Important Information For Spring 2023:

Faculty that have not submitted course materials information to Wolfpack Outfitters for the spring semester should contact the store’s textbook department as soon as possible. Under HEOA requirements, Wolfpack Outfitters displays course materials information for all courses, including courses that will not be using course materials. To submit your course materials information, please view ordering instructions below.

Adoption Deadlines

• Summer 1 and 2

  : April 5

• Fall

  : April 15

• Spring

  : October 31

Order Textbooks And Course Materials

Professors will receive a customized link via email from Wolfpack Outfitters to submit textbook and course material orders (adoptions) online. Wolfpack Outfitters uses order collection software from Verba, which provides the most seamless and ease-of-use instructor experience.

Please submit your textbook and course materials orders as soon as you receive your Verba email request. Doing so helps Wolfpack Outfitters have time to obtain more used books and offer lower prices, and digital options for our students.

Order Custom Course Packs

Please submit your custom course packet orders at least 2 months before the upcoming term to ensure that they will be available in the store by the first day of classes. We will accept custom course pack orders outside this production timeline (e.g. up until the course start date), but cannot guarantee availability by the first day of classes due to necessary processing and printing time.

Please contact Wolf Xpress for more information regarding Custom Course Packs at wolf-xpress@ncsu.edu or (919) 515-2131.

Best Management Practices for Textbook Adoption and Use

Overview

By now, you have likely read the announcement of the upcoming Course Ready program for undergraduate students beginning Spring 2025. The program is designed to offer all required course materials to undergraduate students at one flat price. However, we can only include the required course materials if we receive requests from instructors.

The deadline to submit course material requests is October 31st. We will continue to accept adoptions after this date. We know that there are many reasons for late adoptions. However, we would like to receive as many requests as possible by this deadline to allow our staff to review pricing and availability of these materials.

With the implementation of Course Ready, some factors to consider in adopting course materials have changed.

The adoption request is designed to allow instructors to add books, coursepacks, supplies and OER materials. Be sure to submit requests for all required and optional materials. Course Ready is designed to include all printed books, e-books, OER materials, courseware, webassign, packback, zybooks, and selected non-book items.

Continue to consider the costs of textbooks in your strategy for textbook adoption and use of other materials in your courses.

Require a textbook only if it will be used in a substantial way in the course. If you previously listed items as recommended or optional, you may want to consider listing them as required if they would enhance learning outcomes in your course.

Unless specifically requested to do otherwise, NC State Bookstores will:
• offer books in a digital format if available
• encourage faculty to use the current or recent edition (older editions may not be available in digital format.)
• work with faculty to adopt the least expensive textbook that is pedagogically sound.

Additional resources for faculty can be found on our website in the Faculty Course Material Information page and the Course Ready page.

Your efforts to submit timely adoption requests are critical to the program and student success.
Thank you for your support