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1. Is this compatible with my LMS?

The course cartridge works with many of the most recent versions of popular learning management systems including Blackboard, Angel, Moodle, Desire2Learn, and Canvas. The learning management administrator/instructional technologist at your school can confirm if you have the latest system.

Here’s a list of the learning management systems the course cartridge will work in:

Angel 7.4, Service Pack 5 and above

Blackboard Learn 9.1, Service Pack 4

Canvas

Desire2Learn 9.2 and above

Moodle 1.9 and above

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2. How do I access my course cartridge?

Course cartridges are featured on our Instructor Teaching Sites. You’ll need to visit the Instructor Teaching Site for your book and login with your user name and password. If you do not have a user name and password then follow the instructions on that web page to obtain one.

Once you’ve logged into the site go to the Course Cartridge page by using the menu on the left hand side of the page.

Download the course cartridge that matches your system and use the tutorial videos or help documentation also featured on this page to help you upload it to your learning management system.

3. How do my students access course cartridge?

Your students will be able to access the course cartridge once you load it into your Learning Management System. They do not have access to the download page.

6. Who do I contact for tech support?

If you are having trouble with the SAGE website contact us using one of the following methods:

Complete a Technical Support Form

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email textbookstechsupport@sagepub.com

call 1 (800) 818-7243 ext. 7080 / 1 (805) 410-7080 Monday - Friday: 10:00 A.M. - 8:00 P.M. EST

Oftentimes your instructional technologist on campus can assist if you are having complications with your learning management system.

7. How long do I have access?

Course cartridges are available for download for the life of the edition of the book. Once installed they will remain indefinitely and depending on the features of your learning management system can be reused many times over.

8. What are the main features of the product?

Our common cartridges feature all the assets you’ll find on the Instructor Teaching Site loaded in an easy to edit format to help you build your course in your learning management system. The assets are organized by chapter so that you can pick and choose what you would like to use and the test bank is populated into the testing function of your LMS for secure test generation.

9. Is there anything else I should know about the product?

Yes, this is set up to be edited by you to create your course just the way you want whether you are teaching on a quarter system, semester system, or another timeframe.

Course Cartridges with Student Study Site Materials

Select titles include course cartridges that include assets found on the Instructor Teaching Site and the Student Study Site, as well as a bonus quiz—all in an easy-to-upload package. Course cartridges with these resources are available for the following titles:

• Nau, Perspectives on International Relations: Power, Institutions, and Ideas • Orvis, Introducing Comparative Politics: Concepts and Cases in Context • Duck, Communication in Everyday Life: A Survey of Communication • Duck, Communication in Everyday Life: Basic Course Edition • Ray, Abnormal Psychology • Warren, Communication: A Critcal/Cultural Introduction • Salkind, Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics • Chambliss, Discovering Sociology • Lussier, Management Fundamentals • Nahavandi, Organizational Behavior • Northouse, Introduction to Leadership: Concepts and Practice • Ritzer, Essentials of Sociology • Ritzer, Introduction to Sociology • Newman, Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everday Life • Frankfort-Nachmias, Social Statistics for a Diverse Society

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Course cartridges for the above titles include a bonus quiz that instructors can “hide” within the LMS until they’d like to make it available for students. Below are detailed instructions for “hiding” and “unhiding” this bonus quiz for Angel, Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard and Desire2Learn.

ANGEL:

There are different versions of Angel servers and below are the steps on how to hide/unhide the quizzes or items on the various Angel platforms:

Angel 6.3 –

1) Select the 'edit' option of a particular quiz/item as shown below:

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2) Then under "Normal" mode in the 'ACCESS SETTINGS' tab, select 'YES' in the Hidden option in order to 'hide' that particular quiz / item as shown below:

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3) And select 'NO' option in order to 'unhide' that particular quiz / item as shown below:

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ANGEL 7.2 through 8.0 –

1) Select the 'settings' option of a particular quiz/item as shown below:

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2) Then in the "Normal" mode under 'Access' tab, check the radio-button of the option "Do not allow users to view this item" if you want to 'hide' that particular quiz/item OR uncheck the same if you want 'unhide' it as shown below:

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CANVAS:

In order to 'hide' the quizzes in Canvas, the Instructor needs to "Un-Publish" the quizzes as shown below:

1) Go to "Quizzes" section available on the right panel and click on the ' ' symbol of the particular quiz that you need to 'hide'. This will un-publish that particular quiz. Please have a look at the below screen-grab:

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2) Once that quiz(s) is unpublished, the symbol will appear as ' ' and the Students won't be able to attempt that particular quiz(s).

DESIRE 2LEARN:

In order to 'hide'/'unhide' any particular quiz, please follow the steps below

1) Click on the drop-down arrow button of any quiz, select 'Edit' option as shown:

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2) Then under the "Restrictions" tab, check the radio-button of the option "Hide this topic" under 'Hidden' section if you want to 'hide' that particular quiz OR uncheck the same if you want 'unhide' it as shown below:

3) Finally, click on 'Save and Close' button. 4) In D2L, if your quiz is hidden then the closed eye ( ) will appear after the quiz AND if

unhidden then there won't be any symbol.

BLACKBOARD:

To hide/unhide the Bonus Quizzes please follow these instructions:

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1) When you log into any BB course using your Instructor login click on 'Control Panel' on the left panel then click on 'Course Documents' in the "Content Areas" section >> Go to any particular chapter whose Bonus Quizzes you need to Hide/Unhide. For Ex.: Go to Chapter 1. An Introduction to Sociology in the Global Age >> Bonus Quiz Ch01 then click on "Modify" button

2) Then click on "Modify the Test options"

3) Under the "Test Options" page: a. Click radio button Yes in 'Make the link available' under 'Test Availability' section if you wish

to unhide any particular quiz to Students

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b. Otherwise, click No in the same window if you wish to hide showing any particular quiz to Students as shown in the attached

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4) Finally, click on 'Submit' and then 'OK'.

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MOODLE

In Moodle 1.9 servers, you can 'hide' any Quiz as follows:

1) When you log into any Moodle course using your Instructor login click on "Turn editing on" button present on the right top of the Moodle course homepage.

2) Then simply click on the 'open eye' ( ) button available on the label of the Quiz to HIDE the quiz from Students. After clicking on this, the open eye button will turn to a closed eye button ( ) as shown in the screenshot below:

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3) Clicking again on the 'closed eye' ( ) button, the quiz will again visible to Students i.e. the quiz will be UNHIDE.

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