Verba Connect helps campuses reduce costs and maximize student benefits through day-one access programs
Unmatched tools to help you analyze, automate, and grow day-one access
From start to scale, Verba Connect puts you in control of your store’s digital future with the industry’s most innovative platform. Along the way, you’re supported by the industry’s most experienced team.
Build Your Program with Confidence
Verba Connect brings together adoption data, instructor interest in day-one access, savings data, and the world’s largest course materials catalog to help you build a program that increases student access while driving meaningful savings and store results.
Straightforward Communication and Student Access
Verba Connect is built with transparency in mind. Students are kept informed with automatic and targeted emails and LMS-based participation controls. Students also enjoy one-click access to content within the campus LMS, the student hub for course engagement.
Elegant and Reliable Reporting
Connect’s dashboards and reports help you monitor and share program performance metrics, such as participation rate, program value and student savings, publisher information, and more. These insights help your store communicate its measurable impact on campus initiatives.
Focus on Affordability
Connect takes the guesswork out of increasing affordability with insights and reporting at the title, course, and program level.
Helps you choose the right content to add to Inclusive Access (IA) with title-level savings insights
Provides total savings by course to help communicate the impact of an instructor’s decision to participate in IA
Makes it easy to track and share savings, total participating courses, and overall program margin
Flexibility and Control at Your Fingertips
Hundreds of institutions trust Connect to handle complexity and keep their day-one access programs running smoothly.
Grow your program confidently and eliminate spreadsheets with flexible and reliable student charging
Ensure students retain access to content without paying twice with auto-continuation tools
Manage non-standard payment arrangements, such as those for student athletes and military students, with role-based charging tools
Pay a single bill for content with consolidated, transparent invoicing
A Simpler Experience for Everyone
From targeted student communications to simplified pricing and negotiationsto automatic LMS link placement, Connect is designed to make life easier for everyone involved in your day-one access program.
Easily turn instructor interest into confirmed participation
Leverage nearly one million national IA prices and course-level savings to identify opportunities to impact affordability
Take advantage of automatic LMS link placement to save campus IT hours of tedious labor before the start of each term
Give students one-click access to etexts and a huge catalog of courseware within the LMS
“Estamos orgullosos de poder aumentar los ahorros de los estudiantes mientras generamos ingresos para ayudar a la universidad a apoyar a los estudiantes de otras maneras”.
- Amanda Brown, Campus Store Director, Ashland University
"The Verba | VitalSource team has made scaling up quickly very easy. I put in a help ticket on the Connect site, and that same day I get the answer I need."
- Kim Yates, Course Materials Manager, Central Michigan University
"Verba has done a good job at making my team look amazing. Our perception on campus is something that I’ve always recognized as a barrier for us. These tools are really helping us break those barriers down and show that we’re here as a service, just like instructors are providing when they teach."
- Jamie Spaulding, director de la tienda del campus, Cape Fear Community College
"The team at Verba spoke the language of our IT folks. I was sitting there thinking, ‘to me, campus IT may as well be speaking Greek,’ but the Verba | VitalSource team understood exactly what was needed, and they made it happen."
- Kurt Kaiser, Assistant Director of Course Materials, Colorado State University
Hear from course materials managers and store directors across the US on why they chose to start and grow Inclusive Access programs to address day-one access and student affordability.
With rapid shifts to digital underway, now is the time to embrace day-one access. This guide will help you grow Inclusive Access using Verba tools, with steps you can take to identify courses and content to add to IA.
Institutions across the US are beginning to explore a new model—Equitable Access—which gives all undergraduate students day-one access to assigned learning materials for all courses for one affordable flat fee.
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