Each student pays once for access to your course, by card or with an access code from the bookstore. A course on the Blended Teaching Platform costs $59.99 per student. Most courses give 180 days of access and some give 12 months; the pricing card shows the price and the access length before a student pays.
This guide covers:
The Price
The Product & Access
1. The Price
The price depends on what your course is built on:
Blended Teaching Platform: $59.99 per student. New blank courses use the Platform, and so do courses set up with Bring my own content and Other.
Textbook courses keep the list price of their selected textbook. A course set up from a subject keeps its selected textbook.
The price is meant to be the same whether a student buys directly from us, through a bookstore or through an inclusive access program. Bookstores set their own prices; we recommend they charge the same.
Some courses are sold as a bundle. One purchase then gives access to every course in the bundle, so a student does not buy each one separately.
2. The Product & Access
2.1. Instructors design their course
When you choose Blended Teaching, you design your own course and install it in your class in your university's learning management system (LMS). Students reach it through the LMS, or directly in the Blended Library.
For example, an instructor teaching Financial Management FIN 301 in the spring at a university that uses Canvas designs their course and installs it in the Canvas course for that class.
2.2. Students pay when they start
The first time a student opens your course content, they see a purchase page with the price and what is included: videos and supporting text, assignments, knowledge checks and practice quizzes. They can:
click Purchase access and pay by card, or
redeem an access code from the bookstore.
If the course is free, the button reads Get free access in your LMS, or Get access in the Blended Library.
Every new course has free access until seven days after its start date, and we can set a later date. While it does, the purchase page's two main buttons are Redeem your access code and Buy access, and below them a box headed Waiting for your access code? has a Start free until button with the date. Students can start without paying, and pay or enter an access code any time.
Continuing the example, a student in FIN 301 logs in to Canvas, opens the class and clicks a chapter. They see the purchase page, enter the access code from their inclusive access program and start studying.
2.3. How long access lasts
Most courses give 180 days of access; some give 12 months. The pricing card says which applies before the student pays, and the confirmation page shows the exact date their access ends. In a bundle, each course keeps its own access length.
After access ends, the student can no longer open the course materials.
To let students start before they pay or before their access code arrives, see Students who haven't paid yet.