Quick Start Guide

Get Ready

What you need to get started:

• New empty course shell for your LMS (Blackboard, Canvas, D2L or Moodle)
• Access the Instructor Resources Site for your text: www.sagepub.com
• Have your Academic Calendar and Course Syllabus available to add due dates
• Create your Vantage account and course: https://vantage.sagepub.com
• If you’re integrating course materials through a partner tool (like VitalSource Launch or Willo Labs), refer to their guidelines
• Decide how you want to set up your course modules/folders, ex. by week, chapter, or assignment type

Plan

Design your course format:

• Determine the weight for Vantage assignments in the course, ex. 30%
• In Vantage access the Activity Library to decide what activities/videos you will assign and what you will show in class/online
• Choose assignment settings: which for a grade and which for completion only
• If have a midterm and final, download Course Cartridge to access the text test bank: www.sagepub.com
• Decide which ancillary resources you will use, ex. add PowerPoints to content area for students to review and discussion questions to use to create discussion boards: www.sagepub.com
• Decide if you will have additional projects/assignments outside of publisher content 

Build

Execute your plan:

• Create modules/content folders
• Add content for students from the Instructor Resources site
• Add Vantage links for students in the modules/ content folders area using the LTI tool
• Create a Help module/folder for LMS and Vantage student helpdesk information: https://sagevantage.softwareassist.com
• Create text information module/folder that includes ISBN and purchase link for students

Additional Help

• https://sagevantage.softwareassist.com/
• Email: lmssupport@sagepub.com
• Schedule onboarding, in-service or refresher training