John Crumbley – Director of Information Services and Applications (ISA) Rodney White – Manager of Operations ISA

STUDENT ACCESS TO DIGITAL TEXTBOOKS CFISD Textbooks STUDENT ACCESS TO DIGITAL TEXTBOOKS

A Vision of Easy Access This is what our original textbook page looked like:

A Vision of Easy Access Challenge: Architecting a best practice solution that would enable students to access digital textbooks and other online content through a single platform with a single login.

A Vision of Easy Access Challenge: Solution: Architecting a best practice solution that would enable students to access digital textbooks and other online content through a single platform with a single login. Solution: The need for simple access led us on a four month journey to find the best method for accessing online course content. After much consideration, a solution was found. We found that Stoneware, a Lenovo company, could retrieve individual students’ schedules and connect the corresponding digital textbook resource to each course.

The Benefits of Easy-Access Textbooks This new method of accessing textbook is proving useful for a wide variety of reasons. Students no longer need to remember: Their official course name Their textbook publisher Their individual unique password for each textbook Students ONLY need to remember their CFISD login to access their online course content using Single Sign-on Technology

How it works . . . Students login with their CFISD student account then select: “CFISD_Textbooks” Tab

Students select the ‘eTextbook Student Schedule’ link How it works . . . Students select the ‘eTextbook Student Schedule’ link

How it works . . . Jane Doe

How it works . . . Students are presented their current schedule Jane Doe Students are presented their current schedule

They can then select any available link How it works . . . Jane Doe Students are presented their current schedule They can then select any available link

From there, the student is automatically logged in to their textbook’s homepage

Students can also select any additional resource link How it works . . . Jane Doe Students can also select any additional resource link

They are taken to the selected resource

How it works . . . In theory, it looks great! BUT … How does it REALLY work?

How it works . . . In theory, it looks great! BUT … What will students think?

Questions?