Team Catalogs

Team Catalogs helps you organize exercises into focused collections.

A catalog can be personal, or it can be shared with collaborators when you want a group to work in the same collection.

Catalog List

The Team Catalogs page shows the catalogs available to you. You can:

• create a new catalog
• open an existing catalog
• see whether a catalog is personal or shared

Use this page as the starting point for organizing exercises around a course, unit, textbook, exam bank, teaching team, or short-term project.

Catalog Detail Pages

Opening a catalog takes you to that catalog's exercise-browsing page.

A catalog detail page can include:

• a catalog header
• exercise search
• filters for content state, exercise type, difficulty, and review status when available
• catalog tag management when you have permission
• a create action when creating exercises is available

Search and filters on a catalog detail page only apply to exercises in that catalog.

Adding Exercises to Catalogs

Adding an exercise to a catalog is an organization step. It is separate from publishing.

• Publishing makes an exercise eligible for All Exercises.
• Adding an exercise to a catalog places it into one of your organized collections.
• If you want to organize a public exercise you do not own, duplicate it first so you have your own copy.

Organizing a Catalog With Tags

Catalog tags help organize the exercises inside a specific team catalog. They are useful when a catalog is large enough that collaborators need another layer of structure.

Use catalog tags to group exercises by:

• unit or module
• textbook chapter
• assessment or review set
• course outcome
• shared team workflow

Create catalog tags from the catalog detail page when you have permission to manage that catalog. After the tags exist, add them to exercises in the catalog and use the Tags filter to narrow the catalog to one part of the collection.

Catalog tags are scoped to the catalog. Use them when the organization should make sense to everyone using that catalog. Use your personal tags in Created by Me when the organization is only for your own workflow.

Collaboration

Shared catalogs are useful when multiple instructors need access to the same organized exercise set.

Use a shared catalog when you want to:

• prepare material with co-authors
• maintain a department or course exercise set
• organize exercises for a teaching team
• collect drafts and published exercises for a shared workflow

Tips

• Keep rough drafts in Created by Me or a private catalog until they are ready for broader collaboration.
• Use one catalog per course, unit, or project when you want a focused collection.
• Add catalog tags when a shared catalog needs sections that collaborators can filter by.
• Name tags clearly so collaborators understand the same structure.
• Clear filters before assuming a catalog is empty.
• Use Catalog Search to combine text search with catalog filters.