Submitting orders through the Faculty Book Adoptions Channel

1. Log-in to the portal and navigate to the tab on which you have placed your adoption channel.
2. Click on the name of the course for which you want to submit book orders. A new screen will load.
3. You will see a list of books already adopted for this course in this term. To adopt a new text, click on the “Add/Copy” link located roughly in the middle of the page. New information will appear at the bottom of your screen.
4. To adopt any book, regardless of whether or not it was used in a previous semester, you may simply type in the bibliographic information that we require in the grey fields towards the bottom of the page (the portal provides a now-simplified specific method of “re-adopting” books from previous semesters that we explain in the next section). The author and title fields are self-explanatory. In the ISBN field, you may enter either an ISBN that is 10 digits long or an ISBN that is 13 digits long (2007 standard). The portal will automatically do the conversion in either way and report both numbers to the bookstore for ease of ordering. Please enter any information you know about the name of the publisher in the Publisher field. Use the Required/Optional toggle to indicate books that will be optional. If this book is the first book that will be assigned on your syllabus, click “need first of semester.” We make every effort to have every book here by the first of the semester, we only ask for this information so that we may report to the students which text they should purchase first. Please do not indicate “first of semester” for every text.
5. Once you have completed filling in the bibliographic information, click “Add/Update.” Your book will then be added to your course request for the semester.