We offer you simple and appealing custom digital options that help to create a course solution in a style and format that most effectively communicates with your students. Our solutions help you reach each student by accommodating a variety of learning styles. Best of all, we let you leverage your own school and course branding to build a deeper connection between your students and your program.

You determine the digital assets included in your course solution, as well as the delivery method making it easy for you and your students to find and use the content.

With a Custom Digital Solution you can:

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Custom Enhanced Course Cartridge is a content rich, web-based teaching and learning aid that reinforces and clarifies complex concepts and works within a popular Learning Management Systems like Blackboard, Angel, and WebCT. Custom Enhanced Course Cartridge products pull digital content from a variety of Cengage Learning resources such as CourseMate websites (formerly Premium websites) and Homework Solutions, as well as include an eBook to provide one, all-inclusive digital solution to complement your course. The content within the cartridge has also been intuitively organized both by chapter and by type of digital content (i.e., videos) so that students spend less time navigating to the content and more time studying and reviewing that content.

For additional information, contact your local Custom Editor

Create a Custom Course Cartridge

Survey results show 1 in 2 instructors believe that a blend of print and online delivery is the best mode for providing students with their course materials. Custom Course Cartridges are a simple way to enhance the course experience for you and your students. We work with you to develop a comprehensive teaching and learning solution that leverages the wealth of digital assets that Cengage Learning has available in addition to your own course specific material. This media rich content is mapped to your course syllabus and delivered through your school specific learning management system.

Choose from our library of digital assets that includes audio, video, animations, eBooks, interactive study tools and on line quizzes and tests. Then add school and course specific content plus images from your school to help make your course a truly unique learning experience for your students.

Enrollment Minimum: 400 Annually

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Our Customers Share Their Sophisticated Results...

“The perfect course solution for me would be a combination of access to customizable print material coupled with complementary content that could be easily incorporated into my learning management system for students to access.”

– Mark Barnard, Edgewood College, Madison, WI

“If you are looking for a way to deliver consistent, quality material across many sections of a course, you can’t do any better than the professional content and high development standards offered by the Cengage Custom Digital Services group. With their help at Owens State Community College, we were able to improve and standardize two of our courses (IST131 and IST100) in Blackboard, and meet our course outcomes and assessment goals using SAM. This allowed our many adjuncts and full time professors to focus on the ‘teaching’ without having to organize the content individually, and helped improve student success. Incorporating the video material for exercises from the text directly into Blackboard provided students a seamless avenue to reinforce the material pnted in any section of the course. They loved it!”

– Cy Keiffer, Owens Community College, Toledo, OH

“We created a Custom Course Cartridge for our Biology course that incorporates digital assets from the Starr Biology book and the cartridge reflects the chapters that we wanted to include in our course. It gave our students (especially online students) lots of resources to look through. It really helped to bring biology to life.”

– Jennifer Gibbs, Hinds Community College, Raymond, MS

Create a Custom Companion Site

Custom Companion Websites are an effective way to deliver digital content to your students from one location and in a format that is mapped to your course without the need for a learning management system. By branding the website with your school colors and logo and including media rich digital content we can help you create a relevant and engaging course experience for your students. In addition to our media rich book specific content we can also include your original digital content, such as PowerPoints, videos, and web links. For supplemental content that is traditionally delivered to students in a print format, often times we can provide that content digitally on a custom companion website. If you are looking for an eBook solution, we have the ability to customize the eBook included in your custom companion website to match a custom print textbook or your syllabus.

Enrollment Minimum: 400 Annually

See examples of our Custom websites:Example 1 & Example 2

Our Customers Share Their Sophisticated Results...

“My idea of the perfect course solution is a website that incorporates textual, audio, and visual components, without all the extraneous verbiage that's so common in textbooks. It would also include links to relevant supplementary readings, customizable by the professor. The website should be complemented by printed materials that essentially outline the material, far different from the traditional textbook.”

– Frank Butler, LaSalle University, Philadelphia, PA

“For my Forensic Anthropology course, a website that included relevant forensic anthropology activities that students could use from home (skeletal reviews, exercises, weblinks, supplemental readings) would be the optimal course solution.”

