Create a Destiny Engage book club – for librarians and teachers

Destiny Engage book clubs help you promote reading initiatives to students in a fun way. Use book clubs to launch events that anyone can join, such as school-wide read-alouds or summer reading initiatives; or assign specific students to read books that meet an instructional need or support an area of interest. Set club guidelines, track student progress, and more!

Notes: Your school must have a subscription to Destiny Engage. Users with any of the following Collections roles can create a book club: Administrator, Instructor, Staff, or Faculty. Students with the appropriate access level setting can create book clubs. Learn more.

1. From the sidebar, click Book Club.
2. Select My clubs > Create Book Club.
   

   

3. In the Overview section, do the following:
     
   1. Enter a club name and a description (optional).
   2. Under Reading options, select one of the following:
      • Members choose what to read: Students can choose their own titles from the site's catalog.
      • Members are assigned what to read: Students must choose titles from the assigned list.
   3. Under Who can join this club?, select one of the following:
      • Only members I invite: Only students you assign are part of the club.
      • Anyone in the school: Anyone at your school can join. You can also include participants you assign.

      Note: Students assigned to a book club can not leave that book club.

   4. Enter the start and finish dates.
   5. From the Remind members to start and complete this book club drop-down, select a frequency.
   6. From the Members must read drop-down, select the number of titles.
4. In the Titles section, do any of the following:
    
   1. Search for a title to add, and then click . Repeat for each title you want to add.
   2. To remove a title, from the Available titles or Selected titles tab, click next to the title.
      

      Notes:  You can also add a title to a new or existing book club from the homepage, search results, or when viewing title information. If Members choose what to read is selected, students can add the titles they want to read to the book club.

5. In the Members section, do any of the following (optional):

   If you want to add students...	Then...
   Individually	From the drop-down, select Student name. Type a student's name in the search field, and then click Invite. Repeat this step for each student.
   By grade level	From the drop-down, select Grade level. Note: This option might be unavailable if grade levels have not been set up in Destiny. From the Select grade level drop-down, choose the desired grade. A list of students appears. Do either of the following: To invite all students in the grade, click Invite all. To invite specific students in the grade, next to the desired name, click Invite. Repeat this step for each student.
   By homeroom	From the drop-down, select Homeroom. Note: This option might be unavailable if homerooms have not been set up in Destiny. From the Select homeroom drop-down, choose the desired homeroom. A list of students appears. Do either of the following: To invite all students in the homeroom, click Invite all. To invite a specific student(s) in the homeroom, next to the desired name, click Invite. Repeat this step for each student.

   Note: You can see a list of club members on the Selected tab. To remove all members, click Remove all. Or, to remove an individual member, click Remove next to their name.

6. Do one of the following:
   • To save the club as a draft, click Save draft.
   • To make the club active, click Activate club.

   Notes: You can save a book club as a draft without completing all required information. Access active, draft, and closed (completed) clubs by going to Book Club > My clubs.

Edit, duplicate, or delete a book club

1. From the sidebar, click Book Club.
2. From the My clubs tab, select the club you want to work with.
   
3. Do one of the following:

   If you want to...	Then...
   Edit the club	Under Actions on the right side of the page, click Edit. Make any changes. Click Save. Note: Participants are notified of any changes to the name, book list, or dates.
   Duplicate the club	From the Actions menu on the right side of the page, click Duplicate. A copy of the book club is created with identical settings. Make any changes. Note: You cannot have two clubs with the same name. Click Save. Note: Once you save a duplicated club, it is activated and appears as either an active or upcoming club, depending on the start date.
   Delete the club	Click Delete. A pop-up appears. Click OK to confirm.

Participate and track book club progress

• Learn how students participate in a book club.
• Learn how to track book club progress.