As a LibPaths subscriber you can download portals from PortalHub into your school's collection of portals, edit content as required, and distribute as necessary to your school community through a variety of channels including your school's learning management system and MS Teams. 


What Is LibPaths PortalHub


LibPaths PortalHub is a library of professionally crafted portals designed to support teaching and learning. Portals in the PortalHub collection are available for diverse curricula subjects and topics, year levels, student groups, teacher groups, and even parent groups. Each portal consists of a collection of portlets of information to support the overall theme of the portal, and the collection of portals continues to grow and evolve over time.


Collectively the PortalHub portals are a mix of study guides, topic guides, subject guides, lesson resources, and pathfinders. Once downloaded into your LibPaths the portals are yours and you can:

  • use them as templates for building other portals
  • use them as learning exercises to see how some display and layout effects have been achieved
  • edit, delete, copy, duplicate, and remove portlets to suit your requirements
  • edit, delete, copy, duplicate, and remove portals to suit your requirements
  • share portals with your school community


Note: Each downloaded portal becomes an independent and separate version of the original so updates to original portal in PortalHub will not effect your downloaded version, and edits to your downloaded version in your LibPaths will not effect the original in PortalHub.


Book Carousels In A Portal


Book carousels might be included in some PortalHub portals as examples of how you maybe able to present books from your library catalogue within a portal. Check with your LMS vendor to find out if book carousels can be displayed from external HTML display environments.


During import, you can decide as part of the import process whether include or discard books in a PortalHub carousel with your import. If books are not imported an empty carousel will be included in the imported portal. This can be deleted as required.


Infiniti LMS: If you choose to include books in the PortalHub carousel an abbreviated bibliographic catalogue record for each book will be created in your Infiniti catalogue, and a book list with the same name will be created in your lists area. 


From within Infiniti you can then choose to purge the unwanted bibliographic catalogue records and the list from My Lists, or keep them and acquire a copy of the book. If you choose to skip books in the PortalHub carousel these books will be removed from the carousel, possibly leaving either a partly populated carousel or an empty placeholder carousel.


Connecting To PortalHub and Importing


After you connect to PortalHub you can browse and review portals, select one or more that interest you, and import these into your local portal collection. Typical time to import a portal is 1-3 seconds.

  1. Navigate to LibPaths.
  2. .
  3. - confirm you want to connect to LibPaths portalHub.
  4. - abandon the session and return to your local portal library at any time.
  5. In the top right corner, immediately above the visible portal is:
    • - who created it.
    • - date last updated.
  6. - browse the collection:
    1. Any Tag - click to filter portals by subject tag. Note: Each portal is tagged with one or more broad subject headings, e.g., Science, Mathematics, IB DP. Selecting multiple tags will expand a list, i.e., IB DP | Science will locate portals about IB DP or Science.
    2. Any academic level - click to filter portals by academic level. Note: Each portal is tagged with one or more academic levels, e.g., Year 8, Year 4-6, Year 12. Selecting multiple academic levels will expand a list, i.e., Year 8 | Year 12 will locate portals suitable for Year 8 or Year 12.
      Note: Combining a subject tag with an academic level will reduce a list, i.e., History | Year 12 will locate portals suitable for History and Year 12.
  7. Click to View - click the title portal to review it.
  8. Import one or more portals:
    1. - beside the portal name to select it for import into your portal collection.
    2. Repeat Step 1 as required to choose additional portals.
    3. After selecting your list: 
      1.  - your portal selection.
      2. - clear the selected portals.
      3. - to transfer the selected portals into your local collection.
  9. - status of your selected list of portals.
  10. - uncheck to ensure the imported portals use your portal styling and branding.
  11. When importing book carousels and a title is missing from your catalogue?
    • The import should skip missing titles Note: Refer to note above.
    • The import should create new abbreviated catalogue records Note: Refer to note above.
  12. - to complete the import.
  13. Newly imported portals will be located at the bottom of your list of portals but you can move them as required.
  14. All portlets in all imported portals will be set to "published" but the individual portals have to be assigned to respective target audiences as required and published according to your schedule.


What You Can Do With Imported Portals


The subject headings and academic levels associated with each portal in PortalHub are used as guidelines only and are not prescriptive. While some portals can be used "as is" when download, other portals will have to be edited to match your curriculum requirements.


Once imported, the portals are part of your collection and you can maintain them as required; edit, delete, copy, duplicate, and remove portals and portlets as necessary to meet your specific needs. Note: Remember to check each portlet to make sure it meets your expectations and publish when ready.