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FAQ for ABCmouse Home Access

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Get answers to common questions about ABCmouse Home Access, including setup, features, and troubleshooting, to enhance your experience with the program.

ABCmouse Home Access

How can our patrons access ABCmouse from home?

If you’re interested in providing home access for all patrons as an extra library service, please email us at BLHSupport@abcmouse.com with the following information, and we will contact you regarding ABCmouse Home Access:

  • Contact Name
  • Library Name
  • City, State
  • Email Address
  • Phone Number

Our Library offers ABCmouse Home Access. Do you have any orientation or training information?

The following information should be helpful for orienting library staff and for increasing awareness and usage of ABCmouse Home Access among patrons… 

ABCmouse Home Access for Libraries includes unlimited access to the same full version of ABCmouse Early Learning Academy that consumers subscribe to. When ABCmouse is accessed from a library remotely with ABCmouse Home Access for Libraries, it can be shared by several children in the same household, each with their own avatar, profile, and progress-tracking on their ABCmouse Step-by-Step Learning Paths.

ABCmouse Early Learning Academy offers the most comprehensive online curriculum for children ages 2–8+, including reading and language arts, math, beginning science, social studies, art and music. ABCmouse stimulates a child’s enthusiasm for learning through over 10,000 interactive learning activities—including books, educational games, puzzles, art activities, songs, music videos, and more— that are highly engaging and extremely educational.

More than 1,200 of these 10,000 learning activities are in Spanish and over 2,000 of them are STEM learning activities. And our 2,000+ book titles can be accessed by Age Level, Guided Reading Level, or Lexile Level. Millions of ABCmouse users have completed more than 10 billion learning activities since 2010. It is arguably the best educational resource on the market to prepare children for kindergarten and ensure third-grade readiness.

And a big added bonus with ABCmouse Home Access for Libraries is the inclusion of our independently-validated Assessment Center—an extra-cost option for consumers—which creates customized lessons that are targeted to help a child improve in specific skill areas identified by the assessments: https://www.edtechdigest.com/2019/01/31/abcmouse-assessment-center.

ABCmouse is truly a world-class educational resource and your library patrons and their children will benefit tremendously by making it available to them at home!

 

Videos for staff training and/or posting on your website:

Additional information about ABCmouse:

And here’s a quick overview of the ABCmouse home page:

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Here’s a quick overview of the ABCmouse Step-by-Step Learning Path:

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Here’s a one-page chart that covers the Curriculum Scope and Sequence for ABCmouse (download the PDF here): 

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You’ll see that we now have well over 10,000 learning activities across all core academic subjects, including more than 2,000 STEM learning activities and over 1,200 learning activities in Spanish.

How to Have a Prominent ABCmouse Listing on Your Website

The URL your patrons will use to create an ABCmouse account and to subsequently access your ABCmouse account varies depending on your method of patron authentication:

  • For libraries using SIP2 patron authentication, patrons will use https://www.abcmouse.com/blho-check-out.
  • For libraries that use EZproxy patron authentication, the URL that patrons use will be determined during the setup process.

One of the secrets to having great usage stats for ABCmouse Home Access is to have multiple listings on your website in all the appropriate/applicable places, as covered in the section noted earlier in this paragraph.

We encourage you to add the URL for ABCmouse Home Access to as many pages on your website as it makes sense to do so. Please be sure to consider all the following categories for adding the ABCmouse URL on your website (and perhaps even on your website’s home page):

We also encourage you to continue providing the free, in-library use of ABCmouse for your patrons, using the following URL (providing that you’re currently allowing children to access ABCmouse in your library): http://www.abcmouse.com/library_account. 

Most libraries that provide ABCmouse Home Access along with the free, in-library use version of ABCmouse include both links on their website. Here are four examples of how you can list both ABCmouse links on your website:

EXAMPLE #1

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The award-winning ABCmouse curriculum is designed to help young children (ages 2-8+) build a strong foundation for future academic success. ABCmouse is 100% educational, with more than 10,000 learning activities across all major subject areas: reading, math, science, social studies, art, and music—including more than 1,200 of those learning activities in Spanish. Best of all, kids love it!

EXAMPLE #2

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EXAMPLE #3

Some libraries have found it effective to promote ABCmouse on their website with a single link that takes patrons to a landing page they created specifically for ABCmouse. These landing pages include both links listed above, along with a bigger image and more detailed descriptions. This is possibly the best way to showcase both versions of ABCmouse on your website. 

Here are some sample descriptions that can be used with your ABCmouse links if you create a stand-alone page for ABCmouse (these can be edited to suit your needs):

  • ABCmouse - The award-winning ABCmouse curriculum is designed to help young children (ages 2-8+) build a strong foundation for future academic success. ABCmouse is 100% educational and 100% fun, with more than 10,000 learning activities (books, puzzles, educational games, art activities, songs, etc.) across all major subject areas: reading, math, science, social studies, art, and music—including more than 2,000 STEM learning activities and over 1,200 learning activities in Spanish. Best of all, kids just love it! (From Age of Learning, Inc.)

  • ABCmouse - The award-winning ABCmouse curriculum is designed to help young children (ages 2-8+) build a strong foundation for future academic success. ABCmouse is 100% educational and 100% fun, with more than 10,000 learning activities across all major subject areas: reading, math, science, social studies, art, and music—including more than 2,000 STEM learning activities and over 1,200 learning activities in Spanish. Best of all, kids love it! (From Age of Learning, Inc.)

