User guide for learners
User guide for learners
What is Sage Campus?
Sage Campus provides structured online learning for skills and research methods. The courses are self-paced, and instructor-led, packed with an engaging mix of video, interactives, formative assessments and more. Our user-friendly platform makes it simple for faculty to assign courses, or for students and researchers to learn autonomously - building practical skills for study, research and the workplace.
What are the topics?
The courses cover critical skills and research methods across all stages of academic study, split into 7 course areas: information literacy, getting started with data, research planning, collecting and managing data, analyzing data, reporting findings and getting published. Browse all courses on the platform.
Who is this learner guide for?
This guide is for learners: students, researchers or faculty wanting to take Sage Campus courses for their own learning. If you are a faculty member or instructor and want to use Sage Campus courses for your teaching or assign courses to learners, go to our faculty user guide.
Please note: Sage Campus is a digital library product and is not currently available for an individual subscription. Institutions or organizations can subscribe or purchase Sage Campus for institution-wide access to all of our online learning. If your institution does not have access, you can recommend Sage Campus to your library.
If your institution has a trial or subscription to Sage Campus, you can register for an account to access all 280+ hours of online learning on the platform. To register, you just need to authenticate once as a member of your institution via IP. If you cannot authenticate by IP, you can authenticate by their other chosen authentication method. Click on the different authentication methods below for instructions. After you’ve registered, you simply log into the Sage Campus platform from anywhere using your username and password.
Once you have logged into Sage Campus, you’ll be taken to your homepage learner dashboard, explained in the next section of this guide. When you sign into the platform for the first time, you won’t have much on your dashboard, so to get started you can browse all available courses and select the course you want to take in the ‘Discover More Courses’ section.
There are two ways to access and enroll on courses:
Independent learner - for learners who want to take the course for their own learning and personal development. Once you select the course you want to enroll on, simply click on the blue ‘enrol’ button (screenshot 1 below)
Cohort learner - for learners who have been assigned a course by a faculty member at their institution. Assigned courses will appear on your dashboard and will be marked assigned.
You will get your own personalized learner dashboard on Sage Campus that shows:
Completed courses you have fully completed
In Progress courses you have made progress on but not completed
Not Started courses you’ve enrolled on but not yet started
Discover More Courses for courses you’ve not yet enrolled on
Also, on your dashboard, you can access the ‘My Profile’ section to view your personal details, account settings, the progress of all courses you’re enrolled on, and all certificates you have acquired.
You also get a badge on courses that have been Assigned - this means a faculty member or instructor at your institution assigned you the course and you enrolled on it using their magic link. They can see your progress on the course. An example of a learner dashboard showing In Progress and Not Started courses is below.
Certificates
Each course comes with a signed certificate that unlocks when you complete the course and will be available for download at the end of the course page. You can also see all your certificates acquired under the ‘Certificates’ tab located in 'My Profile'.
Progress tracking on the dashboard
For courses to be marked as 100% complete and move from the ‘In Progress’ section to the ‘Completed’ section on your dashboard, you must complete all modules.
Progress tracking in modules
If you’re not sure why your dashboard progress isn’t at 100%, you can look within the courses themselves. When you enter a module, you can see your percentage completion for each topic (screenshot 1 below).
Progress tracking in topics
Once you’ve gone into the topic you haven’t completed, there’s a quick way to jump to each item you haven’t completed. Click on the icon in the top right-hand corner of the course and you’ll be shown a checklist of the items within the topic and green ticks for what you have completed (screenshot 2 below).
If you have difficulty registering or have technical issues with access control, please contact your Library Administrator or the Sage support team at: onlinesupport@sagepub.co.uk.
If you need any support, check out our knowledge base for answers to FAQs or to raise a new support ticket and one of the team will be in touch to help.