Course Materials
What Your Course Materials Include
If you are a returning ACHS student, you will notice some exciting changes. Depending on the course you enroll in, you may receive an ACHS eTextbook, publisher textbook(s), DVDs, videos, and/or study kits of botanicals or essential oils. We ensure our wide-ranging array of educational materials meets the highest standards. We use only the most reputable education publishers and organic suppliers of raw materials. Our courses are reviewed by industry leaders and subject specialists, and are endorsed by the leading associations in each field of study.
Study Kits and Recommended Reading
To enhance your study experience even further there are optional Study Kits and Recommended Reading Kits available for some classes at a discount. Click here http://www.apothecary-shoppe.com and then select "Recommended Reading" or "Study Kits" from the For Students dropdown menu. Click on the name of your course for kit details. Remember the first time you shop at the Apothecary Shoppe College Store online you will need to create an account using a separate login and password.
Your Online Materials
In addition to the materials you may have previously received, your study materials include the rich interactive content in this online classroom, which you are about to explore. It may include a dynamic, searchable ACHS eTextbook formatted as lectures, online publisher textbooks, access to relevant articles and research papers, synchronous and asynchronous interaction with your instructor, the Course Home landing page with interactive social content, and links to relevant websites and events. You can also access the ACHS Virtual Library, which includes natural health research databases that you can automatically access from the Virtual Library in your online classroom.
Online Lectures
Some courses may have online lectures within each module. An online lecture is a text-based document that you will find within each module of your course, if applicable.
Online lectures have a number of exciting benefits for ACHS students.
- Online lectures and practical exercises are updated throughout your class. Whereas a print text may not reflect the most recent research, we have the ability to update your online lectures to reflect the latest industry information as you study.
- You can access your online lectures anywhere you have access to the Internet. You no longer have to carry around books and manuals. You can complete readings on your lunch breaks at work or at the library while the kids listen to story time, for example.
- Online lectures and the ACHS Textbooks can be accessed by the military while on deployment.
- Another advantage of online lectures is that they are readily available for you to revisit as needed and you can search within lectures.
- Online lectures can contain interactive tools unavailable in a printed document, enhancing your experience. This is particularly valuable if plant identification is a component of your course.
- Online lectures also meet our environmental mission to reduce paper use. Although we strive to use recycled paper, our goal is to minimize natural resource use as much as possible.
- Although many of our students are comfortable learning in a fully online format, we understand that some students still prefer to read from paper-based texts. For this reason, lectures are laid out in a printer-friendly format. You do not have to print lectures, but this enables those students who prefer printed materials or who need to print out a few lectures (to take on an offline vacation, for example) to do so--simply follow the directions below.
Printing Lectures
We've updated several online lectures to a format that is easier for students to print and search. For lectures in this format, printing is easy. There will be a link in the top-right of the lecture that says "print all." This link will open a new browser window with all of the content from your lecture (not just the page you're currently on) displayed in a printer-friendly format.
From here, you can print the page as you normally would from your browser by going to File > Print from the menu.
If you have difficulties with printing, please contact Student Services at (800) 487-8839 or (503) 244-0726. Please DO NOT contact the Help Desk with printing questions.
