Powerful learning tools for today’s students

With a new Norton Illumine Ebook and book-specific problem sets in Smartwork, this new edition of Varian provides an engaging learning experience and the problem-solving practice that students need. Robust instructor resources support lecture, hybrid, and online classes.

NEW Norton Illumine Ebook

Thoroughly revised Varian content shines brighter through engaging and motivational features that illuminate core concepts for all students in an accessible and low-stakes environment. The active reading experience includes the ability to highlight, take notes, search, read offline, and more.

• Embedded interactives, authored by Marc Melitz, engage students with applications and explorations of important course content.

   

• Check Your Understanding questions, created in consultation with Melitz, offer rich answer-specific feedback, motivating students and building confidence in their learning.

   

• Active reading experience includes the ability to highlight, take notes, search, read offline, and more.

   

• Instructors can encourage student accountability by assigning chapter readings through easy-to-use assignment tools and LMS integration.

Marc Melitz on the Norton Illumine Ebook

Smartwork

Smartwork is Norton’s easy-to-use online assessment tool that helps students practice their problem-solving skills through a variety of interactive question types, book-specific hints, and extensive answer-specific feedback.

• Built specifically for the text, problem sets for Varian and Melitz challenge students to work through a variety of multi-step question types, including graphing, multiple choice, drag-and-drop, and more. In addition, new algorithmic questions promote individualized learning.

   

• Rich, answer-specific feedback helps students to understand why their choices are correct or incorrect. Smartwork also keeps track of each question attempt, so students can refer to their previous attempts as they work.

   

• Problem sets are ready to deploy as-is, with questions authored by experienced teachers—but you can also customize and add your own content.

   

• LMS integration saves you time by allowing grades to report directly to your LMS gradebook, while individual and class-wide performance reports help you see students’ progress and identify challenging concepts.

Marc Melitz on Smartwork

Teaching Online with the Norton Illumine Ebook and Smartwork

Resources for your LMS

Easily add high-quality Norton digital resources to your online, hybrid, or lecture courses through integrated links. The full suite of resources for Varian and Melitz makes class and test-prep a cinch, and provides creative teaching ideas for every course format.

• Customizable Lecture PowerPoints, available for each chapter, feature images and bulleted chapter outlines for in-class presentation. All images include alt text, and the slides are designed to be accessible for all students, including students who use screen readers. 

   

• The Instructor’s Manual maintains Hal Varian’s discussions of his experience teaching the more challenging concepts, and offers guidance to help instructors communicate those points. In this edition, Marc Melitz and other experienced instructors join in, providing tips for using the updated examples, interactives, and Smartwork.

   

• The Test Bank uses evidence-based assessment practices to deliver pedagogically effective quizzing and testing materials. With Norton Testmaker, you can create assessments for your course and export them to your LMS from anywhere with an Internet connection. You can search and filter test bank questions by chapter, type, difficulty, learning objectives, and other criteria.

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.

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: Instructor’s Manual

Activities, interactives, and tips in the Instructor’s Manual refresh your syllabus, engage students, and illuminate challenging concepts.

For Students: Norton Illumine Ebook

The ebook features interactives designed by co-author Marc Melitz, and Check Your Understanding questions designed to reinforce comprehension of core concepts.

For Instructors: Lecture PowerPoints

Lecture PowerPoints, available for each chapter, feature images and bulleted chapter outlines for in-class presentation. All images include alt text, and the slides are designed to be accessible for all students, including students who use screen readers

For Instructors: Smartwork and Norton Testmaker

Instructors can view Smartwork’s class-wide performance reports to help you see students’ progress, identify challenging concepts, and intervene where necessary.

For Students: Smartwork online problem set

Students work through a variety of multi-step problems, receiving answer-specific feedback and hints along the way.