First Day Access (Course Materials) is UAB Bookstore’s Inclusive Access program. With this program, the cost of course materials is added as a charge for the course, by your school, and students receive benefits including:
- Deeply discounted, lowest price materials
- The guaranteed right materials
- Access on or before the first day of class
How to Enable Course Materials in Your Course
- Log into Canvas with your instructor username and password and navigate to the course that requires the First Day Access link.
- Click Settings from the left-hand navigation.
- Click the Navigation tab, and scroll down to the hidden items, at the bottom of the list.
- Look for First Day Access in the list.
- Click and hold First Day Access and drag it up to the list of active navigation links.
Tip: 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 - Click Save.
- The First Day Access link will now be available in the left-hand navigation of your course. You may have to refresh your window to see it.
- Important: Click the First Day Access link once enabled in your course navigation to activate the connection. If you do not see your course materials populate within 2 hours, contact the UAB bookstore.
- Repeat these steps any additional sections that require the First Day Access link.
Timeline
2 – 4 Weeks Before Class Starts
- Ensure that the Barnes & Noble College First Day Access link is installed in your First Day course(s) so students can access their course materials. There is a video attached that will instruct you on how to do this.
- If using a publisher courseware product (i.e. MyLab, Connect, MindTap) be sure you have completed the course setup/pairing. Contact your publisher representative for assistance.
2 Weeks Before Class Starts
- Ensure messaging is added to your syllabus and Canvas course describing the program and the benefits. This messaging is available under Sample Student Messaging.
First Day of Class
- Let students know about this program that will save them money on their course materials!
- Ensure students know that they can opt-out within Canvas using the First Day Access link.
- Direct any student concerns or questions to the Barnes & Noble College Customer Care team and provide students the Customer Care Contact Information in this document.
Sample Student Messaging
First Day Access (Course Materials)
To enhance your learning experience and provide affordable access to the right course material, this course is part of an inclusive access model called First Day Access. You can easily access the required materials for this course at a discounted price, and benefit from single sign-on access with no codes required all in Canvas.
UAB will bill you at the discounted price as a course charge for this course. The charge should show as "Book- dept and course number" on your student account in Banner.
It is NOT recommended that students Opt-Out, as these materials are required to complete the course. You can choose to Opt-Out on the first day of class, but you will be responsible for purchasing your course materials at the full retail price and access to your materials may be suspended.
For more information and FAQs go to customercare.bncollege.com.
Adobe Creative Cloud is a collection of 20+ desktop, mobile apps and services for photography, design, video, web, UX, and more. Learn more about Adobe on UAB IT’s Adobe webpage.
How to Access Adobe Creative Cloud
Sign In to Adobe Creative Cloud
Instructors
A limited number of licenses are available for faculty and staff for academic or business use only.
Request a Faculty/Staff License
Once you have an account, sign in using the following instructions:
- Visit adobe.com and click Sign In.
- Use your blazerID@uab.edu (do not use an alias) and password.
- Select Company or School Account. Then you will be taken to UAB’s Single Sign On page.
Students
Licenses for students using Creative Cloud will be automatically granted while you are enrolled at UAB.
- To get started, visit adobe.com and click Sign In.
- Use your blazerID@uab.edu (do not use an alias) and password.
- Select Company or School Account. Then you will be taken to UAB’s Single Sign On page.
- In the right hand corner, you can see your available apps and begin to set up the desktop apps on your machine.
App Highlights
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Adobe ePortfolio
Build a beautiful website in minutes, free with Creative Cloud. See examples of portfolios created with Adobe.
- No coding required. Our customizable themes are easy to configure without knowing HTML or CSS.
- Custom domain. Using your own domain name on your website gives your site a professional edge and helps people discover your work.
- Responsive design. Each of our themes is natively responsive, resizing your content and images to fit any device or screen width.
Access Adobe ePortfolio in your Creative Cloud Account under Web apps tab.
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Adobe Acrobat Pro
PDF Creation allows users to view, comment, sign, create, edit, and share PDF documents.
- Convert creative files and images to PDF. Turn Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign files into PDFs.
- Create protected PDFs. Prevent others from copying or editing sensitive information.
- Export PDFs to Office. Convert PDFs to Word, Excel, or PowerPoint formats and keep the formatting.
UAB provides Adobe Acrobat Pro that allows creating/editing PDFs to UAB Campus Faculty, staff and students at no cost.
- Visit your Creative Cloud Account and click “Sign in with an Enterprise ID."
- Use your assigned @uab.edu email address and password.
Note: Be sure to use the email based on your actual BlazerID, not an alias; for example, BlazerID@uab.edu.
Guides/Tutorials
FAQ
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Do I have to request an account if I just want to create/edit PDFs?
No, UAB provides Adobe Acrobat Pro that allows creating/editing PDFs to UAB Campus Faculty, staff and students at no cost.
- Visit creativecloud.adobe.com and click “Sign in with an Enterprise ID."
- Use your assigned @uab.edu email address and password.
Note: Be sure to use the email based on your actual BlazerID, not an alias; for example, BlazerID@uab.edu.
