Course Material Adoptions
Submitting adoption information on time is crucial to contributing to course materials affordability for our students. The earlier the adoptions are received, the more time YOUR UH Campus Store will have to perform in-depth sourcing for inventory.
For our undergraduate students, the Cougar Textbook Access Program (CTAP) promises to provide access to required course materials on or before the first day of class. On-time adoptions ensure that we can deliver on that promise and have students prepared for learning on day one!
Course Material Adoption Deadlines
Course material adoption deadlines for each academic term are as follows:
Entering & Submitting Adoptions
Course materials now go through an Adoption Renewal process to try and assist faculty with adoptions. This does not handle all adoptions but is intended to roll over as many course material adoptions as possible.
Follett Discover allows you to easily discover, research and adopt course materials all in one place, including open educational resources.
Three options are available for entering and submitting adoptions for each term.
- 'Textbook Requests' within the Faculty Center
To enter your adoptions through the Faculty Center, please click on the link below for easy, step-by-step instructions.
Faculty Center adoption instructions
- 'UH Campus Store' within AccessUH
The UH Campus Store Follett Discover module that is located within AccessUH is an easy way to submit your adoptions!
Please see the Faculty Center Adoption instructions above if additional portal adoption details are needed.
- Course Materials Market Manager Assistance
You can email your course material adoptions to 2160txt@follett.com if you are unable to utilize the Follett Discover adoption portal via option 1 or 2. If you have trouble accessing the Follett Discover adoption tool, please provide the following information so the UH Campus Store’s Course Materials Market Manager can assist you in troubleshooting the problem.
Name, PSID, Email used, PC or Mac, Browsers used along with a screenshot of the full page with URL, and a copy of the full URL.
Course Material Adoption Renewals - Frequently Asked Questions
Why was adoption renewal implemented?
This was done to assist faculty in the adoption process each term due to materials typically being the same term after term. It is also to ensure that materials are in place for CTAP provisioning.How does the adoption renewal work?
We manually complete the adoption renewal twice during each course material adoption period...one time before the portal opens and another time after the adoption deadline passes but before the portal closes. This allows faculty to still make changes if needed. The system looks at the past two Fall/Spring semesters to pull the most recently used materials. The system can only pull over materials when there is an instructor/course match, so if an instructor is not assigned to the section at the time the renewal is run, nothing will pull over.What if I get assigned a class after the renewal is completed?
You will want to log into the portal and submit your course material adoption.What if I was assigned a class that a previous professor was assigned and there are materials adopted that I do not wish to use?
Please log into the portal and request that the adoption be deleted or email 2160txt@follett.com for us to remove the adoption from the system. You can then submit your adoption for your requested materials.What if I do not use the same materials each term for the course I teach, and I do not want my materials to roll over?
We understand that some selected topic or topic-based classes utilize different books each term, but this is fewer than the classes that utilize the same materials term over term. The system will still roll over those materials used in the last two terms, so you will want to email us at 2160txt@follett.com or log into the portal and request the deletion.I updated my adoption, but it rolled over the incorrect materials. Why?
Since the adoption renewal matches the last two terms, on occasion it can pull adoptions for both terms at the same time. This will require you to delete the incorrect materials but should not occur during the next adoption renewal process.The adoption for my course shows a ‘required’ item and a ‘recommended’ item, but I require students to use it. Why is there a ‘recommended’ item?
This is a part of the CTAP process. The materials that are being provided to students will be listed as required, so it will provision to the students as part of CTAP. The item that is listed as ‘recommended’ is the same material, but the option for students who opt out of CTAP, so that they can purchase materials outside of CTAP if needed.Why does the adoption that rolled over for my course has a different ISBN than what I require?
Sometimes the materials being provided to students as part of CTAP have different ISBNs, based on how publishers have their materials set up. The ISBN that you are used to is the national ISBN, meaning materials that students purchase, while some publishers have a different ACCESS ISBN for our CTAP program. It is important to look at the Title/Author/Edition instead of the ISBN in this case.Is there someone I can talk to if I do not understand this adoption renewal process and wish to learn more?
Absolutely! Send an email to 2160txt@follett.com and the Course Materials Market Manager for the University of Houston System will be in touch to set a meeting.