Many programs are well served by providing an online bookstore where students can identify and purchase their books. But other programs with tighter schedules – including many based around cohort groups – do not have the luxury of hoping their students purchase their materials in a timely manner. A class ends one week, the next class starts the following week and students are expected to have read their assignments and arrive prepared for their first class. How can this feat be pulled off? ED MAP’s bulk shipment option is the answer.

With this option, ED MAP ships all materials for all of the students in a bulk shipment to (and here’s the real beauty of the method) the classroom location – or whatever location is most convenient for the program. With the books already onsite when the class meets, students can get materials for their next class in the last meeting of their current class. Shipments can be timed to accommodate any program’s schedule.

All in all, an elegant solution, don’t you think, for situations where you lack the luxury of extra time?