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Product Details

Website
https://meet.soraapp.com
Overview
Virtual School Online Courses Grades 6–12

Sora Schools is an online private-school model rather than the OverDrive Sora reading app. It is designed primarily for primarily middle- and high-school learners seeking a full-time alternative, project-based, or flexible online-school experience, with students, families, online educators, mentors, and program administrators using it to support interdisciplinary projects, individualized pathways, mentoring, and virtual secondary education.

Learners participate in virtual cohorts, projects, seminars, advising, and individualized academic planning through a school-delivery model. The product should be evaluated for the specific learners, instructional setting, and intensity of support a district intends—not simply as another source of digital activities.

Student Data Privacy
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N/A
 

Signed California Student Data Privacy Agreement?
No
 
Features
Audience and instructional role
  • Grades / learners: primarily middle- and high-school learners seeking a full-time alternative, project-based, or flexible online-school experience
  • Primary users: students, families, online educators, mentors, and program administrators
  • Learning focus: interdisciplinary projects, individualized pathways, mentoring, and virtual secondary education — an online private-school model rather than the OverDrive Sora reading app
How it supports learning
  • Learners participate in virtual cohorts, projects, seminars, advising, and individualized academic planning through a school-delivery model.
  • Teachers should use the product within a defined instructional model rather than treat activity completion as evidence of learning.
Implementation and instructional decisions
  • The export URL indicates Sora Schools, not the OverDrive digital-library app. Verify why a California public district reported it and whether the relationship represents tuition, placement, partnership, or a different Sora product.
  • Districts should confirm accessibility, language support, student-data practices, assignment workflow, reporting, and the role of teacher judgment.
Support Options
  • Email
Company News
Your OverDrive school platform is a custom website that gives students 24/7 access to your digital content, which may include ebooks, audiobooks, streaming videos, and/or periodicals. Each district or school builds their individual content plan from our catalog of millions of titles from over 5,000 publishers. Once your website launches, educators can assign content and also allow students to browse and access content on their own, if desired. Students can access titles in many different ways: through the OverDrive app, in their browser, on eReaders or MP3 players, or in Kindle reading apps (U.S. only).

Your OverDrive school platform is a custom website that gives students 24/7 access to your digital content, which may include ebooks, audiobooks, streaming videos, and/or periodicals. Each district or school builds their individual content plan from our catalog of millions of titles from over 5,000 publishers. Once your website launches, educators can assign content and also allow students to browse and access content on their own, if desired. Students can access titles in many different ways: through the OverDrive app, in their browser, on eReaders or MP3 players, or in Kindle reading apps (U.S. only).

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District Systems Initiative

School Districts that use this:

10 California school districts are currently associated with this product in the SDLA database.

Data comes from SDLA district surveys, public records, vendor information, and ongoing review.