Marking Books and Quizzes

You will want to mark books and quizzes that you own so you can use BookGuide to search and identify them when they are needed in the classroom. It also helps when you are placing orders for books or quizzes, as you can use BookGuide to search for items you do not have.

There are three ways to identify books and quizzes that you own in BookGuide 3.x:

How to Mark Books and Quizzes as "Have"

You can mark books and quizzes either in your Advanced Search results or in your active list.

  1. From the AR BookGuide Home page, under Title and List Management, click Book/Quiz Search. Click Advanced Search in the Quick Search tab.

  2. As an option, you can enter information to narrow your search as described under Advanced Search in Searching for Books and Quizzes.

  3. In Advanced Search, under Book and Quiz ownership status, next to Book, Reading Practice (RP) Quiz, Literacy Skills (LS) Quiz, Vocabulary Practice (VP) Quiz, or Recorded Voice (RV) Quiz, select Don't Have from the desired drop-down list(s).

  4. Under Looking for a particular quiz type, you can select Any quiz type (default), Reading Practice (RP), Literacy Skills (LS), Vocabulary Practice (VP), or Recorded Voice (RV).

  5. In the Titles per page box, you can click on the drop-down and select 10, 20 (default), 30, 40, 50, 75, or 100 for the number of titles that will appear on each page.

  6. Click Search.

  7. Marking Quizzes
    To select individual titles for which you have a quiz, click in the check box under Select next to that title.
    To select all the titles displayed on this page, click the check box above Select in the column heading to check all the boxes.

  8. To mark the quiz for the titles you selected as "have," in the Mark have... heading above the list, click the round Quiz type button (, , , or ) for the titles you selected in step 7. See Book and Quiz Lists.
    If your list or search results span more than one page,  you will need to repeat steps 7 and 8 for each page.
    Once you marked that you have a certain quiz type for a title by clicking the round Quiz Type button, RP for example, the RP next to that title becomes a blue circle with RP in the center to show that you "Have" the RP quiz for that book title.

  9. Marking Books
    To select individual titles for which you have a book, click in the check box under Select next to that title.
    To select all the titles displayed on this page, click the check box above Select in the column heading to check all the boxes.

  10. To mark the book titles you selected as "have," in the Mark have... heading above the list, click the round Book button for the titles you selected in step 7. See Book and Quiz Lists.
    If your list or search results span more than one page,  you will need to repeat steps 9 and 10 for each page.
    Note     about Search results method: Once you marked a title as "have" book by clicking the round Book button, that book title disappears from the search results page because you have searched for titles you don't have, and those title(s) marked have no longer fit that description.
    Note about Active List method:     Once you have marked a title as "have" book by clicking the round Book button, the number 0 in the column "Book" changes to 1.

How to Mark Books or Quizzes as "Don't Have"

  1. From either your Active List or Search Results, click the book title to go to that book's Book Details page. See Book and Quiz Details.

  2. After We have, under Book, change the number of copies from 1 to 0, and, if necessary, remove the check mark for the quiz type you don't have.

  3. Click Save.

  4. Click Legend to see an definition of the Quiz Type symbols that appear in your list.