American Government: A Brief Introduction integrates with your LMS
Our materials seamlessly integrate into all major learning management systems (Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, Brightspace D2L, and Schoology). Our content loads directly into your course shell so you can incorporate Norton materials around your existing content. Our customer success team is available to guide you every step of the way. If you are interested in learning more, contact your local representative.
When you assign Norton Courseware
- Instructors get access to
- A test bank of over 1,700 questions, powered by Norton Testmaker
- An instructor’s manual with resources for course planning, including lecture notes, class activities, discussion questions, and more
- Lecture slides and image files, all of which are screen-reader compatible
- An analytics dashboard and class activity report providing insight into students’ progress in the ebook and InQuizitive
- Students get access to
- An engaging interactive ebook with author videos, assignable interactive infographics, and end-of-section concept check questions
- An adaptive learning tool, with chapter assignments and standalone skills-focused modules
- Simulations that allow students to inhabit the role of various political actors
A customizable ebook that makes key features interactive and assignable
- For instructors the Norton Illumine Ebook’s assignable questions and activities offer insight into student performance and reading behavior.
- The analytics dashboard includes a variety of detailed engagement metrics, offering a complete picture into how students are interacting with the ebook content.
- Seamless LMS integration allows you to easily assign individual chapters and track completion grades in your gradebook.
- Instructor notes offer the opportunity to further personalize students’ reading experience by embedding your own videos, audio, images, or text directly into the ebook for students to access as they read.
- For students, the Norton Illumine Ebook encourages active reading through engaging features and interactive elements.
- Interactive questions for each Thinking Through the Evidence infographic include answer-specific feedback to help students analyze data on political science research and to make this popular feature assignable
- Chapter-opening author videos featuring coauthor Hahrie Han introducing the topics in the chapter by discussing the ways in which people matter in the American political system
- Low-stakes concept checks at the end of each section, called Check Your Understanding questions, break the chapter into smaller chunks, ensuring students understand what they’ve read before moving on.
An adaptive learning tool that reinforces chapter learning objectives and builds course skills
- For instructors, InQuizitive ensures better student preparedness, leaving more for discussion and activities.
- The class activity report allows you to track your students’ progress through an assignment and makes it easy to identify challenging concepts, allowing for just-in-time intervention for students who need guided support.
- Seamless LMS integration saves you time by reporting InQuizitive scores directly to your LMS gradebook.
- For students, InQuizitive is a low-stakes adaptive tool that personalizes the learning experience and helps assess their understanding of key concepts.
- The variety of question types, answer-specific feedback, and game-like elements, such as the ability to adjust their confidence level for each question, motivates students to keep working until they have mastered the chapter learning objective.
- Standalone skills-focused modules offer practice with evaluating sources, reading charts and graphs, and engaging with AI.
Smart study tools in the Norton Illumine Ebook, powered by NortonAI
- This feature boosts student engagement and understanding with personalized, self-directed practice, with built-in guardrails, offering real-time reading support and feedback that is grounded in American Politics Today’s book content.
- This tool gives students the ability to rephrase passages, receive additional examples,
and answer ungraded practice questions to support better comprehension of the material.
It's Your Call
When you assign a Norton Illumine Ebook, you have full control to enable or disable NortonAI at any time for all students.
Course materials backed by real, human support every step of the way
We are proud to provide exceptional customer support to instructors assigning Norton courseware. Both your representative and customer success manager are an email or phone call away, and are here to help so you can spend more time teaching.
Your local representative will:
- Help you select the best books, digital products, and resources to meet your course needs
- Provide desk copies (yes, we do still provide these in most cases)
- Work with your bookstore to ensure smooth ordering of your materials
- Connect you with your customer success manager
Your customer success manager will:
- Help you integrate our learning tools into your LMS course
- Provide training and setup support, as well as be available on-demand and throughout the year
- Consult with you on course challenges and goals to design a learning pathway for your students
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