Reminder: Textbook Ordering Deadlines and New Procedures Update

To: Departmental Executive Officers
From: Helena Dettmer, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Curriculum and the Humanities
RE: Reminder: Textbook Ordering Deadlines and New Procedures Update

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November 01, 2017

All textbooks must be ordered for the next semester before Early Registration begins in order for UI to be in compliance with the HEO Act.

  • Textbook Ordering Deadline for Spring 2018: Before November 6, 2017
  • Textbook Ordering Deadline for Fall 2018: Before April 9, 2018

An exception may be made in the following circumstances:

  1. If an instructor has not yet been hired
  2. If the instructor has not yet been assigned to a course
  3. If the course is new and still under development
  4. If the textbook is new and still under development 

New Procedures for Adding Textbook Orders to MyUI
Please note that the Registrar has added new information to their website about textbook ordering under Faculty and Staff > Course Offerings.

Visit this link, Textbook and Resources Help, which includes the following information particularly for key staff about how to add textbook choices to MyUI:

  1. How to Proceed for Spring 2018
  2. Bookstore Contact Information
  3. Textbook and Resource Assignment Flow Chart
  4. Additional Resource: October 23 Textbook and Resource Lunch N’ Learn Presentation
  5. Important Details
  6. Textbook and Resources Tips and Tricks
  • Process for Ordering from Multiple Bookstores
  • Making Edits to Textbooks/Other Resources Displayed in MAUI/MyUI
  • No Bookstore Preference
  • Textbooks: Required, Preferred, and Optional