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At a Glance

The process for requesting readings for your online course varies depending on the type of resource students will need to access.

Students can order textbooks through the bookstore or an alternate vendor. The list of required or optional texts for the course should be on file with the bookstore each quarter.

If your course includes a Harvard Business Publishing Coursepack, students will need to purchase them through Harvard Business Publishing.

Students can access journal articles, book chapters, and streaming audio and video resources through the Course Reserves tool in your Canvas course site. The process for requesting each of these types of items is detailed below.

Bookstore

Many students will prefer to purchase textbooks from an alternate bookseller. However, required textbooks should always be requested through the bookstore prior to publishing the Canvas course site. This provides consistency for students across courses and programs and ensures that students will be able to be reimbursed for textbook costs through some employer reimbursement programs.

Adopt New or Re-adopt Previously Adopted Materials

Log into the Barnes & Noble College Adoption & Insights Portal (AIP) to adopt course materials for an upcoming term.

  • Access the AIP with this link: aip.bncollege.com/app.
  • Login using your Northwestern NetID and password. Your Course List will be displayed.
  • For each course listed, select one of these options:
    • Re-adopt materials you have previously adopted for the course.
    • Get guidance for adopting course materials. Additional options for this choice include:
      • View the adoption history for the course to select previously adopted material (by you or other instructors).
      • Search for materials by ISBN, author, or keyword.
      • Upload a spreadsheet with a list of materials.
      • Find “affordable solutions” alternative materials.
    • Indicate that no materials need to be adopted for the course.

Select only those sections you are teaching unless you are authorized to re-adopt materials for other instructors.

Edit Your Submitted Adoptions

  • Login to the Adoption & Insights Portal (AIP). A list of your upcoming courses will be displayed.
  • On the Course List page, select Submitted Courses from the show menu.
  • Click the Add Course Materials and use instructions for any of the optional methods for doing this or click Delete Adoption to clear all selected materials for the course.
  • Click Submit to save your all of your adoption requests.

After you have submitted or updated your adoption requests, you will receive a confirmation email.

Harvard Course Packs

  • Go to the Harvard Business Publishing registration website.
  • If you already have an educator account, skip to step 5.
  • On the registration website, choose “Educator.”
  • Complete the form.
  • In the University Affiliation Section of the form, enter directory.northwestern.edu in the “Faculty Directory URL” field.
  • Log in to your account.
  • Search for the item you’d like to add to your course.
  • Click the “Add To” button on the item description page.
  • Click “Coursepacks.”
  • Complete the information for a new course pack.
  • Repeat steps 7 and 8 for any additional items you’d like to add to the coursepack.
  • When you are done adding items, click “Activate Coursepack.”
  • Select “Student Pay” as the payment type.
  • The activation process will create a Coursepack Link. Copy and paste this link to distribute it to your students.

Not sure if you need to assign an HBR coursepack? Before creating a coursepack, remember that the NU library has subscriptions to both Harvard Business Review and Harvard Business Review Digital. Use your NetID to login to the library website and start browsing these and many, many other journals!

Course Reserves

Northwestern Library staff will procure items and obtain copyright clearance for journal articles, book chapters, and streaming audio and video that is requested through the Course Reserves tool available in each Canvas site.

The following materials should be made available using Course Reserves:

  • journal article(s) is only available in print in the NU library and must be scanned
  • book chapter(s) is only available in print format
  • a digitized format of physical media in the NU library collection

For more information, refer to the NU Library’s site Reserve Information for Faculty.

Conclusion

Of the many resources available students, textbooks, HBR coursepacks, and course reserves are regularly used across all SPS programs.

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