LiveBinders Tips & Tricks

Our Team plan allows users to manage multiple LiveBinders accounts from an administrator’s panel.  In addition, the Team plan lets members mark their binders with a team plan privacy setting formerly known as ‘limited access,’  now known as ‘team access.’  ‘Limited access’ gives private restrictions to a binder, similar to ‘private access’, but makes it […]

As a follow-up to my blog post on the power of goal writing for students, I did some more research around resiliency, and started learning more about executive functions. According to www.beyondbooksmart.com, executive function are skills that students need for the following: Managing time Organizing thoughts and materials Paying attention Planning and prioritizing Getting started (task […]

We recently learned about #DigitalLearningDay happening on February 28th and asked for requests to share your #digitalbinder libraries on that day. Here are some of the curated content that was shared. Lynda Sisson was kind enough to share her course binders from New Zealand Lisa Timmerman shared her GTi Tier 1 resources for gifted and talented […]

Writing and the power to learn resilience

We have had many requests from people who wanted to create a cleaner look for their binders by removing the url link that appears above the content. This feature is now available to our premium subscribers! To use this feature, just go into your binder in edit mode and click on Settings > Layout. Use […]

Google has been migrating everyone from http: to https: to access web content. This is a good thing as https is a more secure protocol. But, if you see the following error in your binder: Go up into your browser url and type or copy/paste the following: https://www.livebinders.com Please change any bookmarks that you have […]

You can now user shorter urls for your binders and shelves. When you click on the “Share” option, you will now see a URL something like this: https://www.livebinders.com/b/1524306 for a binder and this: https://www.livebinders.com/s/548 for a shelf. We hope that makes your life with LiveBinders just a little easier! But please leave us a comment […]

On Wednesday 10/10, one of our servers became unresponsive and caused our site’s performance to degrade. After we successfully restarted the server, the site performance returned to normal. After additional analysis, we discovered that a new feature we were testing had created a dependency on this server.  When a server goes down, our website should […]

Expand the accessibility of your digital binder: We are excited to release a feature many of you have requested (thank you for telling us what you need!).  This new feature – Download Binder – will provide you access to your binder(s) when you have poor or no internet connection. Download Binder will allow a Pro […]

I was looking at some great binders this morning and realized how the overview page and the table of contents page both really helped give people an introduction to and a bit of context around the binder. So I thought I would do a quick video on how to add those pages. Please note that […]

As schools are ramping up for the Fall school season, we thought it would be fun to  host a give away involving Twitter, LiveBinders and ten$50 Amazon Gift Cards. Starting this Wednesday, August 15th, be prepared to share links to either your favorite public binders or ones that you find useful on our Featured binders […]

We didn’t go to ISTE this year (the largest, most fun edtech event ever) but we have made it our mission for the last few years to help collect resources that were tweeted out during the conference. @pgeorge and @shighley helped us build an amazing binder of resources. In fact there are so many hundreds […]