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Sage Campus: For Librarians

This guide offers librarians, faculty/instructors, and students/alumni support on using the courses and platform features within the Sage Campus resource.

Library Engagement Resources

Use these resources from the Sage Engagement team to support you in learning about and teaching others on getting started using Sage Campus courses. 

Content Pathway

Pathway showing the areas SAGE Campus courses support learners in achieving

Practical Applications

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.

Getting Started with Sage Campus

Overview

The Sage Campus platform 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, including the below categories:

  • Navigating information
  • Data literacy
  • Data science skills
  • Research skills
  • Getting published

You can browse all courses on the Sage Campus platform.

How to Start Using Sage Campus

Video – Creating the first account with an institutional administrator role  

Sage will send secondary Sage Secure Center login details that need to be used to get authenticated on the Campus platform. It will enable you to create your account with institutional administrator role privileges on the platform. If you try to register on the platform without the Secure Center credentials, you'll only have learner privileges on the platform which will prevent your institution from taking full advantage of the platform. Visit this page to learn more about:

  • What the institutional administrator role allows you to do on the Campus platform. 

  • How to invite any subsequent institutional administrators to register on the platform

Registering

To register as the institutional administrator, follow these 3 one-time steps:

  1. Go to https://classroom.sagepub.com/login
  2. Use your secondary Secure Center account username and password, which you can find in your welcome letter, to get recognized as a user from your institution and subsequently to trigger Campus' registration form.
  3. Fill in your details (email, name, surname, password) in the registration form before clicking 'Register' to create your Sage Campus account. Note: you will need the email and password to sign in in the future.

Signing In

Video – Signing in 

Once you have completed these steps you will be able access the platform using the credentials you’ve created. If you are struggling with access please contact: campus.info@sagepub.com.

If you are a learner or faculty member, simply register for an account following the instructions in our learner user guide or faculty user guide. You can then ask your Institutional Administrator (key librarian who set up access to Sage Campus) to change your role on the platform to give you extra permissions if needed.

How to Create a Second and Subsequent Accounts with the Institutional Admin Role on the Platform

Video - Enabling a second and subsequent institutional administrator accounts 

There are 2 ways of achieving this and both can be done only if the first account with institutional administrator role has already been created: 

  1. The first way should be used when a person you want to have institutional administrator privileges hasn’t been registered yet: 
    1. Navigate to “My profile” 
    2. Select “Manage institution” 
    3. Click “Invite new user” 
    4. Key in their name, surname and email address  
    5. Select Course assigner role 
    6. Click “Invite user” 
    7. Once you’ve done the last step they will be sent an email with an invitation link. It’s worth noting that this email may end up in their spam folder and they may not see it.
  2. The second way should be used when a person you want to have institutional administrator privileges has already been registered: 
    1. Navigate to “My profile”
    2. Select “Manage institution” 
    3. In the table find the person you want to assign the institutional administrator role to (if there are a lot of rows in the table you can use the search function to find a particular person)  
    4. Click “Edit” 
    5. Select institutional administrator role
    6. Click “Update user”
    7. When this user will sign in next time they’ll sign in with an institutional administrator role 

Using the Platform

Dashboard & Reporting

When logging into Sage Campus, you will see your institution’s dashboard on the homepage (screenshot below). This shows you the total number of users from your institution who have created an account with Sage Campus, how many of these are faculty/instructors with course assigner roles, and how many cohorts have been created for your institution.

It also shows leaderboards of how many learners are enrolled on each course and the average progress of your learners across for each of the courses.

Screenshot of Administrator Dashboard

Managing Users

Managing Users at Your Institution

You can view and manage all Sage Campus users at your institution by clicking on ‘My Profile’ in the top right of the platform header and then selecting ‘Manage institution’ as per the screenshot below.

Screenshot of Administrator dashboardYou will be shown a list of all the users at your institution who have created an account with Sage Campus, when they last accessed and their role on the platform (as per the screenshot below)

Assigning Course Assigner Roles

Video - Assigning a course assigner role to faculty 

You can search for specific users using the search function and assign a course assigner role that enables them to assign courses to students/researchers and track their progress.

There are 2 ways of achieving this: 

  1. The first way should be used when a faculty member hasn’t been registered on the platform: 
    1. Navigate to “My profile” 
    2. Select “Manage institution” 
    3. Click “Invite new user” 
    4. Key in their name, surname and email address 
    5. Select “Course assigner” role 
    6. Click “Invite user” 
    7. Once you’ve done the last step the faculty member will be sent an email with an invitation link. It’s worth noting that this email may end up in their spam folder and they may not see it.   
  2. The second way should be used when a faculty member has already been registered on the platform: 
    1. Navigate to “My profile” 
    2. Select “Manage institution” 
    3. In the table find the faculty member you want to assign the course assigner role to (if there are a lot of rows in the table you can use the search function to find a particular person)  
    4. Click edit 
    5. Select “Course assigner” 
    6. Click “Update user” 
    7. When this user will sign in next time they’ll sign in with the course assigner role.  

User Guides

To support faculty and instructors use of Sage Campus courses for teaching or assign courses to learners, please reference our faculty user guide.

For student, researcher, or alumni use of Sage Campus courses for self-directed learning, please refer to our learner user guide.

Subject Maps

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

User Guides

The librarian/institution administrator guide outlines setup, management, reporting, and support for your institution's access to Sage Campus.

To support faculty and instructors use of Sage Campus courses for teaching or assigning courses to learners, please reference our faculty user guide.

For student, researcher, or alumni use of Sage Campus courses for self-directed learning, please refer to our learner user guide.

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Stay in the Know

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