Office of Instructional Technology

                                        Accessing Your Ebook and Digital Materials Through Redshelf Brytewave and Brightspace

 

Brytewave by Redshelf is a tool that allows you to access your ebooks and codes that can be used to unlock access to certain third party tools. These can also be accessed directly in Brightspace, via email, or directly on the Brytewave website. Review the instructions below to learn how to access your materials and which third party tools require codes to unlock and which have codeless access.

Quick Links:

Jump to Troubleshooting ebook and courseware access

Jump to Table of 3rd Party Tools showing which are codeless and coded access

Instructions for students to access their digital materials:

• Is the book a physical copy?
  • If so, students will receive an email confirmation and request to pick up at the bookstore.
• Is the book an ebook?
  • If so, it’s in BryteWave/Redshelf and can be accessed by clicking the “Instructional Materials Access” link in Brightspace on the Course Homepage. This will take you to your own BryteWave/Redshelf bookshelf account where your book will be available. You will also receive an email from Redshelf confirming when the book has been placed on your account.
• Is the instructor using courseware?
  • Is it codeless?
    • Instructors will deploy their learning tools as they have always done within the course modules of Brightspace courses. Students will see the external learning tool links to these materials within their course modules in Brightspace. Students will not receive any emails from Follett with these products as they are set up as open access with links to the courseware like they have always been minus a paywall. No code needed because there should not be a paywall.
  • Is it coded?  (Online Homework courseware from Pearson, and other smaller vendors will require a code to be used.
    • Is it a digital code? 

Students will need to grab the digital code from Redshelf by clicking the “Instructional Materials Access” link in

 

• Brightspace on the Course Homepage. Then, they will need to enter that code into the external learning tool links within their course modules in Brightspace. Students will receive the BryteWave email confirming that the code is on their BryteWave bookshelf.
• Is it a paper code?  (These types of codes and products are going to be from smaller specialized vendors)
• Go to bookstore and pick up the paper code. An email confirmation will be sent from Follett when these codes are available for pick up in the store or it will have the code in that confirmation email for the student.  Then, they will need to enter that code into the external learning tool links within their course modules in Brightspace.

Your ebooks are available in three ways:

• Sent via your @pnw.edu email
• Directly through the Brytewave website
• The Brytewave widget on your Brightspace course homepage

 

Accessing Via Email:

Once ebooks and 3rd party tool codes are assigned to you, a Redshelf Brytewave account will be created for you using your @pnw.edu email account. You should receive an email with instructions for how to access it and your ebooks.

Step 1: Locate the email from Brytewave in your inbox. You may need to check your junk mail folder. The email will be sent from Brytewave <donotreply@redshelf.com> and the subject should contain "Brytewave | Your New Materials from”

 

 

Step 2: Once you have found the email, notice it should contain a temporary password. This can be used to log into your account.

Step 3: Visit https://brytewave.redshelf.com/ and click the login button at the top right hand corner of the screen:

 

 

Step 4: Enter your @pnw.edu email and the temporary password from the new ebook materials email you located in Step 1. You will be prompted to create your own password. Remember to save this password for future access to the Brytewave website. If you did not receive an email about your new Brytewave account, you can still access your materials by reviewing the steps in the next section.

Accessing Via Brytewave Website for the First Time:

Step 1: Visit https://brytewave.redshelf.com/ and click the login button at the top right hand corner of the screen.

Step 2: Click “forgot password” and enter your @pnw.edu email address in the textbox when prompted:

 

 

Step 3: You should receive an email with a link that allows you to set a new password. Follow this link and create a password. Remember to record the new password for later access to your Brytewave account.

Step 4: Log in with your @pnw.edu email and new password.

 

Accessing Via Brytewave Widget in Your Brightspace Course Homepage:

Step 1: Navigate to a course in Brightspace.

 

Step 2: Click on the Instructional Materials Access link in the Brytewave Ebook Access widget on the course homepage:

 

 

 

Step 3: You should see all the ebooks that have been made available to your account. This will include ebooks for all your Brightspace courses. Click on the name of the ebook you would like to read to access your materials:

 

 

 

Step 4: Next, click on the Read Now button to open the ebook:

 

 

 

 

Step 5: You are now ready to read your course textbook using the ebook reader. This page (linked) contains a helpful collection of videos that will guide you through the many features of this ebook reader.

 

Third Party Tools in Brightspace (Courseware)

The table below lists the third party tools (courseware) in Brightspace and whether they require a code, which would be available in Redshelf Brytewave or access is automatically granted and does not require a code (codeless). You will not see any of these third party tools on your Redshelf Brytewave shelf except those that are codeless such as Pearson and GoReact. 

 

Tool Name	Does it need a Code?
Pearson	Paywall Code - in Brytewave Instructional Materials Access widget.
Cengage	Codeless
Elsevier Evolve	Codeless
GoReact	Paywall Code - Paper code or via email
Macmillan Sapling/Achieve	Codeless
McGraw Hill Connect	Codeless
McGraw Hill Simnet	Codeless
Vista Higher Learning (VHL)	Paywall  Code - Paper code or via email
Zybooks/Zylabs	Paywall Code - Paper code or via email
Flatworld	Paywall Code - Paper code or via email
WileyPlus	Codeless

 

Only ebooks that are listed as required materials are part of the inclusive access program and will appear on your Brytewave shelf. Physical books or recommended ebooks will not appear. Only tools which have Paywall code will appear on your Brytewave shelf as well. So, if you have one course that uses McGraw Hill Simnet and another that uses Pearson, you will only see a card for Pearson on your shelf because Simnet has codeless access.

 

These codes can be copied from the cards and pasted into the third party tool in Brightspace to unlock them.

 

Troubleshooting:

If you do not see an ebook that your instructor has indicated should be available to you, contact the PNW bookstore:

• Email: 0154mgr@follett.com
• Phone: 219.844.1081

 

This site offers further troubleshooting information including how to reset your password and access materials from previous courses:

 

• How to Access Previously Purchased Materials