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1. What special procedures will I need to learn for SociologyOnline? Using SociologyOnline is as simple for both instructors and students as navigating these preview pages. Getting started is also uncomplicated. Once you send us the material that you would like to have included in your Course Guidebook area (e.g., the course syllabus, old exams), your work in setting up SociologyOnline is finished. We will create those pages for you, and we will configure your message board(s) for the kinds of discussions you plan to have. Of course, if you already have a course work web site, we will link SociologyOnline directly to it. And if you would like to configure your own message board, you can. Just let us know and we will send you the URL for the control panel, along with an audio file that will guide you through the process (a seven-minute tutorial). We want the technology behind SociologyOnline to be as unobtrusive as it is powerful, and we think we've made it that way. 2. How can I preview additional chapters of Sociology in Global Perspective? A guest user name and password will be sent to you on request when you complete the examination review form, which can be filled out and sent from your browser. Just click here. (A new browser window will open with the form.) 3. Are printed copies of Sociology in Global Perspective available? Yes, students are given the option of purchasing the textbook in loose-leaf form, printed on three-hole punched paper. Alternatively, registered users are entitled to print out the textbook chapters for their personal use. 4. How can students access the web site and textbook, and what is the cost? Access to all contents of SociologyOnline is by subscription. Students register online, paying either with credit cards over a secure server or by check or money order. Subscriptions are for the duration of the semester/quarter. The cost of a subscription to SociologyOnline and a loosleaf (three-hole punched) copy of the textbook is $36. Subscriptions alone are $30. 5. How do instructors go about adopting SociologyOnline for their courses? Orders should be placed directly with Digital Text Plus: 6. How much lead time do you need to fill orders? You should place your order by the end of July for fall classes and by the end of November for classes that begin in the winter or spring. 7. How can SociologyOnline be customized for my course? Is there a charge for this service? Customization is free of charge. There are a number of ways that we can tailor SociologyOnline to your particular course. We will put several kinds of material on the web for you, if you'd like, and we'll integrate your pages into the main pages of SociologyOnline. Alternatively, if you have your own web site, we can link SociologyOnline to it. Either way, student users will be able to go back and forth effortlessly between the core pages of SociologyOnline and your own web pages. It doesn't take any work on your part to make it happen, and students find this approach very appealing. In effect, the entire web site is personalized at the same time that all of the resources for your class, from textbook to research resources and interaction tools and your unique class materials, are brought together for improved usability. If we create web pages for you, here are some possibilities, among others that you may want to specify:
Or, if you already have a web site, we can put your home page in the Course Guidebook frameset. We are happy to include photos on web pages that we create for you and will scan them for you if you don't already have scanned image files. 8. What resources are provided for instructors who use SociologyOnline? In addition to our customization services, we provide a number of resources to help you use SociologyOnline effectively. You will receive an instructor's manual with suggestions for structuring online discussions (both real-time and asynchronous) and items for online discussions that draw on the themes of each textbook subject -- approaches that have been extensively field tested with a large number of introductory students. There is a test bank with exam questions written by Lynn Nelson. In addition to the anthology of online supplementary readings that accompanies the textbook, we'll send you periodic newsletters that update the reading list with newly available material and that highlight additional resources you may find useful. We provide rapid-response e-mail support for questions and problems that may arise at any time. 9. Can SociologyOnline be combined with such course work systems as Blackboard, WebCT and TopClass? It is a simple matter to link SociologyOnline to other course work software, such as Blackboard. We will do that for you. 10. Are students permitted to share accounts? Account sharing is not allowed. Our method of managing accounts is through message board usage. It is for this reason that message board assignments are expected to be a required feature of courses in which SociologyOnline is used. 11. How often will Sociology in Global Perspective be updated? The textbook will be revised each year. Revisions and additions will be uploaded to the server during the first two weeks of every August. 12.
How often do you check for broken external links? We check for broken links every Friday and make necessary changes to web pages each weekend (deleting broken links and replacing them with substitutes, when possible). 13. How important are the audio files to the way students use SociologyOnline? Audio files add a valuable dimension to the textbook and to SociologyOnline more generally. That said, this course work package offers notable features, separate from the audio material. If your university labs do not yet have audio capability, you may want to consider choosing the version we offer of SociologyOnline which does not include audio files. Home | Textbook | Cafe | Course Guidebook | Quiz | Search | Contact Us |
