This assignable ebook was designed to keep all students, who have varying levels of science backgrounds, on track. It offers a guided reading and studying experience.

• Clinical Judgment interactive activities replicate healthcare scenarios and have various decision-making pathways to give students practice making well-informed diagnoses and treatment suggestions—with real-time feedback for their choices.  
• Check Your Understanding questions at the end of each section help students use the text as study tool and give them a chance to recall important concepts.  
• Embedded animations bring complex processes to life.  
• Assignable for completion points and can be integrated with your campus LMS for seamless grade passback.  

Smartwork is Norton’s flexible and easily customizable homework platform that gives you precise control over your assignments. Smartwork helps students become better problem solvers, apply their knowledge, practice using data, and think critically with real-time feedback and intervention. 

• Questions, all written by microbiology instructors, feature a wide array of question types and difficulty levels. 
• Premade chapter assignments are ready-to-go, while customization options give you the ability to add your own questions, edit assignments, or create activities from scratch using our highly intuitive question library.   
• Questions are all deeply integrated with the book content, making case histories from the book assignable.
• The convenience of LMS integration saves you time by allowing Smartwork scores to be reported directly to your LMS gradebook.

NEW Difficult Topic Review Assignments give you the option of assigning more practice with the most difficult and integrated concepts in microbiology, such as antibiotic resistance.   

InQuizitive is Norton’s adaptive and formative homework system that gives students personalized learning pathways to help them master—and retain—key learning objectives before coming to class.  

• Dynamic questions make use of the animations, artwork, and figures from the book. They have all been written by experienced microbiology instructors.
• Answer-specific feedback and other elements promote metacognition to keep students motivated to work until mastery of concepts. 
• Best when assigned pre-lecture as a formative assignment to ensure students come to class with a solid baseline of knowledge.  
• The convenience of LMS integration saves you time by allowing InQuizitive scores to be reported directly to your LMS gradebook.  

A NEW Foundational Topic Review Module is available standalone to help students—who have varying levels of preparedness and prerequisite knowledge—remember and practice the foundational general biology concepts needed to succeed in this course.  

The Norton Teaching Tools site is your first stop when looking for creative, diverse resources. This searchable and sortable guide is available to help you facilitate active learning and help you refresh or build your syllabus. 

• Case Mystery PowerPoints include symptoms of a fictional patient, various tests that could be administered, the “results,” and the diagnosis with treatment. Discussion questions appear throughout with clicker-style questions.  
• Active learning activities include suggestions on how to incorporate more active learning and participation in your course. They include advice on how to adapt activities depending on class size and format.  
• Lecture PowerPoints and image files are provided for every chapter, along with a list of learning objectives for each chapter to help you align content to your syllabus and course goals.  
• Multimedia suggestions include discussion ideas, questions, and written assignments that incorporate videos, podcasts, etc.

Norton Testmaker brings Norton’s high-quality testing materials online. Create assessments for your course from anywhere with an internet connection, without downloading files or installing software. Search and filter test bank questions by chapter, type, difficulty, and other criteria. You can also customize test bank questions to fit your course. Easily explore your tests or quizzes to Microsoft Word or Common Cartridge files for your LMS. 

• course design consultation,
• setup in all major learning management systems, and
• ongoing guidance throughout the life of the adoption.