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At-a-Glance Resources - What's Available to Me?

What Physical Resources are Available to Me?

Note: to steward resources responsibly, the Learning Commons has ceased to ship materials readily available in public libraries (novels and general fiction, general nonfiction and reference books, etc.).


HCOS Enrolled and Flex

HCOS Registered

Digital Unit Study Kits

✅

✅

Inclusive Education General Collection books

✅

✅

Curriculum

✅

✅

Grades 10-12 Extended Loan Textbooks

* See note below

✅

Robots

✅

❌

ADST/STEAM Resources**

✅

❌

Supplemental Packs***

✅

❌

Inclusive Education Support Material

✅

❌

Individualized Course Extended Loan Textbooks

✅

❌

Susan Barton Material

✅

❌

Microscopes

✅

❌

Physical Unit Study Kits

✅

❌

*Please note that extended loan textbooks are only available to teachers and students enrolled in HCOS. 

**ADST/STEAM resources include hands-on items such as K’nex, Coding kits, Snap Circuits and Cubelets.

***Supplemental Packs include resources that support learning such as manipulatives, book packs and CDs.

What Subscriptions are Available to Me?

HCOS Enrolled and Flex HCOS Registered
Axis ✅ ✅
BC ExamBank ✅ ✅
BrainPOP, including Spanish and French ✅ ❌
Canadian Reader ✅ ❌
Canadian Reference Centre (EBSCO) ✅ ❌
ClickView & Twig ✅ ❌
Enchanted Learning ✅ ✅
Everfi ✅ ✅
Focused Education (BC Digital Classroom) ✅ ✅
Gale (Focused Ed) ✅ ✅
Gizmos ✅ ❌
HearBuilder ✅ ❌
Mathletics ✅ ❌
Mathseeds ✅ ❌
myBlueprint ✅ ❌
Mystery Science ✅ ❌
National Geographic Kids (Focused Ed) ✅ ✅
PebbleGo ✅ ❌
Read&Write ✅ ✅
Reading Eggs, Eggspress & Fast Phonics ✅ ❌
RightNow Media ✅ ✅
Signal Hill ✅ ✅
Teaching Books ✅ ✅
Touch-type Read and Spell ✅ ❌
Tynker ✅ ❌
What in the World? Level 1 & 2 ✅ ❌
World Book (Focused Ed) ✅ ✅