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Education professionals can use Curio to readily find and explore CBC/Radio-Canada content that has been carefully selected for its educational value and is available in teaching-friendly formats.
ADD-ON Channels
The base subscription is to Curio.ca content.
Channels are add-ons that give additional access to specialized content.
News in Review
From the vendor:
This is Canada's premier current-event series for the classroom. [...] Top 4 CBC News stories every month, from September through April. Each month our team of experienced CBC News producers and high school teachers hones in on the top 4 news stories and crafts a 15-minute documentary for each -- drawing on news reports from recent months. Host Michael Serapio offers commentary that provides important background info and links. And don't forget the classroom-ready guides.
l'actualite en revue
From the vendor:
Each edition offers exciting stories on today’s major issues in French by Radio-Canada's own Rad journalists. The accompanying teacher guides are the perfect tools for stimulating in-class discussion and developing students’ critical-thinking skills.
National Geographic
From the vendor:
Science, architecture, disasters, great mysteries, human ingenuity... The explorers, adventurers, scientists, researchers, photographers and documentary filmmakers of the National Geographic Society tirelessly crisscross the globe, investigating and exploring the world. Their goal: to make you understand the world, amaze and entertain you with documentaries and investigations that are always driven by the quest for truth.
This channel is available in French and English.
BBC
From the vendor:
A wide range of titles in English and French from the UKʼs public broadcaster, a world leader in innovative storytelling. Content will delve into international history, social justice, earth and space science, medicine, animal behaviour and technology. Also among English-language programs in the channel are short animated and liveaction segments from BBC Teach, ideal for the elementary educator.
Note: Accounts
- Access codes for creating accounts are on colleges' subscription pages
- Users log in with their institutional email address to create playlists, share content with other users via permalinks, and use all other functionalities offered on the Curio platform.
- On the new Curio site, permalinks are not available in guest mode. Users must log in with their institutional email address.
Curio has launched a new site, directly accessible at https://curio.ca/en/welcome
The old site will be available until June 2022, when it will be retired.
LMS Integration
Not compatible with the IMS LTI standard.
Title Lists
Titles can be browsed by show, category, or collection on the vendor's platform.
As of late August 2019, Episodes 3 and 4 of The 8th Fire documentary series are no longer accessible on the platform as the vendor lost the rights to them.
Adding Titles
Request that a title be added to Curio.ca with the vendor's request form.
The request is sent to the CBC/Radio-Canada's Content Manager, who will investigate whether CBC/Radio-Canada has all copyright and/or distribution rights for the content within a title. This process can take up to 4 weeks.
If CBC/Radio-Canada does not have the rights, the title cannot be added to Curio.ca for streaming. It must be purchased instead. Please contact the vendor's archives sales reps in this case. Contact details are on the Curio vendor page.
MARC Records
Please refer to these instructions from the vendor.
For assistance, please contact the vendor directly. Contact information can be found in the Vendors directory in ERMA.