While every librarian, teacher and student at your school
can access and use Brain Hive, the head librarian will have master responsibility
for both initial setup and ongoing budget and content management of your school's
Brain Hive account.
Brain Hive eBooks can be integrated with library catalogs
using MARC records, placing them in the same catalog alongside your existing
print and eBook collection.
Brain Hive membership is FREE, and it takes less than 15
minutes to get started! One person at your school—your head librarian
or principal—can sign up and personalize your school's account. Sign up now or share Brain Hive with your school's head librarian or principal.
Control the budget, user account, eBook settings, and more for multiple schools with our district level accounts. To get a district level set up, please contact us at 855-554-HIVE or info@brainhive.com. A Brain Hive representative will be happy to create your account.
Most publishers who offer eBooks on demand also make their eBooks available for purchase on an unlimited simultaneous use basis. You will no longer incur checkout rental charges for any eBooks you purchase through Brain Hive.
You are not tied into a long-term subscription or commitment
with Brain Hive.
This is a continually growing community. Please visit Partners and Publishers for the most up-to-date list.
Publishers add new titles to our collection each month. Download a PDF now for a list of titles available in our collection.
Brain Hive strictly adheres to the policies and guidelines
relative to the use of student information as outlined in the Family Educational
Rights and Privacy Policy. Your students' personal information will only be used for legitimate purposes. Student information will not be share with anyone but your school's Brain Hive account administrator.
Brain Hive offers tremendous data for understanding eBook
usage and reading in your school, including what's being read, how often, and
for how long. Important reports, such as monthly eBook checkouts, are automatically
emailed to the account administrator. A report wizard also makes it easy to
generate reports for any time period, with easy data export to Excel or PDF
format.
Your school's Brain Hive account administrator may also view
and check out any title from Brain Hive for review and evaluation purposes without charge.
This allows the account administrator to "kick the tires" while beginning
to curate the collection as needed for your school.
A Brain Hive customer service representative will help you with making a donation toward pre-paid Brain Hive credit for your child's school.
We love referrals—and when something this sweet comes along,
it's best to share. If you know of a school library that would benefit from
Brain Hive, please send a referral email now.
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Brain Hive offers access from anywhere an authorized user
has an Internet connection, making it perfect for after-school and at-home independent
reading and research. Each student and teacher in your school will receive a
unique username and password for secure access to your school's personalized
Brain Hive account.
Every eBook title can be checked out by multiple students
and teachers simultaneously within your Brain Hive account (limited to the teachers
and students within a single school building).
We designed Brain Hive to meet the specific needs of schools
and school libraries, including their unique instructional environment, lack
of eBook availability, technological challenges and budget considerations.
Brain Hive is only available in the U.S., but we plan on expanding The Hive to schools in Canada and other countries in the future.
To activate AR Quizzes, enter your Renaissance Place ID (RPID) in the account personalization settings. Once you enter a valid RPID, AR Quizzes will be active for any eBook in Brain Hive with an available quiz. Students will have the option to take the AR Quiz upon completion of reading an eBook. Quizzing hours are set by the school.
If you'd like to make Brain Hive available for your son or
daughter, please "share the buzz" with your school's librarian and
principal, so that they are aware of the great value Brain Hive can offer your
child and his or her schoolmates. You may donate Brain Hive Bucks to your school by calling 855.544.HIVE.
The school's Brain Hive account administrator may delete
any title from the eBook collection at any time, removing it from the school's
account. Or, the account administrator may remove sensitive titles
from the school's main eBook collection(s) and add those titles to a custom
collection accessible only to select individual students or groups. Either way, you maintain complete control over all the content that is accessible to your students.
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There are no up-front costs and no long-term commitments.
You may join any time, and you only pay for the eBooks your students and teachers
are using—just $1 per checkout.
If you have set funding that must be spent or encumbered,
you can pre-pay for Brain Hive credits. The maximum checkouts will never exceed
your budgeted or prepaid credits. Youmay also set up a PO, and we'll invoice you monthly based on checkouts and purchases. You set your
spending limit. You'll never spend more than you've designated for Brain Hive.
Payments can be made with a Visa, MasterCard, or American Express credit
card.
The account administrator will establish a maximum spending limit on a monthly, quarterly
or annual basis, during the account personalization process. We will
alert you when Brain Hive checkouts are nearing your spending limit. Your budget can be adjusted at any time
without penalty.
The account administrator will set a maximum spending limit
to match the amount of funding you have to spend on Brain Hive.
You may establish a PO and be invoiced monthly based on eBook checkouts
until you reach your budget allotment. Or, you can pre-pay for Brain Hive Buck credits in advance, and checkout charges will be deducted as you go. Next school year, you can adjust your spending however you choose. With Brain Hive, your school is always in control of spending, and you'll never be charged for more than the spending cap set within your account.
Q: If I run out of budget before the end of the month, quarter,
or year, will my students and teachers still have access to Brain Hive?
A: Yes. Brain Hive is fully functional even when you have no budget remaining
for eBook checkouts.
The Brain Hive service continues to be available to search
for books, organize your Bookshelves, add ratings, create book clubs, reference
saved notes, create custom collections, generate reports, and more. If a teacher or student attempts to check out an eBook and you have no budget remaining, the user will receive a friendly message stating that the title is temporarily unavailable and to check back soon.
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Brain Hive employs the latest online encryption technology
to ensure a safe, secure experience for all users.
Brain Hive supports multiple web and
mobile browsers, including those for PC, Mac and iPad. Please see our Technical
Specifications to review minimum technical requirements for optimizing the Brain Hive experience.
A step-by-step setup wizard makes the entire process fast
and easy.
While we tried to include every U.S. K-12 school in our database, selected school data was not available. We still want you to become Brain Hive members! If you cannot find your school in the sign-up search, please click on the "unable to find your school?" link. Provide some quick basic information to set-up your school's account and hit "submit." A Brain Hive representative will verify this information and send you an e-mail with your school's account information.
With so much for librarians, educators, and students to manage
every day, we worked hard to design Brain Hive to be easy as honey pie.
With simple buttons, wizard tools, dashboards, and everything you need at your
fingertips, you and your students will be reading your favorite eBooks in minutes.
Using the web browser on your Nook Tablet or Nook Color, be sure that you have cookies and scripting enabled and an active Internet connection. You will have full functionality of your school's Brain Hive™ account including the built in eBook reader.
However, Brain Hive is fully functional through any web or
mobile Internet browser. It was designed to work on desktop computers, laptops
and netbooks, as well as tablet devices with an active Internet browser.
If you want to read eBooks that you've checked out from Brain Hive on an
iPad®, you may download our free Brain Hive eReader App from the Apple App
Store on iTunes.
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