Editor dashboard

Run BLOOM

Everything proposed, in review, or flagged, in one place. Approve and publish, route work to a willing reviewer, keep the conversation clean, and settle authorship claims. Nothing here happens automatically; every decision is yours.

Add a record New here? Read the editor guide

Manage content

One map for every kind of content on BLOOM: where to add it, and where to edit it once it exists.

Records & BLOOMs

The core catalog entries: lessons, objects, toolkits, and more.

EditBrowse & searchopen any record and use Edit

Tools

Tool Shed entries: a record plus its card in a collection.

AddAdd a toolone step, record + card
EditOpen the Tool Sheduse Edit cards

Cards & collections

The card grids on the Tool Shed, Objects, and Lessons pages.

Open a surface and choose Edit cards to add, remove, reorder, or manage collections.

Pages

Whole standalone pages, built block by block on a blank canvas.

EditHome and About also carry editable blocks; use Edit page there

Site copy & banner

In-place text on Home, About, and the site-wide announcement banner.

EditHomeAboutuse the Edit page toggle

The banner at the top of every page is editable the same way, right from the banner itself.

Collections (card grids)

The Tool Shed, Objects, and Lessons grids are data-driven from the authority-card model. Open a surface and choose Edit cards to add a card (by record title), remove a card, reorder cards, or Manage collections to create, rename, reorder, or set a section to draft.

Drafts & previews

Editor-only

Unpublished pages you can preview before they go live. Each one is visible to editors only and is not linked anywhere public. When a draft is ready, publishing it is a deploy step: tell Claude to promote it (and register it in the Tool Shed).

Library of Chaos Draft

A just-for-fun daily game: guess the film, show, book, or song from clues about a librarian or archivist in it. 25 seed puzzles across Movies, Books, TV, and Music.

PreviewOpen the drafteditors only; use the preview bar to play any of the 25

Submission queue

Proposed records awaiting an editor. Check the license and provenance, confirm the attestation, and verify the license at the source before publishing any hosted CC0 or public domain copy. Approving publishes the record (or holds it, if the author asked to wait for peer review).

Peer-review workflow

Peer review is a credential, not a visibility gate. Assign a willing reviewer by specialization, read their decision, and on accept set the peer-reviewed badge and send the acceptance letter. Records set to publish now stay live throughout; records held until reviewed publish only on acceptance.

Moderation queue

Comments and use notes land pending and stay hidden until you approve them. BLOOM does not rate with stars, so a use note is a note from a teacher, who used the resource and how they adapted it. Approve to publish, hide to keep it off the record. Nothing here is destructive; a hidden item can be approved later.

Pending comments
FromOn resourceCommentWhenAction
Pending use notes
FromOn resourceUseNote from teacherAction

Authorship-claim queue

A member claims an original that was added before they joined. On approval the claimant becomes the record's original creator, and any derivatives are re-parented under the now-canonical original. Comments, use notes, and "I used this" notes stay on the derivative where they were left.

Flagged discussions

When a member flags a discussion or reply in a community, it lands here. Dismiss the flag if the content is fine, mark it reviewed to keep it, or remove the content. The hate-word blocklist still blocks the worst language at the moment of posting; this is for everything else.

Edit records

Make quick fixes to a published or draft record (title, summary, description, link, license, or status) right here, no AI needed. Search for a record, click Edit, change what you need, and save. For a brand-new record, use Add a record.