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Essentials of Economics

Available for Fall 2026

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When you assign Norton Courseware

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    • Norton Teaching Tools database

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    • Test bank, powered by Norton Testmaker

    • Lecture PowerPoints

  • Students get access to all the following, integrated with your LMS:

    • Norton Illumine Ebook with low-stakes interactive activities and Norton AI

    • InQuizitive adaptive learning tool

    • Smartwork online homework

    • Office Hours videos

Interactive ebook provides hands-on practice with economic concepts

  • For instructors, the Norton Illumine Ebook allows visibility into your students’ completion of low-stakes interactive activities and concept-check questions. You can also add your own content, videos, and annotations for students to access as they read the text.

  • For students, the Norton Illumine Ebook reinforces key material and develops problem-solving skills through NEW low-stakes interactive activities created by Carla Nietfeld for the most challenging concepts, as well as Check Your Understanding questions at the end of each section.

  • This Norton Illumine Ebook includes NortonAI, a feature that boosts student engagement and is grounded in your textbook’s trusted content. NortonAI uses a powerful generative AI engine with strategic guardrails to support—but not replace!--the process of learning.

Adaptive quizzing personalizes learning

  • For instructors, a robust activity report makes it easy to identify challenging concepts and allows for just-in-time intervention for students who need more support.

  • For students, InQuizitive features a variety of question types linked to Norton Illumine Ebook content and activities, and provides answer-specific feedback, specific ebook page links for easy review, and game-like elements like the ability to wager points based on confidence level.

Flexible online homework makes assessment meaningful

  • With Smartwork, instructors can get started quickly by using our premade assignments , or they can customize by adding their own content or choosing from our bank of over 2,500 problems. Class activity reports at the individual and collective level make it easy to determine which problems and concepts need more coverage in class.

  • For students, Smartwork offers a variety of problem types (including graphing and algorithmic questions), book-specific hints, and extensive answer-specific feedback to help students course-correct if they’re struggling. Smartwork for Essentials of Economics includes questions tied to these books’ hallmark Practice What You Know questions, as well as Economics in the Media features and the new interactives created by Carla Nietfeld. This continuity offers a seamless experience and builds real-world problem-solving skills.

 
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