Setting Up Student Self-Enrollment

The CengageNOWv2 course link provides the most convenient way to manage enrollment for your course or section. By providing this link in a printed handout or an email, your students have the ability to enroll themselves online. You simply copy the URL to your system clipboard from the Courses page or the Course Created/Summary page to distribute it to your students. See To copy the course link for more details.

You can also email or print the Student Registration Information PDF. This is a document generated by CengageNOWv2 that contains the course link and step-by-step instructions on registering for your course. You can also copy the course link and paste it into your syllabus or other document. Only students who are given the Student Registration Information or course link are able to self-enroll in your course. See To distribute Student Registration Information for more details.

Cengage provides students with a free "trial period" where for a limited time, students can log into and work in your course without purchasing their textbook. Students simply register by using the course link only. The grace period is 1 day per week of course duration, for a maximum of 14 days — beginning on the start date you select when creating your course.

Note: This shortened time period applies only to new courses, older courses will continue to allow a trial period of 3 days per week, for a total of 21 days maximum.

If the trial period deadline should expire before a student has an opportunity to make their purchase, their work is saved, but they cannot access their course. Students can resume the course with the purchase and submission of the course material's Access Code.

Note: Also see Enrollment Overview for information on the manual enrollment and unenrollment of students and instructors.

To distribute Student Registration Information

1. From the Courses main page, click the Print link in the Course/Section Key field.

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Click a course or section name from the Courses page, then from the Course Summary page you can click the Student Registration Instructions link.

The Student Registration Information PDF opens in a new browser window or tab.

2. On the Student Registration Information page, select one of the following options in the heading:

° Print. Opens your browser's print preferences window. Select your settings and click Print to send the Student Registration Information handout to your printer.

° Email. Opens the CNOWv2 Send Email form that you can use to send an email with an already attached .PDF file of the Student Registration Information handout (the attachment is named BoardingPass.pdf).

° Copy. Allows you to copy the text of the Student Registration Information handout to your system clipboard, which you can then paste into another document.

° Download. Saves a .PDF copy of the Student Registration Information page to your hard drive (the download is named BoardingPass.pdf).

To email Student Registration Information

1. Go to the Courses and Sections table and find the name of your course.

2. Click the Email link under the Course/Section Key column heading. The CengageNOWv2 Send Email page open a generated message with the Student Registration Information PDF attached (the attachment is labeled BoardingPass.pdf).

3. (Optional) In the Subject field, type a new subject for your message.

4. Enter the email address of the users you want to receive the message in the To field, or you can send it to yourself if that is more convenient.

5. (Optional) In the Message field, edit your message.

6. Click Send Email to send the message.

To copy the course link

1. Under the Courses and Sections column heading, find the name of your course.

2. Click the Copy link under the Course/Section Key column heading. The course link is placed on your system's clipboard.

3. Click Ctrl+V to paste the course link into a syllabus, an email, or a document of your choosing.

Your students can use this link to open the registration site Cengage supplies for your course.