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Use courses to form a base-level of knowledge

Teaching students with mixed-abilities or base-levels of skill can be a challenge, especially when teaching classes or programs with students come a variety of disciplines. For example, in stats modules of research programs, students from STEM backgrounds might smoothly adapt to analysing data using programming languages, while students from a social science background may never have heard of R or Python. You can assign Sage Campus introductory courses (even just as a refresher) to make sure all students come prepared to class with the base-level of knowledge.

Improve student success by assigning courses that connect theory to practice

Students need practice, practice, and more practice to hone some skills and research methods, whether it's critically assessing information, data literacy, or more advanced methods like text mining and analysis. It can be challenging to both teach theory and then connect that theory to practice and real-world examples with less time face-to-face time in a physical classroom. When planning your class or course structure, it can take considerable time to craft practical activities and source data or examples of those activities when needed. To save time, assign students Sage Campus courses to hone skills through numerous practical activities and workbooks, and allot precious class time for mastery and application of skills.

Expand face-to-face skills training and drop-in sessions for off-campus students

Universities often host skills training sessions on topics like statistics, data visualisation, critical thinking, or writing a research question. And faculty often have drop-in sessions for students who need extra support. However, this training and sessions are time-limited (and often space-limited too) which may not be accessible for all students. You can assign or recommend Sage Campus courses to make extra support accessible to all students, whether on or off campus, and save their limited drop-in sessions for the most applied questions.

Each Sage Campus 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 Cohort Administration 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.

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.

As a faculty member or instructor at your institution, you can hold two roles in Sage Campus: Cohort Assigner and Learner. Your students will always hold Learner roles.

Through your Cohort Assigner role on the platform, you will have a dashboard of the cohorts you have created and the average progress of all of your students on the cohort, across the courses.

Through your Learner Role on the platform, you will have a dashboard of the courses you are taking for your own learning which will show:

• 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.

You also have a badge on courses that have been Assigned. This means a member at your institution assigned you the course and you enrolled in it using their cohort enrollment key. They can see your progress on the course. An example of a learner dashboard showing In Progress and Not Started courses is below.

Sage Campus provides 280+ hours of 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.

The courses cover critical skills and research methods across all stages of academic study, split into 5 categories: navigating information, data literacy, data science skills, research skills, and getting published. Browse all courses on the platform.

For more information on using your Sage Campus account, follow the instructions below or visit our Faculty 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.

If your institution has access to Sage Campus, you can register for an account 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)

1. Connect to your institution's IP (either on their premises or via VPN).
2. Go to the Sage Campus platform.
3. Click the 'Register' button at the top right of the homepage.
4. You’ll automatically authenticate and taken to the registration form.
5. 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

1. 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.
2. Click the 'Register' button at the top right of the homepage.
3. You will automatically authenticate and be shown the registration form to complete.
4. Complete the form to create your Sage Campus account. You’ll then be able to sign in to the Sage Campus platform from anywhere, anytime, using that username and password, and no longer have to use the EZProxy URL.

Shibboleth or OpenAthens

1. Go to the Sage Campus platform.
2. Click the 'Register' button at the top right of the homepage.
3. You will be taken to a 'Where Are You From' form.
4. 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
5. Once you’ve found your institution, you will be given authentication options to select. Select your chosen method. Please note: Do not try and input a username and password into the 'Administrators and Non-Institutional Users' form.
6. You will be temporarily redirected to your usual authentication method for your institution. Sign in using your usual credentials.
7. 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.
8. 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

1. Go to the Sage Campus platform.

2. Click the 'Register' button at the top right of the homepage.

3. You will be taken to a 'Where Are You From' form.

4. 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

5. Once you’ve found your institution, you will be given authentication options to select. Select Library Card. Please note: Do not try and input a username and password into the 'Administrators and Non-Institutional Users' form.

6. Enter your Library Card number into the field as prompted.

7. You will then be authenticated and taken to the Sage Campus registration form to complete to create your new account with Sage Campus.

8. 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.

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 Cohort Administrator 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.

SAGE Campus has 3 user roles on the platform with different permissions and features:

1. Learner - for users wanting to take courses themselves for their own learning

2. Course Assigner - for users wanting to assign courses to students/researchers and track their progress

3. 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 ‘Cohort 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.

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 this brief tutorial below on how to create cohorts and assign courses to students.

Download our handy subject maps to drive usage of Sage Campus at your institution. Each subject map contains hand-picked modules across a range of academic goals - from becoming a critical thinker to using digital sources with confidence.

Digital Sources with Confidence

Critical Thinker

Doing Research Online

Data Literacy

Data Management

Equipping Masters in Education students with practical research skills for their dissertation

Need: Understanding research methodologies and ethics and the research design process for a dissertation are key components of a Masters in Education.

Challenge: Faculty can teach mastery and theory in class, but students will need to practice in their personal study hours to write a winning research proposal.

Solution: Faculty can assign students Sage Campus' Research Proposal online course for them to come up with their first draft research questions - which faculty can then polish with them in seminar or lab sessions. 

Giving interdisciplinary students the same base skills in an Applied Social Research MA

Need: Statistical analysis of large-scale data sets is central to most Applied Social Research MAs. Students need to be able to use the statistical analysis software package to succeed.

Challenge: MAs often have interdisciplinary in-take of students. This means some students will be more comfortable with statistical analysis software than others, and faculty don't have the class time or capacity to show students the basics, for example how to download R, Python or whatever package they are teaching with. 

Solution: Faculty can assign students Sage Campus data science courses as preparatory material in the first week of class, or as a prerequisite, so all students come to class with the software package downloaded ready and the basics in hand.

Refreshing Psychology and Sociology students' skills for their final project

Need: In most Bachelor degrees, students need to complete a research project in their final year, collecting and analysing their own data.

Challenge: Once students get to their final year, it may have been a while since they completed their statistics modules or handled data.

Solution: Faculty can assign students Sage Campus data literacy courses, such as Statistical Significance, for students to refresh their skills and practice data analysis using practical activities before delving into analysing their own data for their final project.