Facilitating a Reading Plan

A Facilitator is a library member who can create and run reading plans — without any admin access. If you lead a book study, a small group, or a season of shared reading, a library admin can make you a facilitator so you can run it yourself.

Facilitators can create plans and fully manage the plans they create: the weekly schedule and discussion prompts, personal invitations, the share link, their group’s progress, and reflections posted in their plan. Nothing else about your membership changes — you won’t see the library’s admin dashboard, members, or settings.

Becoming a facilitator

Ask a library admin. They add facilitators from Admin Dashboard → People → Facilitators (available on any paid plan). You’ll get an in-app notification (and a push, if you have those on) with a link to create a plan. Your new tools also appear in the app menu as Reading Plans.

Creating your plan

1. Open Reading Plans from the app menu (the hamburger on a phone, or your name on desktop). If you facilitate one library, that goes straight to your plan list. Your library’s page also shows Create a plan or Manage plans, and Home shows a Plans you run row.
2. For a book study, the flow is shorter: pick the book, name the plan, set dates, and launch. Weekly schedule and prompts are optional — skip them if you just want to get people reading. Pathways and challenges still use the full builder. Your work saves as a draft automatically, and nobody sees it until you launch. See Running a Reading Plan for a walkthrough of each step.

Getting your group in

After launch, use Spread the word on your plan’s manage page (a button, including on mobile):

• Invite specific members — pick your group by name; each person gets a personal invitation.
• Share a link — copy a link that opens right on your plan, with a preview card when pasted into group chats or email.

Announcing to every library member is an admin tool — if you want the whole library notified, ask an admin to send the announcement.

Running the plan

Everything runs itself after launch: weekly prompts publish on schedule, progress tracks automatically from members’ reading, and the plan wraps up at the end date. Check your plan’s pulse (joined · reading · finished · reflections) anytime, keep polishing upcoming prompts, and remove any reflection in your plan that doesn’t belong. Duplicate copies your plan into a new draft for next season.

Good to know

• Library admins can always see and manage every plan, including yours — they’re your backup, not your reviewers.
• Your drafts are yours: other facilitators can’t see them.
• If your facilitator access is removed, plans you launched keep running for everyone in them; the admins take over management.