In addition to a diverse range of free content you can access from the Actively Learn catalog, you can also rent popular titles that are still copyright protected. We have partnered with publishers such as HarperCollins and Simon and Schuster to provide you with titles that are most relevant in today's classrooms. 

Sections in this article:

Rental text overview
How to rent text
Paying for rental texts
Manage rental licenses
 

Rental text overview

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Paid text in our catalog is marked with a $ (dollar sign) icon on the cover tile. 

Manage rental license

Rental licenses are manually allocated to students when they access a paid text (assuming teachers have rental licenses available to allocate)

Check the number of licenses, which students have an allocated license, expiration dates, a number of licenses available, purchase more, etc. 

 

Payment 

There are multiple ways teachers and schools can pay for rental licenses. 
 

• Purchase a rental license through our catalog with a credit card
• Teachers can submit an invoice request to their admin. This sends a request to the admin's email for which text and the number of licenses a teacher needs. The admin can approve the request and select to pay via a credit card or PO. 
• Schools and/or districts may choose to add school book credits as part of their School Plan. This is a bucket of credits that can be used by any teacher at the school to purchase rental licenses. 
• Teacher book credits - Like school book credits, schools and/or districts can choose to add book credits as part of their school plan. These credits are given to individual teachers and can only be used by them. 

Note: Some publishers have disabled certain features to their text. There will be a note in the payment popup if there are features disabled. 



 

How to rent text

We have over 18,000 titles that can be rented.  You can rent these in a few simple steps as shown below.
 

• Enter the number of texts you would like to rent for your students
• One extra license will be added to the final price for yourself
• Select the method of payment (by credit card or by invoice)
• The title you bought will be available for you in your Workspace.
• The rental period varies from teacher/student (based on when the text is first accessed)

 

Method of Payment

Teachers can either pay directly with a valid credit card or by sending an invoice request to their administrator. The invoice option sends a request to the admin's email for which text and the number of licenses a teacher needs. The admin can approve the request and select the method of payment they want to use for this purchase.
 

Pay by Credit Card

1. Select the paid rental text in the catalog.

 

2. Click the Buy Rental Licenses button at the top.

 

3. Fill out the Number of Student Licenses needed and enter Payment Info. Click Pay Now.

   

Send invoice to an administrator to pay by credit card or purchase order.

1. Select the paid rental text in the catalog.

 

2. Click the Buy Rental Licenses button at the top.

 

3. Fill out the Number of Student Licenses.

 

4. Select the option Request Invoice then fill in your Admin's name and email. Click Request Invoice.

 

Unlimited rental Add-On

If your school has purchased the rental add-on, you have access to over 18,000 copyrighted texts from (HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, HMH, and Penguin Random House). To access and use the rental texts, select a rental text from the catalog, and assign it as you would for free texts.

 

Paying for rental texts (credit card or PO)

When a teacher requests to have an invoice sent to their administrator, administrators will receive an automated email like the one shown in the examples below. From here, administrators can easily pay using either a credit card or with a purchase order.
 

Paying with a central credit card

The easiest and fastest way to pay for these rental texts is using a central credit card approved for school purchases. After an administrator receives an email like the one shown below, all they need to do is simply click the blue Pay Now button which will take them to a secure payment page to collect their credit card information. Once payment is complete, the rental texts will be immediately available in the requesting teacher's account. 


 

Paying with a Purchase Order

To pay with a PO, please treat this emailed invoice as an official quote. Using this “quote” please have your purchasing department or secretary create a purchase order payable to Actively Learn. You can access a copy of our W9 by  clicking here. When making your PO, you must be sure to include the invoice number referenced at the top of the quote (the number circled in red in the example below). In order for our team to process your PO, it must include that invoice number. 



Note: Any PO sent to our team that does not reference an invoice number will not be processed by our team and will result in a delay in the requested texts being added to the teacher's Actively Learn account.

Purchase orders should be sent to our team at  help@activelylearn.com. Purchase orders with all of the necessary information are typically processed within 24 hours of receipt, and an official invoice will be issued shortly after. Payment should not be submitted until you have received an official invoice from our team that will reference your purchase order number. 

 

Manage rental licenses

If your license expires before you are finished using the text, you'll have the option to extend your license by purchasing a new rental license. Assignments on expired licenses will not be deleted. In order to access an assignment with an expired license, just purchase a new rental license. 
 

1. Select the class with the text you would like to renew. Click on Assignments (it may direct here automatically after selecting the class name).

 

2. Select Rental Licenses under Assignment Actions in the right-hand menu.

   

3. See which students have licenses allocated and expiration dates. 

 

4. Click Buy More Licenses and fill out the payment information to purchase more license either by credit card or by invoice.