Textbook Providers

Megan Day

Does anyone use a 3rd party textbook store that integrates with Blackbaud LMS (EdTech Solutions, eFollet, TextbookHUB, etc.)? Our teachers currently use a mix of print and digital textbooks from various publishers. After trying solutions 7+ years ago, we gave up and just provide our families with a digital textbook list that links to where they can buy their books (Amazon, Apple iBooks, etc.). We're now swinging back towards trying to find a way for families to login to Blackbaud LMS and see the books they need to buy for the classes they're enrolled in. Would love to hear about experiences. Thanks!

Joshua Blice

We are looking at TextbookHub (https://www.textbookhub.com/wp-content/cache/wp-rocket/textbookhub.com/index-https.html) because it integrates with Blackbaud.

Geoffrey Goodfellow

We use McGraw-Hill digital textbooks through an LTI connection to Blackbaud LMS. You basically link each LMS class to the correct textbook they use, and then a nightly integration extracts the class rosters from Blackbaud and provisions a digital textbook license for each student. As students are added/removed from rosters, the integration adds and removes the licenses. Students can click on the digital textbook from within the LMS class and are single-signed on directly to the content. Teachers can also link to content from within the LMS.

Megan Day

Thanks for that info. Some of our texts are through McGraw-Hill so we will definitely look into this option. Was there any sort of additional fee from McGraw-Hill to make the integration work?

Geoffrey Goodfellow

No, I don't believe that there were any associated fees.

Austin Ewachiw

Check our my writeups about McGraw Hill and Savvas (Pearson) e-texts.


I encourage anyone currently using their products with manual teacher and student account creation to take a look. Will save hours of work and headaches.


Savvas Pearson texts -https://community.blackbaud.com/forums/viewtopic/569/52542

McGraw Hill texts - https://community.blackbaud.com/forums/viewtopic/569/50799


Has anyone else been successful with other publishing platforms?


Austin

Bryan Lorenzo

@Megan Day - we use TBH and having them handle our book deployment has been the best. We used to spend so many hours deploying multiple platforms. The TBH services have been a game-changer for us.