Fiction Access (Internal)

All Westmount staff and students have access to a wide range of fiction titles through the “Alberta Public School K-12 Share Digital Resources” Sora collection.  Sora can be used on a desktop (soraapp.com) or via an app downloaded on Apple or Android.

Sora has:

  • Audiobooks
  • Recent periodicals/magazines
  • Popular fiction titles
  • Classic fiction titles
  • A small number of non-fiction titles

Sora can:

  • Be set up using the Dyslexie font, allowing for easier reading for students who may be dyslexic or have reading disabilities
  • Be used to take digital notes as students read OR listen, and those notes are kept by the student even after the book is returned
  • Make digital notes available in PDF to give to a teacher
  • Give assigned reading to students for independent book study or small group book study
  • Be used in a variety of languages including French, Spanish and Chinese

How to use Sora:

  1. Simply go to www.soraapp.com  or download the “Sora, by Overdrive Education” app to your device.
  2. Use your wcs-g.com email address to log in.
  3. Start browsing!