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RedShelf

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What is RedShelf?

RedShelf is an eTextbook platform. For Publishers, RedShelf offers a content distribution network and market intelligence; for schools, it offers a digital content platform campus bookstores can use to provide affordable, accessible texts, with reporting and analytics for instructors to…

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Digital learning

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 29, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
RedShelf offers accessibility features that allow you to easily navigate and read the RedShelf web interface. Provides easily accessible and affordable course materials to stu...
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Ikki Penta
Engineer - Other
Lead Data Scientist
University of Technology Sydney
RedShelf1 year of experience

Shelving our Student Access Issues

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 17, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
RedShelf is primarily serving as a way for students to access their online textbook for a course, retrieve the access code for another online platform, and serve as a license ...
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John Bayerl
Director - Information Technology
LMS Administrator & Trainer
Inver Hills Community College
RedShelf3 years of experience

RedShelf is there for the Independent College Bookstsore

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 5, 2019
IncentivizedVetted Review
RedShelf is an innovative tool to support lowering the cost of course materials in two major ways. First, they provide the best eText in the industry. Easy to use for our stud...
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Meredith Schreiber
Manager - Other
Director Bookstore and Auxiliary Services
Chemeketa Community College
RedShelf6 years of experience
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What is RedShelf?

RedShelf is an eTextbook platform. For Publishers, RedShelf offers a content distribution network and market intelligence; for schools, it offers a digital content platform campus bookstores can use to provide affordable, accessible texts, with reporting and analytics for instructors to track…

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Product Details

What is RedShelf?

RedShelf is an eTextbook platform. For Publishers, RedShelf offers a content distribution network and market intelligence; for schools, it offers a digital content platform campus bookstores can use to provide affordable, accessible texts, with reporting and analytics for instructors to track student usage; for students, RedShelf provides an online eReader with collaboration tools to read, highlight, and take notes on eTextbooks.

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Digital learning

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
December 29, 2021
IP
Ikki Penta
Lead Data Scientist
University of Technology Sydney (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
RedShelf
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
RedShelf offers accessibility features that allow you to easily navigate and read the RedShelf web interface. Provides easily accessible and affordable course materials to students around the world, accelerating the learning community's transition to digital.
Pros and Cons
  • Provides access with or without internet connection to read your books.
  • You can access the application from your mobile device, tablets, or desktop computers.
  • Streamlines the distribution of e-books, e-textbooks, and other digital content.
Likelihood to Recommend
RedShelf is an award for today's publishers, schools, businesses, and students. Provides them materials, digital course textbooks easily accessible in a faster and more efficient way.
Most Important Features
  • Streamlines the digital material process for students.
  • Helps define unknown words quickly and easily.
  • The best thing is that my students can access their books or any other content without an internet connection.
Return on Investment
  • It is a great provider of affordable digital learning materials that help improve teaching and learning through technology.
Alternatives Considered
  • TargetX and from Liaison
RedShelf and TargetX have something in common, and that is that they help transform the way colleges and universities support their students with their books from digital learning.
Other Software Used

Shelving our Student Access Issues

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
November 17, 2021
JB
John Bayerl
LMS Administrator & Trainer
Inver Hills Community College (Higher Education, 201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
RedShelf
3 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
RedShelf is primarily serving as a way for students to access their online textbook for a course, retrieve the access code for another online platform, and serve as a license key for other online platforms. Students access it via our learning management system (LMS), Brightspace, and a link is embedded within their individual course sites to allow them to access materials for that site. Because of this, we've been able to use RedShelf to implement a program we call "Direct Digital". This means that students don't need to go out and find/purchase the materials for the course, we actually just add them on as a fee onto the course. This allows students to easily use financial aid and other financial assistance to pay for those materials, and it ensures that all students have access to what they need to complete the course. Once the course is live, they will then just access all their course materials right within Brightspace, which ultimately just makes the process easier/simpler for students.
Pros and Cons
  • Online Textbooks
  • Accessibility
  • Digital Access
Likelihood to Recommend
RedShelf has been great in a higher ed environment to help connect students to textbook and publisher materials. It has helped make the process of purchasing/accessing those materials so much easier for students. I am at an institution now where we don't have RedShelf, and the faculty and students are regularly frustrated with this process, so I'll be looking to get us a license here soon.

RedShelf is particularly useful if instructors are using various different types of materials from different publishers. However, if an institution was only using Cengage Unlimited for example (that is a service where students will just pay for access to that site and all the books/materials for all of their courses would be accessible on there), that would be a time where I would think RedShelf wouldn't provide you with as much benefit.

That being said, we may be using RedShelf in a very specific manner, and it may be able to provide us more ability/features that we haven't taken full advantage of.
Most Important Features
  • Textbook Access
  • Accessibility
Return on Investment
  • Better Student Experience
  • Expanded Student Access
Alternatives Considered
I don't believe I'd used many products that are similar to RedShelf.
Other Software Used

RedShelf is there for the Independent College Bookstsore

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
March 05, 2019
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
RedShelf is an innovative tool to support lowering the cost of course materials in two major ways. First, they provide the best eText in the industry. Easy to use for our students, consistent across all platforms, and at a tremendously reduced price. Second, they provide the platform for college bookstores to deliver day one access of digital content to our students in the LMS (Learning Management System). And most importantly they provide the opt-out tool for students. We sell eTexts through the RedShelf platform online and in the store and we manage our inclusive access program for day one digital access.
Pros and Cons
  • Communicate- they have a responsive team of experts that help in every way possible. Some companies you don't think there is even a person behind the technology, but with RedShelf you get both excellent customer service and outstanding technology
  • Always innovating and always responding to the needs of the customers and students
  • Manage the inclusive access program with instructors, publishers, bookstores and students. Not an easy task.
  • A key tool in the toolkit to provide affordable learning solutions for higher education
Likelihood to Recommend
  • Great for eText delivery!
  • Great for managing day one digital access programs!
  • Excellent billing tool as well.
Return on Investment
  • Tools to be a strong independent College bookstore
  • Great support for rolling out day one digital access
  • Good margin for the eText
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