Follett Discover is a powerful online tool that transforms the course materials discovery and adoption process for faculty, and helps students obtain, organize and instantly access their required and recommended course materials from within your learning management system. Follett Discover Administrator role is designed to work with the faculty experience and allow department administrators to manage adoptions.
This quick reference guide provides instructions on how to: • Set adoption permissions • Review and approve submitted adoptions • Pre-approve materials for faculty • View adoption progress and compliance at a glance
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Things You Need to Know Before the Semester Begins
STEP ONE: Login to SSC Self-Service. Select “Financial Management” from the main menu.
STEP TWO: Select “Budget to Actuals”
STEP THREE: Choose either “Bar Graph” or “List” view and the “Year” you would like to display across the top of the page.
STEP FOUR: Select “Apply Filter” on the lower left side of the page to display all of your available accounts.
STEP FIVE (OPTIONAL): Enter Your Cost Center number in the “Department” field on the left side of the page to look at only one account and select “Apply Filter”.
STEP SIX: Select the account you would like to view for transactions.
STEP SEVEN: Select “Document” ID to view the details of the transaction.
STEP EIGHT: Select the “Line Item” you would like to view in detail by selecting the arrow.
Please contact Lisa Santoro in the IT Department at ext. 2274 for further information.
If you have a student that needs access to your course from a previous semester, please contact SSC Online with the course, section, and student information. Ask that the role of “Incomplete Student” be assigned to the student for that particular course.
Please be advised students with the role of “Incomplete Student” will continue to have access to the course until such time that you ask that their role be changed back to “Learner”.
If you had dates on the assignments they need to submit you should be able to assign “View Content that is Not Released” or add a new date for just that student as a Release Condition.
This test is only available from off campus, but is available for all employees and students.
A server has been setup on campus to test you can use to test your connect to from home to determine the quality of your Internet connection to access D2L, Bongo, Microsoft Teams, etc.
Step 2: Type in South Suburban College (see highlighted)
Step 3: Click on South Suburban College (see highlighted)
Step 4: Click on Go (see highlighted) to start the test
Step 5: View Results
For the best experience with video conferencing (Bongo, Microsoft Teams, etc.) or VPN access to South Suburban College, you should have ping less than 100 ms, jitter less than 10 ms, download greater than 6.0 Mbps, and upload greater than 3.0 Mbps.
Please note that these suggested values will be affected by the amount of users that you actively have on your home network. The more devices you have attached to your network at any one time, the less available upload and download bandwidth you will have, and your ping and jitter values will go up as well.
If you find that your network is not performing at the minimum recommendation listed above please contact John McCormack.
