Course Material Adoption and Access

Note: While eCampus continues to offer sales and rentals of new and used print books as well as ebooks, the storefront is online only. Students must factor in shipping time when ordering print books. More information for students regarding ordering, shipping, and returns will be available by early August.

1. Students who use financial aid vouchers to purchase course materials may only use these at MCLA's bookstore. It is fine to make students aware that materials can be purchased less expensively elsewhere, but if you do not adopt the materials via the bookstore, students with financial aid vouchers will not be able to purchase them, or may need to wait days or weeks for a special order. 
2. The library reviews all adoptions reported to the bookstore for possible addition to the collection. Many students find no-cost access to course materials via the library extremely helpful. If you do not report your materials to the bookstore, the library will not know to evaluate them for purchase.
3. Textbook information can be made available to students at the time of registration, as required by federal law. The registration page for each course will include a direct link to the list of materials adopted for that course on the eCampus website. Assuming that adoptions are reported prior to registration, this helps MCLA comply with the Higher Education Opportunity Act, which requires that textbook information be made available to students at the time of registration.
4. The bookstore, the library, and Disability Resources can attempt to source accessible editions of adopted texts and have them ready for students by the first day of class.
5. MCLA is required to report data on textbook costs and OER adoptions to the DHE each year. On our campus, the bookstore is the central repository of this data. This data helps guide policymaking toward greater equity for students; the closer we get to 100% faculty reporting of course adoptions to the bookstore, the more accurate and useful the data.
6. If you aren't requiring students to purchase materials but never update eCampus, students who check the bookstore for your course materials will see the message "Textbooks are still being determined for this course. Please check back." If, on the other hand, you report to the bookstore that textbooks are not required for your course, or that only free Open Educational Resources or library resources are required, students will be informed accordingly, removing uncertainty. These "non-adoption" options will appear to you when view your course in FAST, the eCampus online adoption tool.