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Overview


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Follett Discover is a powerful online tool that transforms the course materials discovery and adoption process for faculty and helps students obtain, organize and instantly access their required and recommended course materials from within your learning management system. 

The purpose of this document is to give an overview on how to use and access some of the features within Faculty Discover. Watch the Follett Discover demo videos at : http://follett.com/discover/login.cfm


Instructions

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titleFollett Discover is available in eLearning

Log into eLearning, and click on the "MY TOOLS" drop-down box.

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Step 1

Once in Follett Discover, the dashboard defaults to the My Courses screen with the course information for the current term.

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Manage Course allows you to manage your adoptions, discover materials, upload your own content and leave a message for your students within each specific course.

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Step 2 - Submitting Adoptions

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Filter Results opens up the option to select/change the discipline, subject and other filters to refine your search.

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Step 3 - Viewing Course Materials

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Tip: You can adjust the material usage at any time by editing the adoption from the Manage Course screen.

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Step 4 - Manage A Course

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3. Click the Adopt button to submit. 

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To adopt materials from within a course, 

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3. Click the Adopt Materials button to submit. 

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Step 6 - Create Content

Follett Discover is seamlessly integrated with XanEdu. XanEdu helps instructors create course packs, custom books and lab manuals. Select Create to start the creation of a custom content to use in your course.

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Add Title 

Follett Discover leverages the entire Follett title catalog of all digital and physical course materials. If you would like to request to use a new title or are unable to locate materials within the Discover library, select the Add Title button.  

Fill in the required fields and provide any other information for the title. You can use Add Title to adopt course related supplies. Any titles adopted though Add Title will become part of your library for easy adoption in the future.

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