Essex County College is now partnering with VitalSource to provide digital course materials to our students – Wolverine Smart Books. The digital format of your textbook will be available in Moodle or sent to your Essex email 14 days prior to the start of the course. Your instructor will guide you on how to access your material properly.

You can choose to OPT out of the digital products and the fee/s will be removed from your tuition account.  However, you will be responsible for securing books for all classes.

Before opting out, you should contact your Professor/s as most of them require the use of assignments, labs, tests, quizzes, etc. digital etext materials.

To OPT Out of the digital product course fee for ALL courses, please follow these instructions.

  1. Click the Wolverine Smart Books tool in your Learning Management System (LMS).
  2. Navigate to My Courses.
  3. Review your access program details in the top blue banner.

Follow the instructions on the opt-out process to the right of the banner. 

For additional information and to contact a live Support Agent, visit us at https://onlinebookstoresupport.vitalsource.com/hc/en-us

You must OPT out no later than midnight on the dates displayed below for the following semesters:

Academic Year 2027

Semester: Term: Opt Out Deadline:
Summer II 2026:  
 Full Term7/20/2026
 LPN1037/13/2026

Fall 2026:
  
 Fall I9/14/2026
 Fall II Late Start10/12/2026
 LPN 10212/3/2026
 LPN 104/10510/2/2026

Winter 2026:
  
 Winter Intersession12/24/2026

Spring 2027:
  
 Spring I & FOCUS1/18/2027
 Spring II Late Start2/15/2027

Summer I 2027:
  
 Full Term5/17/2027

Academic Year 2026

Semester: Term:Opt Out Deadline
Summer II 2025:  
 Full Term7/14/2025
 LPN1037/14/2025
 FYE7/14/2025

Fall 2025:
  
 Fall I9/10/2025
 FOCUS10/9/2025
 Fall II Late Start10/9/2025
 LPN 10212/2/2025
 LPN 104/10510/9/2025

Winter 2025:
  
 Winter Intersession12/24/2025

Spring 2026:
  
 Spring I & FOCUS1/20/2026
 Spring II Late Start2/17/2026
 LPN 1033/12/2026
 LPN 1024/9/2026

Summer I 2026:
  
 Full Term5/18/2026
 Combined Summer5/18/2026
 RTC5/5/2026
 LPN 104/1056/5/2026