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Library overview

Library is the persistent home for project work you have chosen, created, adapted, or started.

Open Library from Rectangle's main navigation to return to saved, authored, remixed, Ready, Published, and in-progress work. Recent Collections stay above the complete project grid. Select the image to enlarge it.

Read the page from top to bottom

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The recent Collections rail comes first. Collections are optional personal groupings: one can represent a unit, semester, course, planning window, or any other structure that helps you return to work.

The toolbar searches and narrows your Library. The five tabs answer different questions:

  • All brings every Library project state together.
  • Saved holds projects you bookmarked while discovering work.
  • Drafts is the complete list of active Authoring work.
  • Remixed shows adaptations you started from another published project.
  • By you shows projects you authored.

The live number beside each tab reflects the reconciled project list, not raw database records.

Follow one project through Authoring

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Library -> Drafts is the complete active-work list. Open any card to resume Authoring; Ready and Published work appears as its single project card instead of a duplicate draft. Select the image to enlarge it.

A project begins as a private Draft. Marking it Ready makes it available for your classroom but does not publish it publicly. Publishing makes it available to other teachers.

Library preserves one identity across those stages. A Ready or Published project replaces its linked Draft card; it does not appear beside a duplicate copy. Open Drafts when you need every active Authoring project. Use Create’s Pick up where you left off shelf only as a shortcut to recent work.

Scroll below the active Drafts grid and select the discarded-draft count to open the recovery page. The link appears only when recoverable drafts exist. Select the image to enlarge it.

Discarded work leaves the active grid but remains recoverable for 30 days. When recoverable drafts exist, the count below the Drafts grid opens their dedicated recovery page. The draft-management article covers discard, Undo, restore, and permanent deletion.

Add your own organization layer

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Choose Manage all or open a Collection from Library. The left island holds the complete alphabetized collection list; the right work area shows All projects or the selected Collection. Select the image to enlarge it.

Select Manage all or open a Collection to reach the full organization workspace. Collections may contain saved projects, your own projects, remixes, and drafts. The same item may belong to more than one Collection.

Library does not automatically decide which grouping is best. Your Collections remain explicit, visible, and editable as your plan changes.

Keep going

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