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How can students submit work from other Adobe apps?
Instructors can create an online Canvas assignment and enable URL as a submission option.
Students can then publish their adobe project publicly and submit the URL to the Canvas assignment.
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How do I access web or mobile apps instead of desktop?
Some Adobe apps are available through a web browsers or mobile devises instead of downloading an application to your computer. Log in to adobe, then click the different tabs labeled Mobile and Web. Find more information about accessing Adobe apps on the Adobe Support webpage.
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Who do I contact if I need help?
Adobe is a UAB IT-supported technology. Choose "submit a ticket" below in the technical support section.
Privacy & Accessibility
What is Pear Deck Tutor?
Pear Deck Tutor is an online education platform that provides on-demand tutoring. The Pear Deck Tutor platform enables thousands of tutors to share their knowledge with students around the globe. Pear Deck Tutor provides premium online tutoring for a number of subjects and connects students with live tutors 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Pear Deck Tutor provides a virtual whiteboard, audio/video chat, screen-sharing, graphing calculators, and more. See more information about all tutoring services available at UAB.
Note for users of screen readers: letters in parentheses in the instructions below refer to corresponding areas on example images. If you have any questions about these instructions, contact eLearning for assistance.
How to Access Pear Deck Tutor
Note for users of screen readers: letters in parentheses in the instructions below refer to corresponding areas on example images. If you have any questions about these instructions, contact eLearning for assistance.
Access
Students at UAB are provided up to 3 hours per week with a 1-hour cap on each session. Students are not required to schedule an appointment with a tutor. Sessions are on demand by using the Pear Deck Tutor link inside of Canvas. Please follow these steps to access your free online tutoring within Canvas. Please note UAB students cannot access Pear Deck Tutor outside of Canvas.
- Log in to Canvas.
- Click Account (A) at the top left of the global menu navigation menu.
- Click Pear Deck Tutor (B) in the course navigation menu.
Please note: It is recommended that students log in to Pear Deck Tutor from Google Chrome for best results. Please ensure pop-ups are enabled in your web browser.
Student Expectations and Best Practices
- When connecting with a tutor, students must come prepared and provide a detailed description of the type of help they need and upload assignments and/or screenshots for the tutor.
- Students - Tutors will help you understand the concept and processes, but they will not provide answers or do the work for you. Any student that asks tutors to do the work for them or behaves in a disrespectful manner towards the tutors will be suspended from the platform.
Guides and Tutorials
FAQs
Instructor Questions
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Who are the Tutors at Pear Deck Tutor?
Pear Deck Tutor has over 10,000 tutors. 78% of their tutors hold at least an advanced degree. Each tutor goes through 15 hours of training, quarterly reviews, and follows Pear Deck Tutor’s See more information below.
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How does Pear Deck Tutor handle Academic Misconduct?
Here is a snippet from the Pear Deck Tutor Honor Code:
Pear Deck Tutor does not allow or participate in academic dishonesty in any form. Tutors are to work through students’ assignments with them. They will not complete tests or assignments, or simply provide students answers without the required work.
Pear Deck Tutor’s platform was developed to help connect teachers with learners. It is not a platform to exchange answers or completed assignments. Effective tutoring is more than simply giving out answers to questions. We encourage pioneering problem-solving approaches, helping students comprehend the methods required to find the answer instead of giving them the answer and working backwards.
All lessons and messages on the site are monitored, and any violation of Pear Deck Tutor’s academic honesty policy will result in suspension and review.
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Who do I contact if I think a student is misusing Pear Deck Tutor?
If you feel that students are misusing Pear Deck Tutor, you can contact UAB eLearning, to start an investigation. This may result in suspending the student's Pear Deck Tutor account.
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Can I review a student's tutoring session?
Yes, all tutoring sessions are recorded and archived. If you would like to review a specific tutoring session, please contact UAB eLearning and include the student and tutoring subject you would like to investigate.
Student Questions
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What should I do if I reach my limit?
Students at UAB are provided up to 3 hours per week with a 1-hour cap on each session. Once this limit is reached, the following message will display.
Students who have reached their limit are encourage to seek out other tutoring services on campus.
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What browsers are compatible with Pear Deck Tutor?
Students can use any recent version of a popular browser, but we highly recommend downloading Chrome for the best experience on Pear Deck Tutor.
However, to use audio/video features in the lesson space, you must have Chrome, Firefox or Safari 11. Screen sharing is only supported on Chrome.
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What Subject Areas are available for Tutoring?
Pear Deck Tutor offers over 300 subjects. The categories include: Computer Science, Engineering, Foreign Language, History, Humanities, Math, Professional, Science, & Social Science. See complete list of all subjects here.
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How do I connect with Chat Support?
- Select Pear Deck Tutor from the course navigation on the left.
- Click on the Chat Bubble at the bottom right corner of the Pear Deck Tutor home page.
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How do I connect with a tutor I’ve previously worked with?
- Select Pear Deck Tutor from the course navigation on the left.
- Select the name of the tutor you have recently tutored with from the right-hand side of the Pear Deck Tutor home page. A chat box will appear where you can message and/or start a new lesson with the tutor.
