Essential Microbiology for Healthcare 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
- Active learning activities
- Test bank questions
- Lecture PowerPoint slides for each chapter
- Art and image files from the book
- Learning objectives
- Powerful analytics in the Norton Illumine Ebook, Smartwork, and InQuizitive
- Dedicated support team
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- Students get access to
- Built-in scaffolding that supports how they learn best
- A “How to Use This Book” section that demonstrates good study habits
- An interactive learning experience, complete with concept-check questions, ungraded polls, and over 90 interactive activities and figures, including Clinical Judgment activities
- Interactive disease tables
- Chapter-based homework assignments in Smartwork that further applications and critical thinking
- Adaptive and formative practice through InQuizitive
- An NCLEX Preparation Guide that guides students on best practices for passing the NCLEX
- Flashcards for self-study
- A NortonAI tool in both the ebook and Smartwork
An immersive and interactive learning experience
- For students, the Norton Illumine Ebook isn’t just an ebook—it’s a fully interactive course companion that keeps them engaged, provides clear progress tracking, and offers concept checkpoints. Over 90 interactives and figures are embedded, including tabbed and animated figures that build interpretation skills and Clinical Judgment activities that develop critical thinking and decision-making skills. Plus, ungraded polls connect microbiology to students’ everyday lives and Check Your Understanding questions assist with concept recall. We also have interactive disease tables!
- For instructors, the platform provides flexibility and assignability. You can assign content, track engagement, and gain actionable insights through analytics and LMS integration. You can further personalize students’ reading experience by embedding your own videos, audio, images, or text.
NortonAI for the Norton Illumine Ebook
This feature boosts student engagement and understanding with personalized, self-directed practice and reading support—grounded in your textbook's trusted content. Features include:
Smart Highlight
Practice Questions
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.
An adaptive tool that personalizes learning
- For students, InQuizitive turns pre-class preparation into an active, low-stakes learning experience that builds both confidence and readiness. Because it’s adaptive, InQuizitive meets students where they are—giving extra practice and feedback in areas where they struggle while allowing them to move more efficiently through concepts they already understand. This helps reduce overwhelm, which is common in microbiology for pre-health students.
- For instructors, students arrive better prepared for class, giving you more time for discussion and activities. The Class Activity Report for each InQuizitive activity provides data to determine which topic(s) students might need to review more and helps you intervene with students who might be struggling early on in the course. InQuizitive can also improve student learning outcomes when assigned consistently for points, as a part of the overall course grade.
Flexible assessment that engages different modes of thinking
- For students, Smartwork extends learning beyond the text through assignable practice that helps them master challenging microbiology concepts. With immediate feedback, students can learn from mistakes and become better problem solvers. Questions include a variety of interactive types, including art-based questions, critical-thinking questions, and case study questions to fully engage students in healthcare applications.
- For instructors, Smartwork provides the freedom and flexibility to curate, edit, and assign problem sets. Our question library is written and peer-reviewed by practicing instructors, and premade assignments have been assembled for easy assignability (or, create assignments and questions from scratch!). Smartwork analytics also provide insight into gaps in students’ knowledge.
NortonAI for Smartwork
For students, NortonAI builds problem-solving abilities with personalized support and strategic guardrails to guide students toward the answer and model the process of learning.
For instructors, NortonAI provides valuable, time-saving performance summaries and other data-driven observations to reveal patterns and challenges in students’ progress.
It's Your Call
When you assign a Smartwork, 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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