Overview
User guide for faculty
Overview
User guide for faculty
Overview
What is Sage Campus?
Sage Campus provides structured online learning for skills and research methods. The courses are self-paced, and instructor-led, packed with an engaging mix of video, interactives, formative assessments and more. Our user-friendly platform makes it simple for faculty to assign courses, or for students and researchers to learn autonomously - building practical skills for study, research and the workplace.
What are the topics?
The courses cover critical skills and research methods across all stages of academic study, split into 7 course areas: information literacy, getting started with data, research planning, collecting and managing data, analyzing data, reporting findings and getting published. Browse all courses on the platform.
Who is this faculty guide for?
This guide is for faculty, staff, and instructors looking to assign Sage Campus courses to students or researchers. To do this, you will need a Course Assigner role on the platform given to you by your library administrator, the Sage Campus team, or another Course Assigner at your institution. If you are a student, researcher, or just want to take courses for your own learning instead (and not assign them to others), refer to the learner user guide.
Please note: You can only access Sage Campus if your university or organization gives you access; either via a trial, subscription or purchase. If your institution does not have access, you can recommend Sage Campus to your library.
How to register
How to register
registerING
If your institution has a trial or subscription to Sage Campus, you can register for an account on the Sage Campus platform to access all our online learning by authenticating as a member of your institution. You can authenticate as a member of your institution via IP address or the other authentication methods used by your university, as per the instructions below. Once you’ve registered, you can sign into the Sage Campus platform from anywhere using your username and password.
IP authentication (you can also be connected to your institution's IP via VPN)
Connect to your institution's IP (either on their premises or via VPN).
Go to the Sage Campus platform.
Click the 'Register' button at the top right of the homepage.
You’ll automatically authenticate and taken to the registration form.
Complete the form to create your Sage Campus account. You’ll then be able to sign in from anywhere, anytime, using that username and password.
EZProxy
Go to the EZProxy URL to the Sage Campus platform that your institution provides. If you don't have it, go to your institution's usual library resources page or contact your librarian representative.
Click the 'Register' button at the top right of the homepage.
You will automatically authenticate and be shown the registration form to complete.
Complete the form to create your Sage Campus account. You’ll then be able to sign in the Sage Campus platform from anywhere, anytime, using that username and password, and no longer have to use the EZProxy URL.
Shibboleth or OpenAthens
Go to the Sage Campus platform.
Click the 'Register' button at the top right of the homepage.
You will be taken to a 'Where Are You From' form (screenshot 1).
Begin typing your country and institution name in the drop down fields. If your institution isn’t appearing, please try all variations of the institution name. If you’re still struggling, contact: onlinesupport@sagepub.co.uk
Once you’ve found your institution, you will be given authentication options to select (screenshot 2). Select your chosen method. Please note: Do not try and input a username and password into the 'Administrators and Non-Institutional Users' form (as per the screenshot).
You will be temporarily redirected to your usual authentication method for your institution. Sign in using your usual credentials.
You will then be authenticated and taken back to the Sage Campus platform where you will be shown the registration form to complete to create your new account with Sage Campus.
Complete the form to create your Sage Campus account. You’ll then be able to sign in from anywhere, anytime, using that username and password.
Library Card
Go to the Sage Campus platform.
Click the 'Register' button at the top right of the homepage.
You will be taken to a 'Where Are You From' form (screenshot 1).
Begin typing your country and institution name in the drop down fields. If your institution isn’t appearing, please try all variations of the institution name. If you’re still struggling, contact: onlinesupport@sagepub.co.uk
Once you’ve found your institution, you will be given authentication options to select (screenshot 2). Select Library Card. Please note: Do not try and input a username and password into the 'Administrators and Non-Institutional Users' form (as per the screenshot.
Enter your Library Card number into the field as prompted.
You will then be authenticated and taken to the Sage Campus registration form to complete to create your new account with Sage Campus.
Complete the form to create your Sage Campus account. You’ll then be able to sign in from anywhere, anytime, using that username and password.
Screenshot 1: Part 1 of the ‘Where Are You From’ form for Shibboleth, OpenAthens and Library Card authentication methods.
Screenshot 2: Part 2 of the ‘Where Are You From’ authentication for Shibboleth, OpenAthens or Library Card authentication methods.
Getting a Course Assigner role for your Sage Campus account
In order to get the extra faculty/instructor permissions on the platform that enable you create cohorts and assign courses to students/researchers, you need a Course Assigner role. Your library administrator who manages your institution’s access to Sage Campus can assign this for you after you set up your account. Ask your library administrator to assign a Course Assigner role to your Sage Campus account. If you are stuck, you can also raise a ticket with the Sage Campus support team who can do this for you.
How to enrol on courses
How to enrol on courses
Switching roles on the platform
Sage Campus has 3 user roles on the platform with different permissions and features:
Learner - for users wanting to take courses themselves for their own learning
Course Assigner - for users wanting to assign courses to students/researchers and track their progress
Institutional Administrator - for librarians or administrators looking after the institution’s Sage Campus subscription
All users automatically get the learner role so they can get our full, personalized learner experience. Once you, as a faculty member, get a Course Assigner role on the platform, you can switch between your learner role experience on the platform, and your ‘Course Assigner’ role which has additional functionality.
You switch roles by selecting the ‘role’ icon in the header of Sage Campus and selecting the role you wish to use for you current session on the platform.
How to create cohorts and assign courses
How to create cohorts and assign courses
Creating cohorts and assigning courses
Once you have a Course Assigner role on the platform you can create cohorts of students, assign courses for the cohorts to take, and track the progress of each student on the cohort.
Watch the demo on how to create cohort and assign courses to students
Dashboard
Dashboard
understanding the dashboards
On your learner role on the platform, you will get a dashboard of the courses you are taking for your own learning, showing:
Completed courses you have fully completed
In Progress courses you have made progress on but not completed
Not Started courses you’ve enrolled on but not yet started
Discover More Courses for courses you’ve not yet enrolled on
You also get a badge on courses that have been Assigned - this means a faculty member or instructor at your institution assigned you the course and you enrolled on it using their cohort enrolment key. They can see your progress on the course. An example of a learner dashboard showing In Progress and Not Started courses is below.
On your Course Assigner role on the platform, you will get a dashboard of the cohorts you have created and the average progress of all of your students on the cohort, across the courses, like the below:
Progress and certificates
Progress and certificates
progress and certificates
Certificates
Each course comes with a signed certificate that learners can download from the end of each course page, that unlocks when they complete the course.
Faculty with a Course Assigner role on the platform can download the course certificates at anytime (even if they have not completed the course) so they can view what their students and researchers they assigned courses to will receive.
Progress tracking on the dashboard
For courses to be marked as 100% complete and move from the ‘In Progress’ section to ‘Completed’ section on your dashboard, you must completed all modules.
Progress tracking in modules
If you’re not sure why your dashboard progress isn’t at 100%, you can look within the courses themselves. When you enter a module, you can see your percentage completion for each topic (screenshot 1 below).
Progress tracking in topics
Once you’ve gone into the topic you haven’t completed, there’s a quick way to jump to each item you haven’t completed. Click on the icon in the top right hand corner of the course and you’ll be shown a checklist of the items within the topic and green ticks for what you have completed (screenshot 2 below).
Screenshot 1
Screenshot 2
Support
Support
support
If you have difficulty registering or have technical issues with access control, please contact your Library Administrator or the Sage support team at: onlinesupport@sagepub.co.uk. If you need any support, check our our knowledge base for answers to FAQs or to raise a new support ticket and one of the team will be in touch.
Settings
Settings