Note: The dot to the left of the Tutor's name indicates if they are online or not. Gray means they are not online. Green means that they are online.
Note: If the tutor is currently in a lesson and you attempt to start a lesson, your lesson will be automatically rejected, but you can leave a chat for the tutor which they will see after their lesson is over.
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Do I schedule a lesson?
Students do not need to schedule a time. Simply click the Pear Deck Tutor link inside of Canvas and fill out the prompts to be paired with a tutor.
Once you have worked with a tutor, you can simply send them a message through the chatbox and schedule a time that best works for both of you. You can schedule to be online at the same time as the tutor, and you can request a lesson directly from your chat box.
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How do I upload a file?
You can upload a file through Pear Deck Tutor’s matching system, the chat box, and the file share tab in the lesson space.
Matching System
To upload a file through the matching system, follow the steps below.
- Search a subject or topic on the TutorMe homepage.
- Write a brief description of what you need help with, and click browse to upload a document from your computer.
File Sharing Tab
To upload a document using the file share feature while in a tutoring session, follow the steps below.
- Click on the file share tab in the lesson space.
- Click Upload.
Note: The file will be available for the student and the tutor to view and download.
Chat Box
To upload a document in the chat box in the lesson space, follow the steps below.
- Click on the attachment icon at the bottom of the chat box.
Note: The file will be available for the student and the tutor to view and download.
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What if I have an issue with a Pear Deck Tutor?
Students can report a user via the gear icon on the chat box. Click here for more information. If you continue to have issues with using Pear Deck Tutor, please contact UAB eLearning.
Technical Support
Click the speech bubble at the bottom right of the Pear Deck Tutor screen to access Live chat or open a ticket. Pear Deck Tutor does not offer phone support. Learn more about chat support.
- Live Chat - Available from 9am-6pm, M-F
- Ticket - Any message sent via chat outside of technical support hours will be entered as a ticket.
- support@tutorme.com
Privacy and Accessibility
All documents must be UNEXPIRED. Students may present one (1) selection from the list below.
Please note: This list of identification options are approved for both ProctorU and Respondus LockDown Browser & Monitor.
- U.S. Passport or U.S. Passport Card.
- Permanent Resident Card or Alien Registration Receipt Card (Form I-551).
- Driver's license or ID card issued by a State or outlying possession of the United States, provided it contains a photograph or information such as name, date of birth, gender, height, eye color, and address.
- ID card issued by federal, state, or local government agencies or entities, provided it contains a photograph or information such as name, date of birth, gender, height, eye color, and address.
- Military dependent's ID card.
- Native American tribal document.
- U.S. Coast Guard Merchant Mariner Card.
- Driver's license issued by a Canadian government authority.
- School ID/Employer ID card with a recent photograph.
What is Macmillan Learning?
Macmillan Learning is a high-quality publisher of textbooks and learning resources for university level students. Macmillan Learning develops relevant and impactful course content that serves the needs of educators and supports the success of today’s students.
How to Access Macmillan
Instructors
Macmillan Learning offers deep content integration between its LaunchPad products and Canvas. This robust integration creates direct links from a Canvas course into the Macmillan LaunchPad environment. Faculty can add Macmillan to their Canvas course by adding the link to course navigation. Once installed, instructors will have the option to add links to Macmillan content from various points in their Canvas course.
Students
Before you can use Macmillan Launchpad, you will first need to connect your Canvas account with the Macmillan LaunchPad application. For detailed instructions, see the Student guides listed below.
Macmillan Guides and Tutorials
Instructors
Guides
- New Interactive Guides Available in LaunchPad
- Enable the Macmillan Learning App in Canvas
- Using Macmillan Course Tools in your Canvas Course
- How to Create a LaunchPad Assignment
Tutorials
Macmillan FAQ
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How do I get access to LaunchPad?
- Create an account with Macmillan Learning.
- On the LaunchPad Homepage of the Macmillan catalog, click Instructors – Find Your Course.
- Search for your title by entering your author’s last name or your products title.
- Click “Go to product”.
- At the bottom of the screen, enter your email address and click Get Access.
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How do I activate my course so students can enroll in it?
- Before you activate a course, you must create it and make all customizations necessary for the semester.
- You can activate your course from the dashboard or within the course.
- You can activate from your dashboard by clicking Activate beneath your course title.
- To activate from within the course, click the Activate this Course button that appears in the yellow banner toward the top of your LaunchPad home page.
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How do I find my course ID or course URL?
Every course that you create has a unique course ID. This holds true whether you create a course from scratch, copy a course from another course, or branch a course from a master. When you direct your students to enroll in your course, you should give them the entire course URL, which contains the ID as a string of numbers at the end. Doing so will ensure your students enroll in their correct course so that you can track their work.
- Go to your instructor dashboard.
- Select Switch/Create Courses from the top right under your name.
- Locate the course name under My Courses.
- The URL is located directly under the course title and the ID is located under the URL.
Macmillan Technical Support
- Contact Macmillan Learning Support
- +1 (800) 936-6899
Macmillan Privacy and Accessibility