Adopt E-Textbooks for Z-Courses

Montgomery College Library supports college affordability and z-course creation by helping faculty discover and adopt no-cost, high-quality e-books and e-textbooks for their courses. This service supports theMC Open initiative, which aims to "leverage pedagogy that fosters student success while reducing costs and increasing access to course materials."

Faculty Select

Faculty Select is a self-service platform that allows faculty to find and adopt an e-book or e-textbook to use as their course text. Faculty Select contains thousands of high-quality titles on a wide variety of academic subjects. All items in the Faculty Select platform will be made available to you and your students completely free of cost. Faculty Select contains three types of e-books:

Procedure

Find an E-Book or E-Textbook for a Z-Course

1. Open the Faculty Select platform.
   Access Faculty Select
2. Search for an item to adopt as your course text by keyword, title, or author
3. Preview as many titles as you would like by clicking the preview links until you locate one you would like to adopt.

注意:如果您计划在多个会议中工作，考虑使用Faculty Select文件夹功能，它允许您保存项目以供以后查看。您可以使用教员选择帐户的文件夹功能，在这种情况下，项目将保存到您的帐户。通过点击页面顶部紫色栏中的“登录”来创建一个帐户。您也可以使用没有帐户的文件夹，在这种情况下，您必须在退出会话之前将文件夹通过电子邮件发送给自己。若要使用，请单击要保存的项目旁边的文件夹图标。

Adopt an E-Book or E-Textbook for a Z-Course

The procedure to adopt your e-book or e-textbook varies slightly depending on the type of item you adopt:

Access Your E-Book or E-Textbook

一旦你采用了你的电子书或电子教科书，你将被提供一个链接，你和你的学生可以使用该项目。你可以将链接添加到他们的Blackboard课程菜单中，或者通过电子邮件或教学大纲与你的学生分享。

MC Library will also add your e-book or e-textbook to our course reserves system. Once we do so, you and your students will also be able to access the item by clicking on Library Course Reserves in the menu of your Blackboard course.

无论您如何共享它，您和您的学生都可以远程访问该项目，无需更改，无需等待。在校外访问时，提示输入M号码。

Obtaining Z-Course Designation

Z-courses are courses in which students will not be charged for instructional materials. Faculty members who have adopted an e-book or e-textbook through the library should have their section designated as a z-course to make students aware of this benefit. To have your section designated as a z-course, contact your chair and campus scheduler to ensure your section is coded correctly in their course notes in Banner.

If you need more information or assistance with z-course designations, please contactELITE.