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Faculty Kickoff Guide

As part of the Niner Course Pack, the bookstore will provide each student with their materials. Faculty must take steps to ensure digitally-delivered materials are available for students in Canvas.

Before Classes Start

Four weeks before classes start, please ensure your digital-access materials are easily accessible on Canvas.

  1. Ensure that the Barnes & Noble College “Course Materials” link is installed for student access. If your Canvas Admin did not install the link for you, please follow the instructions below, under Canvas External Tool Configuration.
  2. Ensure you complete the course setup/pairing for your digital courseware products. If you need assistance, please contact your publisher representative.
    • Merged courses can cause access issues for students. Please let your bookstore manager know ASAP if you are merging your courses within Canvas.
  3. Please add the student instructions below to your syllabus and Canvas course:

Student Instructions

This course is part of our course material delivery program, Niner Course Pack (aux.charlotte.edu/niner-course-pack). The bookstore will provide each student with a convenient package containing all required physical materials, and all digitally delivered materials for this course will be integrated into Canvas.

You should have received an email from the bookstore confirming materials provided for each of your courses and asking you to select how you would like to receive any printed components (in-store pick up or home delivery). If you have not already done so, please confirm your fulfillment preference so the bookstore can prepare your materials.

Faculty Instructions for Configuration

How to Set Up Course Materials

Video tutorial for configuring the Course Materials module in Canvas.

Canvas External Tool Configuration

Any courses that are using digital courseware materials will need to include a Course Materials link in Canvas so that students can access their digital materials. If the Course Materials link has not already been added by your Admin, please follow the instructions below for setup. (Note: Your LMS may have slight variations in these steps or naming.)

  1. Log in to Canvas with your NinerNET and navigate to the course that requires the Course Materials link.
  2. Click Settings from the left-hand navigation.
    • If Settings is not available, make sure that you are in the course as a teacher. Once you are, Settings will appear.
  3. Click the Navigation tab, and scroll down to the hidden items, at the bottom of the list.
  4. Look for Course Materials on the list.
  5. Click and hold Course Materials and drag it up to the list of active navigation links.
    • If the Purchase Course Materials link is an active navigation link, select it and drag it down to the hidden items, to prevent student confusion for this course only.
  6. Click Save.
  7. The Course Materials link will now be available in the left-hand navigation of your course. You may have to refresh your window to see it.
  8. Repeat these steps any additional sections that require the Course Materials link.

Student Guides

Digitally Delivered Publisher Courseware and eBook:

  1. Student signs in to Canvas.
  2. Student clicks the Course Materials link in the LMS course. All digitally delivered materials for a student’s enrolled courses will be shown in this link.
  3. Students would simply click the green actionable button to navigate to their material.
    • Depending on content type, some additional steps may be required by the student.
    • Please note that with Publisher Delivery, the student will see no actionable buttons; students will need to navigate to the Publisher’s link to access their materials.

Below is what your student should see in the Course Material link for the digitally delivered materials, based on content type and delivery method.

Screenshot displaying course materials.

Printed Materials:

Students will receive a Selection email 30 days prior to semester start with a link to make their Student Selection and confirm how they would like to receive any printed material (in-store pick up or home delivery).

If students cannot find the email, they can visit the bookstore’s home page (click Reserve Now) or the Niner Course Pack page for the link to make their selection.

Screenshot of email to take action for course materials.

Student Support for Course Materials

We suggest that students provide their name, school email address, school, course information and screenshots of the issue if applicable for any ticket submitted. If your students ask you for information, please direct them to these options.

Digitally Delivered Materials:

Customer Care is available to help students with questions about accessing their course material or using their eBook. Be sure to share the information below with your students.

Customer Care is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week – 24/7.

Printed Materials:

Students experiencing issues with accessing their print materials via the Niner Course Pack Student Portal, should be directed to the BNC FDC Support Team at Email FDCSupport@bncservices.com