For publishers and authors
Your book becomes the one students work in
The exercises already in your book become work students do on the page and get graded on, in the language your book teaches. We do the conversion. You don’t write anything new.
Turn your exercises into graded activities
Students work each exercise right on the page and get it checked. The score goes to the teacher’s gradebook like any other activity.
- ✓ A code listing becomes a program students can run, checked by unit tests. In Python and Java, semantic checks also show how the code was written.
- ✓ A worked example becomes a Parsons problem that students solve by putting the code in order.
- ✓ A matching exercise becomes a drag-and-drop activity that grades itself.
Your text stays as you wrote it. Only the exercises change.
Printed exercises from a Java textbook, turned into activities on Alps.
What your book can get on Alps
What each title gets depends on what’s in it, from interactive exercises to adaptive hints.
Readings, runnable examples, and auto-graded checks on the same page.
See itOn titles with adaptive hints, hard problems break into steps. Hints never give the answer.
See itWhen a student struggles, the puzzle gets simpler. Some titles also have hints written for each problem.
See itOn titles set up for it, Alps groups students by mastery and assigns practice for the gaps.
See itStudents find explanations and practice across every book in their class, in their own words.
See itPython, Jupyter, C++, SQL, and a cyber range on any Chromebook, with nothing to install. Teachers can replay each student’s work.
See itPrefer a video? Watch the tour.
Your instructor edition stays teacher-only
Send the teacher version alongside the student one and Alps keeps them apart. Teachers open the chapters you marked for them; students never see those units in their table of contents, in an assignment picker, or in search.
- ✓ Mark a chapter, a unit or a single item for instructors. The rule carries down the tree.
- ✓ Teachers get a solutions and rubric view on the items in your book.
- ✓ Teaching assistants see instructor units, and never the ones you hide outright.
- ✓ An answer key kept as a separate document is imported and matched to the exercises it answers.
The same book, opened by a student and by their teacher.
Two ways schools can get your book
Everything above happens either way. The only difference is how a school gets it, and you can choose differently for each title. Publishers on Alps today do both.
Licensed per student
A teacher previews your book in the Library, clicks Purchase License, and gets a quote for their own sections in about a minute. The school pays the invoice, with no sales rep in the middle.
- ✓ Priced per student, typically at or below the print or e-book price, by agreement with you.
- ✓ Paid by ACH, check or wire.
- ✓ Bookstores order codes in bulk, locked to a campus and revocable.
- ✓ Classes start when the invoice is issued. The school has 30 days to pay.
Or offer it free
Publishers do this with a lead title, a backlist book, or an older edition. Same shelf, same conversion, and any teacher can start a class with it.
- ✓ Free to every teacher on every plan. Nothing to buy, nothing to redeem.
- ✓ The same conversion, solutions view and teacher edition.
- ✓ Teachers find and start open titles on their own, the way they do with Java Methods and Coding in Python.
- ✓ Change your mind later without redoing the conversion.
A department can adopt part of your book
A class on Alps can run more than one book, so a department that won’t switch to your title outright can still take the chapters it wants, beside whatever it teaches now. Every student in that section is licensed for it. See how mixing works.
Licensed editions on Alps today, from Skylight Publishing and Franklin, Beedle & Associates
Some of the open textbooks on the shelf today
What stays yours
Clear terms for publishers and authors.
Ownership
You keep ownership of your book. Alps doesn’t claim it.
Your original
Your repository and files stay as they are. We make any import fixes in our own copy.
Student and teacher privacy
We never sell student data. We don’t share anything that identifies a teacher or student with publishers or authors.
Your text, kept apart from ours
Hints and solutions are marked as the author’s or as ours, so a teacher can always tell which is which.
How your book gets on Alps
Tell us about it
Send the title, the source files, and who it’s for.
We bring it in
We handle the import. You don’t reformat anything.
You check it
Keep it private while you review it, so only you can open it.
Classes use it
Teachers find it in the Library and add it to a class.
Talk to us about your book
Send us what you have and we’ll tell you how it would work on Alps, and what it would take.