Student Login Steps
This presentation explains setting up your account with Cengage
Publishing, the host for this class. Pay close attention, go slow and be
careful. Allow 15 – 30 minutes.
This presentation is best viewed by clicking on this icon in the lower corner
of your screen.
You must buy your personal Access Code to complete this registration and
enter the class. If you haven’t bought it, review these slides but don’t set up
your account. Click Here for information on buying the code and books.
Use your keyboard arrow keys to change slides. Use your keyboard’s esc
button to exit.
You will need the following required information to set up a Cengage account and then log into
the class. You can view these slides but don’t do the set-up until you have all this information.
* The publisher’s name for the course: Cengage-Hosted WebTutor™ for Plotnik/Kouyoumdjian's
Introduction to Psychology (9th ed.)
* The Course Key: identifies the course to Cengage. The Key will be sent via email about a week before the
semester’s start.
* Your personal, individual Access Code. You cannot log in without it. This is your unique, 12-digit, titlespecific, personal code to get into the class. You must buy it with the text and Activities Book. Old ones or
someone else’s will not work. The Access Code and the Plotnik text are packaged together at a discount price at
Delta's Bookstore or through the publishers web site at CengageBrain.
* Your Delta email address. You must always use it for everything you do in this course. Never use a personal
address like Yahoo, Comcast, Outlook Express, Gmail, Hotmail or any other provider’s email. Check with Delta
to know what it is, especially if you haven’t used it.
Steps 1-4 below assume that you do not have an account at http://login.cengagebrain.com.
If you do already have one, contact Mr. Payne by email at: rpayne@deltacollege.edu.
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Please Remember: Delta’s Helpdesk Can Not Help You With This
1. Go to http://login.cengagebrain.com. [You should review these 14 slides first.]
2. Under Create a New Account, click the “Create an Account” button.
Click this 
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3. This screen requires your personal “Access Code”: the code you purchased at CengageBrain, or
Delta’s bookstore or received with the purchase of a new book. Enter it exactly as seen on the
card. (Do not use the example picture on the screen.) Note: we have nothing to do with an Aplia
Course Key. Just ignore that. Enter your access code and click “Continue”.
-------------------------The Access Code you purchased goes here. It comes with the
text or can be purchased separately. Type it exactly as seen.
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4. A page will appear asking for a lot of information. Fill all the fields marked *. Please be
careful and accurate.
• As noted on the next slide, use only your Delta email address.
• Never, never a personal one for this class. Addresses like @Yahoo, @hotmail,
@comcast, or any others will cause you grief.
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Complete
all fields
marked *
As registered with Delta College. No
nicknames. Capitalize the first letter only.
As registered with Delta College. If you have a
hyphenated last name, capitalize the first letter of each
part only.
Enter your Delta email address only. Double check that it
looks similar to the example below, all lower case, with your:
Enter your
Delta email
again.
Create a
password
between 625
characters.
Write it
down.
•first initial
•last name
•unique numbers
•ending with: @students.deltacollege.edu
Click this.
Example: jdoe111@students.deltacollege.edu
Do not enter a personal email! All kinds of problems result.
Choose one.
Make it simple and write it down.
Check that
everything is
complete and
accurate. Then
click here.
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Most of us
are in the
Pacific time
zone.
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5. The next web page shows this at the top. Select “United States” from the dropdown menu.
Click the little arrow and select United States.
6. Once done, you’ll be prompted to select “Institution Type.” Go to the next slide to see this.
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7. Delta is of course a 2 Year College so select that from the menu. You can choose any “Within”
distance or leave it at 25 miles, but the bigger the choice, the longer the list of colleges
appearing on the next web page.
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8. Enter State + City, or just Delta’s ZIP code, 95207.
Ca or California
Or
95207 only
Stockton
Click here after selections.
Delta will appear on the resulting list if you did the above correctly.
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9. Delta can appear anywhere on the list. Just click the button next to it and then click on
Continue.
.
Delta College
Stockton
CA
US
Click button by Delta, then click Continue.
Your “My Home” page will load, displaying the course title associated with the access code you
submitted in Step 3. Below is an example, where the access code was associated with the
Introduction to Psychology, 9th Edition
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10. This is your Home page. Click on the “Open” button. Pay no attention to the blocked out area.
Click Here
Introduction to Psychology, 9th Edition
Rod Plotnik; Haig Kouyoumdjian
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11. A new browser window will open, and there will be a brief pause while you cross into
Cengage Learning Management system, getting a new account. After the pause, you will land
on the “Personal Home Page,” such as the one here. Can you see the word Courses on the
left?
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12. Notice your course listed under Courses. Just click on it, i.e., on the blue lettering.
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13. At this point, the Cengage Learning Management System realizes that you have rights to this
course, but does not know your instructor and which of your instructor’s courses you seek. So,
you need to obtain a “Course Key” from your instructor. Find it in the Welcome email he
sends about a week before the semester’s start.
• Once you have this Course Key, enter it in the “Enroll in an Instructor-Led Course” tool
exactly as seen in the email and then click “Enroll”.
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14. If you copy it off a screen and pasted it into the box, the highlight might pick up an invisible
character at the end or sometimes the beginning of what you are copying. Extra care needs
taken when setting the highlight to avoid the problem. Of course, typing it in manually also
has its hazards.
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15. When you click the “Enroll” button, a new window will open, similar to the following.
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16. Click the Close button. This window will disappear, and the course listing will update to be a link in
the main window. See next slide.
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17. This is the Course Page. Notice the “Course” tab above the Home > Course line? Wherever
you are in the course, click it to arrive back on this page. Please explore the other tabs near the
top to see inside. The “Calendar” tab lists all your assignments, “Lessons” has quizzes.
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When you get in, read all the information on this Course page. Click and follow all its links.
Feel free to explore but don’t enter a quiz or exam area unless you are really going to take one
for grade.
NOTE: The next time you click the “Open” button to this course from the “My Home” page,
you will cross into the Cengage Learning Management system and land directly onto this
Course page. The system made all the connections between you, your account and the course,
so from now on, logging in just needs your Delta email address and password. The Access
Code is no longer needed or usable and the Course Key is no longer used.
http://login.cengagebrain.com
Best of luck this semester. I hope you enjoy the course.
- Mr. Payne
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