Course Books

This information is invaluable to students and required by federal financial aid rules. Students use this information to budget their money so that they are able to afford their course textbooks. We use VitalSource (née Akadémos) for our online bookstore.

⚠️ Please note: Even if you are not assigning textbooks for purchase through the Knox Bookstore, you need to specify this to the bookstore.

Submitting Book Information

To submit your book order, please follow these steps:

1. Go to https://bookstore.knox.edu.
2. Login with your username and password.
3. Click on "Courses" on the right.
4. Click on the course.

For each course, follow the following steps to specify your books:

1. Select Materials
   • Enter the requested information. 
   • If you are not requiring a standard book, you must specify such as an "Alternate Adoption Setting". Select one of the following:
     • Course uses OER/Zero cost materials
     • Other non-bookstore materials
     • This course does not use any course materials
   • There is also an option for adding a coursepack.
2. Add Course Notes
   • While this is optional, it may be read by your students trying to determine what is needed for your course.
3. Preview Course
   • This shows what your course will look like to the students. Double-check that the information is correct.
4. Submit Course

Once you have done this for each course, you are done. 😺

Help Videos

For additional references, I am sharing a recording of the prior training session for the Akadémos online bookstore. Below you will also find short tutorial videos on the most common course material adoption tasks.

Recording of Knox Faculty Training Session.

https://akademos.zoom.us/rec/share/264huQci8ZaQ1Hc7v-qTeixPhrP_h8oL-OtXSD9OSbF6zbEKGF_U7SeUwp-aB6fg.mPOldJL1646eRM-q
Passcode: E2K@=3w5

Specific Types of Adoptions.

How To add specific types of adoptions to the Akadémos Adoption & Analytics Portal 

https://youtu.be/NaFCdRhEc2U?t=6

Contact Information

If you still have questions you may contact the "Knox College Client Success Manager," Katie Aschenbrenner. You can contact her with questions or for support with course material adoptions at katie.aschenbrenner@vitalsource.com.

Of course, I can help with a lot of this, even if it is pointing you in the direction of more help.