How To Browse Library Shelves

Mar 23

Part of the Guidebook Series: How to Use The French Room

When you click into a library from your My Study page, you will usually be taken back to the last Tuto you were watching.

This helps you continue your work.

If you want to explore instead, you need to step out of that view

Step 1 — Open the library shelves menu

At the top of the screen, you’ll see the library shelves menu.

Look for the << Arrows 

Click this.

→ This opens the full list of Tutos inside the library.

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Step 2 — Move from current Tuto to the full shelf

You can now see the full menu down the left-hand side of your screen.

You are now looking at the structure of the library.

These are your library shelves.

From here you can:

  • scroll through all available Tutos in that library.
  • see how content is grouped by category heading
  • jump to any Tuto

Step 3 — Check the section headers to guide you

The section headers are carefully chosen to segment the libraries in ways that support your building and developing of 907 words in your Cahier.

For example, in the Vocabulary Library you will see headers about 907 words, in the Grammar Library you will see headers about things that might fix breaks or limitations in the sentence you are building. 

→Back to library link

If you follow the back to library link at the top left of the menu, you will be taken to the homepage for that library.

Here you can choose how you view the library:

List View
- List view will show you a list of collapsed titles of the library sections. To open and close them you use the down and up arrow to the right.

Tile View
- Tile view shows each section heading with a square tile for each Tuto. 

When  you select your Tuto from either view you will be taken into it and will have the option of displaying the Library Shelves Menu as described above.


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Every Tuto has a unique reference

Make a note of the Tuto reference if you think you might want to come back and revisit it.

E.g #GL-17-T01
  • GL=Grammar Library
  • 17 = Section Number
  • T01 Tuto Number in that Section


The menu will automatically tick off any Tutos you have visited, even if you just dropped by and didn't watch the whole thing! 

Identify what type of Tuto it is by symbol

There are 3 main symbols to look out for:

- A play button for videos 
- A document symbol for downloadable PDFs or Paperclip
- A loud speaker button for audio

Length of a Tuto

Each Tuto has a timing next to it telling you the length of the Tuto.

- Tutos vary in length from 4 to 15 minutes. 
- PDF summaries on average are 1 to 2 pages long and can be skimmed in about 30 seconds.

It is very common for people to revisit the same Tuto or section in a library multiple times. Repetition works!

The French Room Guidebook

This article is part of the The French Room Guidebook, a collection of practical explanations about how learning works inside The French Room.

→ Explore the full guide

If you would like to understand the wider learning approach at The French Room, you may also find this helpful:

→ How Adults Become Fluent in French

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