Office of the Registrar

No Textbooks or Resources Reported for Spring 2024

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.

Please note: The list of courses below 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 below. Please disregard this email if your course section adoption is listed on the Online Adoption List for 10-31-23 available by clicking the button below.

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

You are receiving the following email as textbooks and/or resources have not been submitted for the following spring 2024 course(s) and you are listed as the primary instructor:

ABCD:1234:XYZ1

Departmental administrators received a similar message today.

Learn more about textbook compliance and policy.

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Spring Deadlines

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

All textbook and resource orders should be finalized in MAUI by Early Registration (Monday, Nov. 6, 2023), but in no event later than four weeks prior to the start of the semester (Monday, Dec. 20, 2023).

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.

As a reminder, textbook orders are not replicated and thus require a new order to be placed each semester. Learn more about University of Iowa textbook compliance and policy.

How do I order?

Iowa Hawk Shop and University Bookstore

Follett Discover, which the Iowa Hawk Shop utilizes for textbook and resource orders, is the preferred method for departmental administrators and instructors to adopt books for their courses. If you choose not to use the Discover site, please email Helen Hansen with as much book information (course information, title, author, and ISBN of book(s)) as possible.

Follett Discover Guides

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
Packback student licenses

Next Steps

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

ICON Direct Frequently Asked Questions

Other Resources

Other options for meeting compliance:

Is a resource free to students or considered an Open Educational Resource? Contact a departmental administrator to mark your resource as "Cost Free to Student" within the "Other Resources and Additional Information."
No Textbook Required/Extenuating Circumstances
For information about how to make adopted or complementary course materials available through the UI Libraries, please visit the Course Materials+ LibGuide.