We’re bringing all your course materials together in a single, easy-to-access location.

You’ll see everything you need for all your courses and can access, shop, and record opt-in/opt-out decisions for your course materials in one place.

You’ll be presented with a personalized booklist combining both print and digital retail options from your school’s online book store, allowing you to shop and compare while also enabling day-one access to material’s in your school’s affordability program.

Benefits:

• A seamless login experience
• Reduces confusion by providing access to 100% of adopted course materials
• Affordability program items are available on day one with simple opt-out tools
• Seamless shopping for everything else


Your School may call this program by other names such as: 

Accessing My Courses

You can log in directly by going to your school’s online book store and clicking “Sign In.”

You can also access My Courses via your institution's Learning Management System (LMS). In the following example, we’re using Canvas.

Navigate to your course, then click on the link titled “Course Materials” (this link name will vary) to launch My Courses. You will see an additional button to load Course Materials in a new tab, although the appearance of this button varies depending on your LMS’s settings.

Viewing your course materials list

You can see and access the course materials that have been assigned in My Courses.


1. Term summary
   • If you have access to multiple terms, you’ll see a Change Term link here to switch between them
   • You’ll see a count of how many materials you still need to purchase, and (if applicable) how many you have access to through your school’s affordability program
2. Course materials, organized by course
3. Shopping
4. Account information

Each material will show the following information:

1. Cover image
2. Item type
3. Title
4. Author
5. ISBN
6. Whether the material is required or optional
7. Content access buttons, which vary by content type
   • eBooks have an Open Book button
   • courseware and other interactive content may have Open or Access Instructions buttons depending on how the content is accessed

Accessing courseware and other interactive content

While eBooks can be opened directly from My Courses, some of your course materials may be available through other websites.

1. Access codes: Some materials are not accessed directly from My Courses, but you can get your access code by clicking Access Instructions. A box will pop up displaying the access code as well as the URL when you will redeem the code to access your content.
2. Partner-integrated materials: You can access these items by clicking Open, which will log you into the publisher’s courseware site.

3. Publisher-direct materials:  Publisher-direct materials are not accessed through My Courses. Typically, you’ll see instructions advising you to return to your Learning Management System (LMS) to access these materials through the publisher’s tool in your LMS course.

    

Purchasing course materials

If you have not yet purchased your course materials, you can shop for them directly in My Courses.

Many materials are available in a range of digital and print formats. Select the option you want, and then click Add to Cart.

• You can also use the “add all to cart” link to automatically add everything you need to your cart. On the cart page, you can review these selections and make changes as needed before checking out.
• After you complete the checkout process, you’ll receive a confirmation email about your purchase. You can open any digital items you’ve purchased by returning to My Courses and clicking on them.

Affordability programs

If your school has a course materials affordability program, some of your course materials may already be available to you. The banner at the top of the page will show how much time is left to opt out of the program.

Each material in the affordability program will have information about program status and the option to opt in or out.

Item Cards for affordability program materials contain the following additional information:

1. Content type
2. Instructions indicator: click View Details to see instructions for accessing this content
3. Opt status information
   • If opted out, you’ll see a “Want to Opt In?” button to opt in before the opt deadline passes
   • If opted in, you’ll see an “Opt Out” link before the opt deadline passes

If you do not want to purchase your course material through the affordability program, you can click the “Opt Out” link. You will see a confirmation message.