tab.

When I see this-- we're going to go back out to my pretty empty-looking IB Film Studies book. OK. So I can come in. I can edit. And I can start adding chapters and reads and everything else. Another way, though, to do this is-- so keep in mind, I've set up this book, all right? Now let me go back out to the homepage. And I know there are some cool lessons on photography that I think would apply to my film studies, as far as composition-- yeah, histograms, a view through a lens. These things all work for me. Let me-- Building Your Own Portfolio. That looks exciting.

When I click on something that I like, and I look at this, and I say, Oh, this is perfect for my book. Remember this toolbar up here, in that ability to add to a Flex Book 2.0? This is another way to get content into your book. You can either do it from the table of contents and search CK-12 or when you're on a resource that you like, you can click. Add to Flex Book 2.0. And it's going to ask you, do you want to create a new Flex Book, or do you want to put it in one that you already have? I'm going to say, Oh, well, this is the perfect lesson to go in my IB Film Studies book.

Success. It's added. OK, so let's test that theory. I'm going to go back to My Library. And I'm going to open up my IB Film Studies book. And there you go. We've got this one random breed kind of hanging out there. This is my Photography read. That's the start of my IB Film Studies book.

OK, so I'm hoping that answers questions as far as how to click Customize and get started on editing a book. Or to go to your Library and create a new book. Definitely go with Flex Book 2.0. It's just the newest version of a book. And it will have the most capability with those insights. So work on that. And then you can start building your book.