– Jennifer Fillion, Mott Community College, Flint, MI

Create a Custom Homework Solution

Homework solutions provide an efficient way to assess how your students are grasping course concepts through assignable, gradable homework. Cengage Learning Custom Digital Solutions can enhance the advantages offered to you and your students when we align the homework problems and additional content included in the homework solution to your specific course objectives. Studies have shown that when the course content presented to the student matches the format in which you wish to teach the course, learning improves. We can organize the homework solution, the eBook included and the printed textbook to match your syllabus. Work with Cengage Learning Custom Digital Solutions to create a seamless course experience.

Enrollment Minimum: 400 Annually

For additional information, contact your local Custom Editor

Create a Hybrid Custom Print & Digital Course Solution

Consider creating a customized learning solution that includes both print and online components for your students. Survey results show 1 in 2 instructors believe that a blend of print and online delivery is the best mode for providing students with their course materials.

Our Customers Share Their Sophisticated Results...

“In the Spring of 2008 the Information Systems Department at CSULB made a decision to take our IS233 Introduction to Computer/Applications from a regular seminar/lab course to an online platform. We needed to be able to deliver the current course of 500 students or 12 sections online. Our mission was to create a positive and high quality environment delivered in an online platform. We were able to meet this challenge and our mission with a combination of a custom book and SAM technology. The students are getting a book specific to the course outline and the SAM technology reinforces what the course covers. An added feature to the custom book is a campus landmark proudly displayed on the front cover. The technology has instant feedback that the students like, as well as the ability to practice the application until they have mastered it. As an instructor, the prospect of grading homework and tests was overwhelming; the fact that SAM graded for me was a decision maker. Without the technology of SAM, we would not have been able to teach our class online to 500 students in the fall of 2008. Since then, we have perfected our delivery of this course and have not comprised learning. I am pleased with overall student success this solution has offered.

– Asela M. Thomason, California State University, Long Beach, CA

“We tailored the book and the online homework solution we use to only include the content that we use in the class. The Custom print component in combination with Aplia makes for a very accessible course. It’s a pleasure to work with Custom Learning Materials | Cengage Learning to enhance the learning experience for the students. It has been easier to get the students engaged when there are multiple ways to engage them. Additionally, the quick responses and feedback permitted are very useful to them.”

– Carol Davis, California State University, Seaside, CA

“I customized Plazas 3rd Edition with QUIA an online workbook/lab manual. The customized book is lighter and more relevant to the course and the inclusion of QUIA allows for students to have access to immediate feedback 24/7. In addition the online format reduces paper waste (= sustainable).”

– Tara Rojas, Leeward Community College, Pearl City, HI

“The custom book was an economical solution for the students, and the bundled Custom Enhanced Course Cartridge provided online resources for the students to access with their computers. Custom Enhanced Course Cartridge integrates with Angel Learning’s CMS, which Creighton uses, and the process was seamless for the students, providing them with a one stop access point to the class materials and grades.”

– George McNary, Creighton University, Omaha, NE

Customize Your Online Course

Course360 is a flexible online course program that engages and motivates all types of learners—and measurably improves student outcomes.

Course360 courses are fully customizable and can be adapted to match your institution's current offerings. Whether your course is taught entirely online or in a hybrid combination of online learning with in-class instruction, Course360 offers the flexibility to accomplish all of your curriculum goals. Our courses are organized in six units and designed for fully online delivery. Course360 is easily adaptable to other formats and delivery methods. Courses can also be customized to include your class material, as well as your school’s branding. If you’re looking for something completely different, Course360 has a dedicated course development team with years of experience building online courses to customer specifications. And as your needs change, we ensure that your programs keep pace.

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Create a Custom eBook

Consider creating a customized eBook solution that matches institutional requirements and/or your course syllabus, delivered in a format that is most suitable for your course and your students. With Cengage Learning Custom Solutions it is possible to create an eBook including content from multiple products, reorganize the table of contents, and add your own original material.

Our Customers Share Their Sophisticated Results...

“KCTCS Online required us to break our course into module units. I needed to find a way to create an e-text that addressed each area of competency. This was a new venture for us. We developed the courses for KCTCS Online in a modularized format. My Cengage Learning representative was very helpful in supplying appropriate options to choose from and worked with me to find the best fit for the course competencies.”

– Kim Simons, Madisonville Community College, Madisonville, KY