Managing Multiple Institutions
If you teach for more than one institution using CengageNOWv2, you can manage all your courses from a single sign-on. Additionally, the institution you are currently logged into determines which institution is associated with any course you create or copy into a new location. Your best practice is to verify you are logged in correctly and change your institution in Cengage, if necessary, before proceeding.
Topics for Managing Multiple Institutions
To determine your active institution
- 1. Open the tab or window displaying your Cengage Instructor Resource Center for your account. This is the opening screen when you first log into Cengage.
- 2. Check the institution listed in the heading of your Instructor Resource Center page.
- 3. Verify the institution listed just below your user name in the upper right corner of the screen is correct.
Note: Your active Institution is also supplied on the Course Information page, which is available when creating a new course or section. See Using the Course Information Page for more details.
To determine the institution for an existing course or section
To change institutions before creating a new course
Follow the steps below, if you need to create your new course in an institution other than the one you're currently logged into.
Note: New sections are always associated with the parent course institution.
- 1. Log out of your CengageNOWv2 session.
- 2. If you have a unique account for each of your institutions, log out of your Cengage account and log back in using the account associated with the appropriate institution.
- 3. If you have a single account with the Update Institution feature enabled, you can switch institutions without logging out of Cengage.
- ° Go to your Cengage Instructor Resource Center page.
- ° Click the My Account link in the top right corner of the page to open your My Account page.
- ° Click the Update Institution link next to the Institution Selected heading.
- ° Use the Search feature to locate your institution by various criteria such as location, institution type, vicinity, state, city, or postal code.
- ° Click Search to select from a list of qualifying schools.
- ° Click Continue to return to your Instructor Resource Center page. (Check the school listed in the heading to confirm your choice.)
- ° Click a course link under My Course to return to CNOWv2.
- 4. (Optional) If it was necessary to quit before changing institutions, return to CengageNOWv2 and restart the course creation wizard.
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See Building a Course Manually, Copying an Existing Course, or Importing a Course for step by step instructions on creating a specific type of course.
To change the institution for an existing course
Moving a course gives you the opportunity to change its associated institution. A course copied to the clipboard is automatically reassigned to the institution you currently have active. Because of the loss of class data, it is recommended you do not move a course during the term.
Note: Enrollment, syllabus, and grade information are lost in courses that are moved with the Clipboard.
- 1. Check your Instructor Resource Center in your Cengage account to verify you're logged into the appropriate institution.
- 2. Open the Courses page in CNOWv2 and click Show All Options to expand the page.
- 3. Select the check box for the course requiring an institution change and expand the Courses and Sections dropdown menu.
- 4. Select Cut from the menu to remove the original course or select Copy to retain it (you cannot delete a course from the Courses page).
- 5. (Optional) Select a new folder for the course.
- 6. Expand the Folders dropdown menu and choose Paste Course to open the CNOWv2 Clipboard.
- 7. (Optional) Adjust the assignment dates by selecting the option to Adjust all assignment dates based on moving the start date of the first assignment to:, and then using the calendar widget to select a new date and time.
- 8. (Optional) Choose to delete items from the Clipboard after pasting by selecting the check box to Remove copied items from the clipboard when pasted?.
- 9. Click Paste Selected Items and the Courses page will refresh with your new course displayed.
- 10. (Optional) Click Edit to open the Course Information page where you can rename your course and verify the Institution.
Click Done when you are finished. All assignment dates in the course should now be changed relative to the first assignment's new start date.
Note: If you opt to skip this step, the assignments in the course being moved will retain their original dates. If necessary, you can later adjust assignment dates individually or in bulk by using the Modify Dates feature on the Assignments page. See Modifying Dates for more details.
