Blended Teaching is a new form of textbook designed to help you learn more effectively than traditional textbooks. Specific content is selected and designed by your instructor, including videos, text, quizzes and assignments, and linked directly into your university learning management system. No need to search through endless pages and assessments, what you need is right in front of you at the click of a button.

Signing up is easy, just click on any Blended Teaching materials in your university learning management system, and it will take you through the sign up process for Blended Teaching. During that signup process you can pay directly with credit or debit card, or use an access code purchased at the bookstore or through an inclusive access program.

This guide is split into the following:

Blended Teaching is only accessible through your course in your university learning management system. To get started, go to your course in your learning management system and click on any of the Blended Teaching materials in your course.

If you are not already signed up to your Blended Teaching textbook for the course, it will ask you to sign up there and then. No need to go to elsewhere.

If you don't know where the Blended Teaching materials are in Canvas or Blackboard, instructors sometimes include a prompt in their Canvas or Blackboard pages to encourage you to sign up there. It usually looks something like this:

Once you have started the signup process by clicking on any of the Blended Teaching materials in your course, you may be asked to create an account. To do this, just provide the requested details (email, name, create password).

In some instances, you won't be asked for these details, as these details may be transferred to us by your university. In this case, your account is opened for you by your university system.

After your account has been opened, you will be asked to pay for access to the textbook materials, unless your course has free access. If it does, you'll see Free until and a date with a Get access button, and you can pay or add your access code any time before that date. See Getting into your course before your access code arrives.

You can pay using most forms of credit / debit card, or you can use an access code that you purchased from a bookstore or inclusive access program.

If you do have an access code, just follow the steps laid out during the signup process and click on the button labelled "Have an access code from your bookstore".

Once you have paid directly or with an access code, you will be asked to enroll in the class materials. To do this, you must agree to share significant portions of your data relating to your interactions with Blended Teaching, with your instructor and university. This is so that they can track your progress, understand your performance, etc. You cannot enroll unless you agree to share this data with your university and instructor.

With your purchase, you will get access to the materials designed and selected by your instructor, through the university learning management system for up to 6 months.

This can include videos, textbook chapters, assignments, practice quizzes, quizzes, exams, etc.

You can only access these materials through your course in the university learning management system, so if the university prevents you accessing the course in the university learning management system you will not be able to access the Blended Teaching materials.

To access the materials, once you have created your account and paid for access either directly, or with an access code, just click on the materials in your university learning management system and it will open the content directly in the course if it is integrated...

... or it will open the content in a separate window if the course is unintegrated.

New courses have free access until seven days after the course start date, and some have a later date. If yours does, you'll see Free until and a date when you first open the course, and you can start without paying. Add your access code or pay before that date to keep your place. See Getting into your course before your access code arrives.

If you buy directly from Blended Teaching and drop the class within 30 days of the class start date, you can get a full refund (see 4.2).

If you bought access directly from Blended Teaching, no problem, we've got you. Just ask within 30 days of the start date of the class, and we will give you a full refund, no questions asked.

The 30 days start on the start date of the class, not the date you bought access. We can't give a refund after that.

If you bought through your campus bookstore, VitalSource or Kortext, or used an access code, the seller handles your refund under their own refund terms. Please contact them directly.

To request a refund, either:

Once your refund is made, the money will be back with you within 5 to 10 business days, depending on your bank. Your access to the course ends when you are refunded.

When you choose to purchase a Blended Teaching access code through a bookstore or inclusive access provider, they will give you the code. If they haven't given you one, but were meant to, you'd need to talk with them. We can't help with that part unfortunately.

Once you have the access code, you can use it when you sign up to Blended Teaching. If your course has free access and you started without a code, select Redeem a code or buy on any course page and enter it there.

Blended Teaching's products are one off purchases, typically for 6-month licences. This means that you do not need to unsubscribe from our service, and we won't bill you on a recurring basis.