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The learning package puts students in the driver's seat to practice and grasp the learning objectives they need to understand to succeed. We work with the most engaged instructors and chemistry education scholars, rigorously develop material through extensive peer review, and support instructors with resources for use in the classroom and beyond.
Smartwork
Smartwork motivates students to practice problem-solving skills through a variety of interactive question types, book-specific hints, and extensive answer-specific feedback. Get started quickly by using our premade assignments with questions authored by master teachers, or take advantage of Smartwork's flexibility by customizing questions and adding your own content. Smartwork integration with your campus LMS saves you time by reporting grades directly to your LMS gradebook, while individual and class-wide performance reports help you see students' progress, identify challenging concepts, and provide further help to students who need guided support with those concepts.
In addition, Smartwork for Chemistry: An Atoms-Focused Approach's new edition includes:
Adaptive learning options allow you to assign learning objectives for students to master—offering every student a personalized assignment based on their content knowledge and offering practice when they need it most.
New ChemTour questions, a new gated multistep question type, multistep tutorial questions, and Lewis structure drawing questions offer a wide range of visual problems that further help students visualize chemistry.
New prep assignments help students practice their math skills at the beginning of the course, while new bridge assignments help them transition from general chemistry I to II.
RE-IMAGINED ChemTours
ChemTours: Guided Inquiry uses Sequential Questions to empower students to navigate step-by-step through complex concepts or processes, promoting a deeper understanding of core content.
Feedback after each attempt gives students the opportunity to course-correct, and the View Solution feature builds confidence by allowing every student to progress in the assignment.
For instructors, comprehensive analytics support flexible and responsive teaching.
Stepwise Figures
Stepwise Figures are embedded in the ebook and make the reading experience more engaging and interactive by breaking down 42 complex graphs and figures into step-by-step explanations. Static figures are explained, providing students a dive deep into how chemistry concepts are represented and visualized.
Course Design
Learn how our tools can be used before, during, and after your online or in-person class
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:
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 recent survey, 91 percent of instructors felt supported or very supported using Norton learning tools.
Before Class
For Students:
Norton Ebooks offer an enhanced, active reading experience at a fraction of the cost of a print textbook. Students can highlight, take notes, search, and read offline. You can add your own content and notes that students see as they read the text. Norton Ebooks can be viewed on all devices and are born accessible, with content and features designed from the start for all learners.
For Instructors:
The Norton Teaching Tools site is your first stop when looking for creative, diverse resources to refresh your syllabus or design a new one. Dynamic and experienced instructors create resources that are aligned with chapter topics and organized by activity type, making them easy to find based on your course needs. The guide also features tips and best practices for assigning Norton’s digital learning tools and addressing the most common course challenges. Example content includes clicker questions, active-learning class activities, Lecture PowerPoints, author videos, ChemTour pedagogical summaries and their potential uses.
During Online, Hybrid, or In-Person Class
For Instructors:
Projected Visualization Questions allow instructors to ask questions on full-color images on exams or as in-class activities. To overcome the challenge of not being able to distribute full-color exams to her class, author Stacey Lowery Bretz includes these problems on her exams. These require students to look at a particulate, macro, or symbolic image that is projected at the front of the room.
Lecture and Art PowerPoints are available for each chapter in the text. These PowerPoints are fully customizable and feature images, bulleted chapter outlines, and clicker questions for in-class presentation. Our clicker questions include review of both the chapter materials and the related ChemTour animations and interactives. The Lecture PowerPoint images include alt text, and the slides are designed to be accessible for all students, including students who use screen readers. All the art from the book, sized for classroom display, is available in PowerPoint with alt text and in JPEG format.
After Class
For Instructors:
Adaptive learning allows you to assign specific learning objectives for students to master. Our engine then customizes the assignments to meet each student's individual needs, ensuring they understand the necessary concepts, lowering the need for you to remediate in class or leave struggling students behind. You also have the flexibility to choose how you assign work—whether you prefer fully adaptive assignments or want to incorporate adaptive questions into a traditional assignment.
Customer Support
We support you and your students with reliable, proactive assistance. A dedicated customer success manager is assigned and will reach out before, during, and after each term—anticipating your specific needs and providing
- course design consultation,
- setup in all major learning management systems, and
- ongoing guidance throughout the life of the adoption.
This is the kind of support you’ve come to expect from W. W. Norton. As an independent, employee-owned company, we can make decisions that are mutually beneficial for our company and the discipline—unbeholden to outside shareholders. Although we’re unique, we’re not small and have the service and structure to provide support for all the years you choose to work with us.
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