The Little Seagull Handbook 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
- Expert teaching guides available as downloadable PDFs:
- Little Teaching Tips for the Little Seagull
- A Guide to Teaching Research Skills
- Teaching First-Year Writing
- Instructor training modules offering strategies for supporting developing writers and language learning students, created by Emily Suh (Texas State University)
- Robust activity report in InQuizitive for Writers
- The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching
- Expert teaching guides available as downloadable PDFs:
- Students get access to
- InQuizitive for Writers
- Norton ebook
- Over thirty short videos
- Plagiarism Tutorial
Low-stakes activities for writing, editing, and researching
- For over 100,000 students each year, InQuizitive for Writers provides practice in a feedback-rich environment with direct links to The Little Seagull Handbook ebook for support. Activity topics range from rhetorical situations and thesis statements, to documentation and evaluating sources, to comma splices and subject-verb agreement.
- For instructors, InQuizitive provides a robust activity report that makes it easy to identify challenging concepts and allows for just-in-time intervention for students who need guided support. The “How to Use InQuizitive” assignment makes it easy to introduce the activities to your class.
Easy-to-use ebook
- Students can access their ebook on all devices—where they can annotate, bookmark, and watch embedded videos. Norton ebooks are born accessible, with content and features designed from the start for all learners.
- Instructors can personalize students’ reading experience by embedding their own videos, audio, images, or text directly into the ebook. Assign an introductory InQuizitive activity on “How to Make the Most of The Little Seagull Handbook” to introduce students to the book and give them practice finding what they need as they write.
Thirty animated videos
- Students can learn from a collection of thirty short (two-to-three-minute) animated videos covering a range of topics: understanding academic argument, peer review, critical reading strategies, using AI as a resource in the writing process, and more.
- Instructors can assign the videos through select InQuizitive for Writers activities or ebook chapters, or link to the videos through a campus learning management system.
Assignable plagiarism guidance
- Students are guided through a tutorial—updated to address generative AI throughout—on why plagiarism matters, what counts as plagiarism, and how to avoid it.
- Instructors can use a class activity report to see students' scores and how much time they spent working through the tutorial.
Expert teaching guides for instructors who adopt The Little Seagull Handbook
- Little Teaching Tips for the Little Seagull provides tips for using the handbook in class activities, incorporating InQuizitive, and teaching students how to use the handbook on their own.
- A Guide to Teaching Research Skills covers incorporating information literacy and research skills in first-year composition courses.
- Teaching First-Year Writing is a series of helpful chapters on topics such as multimodal writing, online courses, and reading in the writing classroom, as well as classroom management topics such as managing the paper load and teaching dual enrollment 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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