The Norton Illumine Ebook enhances students’ reading and learning experience through engaging features, which illustrate and reinforce core concepts for all students in a supportive, accessible, and low-stakes environment. 

• Check Your Understanding questions with rich answer-specific feedback break chapters up into smaller sections and help ensure students understand what they’ve read. Two Check Your Understanding questions appear at the end of each learning objective, motivating students and building confidence in their learning.  
• Interactive Thinking Through the Evidence features now include dynamic data figures and Check Your Understanding questions to help students analyze data on political science research. 
• New chapter-opening author videos featuring Hahrie Han introduce the topics in the chapter by discussing the ways in which people matter in the American political system.

Norton’s easy-to-use adaptive tool personalizes the learning experience for students, helping them master key learning objectives and better understand how to apply fundamental concepts to real-world examples and scenarios.

• InQuizitive’s adaptive functionality ensures students receive questions that target their individual learning needs. 
• Students receive answer-specific feedback, whether they get a question right or wrong, reinforcing the material and encouraging them to evaluate their answers.  
• A Data Literacy InQuizitive Module includes questions that help students become more proficient analyzing visual representations of data.  
• An Evaluating Sources InQuizitive Module helps students assess the validity and accuracy of the political information they come across in the media.

Timeplot Exercises connect quantitative data to the historical development of key aspects of American politics, with assignable questions to accompany the Timeplot graphics in each chapter.

Online simulations accompany every chapter, allowing students to engage further with the topic addressed in the chapter. Each simulation allows students to inhabit the role of various political actors to help them better understand political decision making.

• course design consultation,
• setup in all major learning management systems, and
• ongoing guidance throughout the life of the adoption.