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Affordable Access

Access programs not only improve course material access, affordability, and convenience, but also increase student outcomes, all while maintaining academic freedom for faculty. Learn how schools of all sizes are seeing transformative impacts.

What are Access programs?

Access programs are offered campus-wide or on a course-by-course basis. Here’s how they work: All required course materials are provided to students on or before the first day of class. In most cases, materials are provided digitally inside the campus learning management system (LMS), offering students maximum convenience.

In addition to convenience, these programs improve course material affordability. Students pay for the course materials via a course fee applied after the add/drop period, and opting out of the program is easy. The core mission of both programs is to ensure all students have the necessary resources to succeed in higher education from day one.

 

Access Programs Boost Student Success

Research shows that Access programs improve student outcomes and result in millions of combined savings, compared to the cost of new textbooks.

With Access, your school delivers a collegiate experience that’s equitable, affordable, and convenient. We’ve helped hundreds of schools of all sizes prepare their students for success—at the course level and campus-wide—while meeting critical strategic goals aligned to diversity, equity, and inclusion; digital innovation; retention; and more.

Launching an Access Program is Easier than Ever

What sets our Access programs apart? Our industry-leading LMS integrations. Like a streaming device for digital learning content, our best-in-class technology consolidates all your LMS learning tool integrations into just one.

Follett’s LMS integration gives you the power to do what no other platform can: allow students to access all their learning materials with a single click.

With Follett, your students get seamless access (no access codes ever!) with best-in-class data privacy protections and security, ensuring that private student data never leaves campus.

Campus-Wide Access

With a campus-wide Access model, every student in every course receives day-one access to the course materials they need to succeed, which can also include print books, supplies, and computers.
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Course-by-Course Access

With a course-by-course Access model, individual instructors adopt affordable, digital-first course materials to ensure students have seamless and secure day-one access within the campus LMS.
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WHAT STUDENTS AND FACULTY SAY
“Knowing students have access to materials on the first day allows me to cover material quicker and all students are on a level playing field. ”
Faculty
Miami Dade College
“I like having all my books on my laptop. It’s easy, fast, and saves me so much money. ”
Student
University of New Orleans
“It was nice to be offered a discounted option for materials and not having to stress about purchasing the material that was not needed. ”
Student
Baylor University

Industry leading
convenience and security

2.7M

students served through Access programs

400+

campuses with Access programs in the Follett family

30%

average savings to students compared to new textbooks

15.5%

Research suggests that students in campus-wide Access programs average a 15.5% increase in course completion rates

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Frequently asked questions

Learn more about Follett’s Access Programs

The Campus-Wide Access program delivers the same seamless access for the entire campus at a per term flat rate while the Course-by-course Access program provides day-one access to course materials at the course level, with variable pricing per title. With the Campus-Wide Access program, students can choose to opt out at the program level each term; with Course-by-course Access model, they opt out at the section level. In both cases, faculty have the academic freedom to choose any content, including OER.