Getting Started

Checklist for Faculty
Ordering Textbooks
Requesting a Desk Copy
Requesting Audio Visual (AV)
Getting the Course Roster
Room Assignments
Disability Services

Ordering Textbooks

Advanced Academic Programs is serviced by a virtual bookstore, MBS Direct. MBS Direct provides student texts at all AAP locations and online. The bookstore offers competitive pricing, new and used books, and buy backs from their large distribution center.

Faculty select their texts in MBS Course Director, via the MBS Direct Service Center, which feeds into the MBS Direct student online bookstore. Orders may also be placed by phone or fax. MBS Direct mails texts to students no matter where they are located.

To place an order for your textbooks, log onto MBS Direct Service Center with the user name: afaculty and password: facultycd (case sensitive). Click here to acess the Online Bookstore Guide with step by step directions to ordering..

Note: If you are NOT using a text, please follow the instructions to locate your course and select "no text required" from the drop down menu so your students know that no text is needed for the class.

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Requesting a Desk Copy

To request a desk reference copy of a textbook used in your course, complete the Desk Copy Request Form and return in the mail with your memorandum of appointment or submit directly to Megan McGuire at mrmcguire@jhu.edu.

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Requesting Audio Visual (AV)

If your course requires the use of audio and/or visual equipment, please complete the Audio/Visual Request Form and submit with your memorandum of appointment or contact the appropriate Educational Support Services Coordinator.

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Getting the Course Roster

Once you have received your JHED log-in ID and have completed your first time log-in, you may go directly to https://isis.jhu.edu to get your course roster. To follow a tutorial explaining how to use this faculty self-service, visit http://training.jhu.edu/ISIS/Faculty/player.html. For questions concerning the access to your course roster, please contact Denise O' Sullivan at dosullivan@jhu.edu or 202-452-0983.

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Room Assignments

Room assignments will be posted the first night of class in the Central Building lobby for Montgomery County courses and in the lobby of the Washington Center for courses in DC. Room assignments for Homewood will be posted online at www.jhu.edu the week before classes begin. For questions about room assignments, please contact the Educational Support Services Coordinator at your teaching site.

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Disability Services

Students with disabilities go through a formal process with the University to request accommodations. Students do not request accommodations for a disability directly through the faculty member. Students should initially contact Denise O'Sullivan at 202-452-0983 or dosullivan@jhu.edu four weeks prior to the beginning of the semester with their request for accommodations and with documentation from a qualified diagnostician. The Director for Disability Services in the Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Programs recommends accommodations if warranted. Ms. O'Sullivan will contact the faculty member about the accommodations needed and coordinate arrangements for any necessary accommodations. She will also inform the student of the agreed upon accommodations. It is recommended that the faculty member and the student discuss the accommodations at the beginning of the course. Students need to formally request accommodation each semester/term.

Faculty will know that a student has an official accommodation because they will receive official documentation from Ms. O'Sullivan indicating what accommodations are necessary. Typical services might include extra time for tests, a note taker in the class, or interpreters in the classroom.

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