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

Physical Resources via the Search Portal

The Search Portal is the catalogue and ordering system for Physical Resources. For full information, please visit the Search Portal.

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.

Sora

Sora is a digital reading platform that enables families to access eBooks, audiobooks, and Read-Along books for educational and entertainment purposes. See Sora eBooks & Audiobooks for more information.

	HCOS Enrolled and Flex	HCOS Registered
One Combined Family Sora Account	✅	✅
Individual Student Sora Accounts	✅	❌

Subscriptions

What Subscriptions are Available to Me?

	HCOS Enrolled and Flex	HCOS Registered
Axis	✅	✅
BC ExamBank	✅	✅
BrainPOP, including Spanish and French	✅	❌
Canadian Reader	✅	❌
Enchanted Learning	✅	✅
Everfi	✅	✅
Canadian Reference Centre (EBSCO))	✅	❌
Focused Education (BC Digital Classroom)	✅	✅
Gale (Focused Ed)	✅	✅
HearBuilder	✅	❌
Mathletics	✅	❌
Mathseeds	✅	❌
myBlueprint	✅	❌
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)	✅	✅

Unit Study Kits

Unit Study Kits are a carefully researched compilation of reading and listening resources, curated subscriptions, and choice-based activities based on BC's curriculum's Big Ideas and Core and Curricular Competencies. See Unit Study Kits for more information

	HCOS Enrolled and Flex Teachers	HCOS Registered
Digital Unit Study Kits	✅	✅
Physical Unit Study Kits (Book Sets)	✅	❌