Enter or Change Textbooks & Estimated Costs in Workday (Instructors)

Enter or Change Textbooks & Estimated Costs

Instructors should enter their class textbook and cost of materials in Workday to assist students in planning expenses. Through Workday, instructors may also request the Brown Bookstore order textbooks.

To Add Textbooks and Materials Cost

In the upper left click Menu
Click Teaching

Under Instructor Activities click Enter or Change Course Section Materials(If you do not see this option click More.)
From the drop down, select the semester, then class. Only currently running or future classes show.
Optionally copytextbooks from another of your classes. In the Copy Materials from Course Section box select the class. Copying textbooks will replace all information on the current class.
Optionally click the RISD Library link to request an item be on reserve. You must enter your class info on the Library website.
To add a textbook, click the + and complete at least whether the book is required, its title, author, expected retail price and whether to request the Brown Bookstore order it. If requesting Brown order the book, enter an ISBN. You may enter a max of 15 textbooks.
In the Cost of Materials box enter a student’s out-of-pocket expected cost of all non-textbook supplies required for the class. If none, enter 0.
Click OK. You are NOT done. The system may ask you to confirm the additional cost of materials. After doing so, click OK again.