Flexible resources that deepen students’ learning

To help you reach your unique course goals, Biology Now offers a robust suite of resources that help students apply what they learned in the Norton Illumine Ebook, encourage active participation, and help build their scientific literacy.

Smartwork

Smartwork is Norton’s flexible and easily customizable homework platform that gives you precise control over your assignments. Smartwork helps students become better problem solvers, apply their knowledge, practice using data, and think more critically.

• Questions, all written by biology instructors, go beyond simple multiple-choice formats with a wide array of dynamic question types—many including charts, figures, and artwork from the book. They span a variety of difficulty levels.
• Smartwork is built to be flexible so that you can use it as formative or summative assessment (or both!).
• Premade chapter assignments are ready to go, while customization options give you the ability to add your own questions, edit assignments, or create activities from scratch using our question library.
• Links to the ebook, book-specific hints, and answer-specific feedback provide real-time intervention for students that need additional help.
• The Smartwork gradebook breaks down student progress by assignment and by learning objective, giving you clear insights into how students are doing.
• The convenience of LMS integration saves you time by allowing Smartwork scores to be reported directly to your LMS gradebook.

InQuizitive

InQuizitive is Norton’s adaptive and formative homework system that gives students personalized learning pathways to help them master—and retain—key learning objectives before coming to class.

• Questions, all written by biology instructors, go beyond simple multiple-choice formats with a wide variety of dynamic question types that make use of the animations, artwork, and figures from the book.
• Answer-specific feedback and other elements promote metacognition to keep students motivated to work until mastery of concepts.
• Best when assigned pre-lecture to ensure students come to class with a solid baseline of knowledge.
• The InQuizitive gradebook breaks down student progress by assignment and by learning objective, giving you clear insights into how your students are doing.
• The convenience of LMS integrates saves you time by allowing scores to be reported directly to your LMS gradebook.

Norton Teaching Tools

The Norton Teaching Tools site is your first stop when looking for creative, diverse resources. This searchable and sortable guide is available to help you facilitate active learning and help you refresh or build your syllabus.

• Active learning activities for each chapter provide ideas for engaging students whether you teach in-person or online. Activities also provide suggestions based on class sizes.
• Discussion questions help make our animations assignable.
• Grading rubrics for the Leveling Up questions in the textbook are provided.
• Other various multimedia suggestions with discussion prompts help you incorporate current news.
• Sample lecture outlines help you get started with a new textbook.
• Lecture PowerPoints are fully customizable and feature images, bulleted chapter outlines, and clicker questions.
• Resources are aligned with chapter topics, organized by activity type, and tagged to learning objectives.

For Instructors:

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

For Students:

Accessibility is central to Norton’s products. To meet the greatest range of requirements, we follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and strive for WCAG 2.1 AA across all products.

For Instructors:

Instructors tell us that assigning InQuizitive for 10–15% of the course points ensures students complete the reading and understand important concepts. The InQuizitive Class Activity Report identifies learning objectives your students are struggling with to help you with lecture preparation.

The Norton Teaching Tools site offers sample lecture outlines to help you prepare for class.

For Students:

The Norton Illumine Ebook provides a rich reading experience with chapter-opening “First Look” videos that motivate students to engage with the reading, while new Check Your Understanding questions reinforce comprehension. Capstone “Evaluating Scientific Claims” interactives at the end of every chapter build students’ scientific literacy.

InQuizitive adaptive technology helps students practice and apply their newfound knowledge through dynamic question types that provide a visual framework for science concepts.

For Instructors:

The Norton Teaching Tools site helps you find active learning activities, discussion questions, multimedia suggestions, and other materials that keep your students engaged during class. Our customizable Lecture PowerPoints help you craft your perfect lecture and include clicker questions for further discussion.

For Students:

Animations and interactives keep students engaged while explaining challenging concepts and shedding light on current issues.

For Instructors:

Instructors tell us that assigning Smartwork for 15–20% of the course points ensures students complete assignments and deepen their scientific literacy. The Smartwork Class Activity Report identifies learning objectives your students are struggling with.

Norton Testmaker is an easy-to-use test bank that offers high-quality assessment to help you build tests and quizzes.

For Students:

Smartwork assignments provide customizable assessment that connects real-life applications and data to the book content to strengthen students’ critical-thinking skills.