Welcome to the Course Care self-training video series for Cengage Now - Creating a Course.
This training video will demonstrate the process of manually creating a Cengage now course.
Accessing your course key and distributing it to students, and using the courses page.
One of your first steps in getting started with Cengage Now is to build your course.
To do so, navigate to the �Courses� tab. Once within the �Courses� tab, click on
the orange �Create a New Course� button located on the right side of the page.
Course creation is a two-step process. Begin by selecting the process through which you
would like to create your course. You have three options. You may choose to build a course
manually, copy an existing Cengage Now course or import a course that has been exported
from Cengage Now. In this video, we will build a course manually. Select the radio button
next to the process you would like to choose and click �Continue�.
The Course Information page will open. All required fields on the page are indicated
with a red asterisk. Begin by selecting the textbook upon which your Cengage Now course
is based. Note that a Digital Product Student Will Buy field appears. This is an important
piece of information because it determines what content your students should purchase
to use the course. The significance of this digital product will be covered more fully
later in the video.
Begin by entering your course name. Optionally, you may enter your course number. Then, use
the calendar icons to select the course start date and course end date.
Lastly, you may choose to provide a copy of your syllabus which your students can see
when they view your course in Cengage Now. If your syllabus is available on an existing
web page, select �Link to this URL� and enter the URL into the provided text field.
To upload a Word or PDF version of your syllabus, select �Link to this File�, and then browse
for your syllabus file. Select �None� if you do not want to provide a copy of your
syllabus within Cengage Now. When finished, select �Create Course�.
At this point, your new course is created but does not yet contain any assignments.
Note the Course Key. Before thinking about the Course Key, though, you will likely want
to add assignments to your course by clicking the �Create an Assignment� link or by
working in the �Assignments� tab. Once you have those assignments created, you will
want to let the students know how to enroll into your course, and this means communicating
your Course Key to your students. You may, however, no longer be on the page that displays
the course key. Luckily, this information is easy to find. Click on your �Courses�
tab, locate your course, and look in the Course/Section Key column. To aid in communicating the Course
Key to students, Cengage Now provides registration instructions. You may choose to print these
instructions for handout distribution, email them to students, copy to a system clipboard,
or download a PDF version. Note that these instructions describe purchase of an access
code before entering the course and after entering the course.
The best experience for students is accessing the course first before purchase. This allows
them to try before they buy, and when they are ready to purchase, they will be directed
to the correct product to purchase so that there are no instances of buying a product
that does not �fit� the course. This �Buy the Correct Product� functionality is enabled
by what was shown earlier in the video � the association of Digital Product Students Will
Buy.
Thank you for viewing this training video. For additional resources, please visit the
Cengage Now Course Care page. Resources include live and archived online training seminars,
self-training videos, user documentation and first day of class resources for students.