Standard Purchase

What is Standard Purchase?

Standard Purchase is a model where students are responsible for purchasing their required digital course materials (such as eTextbooks or the publisher courseware like Cengage MindTap or Pearson MyLab) on their own. Students can buy digital access codes from the COCC Bookstore, directly from the publisher's website, or other retailers like Amazon. Once a code is purchased, students will use it to access the digital materials. 

 

How to access Standard Purchase course materials

Access codes are used to unlock and access their digital materials. Depending on the class, students may enter the code directly in Canvas or on the publisher’s website.

Because this can vary by instructor or class, students need to carefully follow the instructions from their instructor to enter their access code and start using the digital course materials.

How to redeem Redshelf or VitalSource Codes

How to redeem Campus eBookstore codes

 

How to find out if your course is Standard Purchase

Bookstore Catalog: To find out if your course is Standard Purchase, got to the Bookstore catalog and search for your class(s). For each textbook, there will be detailed information including the title, author, ISBN, publisher, and price. If both print and digital formats are available, you can choose the preferred format.  

The Bookstore catalog also shows price comparisons with different retailers.

 

Class Search: When you search for classes in Class Search, you can check for digital course material purchase options by selecting the course and looking at the Bookstore links in the course details. The ‘COCC Campus Bookstore' link will take you to the Bookstore catalog, where you will find textbook requirements specific to that class.