  • ABCmouse is 100% educational and 100% fun, with more than 10,000 learning activities for ages 2-8+ (books, puzzles, educational games, science videos, art activities, songs) that encompass reading, math, science, social studies, art, and music—including more than 2,000 STEM and 1,200 Spanish-language learning activities.

  • ABCmouse - With more than 10,000 interactive books, fun-filled educational games, puzzles, and other learning activities—including more than 1,200 of them in Spanish—the award-winning online curriculum of ABCmouse is an invaluable resource for young learners (ages 2-8+). From Age of Learning, Inc.

  • ABCmouse: The early learning program offers more than 10,000 fun-filled learning activities for ages 2-8+ (with more than 1,200 of them in Spanish) that include books, educational games, puzzles, videos, songs, artwork, etc. and that teach reading and language arts, math, science, social studies, art, and music.

  • ABCmouse - Award-winning online curriculum for children ages 2-8+ with both English and Spanish learning activities.

Here are some sample images that can be used with your ABCmouse link

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Suggested Ways to Get the Word Out About Home Access to Your Patrons

Do you have any success stories from libraries or their patrons?

Yes. Below is a selection of feedback from both library patrons and library staff.

Positive Feedback from Library Patrons...

“ABCmouse.com is a great learning tool for kids of all ages, preschool through elementary school. It is also user friendly and lots of fun.  My son is 3 years old and has been using Abcmouse.com for a few months now and can now count to 10, has learned to listen and follow instructions, he's become more independent and takes pride in learning new things, and he's recognizing letters. I love that ABCmouse.com can be used on many devices. My son can play on my phone, a tablet, or our laptop and it's easy to move from one to the other.” ~ Allison Gregory (patron of T.A. Cutler Memorial Library)

 

“I don't know how ABCmouse.com does it, but it gets through to my daughter in no way that I could, and I'm so happy. I've also seen my daughter learn other things that I did not expect; she has become much better at using a mouse to interact with the computer, and she is also coming to understand the value of tickets (and hopefully money in real-life and down the road) and using them sparingly and deciding which gifts have the most value.” ~ Jason Molen (patron of Santa Clara County Library)

 

“I love ABCmouse! My son started speech therapy about a year ago and I feel as if ABC Mouse aided him speaking faster. He is much more confident and apt to speak now that he routinely does activities on the website! Using it through the library program is amazing and much appreciated!” ~ Charmae Martin (patron of Daly City Public Library)

 

“I think the ABCmouse.com is a great way to help kids become excited about learning.  It is the perfect combination of fun and learning.  A parent can feel good about this type of screen time and the site engages the whole family! I use the site with my (just turned) 5-year- old and my (about to be) 9-year-old.  My 5-year-old has definitely added to his letter recognition and letter sound recognition directly from playing on ABCMouse.com.” ~ Elizabeth LiVolsi (patron of Contra Costa County Library)

 

Positive Feedback from Library Staff...

“Parents and children alike are elated to find out that they can [access ABCmouse] for in home use. Many of our members could not afford it otherwise. Children and parents often ask for computer games to play while in the library. The children's staff always directs them to ABC Mouse where they learn and have fun at the same time. Parents are thankful, often praise the collaboration, and hope to see more opportunities like this in the future.” ~ Elizabeth Braunworth, Children’s and Teen Librarian at the Main Library of Palm Beach County Library

 

"ABCmouse Home Access for Libraries is one way the Detroit Public Library is encouraging children to read every day. The games and activities are fun and educational and, based on their heavy use, children are enjoying them.  It is the type of resource that many families in our community would not have access to, except through the Library.” ~ Margaret Bruni, Director for Public Services for the Detroit Public Library

 

“We are excited to launch this service on September 1 that will allow Sonoma County families to “checkout” access to ABCmouse to use at their home… With this service, children will now have remote access to ABCmouse through their local library for free. The service also supports our strategic plan goals to provide educational and recreational experiences that spark lifelong learning, and to prepare parents and their children for entry into the K-12 school system.” ~ Susan Hildreth, Interim Library Director, Sonoma County Library, CA

“We've had this resource in our libraries for years and there has been so much enthusiasm around it …" - Skye Patrick, Director of the County of Los Angeles Public Library.

 

“I love, love, love ABCmouse.com.  We’ve had tons of kids playing games on our computers this summer.  Now we have quality education games we can refer them to all in one place at ABCmouse.com.” - July Hisel, Director of Wilson Memorial Library (IA)

 

Is there a way to get our usage statistics for ABCmouse?

The usage statistics will be sent to you monthly, on the first day or each month. If your email is not added to our database yet, please let us know the email address that you want us to include as a monthly report recipient.


Is the ABCmouse Assessment Center available for our library?

 ABCmouse Home Access for Libraries includes our independently validated Assessment Center.

 

Technical Support

Our patrons are unable to log into ABCmouse from home.

If there have been changes to your current library setup, such as the server IP address to which you make the SIP2 or EZProxy request, a port number for your server, or location number or code, please let us know so we can update our database for your library.


Our library offers ABCmouse Home Access, can we also provide access within our library?

The ability to do that will vary based on the type of patron authentication you use:

Eligibility

If we are a school library, can we use ABCmouse for Libraries?

ABCmouse.com library accounts are offered free only to public libraries. We do also offer teachers free accounts to use in their classrooms. You can sign up for a free classroom account here.

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