FAQs - About Dynamic Learning and Dynamic eBooks
How do I get a Free Trial to Dynamic Learning and/or eTextbooks?
What can I do in a Free Trial?
How do I subscribe to a Dynamic Learning or eTextbook title?
What is a User Manager and why do I need one?
What happens once I subscribe?
What is a Money Saving Offer bundle?
What is the difference between Dynamic Learning and Dynamic Learning Student Online?
I can't find my institution when I search?
Our school isn’t listed under the correct name. How can I update the details?
How do I get a Free Trial to Dynamic Learning and/or eTextbooks?
Try before you buy!
You can trial all Dynamic Learning and eTextbook titles for free. We know it’s important that you evaluate any digital resource before you buy it so for 60 days you can access any of our titles and see what it can do for you. A trial gives you full access to all the content in a title, with a set of logins for both teachers and students.
There are no hidden catches or obligations.
All you need to do is:
1. Browse through the subjects in the left-hand menu
2. Click on More Details to find out information about each title
3. Choose ‘Free Trial’ (or ‘Register for Free Trial Upon Publication' for titles that are not yet live)
4. Add as many titles to your basket as you’d like
5. Click on ‘Proceed to Checkout’ in your basket and follow the simple instructions.
When you have completed the checkout process we’ll send you an email that confirms which titles you have trials to and also gives you a set of log ins:
• Your personal log in
• A generic teacher log in for you to share with your department / colleagues
• A student log in
What can I do in a Free Trial?
During your free trial you can access all the content associated with the title(s) you are trialling, but you will not be able to create or import new users, manage groups, assign lessons to users or groups, view reports and usage statistics, or create VLE content packs until you have a User Manager. A User Manager is required for each institution to ensure all your data is secure. Anyone within your school or college can be a User Manager.
Find out more about User Managers here.
You can convert your trial to a subscription at any time by going to the ‘Manage My Titles’ page after you’ve logged in to your account. Alternatively you can browse the left hand menu on this site and add a subscription to your basket.
(If you registered for Dynamic Learning via an agent outside the UK, please contact them directly to subscribe.)
How do I subscribe to a Dynamic Learning or eTextbook title?
You can convert your trial into a Subscription at any time (or you can buy a
subscription straight away – you don’t have to trial anything if you know what you want!). A Subscription gives you access to the title until the end of 2015.
The price of a subscription varies according to the size of your institution/cohort to ensure you have the best value for money. For full pricing options simply find the title you want and click on the View Price Options button. Alternatively you can click Add to Basket and select the relevant options when prompted.
To purchase a subscription your school or college will need to nominate a User Manager, who ensures that all your data is secure.
Find out more about User Managers here.
In addition to subscribing to individual titles, you can also subscribe to special
Money Saving Offers which are relevant titles grouped by subject and/or level. For example, you could subscribe to all the Dynamic Learning resources for Science at KS3 or both the AS and A2 eTextbooks for AQA Business, rather than subscribing to each individual title, These title bundles offer further value-for-money and are perfect for purchase at Local Authority level too.
To find out more about these offers click here.
When you choose to buy a Dynamic Learning resource, or an eTextbook you’ll need to nominate a User Manager. Each institution only needs one User Manager – you don’t need a new one for each Subscription you purchase. User Managers can be anyone employed in your institution – generally User Managers are Heads of Department or Network Managers.
The User Manager role ensures that all user data is protected. User Managers are the only people who can delete user data, for instance. Additionally, each time someone in your institution buys a Dynamic Learning product the User Manager will be cc'd into the registration email - this is a security measure.
Being a User Manager doesn't mean that you have to do anything extra - it really is just an additional security layer. The majority of User Managers are Head of Department, however we also have Secretaries, Bursars and Network Managers as User Managers. You can also change who is the User Manager at any point.
For more detail on User Managers and their functions please click here.
Money Saving Offer bundles are just that… bundles of titles that save you money!
For example:
If you wanted to subscribe to
AQA Biology for AS you could also buy a separate subscription for
AQA Biology for A2.
However, if you chose to subscribe to the
AQA Biology A level Money Saving Bundle you would get both titles for a lower price. If you chose Subscription Plus on the
AQA Biology A level Money Saving Bundle you’d save even more of your budget!
AQA Biology for AS: £100.00+VAT each year
AQA Biology for A2: £100.00+VAT each year
AQA Biology for A level: £150 each year
AQA Biology for A level Subscription Plus: £450 for the lifetime of the specification
To find out what offers are available simply browse through the relevant subject. Additionally on each title page, for instance Connecting Science Year 7 for Key Stage 3, you will be able to see if there is a related Money Saving Bundle available, like the Connecting Science Year 7, 8 and 9 Money Saving Bundle.
What happens once I subscribe?
When you subscribe you’ll be able to take advantage to the fullest extent, by creating or importing new users, and assigning work to individual students or groups. An invoice will be sent to you but you can access your subscription straight away.
You will be sent a generic Student login but we recommend that you set up your students individually however so that you can assign them work. You can create or import your students using Manage users. You and your institution’s User Manager will also be able to create additional Teacher and Teacher Admin logins.
Click here for more details.
What is the difference between Dynamic Learning and Dynamic Learning Student Online?
Dynamic Learning is an online subscription site offering a wealth of resources, both interactive and in document form. It provides advanced tools to search across subjects, reorganise and repurpose these resources, and allows teachers to add resources of their own. It also includes the Lesson Builder tool which allows teachers to add resources of all types, from Dynamic Learning or your own folders, to create lessons which can then be assigned to individual students or groups of students and made available to other teachers. Lessons and resources from the title can also be exported to SCORM 2004 packs and imported into your VLE or Learning Platform.
Dynamic Learning titles usually include the answers to any exercises mentioned in the book. These are accessible only by teachers.
Dynamic Learning is a subscription service for which a fee is charged. Subscriptions are sold to institutions, not individuals and each institution is provided with a unique URL from which to access the site when it subscribes.
Dynamic Learning Student Online is a free website designed to accompany the student editions of certain books. A code is printed in the book and each student or teacher can go to the site, register their email address (no additional information is required), type in the code, and immediately access the resources. No teacher resources are included and no answers to exercises are provided.
Dynamic Learning Student Online does not visually resemble Dynamic Learning at all and it doesn’t include the same functionality that Dynamic Learning does. Put simply it’s an easy means of accessing a book's associated electronic content.
I can't find my institution when I search?
If you are a school within the UK, a home tutor or an International school and your institution isn’t returned in the search results, don’t worry – simply download the form at the bottom of the page and return it to us. We’ll be in touch to set up your account and help you order your trials or subscriptions.
If you are a local curriculum school outside the UK please
get in touch with your local agent.
Our school isn’t listed under the correct name. How can I update the details?
Please get in touch with us at
dynamic-support@hodder.co.uk