The Institutional Subscription Manager (ISM) features allow representatives from institutions to view Eli Review usage on their campus in real time.
The Subscription Manager features of Eli Review enable representatives from institutions to view usage across the app. If the institution has also purchased subscriptions in bulk for students, representatives can control how those purchased subscriptions are allocated, monitor how they are being used, and recall and reallocate those subscriptions, if necessary.
Special User Role: Any campus representative with an Eli account can be designated as an institutional subscription manager. These users will see a “Subscription Manager” tab on their Eli Dashboard.
How Subscriptions Work: Any Eli user can create a course at no cost, but participation in that course as a student (writing, review, and revision) requires an Eli subscription. Students in courses affiliated with an institution that has made bulk purchases may use one of these subscriptions (see “How Course Affiliation Works”) but students in courses not affiliated with an institution may purchase a subscription individually using PayPal.
How Course Affiliation Works: When an instructor creates an Eli course, they are prompted to specify the institution at which that course is taught. Instructors can choose any institution – there are no security measures to ensure where a course is actually taught. However, only courses that use an “access code” created by an Institutional Subscription Manager will be able to use subscriptions purchased by that institution (see “How Subscriptions Get Allocated”).
How Subscriptions Get Allocated: An institutional subscription manager can create special “access codes” to share with instructors. Instructors can use these codes to associate course(s) with the institution. Any student who enrolls in an associated course will be assigned a subscription purchased by the institution (assuming they don’t already have one).
NOTE: If a campus also has LMS integration, only one access code can be used, and it cannot be adjusted.
How Subscriptions are Managed: Subscriptions can be managed both at the level of individual students or entire courses. For example, if a student drops a course, or if an instructor blocks a student from course access, the subscription used by that student will return to the institution’s pool of available subscriptions (assuming that student isn’t enrolled in more than one course at the institution). The institutional subscription manager can recall subscriptions allocated to an individual student and can also recall all of the subscriptions used in an entire course.
In order for a user to access the institutional subscription manager features, they must first have an Eli user account and have been identified by the institution as a subscription manager. Eli administrators will assign these users the role of “institutional subscription manager.”
Once a user has been assigned that role by an Eli administrator, the next time they log in to Eli they will see “Subscription Manager” on the home screen.
When users click the “Subscription Manager” option, one of two events will happen:
From here, the user will be taken to the dashboard for the selected institution, where they’ll be able to carry out a series of tasks.
The primary role of the Subscription Manager is to create and distribute access codes which instructors apply to their courses, giving students access to the institution’s pool of purchased Eli Review subscriptions. To do this, find the panel labels “Stats & Access Codes” in the Subscription Manager feature.
The Access Code panel will display a table of all existing access codes, both active and inactive. The tables will reveal
To create a new access code, click the “Create New Code” button and follow the simple steps:
The two required bits of information to create an access code are:
Strategies for creating codes:
If the institution also has LMS integration, there is only one code, and it cannot be changed.
If there is no LMS integration, codes can be created and distributed in any number of ways. A manager in a high school might, for example, create groups for English, Social Studies, French, and so on, allocating each subject area a certain number of subscriptions. Each group would have its own access code that the manager would share with instructors, and when the instructor uses that code while creating courses, those courses will align with the correct subscription group. Another option is to create a new access code for every course at the institution. The process is arbitrary and can be modified as necessary.
Sharing access codes with instructors: Every subscription group is automatically assigned an access code that can be shared with instructors, perhaps via an email similar to the one below that might be used as a model:
Dear instructor,
Are you ready to get your Eli Review course up and running? It’s pretty easy, just follow these steps:
- If you haven’t done so already, create an account for yourself at http://app.elireview.com
- Walk through the on-screen instructions for creating a new course (again, if you haven’t done so already).
- While creating your course, when asked “Does your institution have an Eli site license?” say “Yes” and use the “Institution Code” and type ADD YOUR CODE HERE.
- If you’ve already created your course, just go to “Account Settings” in that course and select the “Enter Institution Code” option and ADD YOUR CODE HERE.
And that’s it! Once you’ve successfully used the Institution Code, your students will be able to use Eli at no cost to them.
As a reminder, Your Institution Code: ADD YOUR CODE HERE
You apply this code to the course so students don’t encounter the paywall.If you need more help, see the Eli user guide at https://elireview.com/support/guide/instructors/courses or email me directly. Happy reviewing!
Your friendly neighborhood Subscription Manager
Managing access codes: Once an access code has been created, managers can get detailed information about how it has been used. Clicking the name of a specific code in the Active or Inactive Codes display will open the “Code Details” view:
From this view of a group, the manager has access to:
Clicking the name of any course in this report will display the details for that course, as will clicking the name of any instructor.
For full usage history, please contact [email protected].
In addition to observing activity by looking at access codes, the subscription manager feature makes it possible to look in detail at activity across all courses at your institution or at individual users and their activities as both instructors and students.
Managers can get a detailed report about subscription usage by looking at individual courses and the activities those instructors have assigned. Clicking the “Courses” tab in primary navigation will:
The “Courses” tab gives managers a quick view of all courses affiliated with their institution, including:
The table containing course information can be searched using the “Search Active Courses” box that will search course titles, sections, and instructors by keyword. Columns in the table can be sorted, making it easy to alphabetize the course list, sort by date ending, by enrollment, or activity count. Finally, the entire course table can be downloaded as a CSV file that can be used in Microsoft Excel or database application.
For full usage history, please contact [email protected].
Clicking the name of a course will open the corresponding course detail view.
From the course detail view, managers can learn all important data about a course, including its start and end dates, the volume of activity (writing, review, and revision tasks), and a complete roster of enrolled students and whether or not they are utilizing a subscription. Most importantly, managers can take the following actions from this report:
Clicking the name of any person in this report (instructor or student) will open their corresponding user report.
If managers are interested in learning more about the activities of individual instructors or students, clicking the “People” tab in the primary navigation will open the People dashboard.
From this view it becomes easy to find information about people very quickly. The search feature makes it easy to find people by name, Eli Review username, or email address. Column sorting makes finding particularly active users easy, too; sort the “Courses” columns to find the users who’ve enrolled in the most courses either as an instructor or as a student.
Clicking the name of any individual user will bring up a report about their participation in Eli Review.
The user detail view will reveal all of the courses in which that person has been a participant, either as an instructor or as a student. It will also reveal the amount of activity assigned in that course, although these numbers do not necessarily reveal whether or not the person completed the work they were assigned.
For full usage history, please contact [email protected].
Institutions have the ability to control who does and does not have permission to user the subscription manager features. To manage the managers, just click the “Managers” tab.
This report will list everyone who has been assigned the “subscription manager” role. From here, existing managers can easily be deauthorized, or new managers can be added by clicking the “Add a New Manager” button.
When Eli Review is integrated into an institution’s learning management system, the job of a subscription manager is much simpler. When instructors create their Eli Review courses through an LMS, and when students enroll through an LMS, the workflows change this way:
If you’re interested in learning more, read about Eli Review and Learning Management Systems.
