Flexible student and instructor resources

The following digital resources are included with all new copies of the text or can be purchased stand-alone. Accessibility is at the core of all the products we create, with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), the most widely accepted voluntary international standard for accessibility, ensuring that all students will succeed in your course.

The Norton Illumine Ebook

The Religion Matters ebook was used by 81 percent of students in its first edition and is now even more exciting with new features in the second edition. The new Norton Illumine Ebook supports religious literacy, engagement, and confidence through:  

• Check Your Understanding questions that offer rich, answer-specific feedback
• Embedded audio pronunciations
• Videos that bring religious practice and diversity to life

InQuizitive

InQuizitive assignments build on the text’s foundation with questions that ask students to apply what they have learned and feature adaptive functionality that personalizes the learning experience and points them back to the reading as needed.

• New learning objectives appear throughout InQuizitive to make the learning goals more transparent for students. 
• Through a variety of question types, answer-specific feedback, and game-like elements, students are motivated to keep working until they’ve mastered the concepts. 
• A robust activity report makes it easy to identify challenging concepts and allows for just-in-time intervention when students are struggling.  
• InQuizitive scores to report directly to your LMS gradebook. 

For Instructors:

On-demand support from a dedicated customer success manager who will consult on course design integrate our tools into your LMS, and provide ongoing support. In a survey, 91 percent of instructors felt supported or very supported using Norton learning tools.

For Students:

Accessibility. The resources for the Second Edition of Religion Matters were developed to conform to WCAG 2.1 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) at level AA. Norton’s accessibility team helped design the resources for inclusion, ensuring an equivalent experience when using a keyboard alone or with a screen reader. 

For Instructors:

InQuizitive. A robust activity report makes it easy to identify challenging concepts and tailor in-class discussion.  
 
Resources in our Norton Teaching Tools refresh your syllabus and simplify your class prep with lecture PowerPoints, and resources for teaching online.  

For Students:

The Norton Illumine Ebook prepares students before they come to class with Check Your Understanding questions that offer rich, answer-specific feedback, and an active reading experience includes the ability to highlight, take notes, search, read offline, and more.

InQuizitive. Through a variety of question types, answer-specific feedback, and game-like elements, students are motivated to keep working until they’ve mastered the concepts. 

For Instructors:

The Norton Teaching Tools include activities to engage students in-person or online, including in-class activities and discussion questions.

For Students:

The Norton Illumine Ebook includes embedded videos to bring religious practices to life, and audio pronunciations remove a barrier to class participation, empowering all students to succeed. 

For Instructors:

Norton Testmaker. Create assessments for your course from anywhere with an internet connection, without downloading files or installing specialized software. Search and filter test bank questions by chapter, type, difficulty, learning objectives, and other criteria. You can also customize test bank questions to fit your course. Easily export your tests or Norton’s ready-to-use quizzes to Microsoft Word or Common Cartridge files for your LMS.

For Students:

Videos continue to bring religion to life for students after class ends. Especially meaningful are the student-to-student videos that allow students to understand religious diversity through the voices of their peers.