Sage Campus: For Students & Researchers

What is Sage Campus?
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.

What are the topics?
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.

Who is this learner guide for?
This guide is for learners of all kinds: students, researchers, faculty, or librarians wanting to take Sage Campus courses for their own learning. Select the sections labeled in the contents panel on the left or see our online learner user guide. If you are a faculty member or instructor and want to use Sage Campus courses for your teaching or assign courses to learners, please visit the For Faculty tab of this guide or see our online faculty user guide. If you are a librarian wanting to set up your Administrator Access, please visit the For Librarians tab of this guide or see our online librarian user guide.

Please note: Sage Campus is a digital library product and is not currently available for an individual subscription. Institutions or organizations can subscribe or purchase Sage Campus for institution-wide access to all 280+ hours of online learning. 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 the 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.

Once you have logged into Sage Campus, you’ll be taken to your homepage learner dashboard. When you sign into the platform for the first time, you won’t have much on your dashboard, so to get started you can browse all available courses and select the course you want to take in the ‘Discover More Courses’ section.

There are two ways to access and enroll on courses:

1. Self-enabled learner - for learners who want to take the course for their own learning and personal development. Once you select the course you want to enroll on, simply click on the pink ‘enroll’ button (screenshot 1 below)

2. Cohort learner - for learners who have been assigned a course by a faculty member at their institution. This requires the Course Assigner to send you a link to join the course. Please note: Enrolling on a cohort means that the Course Assigner can see your progress on the course.

Understanding the Learner Dashboard

You will get your own personalized learner dashboard on Sage Campus that shows:

• 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 on

Also, on your dashboard, you can access the ‘My Profile’ section to view your personal details, account settings, the progress of all courses you’re enrolled on, and all certificates you have acquired.

You also get a badge on courses that have been Assigned - this means a faculty member or instructor at your institution assigned you the course and you enrolled on it using their magic link. They can see your progress on the course. An example of a learner dashboard showing In Progress and Not Started courses is below.

All Sage Campus courses are stand-alone, so learners can easily pick and choose what they would like to learn. This also allows faculty to assign single courses to students. However, courses have also been mapped into the following learner pathways that achieve specific learning outcomes that align with learner and faculty needs. Select a  topic below to visit the designed learner pathway on Sage Campus:

• Learn to write a winning dissertation
• Learn to handle numbers and data
• Learn skills to master your research project
• Learn how to conduct research online
• Learn to analyze large texts from the web
• Learn to visualize your data
• Learn to program in Python
• Learn to master R programming for research
• Learn about the journal publishing landscape
• Learn to write a journal article that gets published

Certificates
Each course comes with a signed certificate that unlocks when you complete the course and will be available for download at the end of the course page. You can also see all your certificates acquired under the ‘Certificates’ tab located in 'My Profile'.

Progress tracking on the dashboard
For courses to be marked as 100% complete and move from the ‘In Progress’ section to the ‘Completed’ section on your dashboard, you must complete 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.

If you have difficulty registering your account or have technical issues with access control, please contact your Library Administrator or the Sage support team at: onlinesupport@sagepub.co.uk.

If you need any support, check out our knowledge base for answers to FAQs or to raise a new support ticket and one of the team will be in touch to help.

Common FAQs

• Can I change my username?
• What web browsers do you support?
• How do I get my certificate(s)?
• Can I use Sage Campus courses from my mobile device?
• How do I know what's left to complete in a module for it to get marked as complete?
• I can't see my module progress on a course homepage.