Abstract: An automatic purchase approval process facilitates the selection of products to be purchased and obtaining approval for the purchase. In the process content is selected from a database to be included in an instructional material, which then identifies products available for purchase that are associated with the selected content. After selecting at least one of the identified products, a request for purchase is created for each of the at least one of the identified products. The request for purchase is transmitted to an approval organization, and an indication of whether the request for purchase was approved by the approval organization is then received.