MBAN DL - Electronic Textbooks: VitalSource

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Last updated: May 08, 2020
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Several of the MBA courses make use of electronic textbooks via VitalSource. This was an initiative supported by the UNIC Library and Eleni Singou (Librarian). The following courses make use of this service: 

MBAN-530DE

Statistics for Business and Economics, Eighth Edition, Global Edition
SKU: 9780273783060R365

MBAN-609DE

Human Resource Management, Global Edition
SKU: 9781292152110R365

MBAN-622DE

Fundamentals of Financial Management
SKU: 9781337671002

MBAN-670DE

Operations Management
SKU: 9781292098715R365

MBAN-685DE

Exploring Strategy, Text and Cases
SKU: 9781292145143R365

MBAN-728DE

ISE eBook Online Access for Corporate Finance: Core Principles and Applications
SKU: 9781260547450

MBAN-730DE

Leading Digital Strategy: Driving Business Growth Through Effective E-commerce
SKU: 9780749473105

MBAN-736DE

Integrated Business Processes with ERP Systems
SKU: 9781292193359R365

MBAN-782DE

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
SKU: 9781260569797

MBAN-895(ΑΕ&ΒΕ)

Research Methods for Business Students
SKU: 9781292208794R365

MIS-151DL

Technology In Action, Complete 15th Edition
SKU: 9781292311937

Setting up VitalSource Activity

The activity should look like this in Moodle after successfully setting it up:

External Tool

To set up one of these activities follow the steps below:

  1. Open the course in Moodle, Turn editing on, Add an activity or resource

  2. Select External tool

  3. Click Show more at the bottom of General

  4. Activity name: Course Textbook: [Book title] ← Book title can be found in the table above.

  5. Activity description: For future convenience, include the Tool URL and Icon URL (see below for both)

  6. Preconfigured tool: Automatic, based on tool URL

  7. Tool URL: https://bc.vitalsource.com/books/[SKU_of_book]  ← SKU can be found in the table above.

  8. Icon URL: https://dl.unic.ac.cy/Moodle/CourseIcons/book1.png

  9. Save and return to course

It should look like this before saving (example from MBAN-530DE):

Label

Below the External tool create a Label resource with the following text:

NOTE: Please be informed that your e-textbook for this course is provided free of charge by UNIC Library through VitalSource for the current semester.

Feedback

You may be requested to create a Feedback questionnaire for this activity at the end of each semester. It is recommended that you use Google Forms to do so.

An example of the survey can be found here: https://forms.gle/MUFVJukLun4FRgFY6

Once created, add a new label to the course with the feedback form as shown below:

Be sure to share the responses spreadsheet with Eleni Singou form the Library.

 

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