Launch App Store on your iPad and search for ‘SL eBook’. Alternatively, you may click on this link to download the app from App Store.

Tap on ‘Get’ to start downloading the app. The app will be automatically installed upon successful download.

Tap on the ‘SL Education’ app to launch the app.

Click here to register for a Shing Lee account.

Fill in all the details as requested. Click OK upon completion. All fields are mandatory.

You will see the following screen if you have registered successfully.

Please check your mail box to complete the account verification.

Upon successful verification, you will see the following page:

Note: Account ID refers to your email address.

You will be prompted with a login screen to key in your account ID and password.

Key in your assigned/registered account ID and password and you will be directed to this screen, which means you have logged in successfully.

To activate a book with an assigned access code, please tap on Activate.

Input your access code and click on Submit.

If your code is correct and valid, you will be brought to the next page with all the books you are going to activate.

Scroll to the bottom and tap on Confirm to activate your books. Tap Confirm. Upon successful activation, you will be prompted with a green bar at the top:

Tap on ‘Home’ to access your books. (If the app did not refresh automatically, please pull the screen to refresh.)

All newly activated books will be shown in the ‘Home’ tab, tap on the book covers to access the chapters.

To access the chapters, tap on the desired book(s) to download a copy to your device for offline reading. Alternatively, you can tap and hold on the desired book to access the various options available.

Note: You are only allowed to download 3 books at any one time

A cloud icon with a green tick at the bottom right-hand corner of a book denotes that the book has been downloaded.

Pull the screen downwards to refresh the page.

If a specific book needs an update, the specific book will have anicon with a blue cloud at the bottom right-hand corner.

Tap on the specific book to download the updated book. If you do not have internet access but would like to read the book, you may tap and hold on the book to access the ‘Read’ menu. You may resume the update when you have internet access.

You may delete a specific book by tapping and holding on the specific it, and choose ‘Remove book’ to save your device’s disk space.

Note: Deleting a book will not deactivate the validity of the book. It will only delete the hard copy on your device. You may still download the book again under Home tab.

You may archive a book so that it will not appear on your Home tab. Doing so will not deactivate the validity of the book.

The book has to be deleted before you have the option to archive, thus, please refer to deleting a book for more information. Upon deletion of a specific book, you can tap and hold it to access the ‘Archive’ menu. Click on ‘Archive Book’ to archive the specific book.

Note: Deleting a book will not deactivate the validity of the book, it will only delete the hard copy on your device. You may still download the book again under Home tab.

Note: You will not be able to archive a book if your device has the hard copy of the book or if there is a cloud icon with green tick at the bottom left-hand corner of the book. If you choose to archive entire book without deleting the chapters within, the books might still take up a lot of space in your device.

Upon archiving, you will be able to see the archived books under ‘Archive’ menu. Tap on ‘Archive’ located at the bottom navigation bar.

To move the book back to Home, tap and hold on the specific book under ‘Archive’, click on ‘Unarchive’.

You may also create a customised folder for certain books/chapters. Tap on the ‘Collection’ then ‘Add Collection’ at the top right-hand corner, name your folder according to your preference and press ‘Ok’ to save.

You will see an empty folder upon successful creation of a collection.

Tap on ‘Add/Remove Books’, navigate to the book you wish to add to this collection, select the book by tapping it, and click on ‘Done’ when you have finished selecting. Selected books have green ticks at the bottom right-hand corner.

Tips: You can select multiple chapters and books at one go. You can also add and remove all chapters by tapping and holding on to the specific book.

Tap on ‘Close’ when you are done with creating collections.

Similarly to adding of books, tap on the desired collection, tap on ‘Add or Remove Books’, navigate to a specific book, select ‘the specific book’ to deselect it. (Green ticks will be removed upon deselecting)

Tap on ‘Done’, then ‘Close’ when you have completed.

To search for a specific book, you may type in your search keyword into the text box located at the top navigation bar.

Note: System will only search the page you are in. If you would like to search for chapters, please click on the book you would like to perform the search on.

You may check the expiry dates of all books by tapping on ‘Expiry’.

You are encouraged to log out of the application if your device is a shared device to prevent discrepancies. Tap on ‘Log out’ button located under ‘Settings’ tab.

To read a book, simply tap on the downloaded book to launch it. Alternatively, you may access the menu by tapping and holding on to the specific book.