When sharing links to INFOhio resources with students and parents, please note the following:

• To access the digital content INFOhio has licensed for Ohio's PreK-12 teachers, students, and their parents, users need to be coming from the INFOhio website.
• The URLs you share for resources and content should have the word infohio in them.
• URLs that appear in the browser address bar when you are using content from INFOhio resources are not shareable URLs. For example, do not share the browser address bar url for an individual BookFlix title as that will not provide seamless access to the content. 

INFOhio has short screencasts to help you find the best link to share for seamless access to INFOhio's licensed resources and content. 

• Watch this video to learn more about sharing links for licensed resources.
• Watch this video to learn more about sharing links from Educator tools, a curated collection of quality lesson plans, interactive activities, videos, and more. 
• Watch this video to learn more about sharing links from INFOhio's digital content and databases.

Looking for links you can share on a school website or in a learning management system? Use the URLs you see on INFOhio's Resource Links page.

For some resources, INFOhio is able to provide an LMS/Direct Link that includes a passthru string. For example, you will find a button with this kind of URL on INFOhio's BookFlix page. This is how this link works: when students click a link with the passthru, they are very quickly routed to the INFOhio website where we check for authentication. If we can recognize that they are authenticated, we very quickly pass them to the content provider. This can happen so fast that it feels like they are going straight to the resource without even stopping at the INFOhio website. However, if a student is not already authenticated and we can't recognize them, they will be stopped at the INFOhio website and prompted to log into the INFOhio website before we can pass them on to the resource.