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

2. STUDENT ACCESS TO DIGITAL TEXTBOOKS
CFISD Textbooks
STUDENT ACCESS TO DIGITAL TEXTBOOKS

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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

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

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

9. How it works . . .
Jane Doe

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

11. 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

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

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

14. They are taken to the selected resource

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

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

18. Questions?