Reminder to Order Fall 2024 Textbooks and Resources

No Textbooks or Resources Reported for Fall 2025

The following email is being sent to all academic departmental administrators (ADA) listed in each department. Please disregard this email if you are listed as an ADA, but don't serve in a role that works with textbooks or resources. Some departments utilize administrative staff to collect and place textbook orders for instructors. Others ask instructors to place their own orders. Those decisions continue to be made by the department.

You are receiving this email because the following fall 2025 course(s) do not have textbooks and/or resources present in MAUI:

ABCD:1234:XYZ1

A similar email will be sent to the primary instructor and course supervisor of the course(s) above.

Place an Order

The Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost encourages instructors to place their course material orders by early registration with the Iowa Hawk Shop and University Bookstore, ICON Direct, or the ISBA Law Bookstore. These sources connect to MAUI and display selected content to students. 

Deadlines for Fall 2025

All textbook and resource orders should be finalized in MAUI by Early Registration (Monday, Apr. 14, 2025), but in no event later than four weeks prior to the start of the semester (Monday, July 28, 2025). 

Iowa Hawk Shop and University Bookstore (Follett Discover)

Order with Follett Discover

The Iowa Hawk Shop and University Bookstore utilizes Follett Discover for textbook and resource orders. It is the preferred method for departmental administrators and instructors to adopt books for their courses. If you choose not to use the Follett Discover site, please email ubs-textbooks@uiowa.edu with as much book information (course information, title, author, and ISBN of book(s)) as possible.

ICON Direct

Order with ICON Direct

ICON Direct is the University of Iowa's initiative for the ordering of required digital content. Please do not duplicate orders between ICON Direct and the Iowa Hawk Shop and University Bookstore. Digital content includes electronic textbooks, publisher homework platforms, Top Hat student licenses, and Packback student licenses.

Other Options for Course Materials

Other options for course materials that meet compliance:

Follett Discover Ordering Updates

The university continues to work with our partners at the Iowa Hawk Shop and University Bookstore to improve the process for ordering course materials.

Order Processing

The list of courses above is automatically pulled from the MAUI data warehouse. With many orders being placed at once, it may take several days for them to be entered and reflected accordingly in MAUI. If you have placed an order recently, your new adoption may not yet be reflected.

Contact Helen Hansen, a course materials manager at the Iowa Hawk Shop and University Bookstore, with any questions or concerns.

Anyone with a new instructor hire in your department, the bookstore course material manager Helen Hansen will accept a course material submission from their personal email address until their appointment is processed.

The submission can be sent to Helen at ubs-textbooks@uiowa.edu and will need to include the following:

  • If using textbooks (list for each title)
    • Course Information:
    • Author:
    • Title:
    • Online Courseware Required (Connect, MindTap, etc.) Y/N:
    • ISBN:
    • Course Usage (Required/Recommended):
  • No course materials needed
    • Open Education Resources (OER) Y/N:
    • Materials created by yourself Y/N:
    • No materials at all Y/N:

With the above or just the author and title information, Helen can manually enter the course materials or update the classes accordingly.

Additional Updates

  • If you remove a physical book from your order, the e-book still remains. Please use the bookstore instruction field in Follett Discover to ask that the e-book also be removed. 
  • If you are making changes to your selection(s), please contact Helen Hansen because changes in selections will change the status of your order and it will no longer be marked as complete. In many cases, this may temporarily remove adoptions from MAUI and cause you to appear non-compliant.  
  • The bookstore instructions and student instructions fields in Follett Discover are available for you to add additional information to share with Follett as you are placing orders. 
  • As a reminder, for continuity of operations when Follett staff are away, they have asked that we use ubs-textbooks@uiowa.edu to contact them with all course materials questions.

Help

Follett Discover

Instructor Follett Discover Guides

For questions or assistance, please contact ubs-textbooks@uiowa.edu.

ICON Direct

For questions or assistance, please contact ICON-Direct@uiowa.edu.

Textbook Compliance

The Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) requires that book titles, ISBNs, and prices of required and recommended books and other materials for any course are included on the institution's electronic schedule of courses in time for student registration.

Learn more about University of Iowa textbook compliance and policy.