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Flexible student and instructor resources

The following digital resources are included with all new copies of the text or can be purchased stand-alone. Accessibility is at the core of all the products we create, with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), the most widely accepted voluntary international standard for accessibility, ensuring that all students will succeed in your course.

The Norton Illumine Ebook

Promotes student accountability and improves preparation through engaging and motivational features that illuminate core concepts for students in a supportive, low-stakes environment.

Embedded Before you Read author videos featuring Jill Lepore set the stage for students, reminding them of the important themes and events from earlier chapters that directly influence the chapter outcome.
Check Your Understanding questions throughout the chapter contain rich answer-specific feedback to motivate students and build confidence in their learning.
Interactive footnotes throughout primary source clusters with embedded pop-up annotations to provide reading support. Only available in the versions with sources.

InQuizitive

Norton’s easy-to-use, adaptive learning and quizzing tool personalizes the learning experience for students, helping them to build important history skills and achieve key learning objectives. Through a variety of question types, answer specific feedback, and game-like elements such as the ability to wager points, students are motivated to keep working until they’ve mastered the concepts.

Features hundreds of engaging, interactive questions tagged to four key skills in the U.S. history survey source: chronological reasoning, textual interpretation, visual analysis, and data & geographical literacy.
Students can access their ebook from InQuizitive if they need help.
InQuizitive can help increase history students’ quiz scores by 16 percentage points.*

Learn how our tools can be used before, during, and after your online or in-person class

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

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

Read the Norton Illumine Ebook. The ebook features embedded Before You Read author videos featuring Jill Lepore and low-stakes Check Your Understanding questions.

Designed by a cognitive psychologist, InQuizitive adaptive learning activities promote a growth mindset and build understanding through retrieval practice and concept application.

For Instructors

Student engagement in the Norton Illumine Ebook is tracked as they work toward completion through easy-to-use assignment tools and LMS integration. Instructors tell us that assigning InQuizitive for 10–15 percent of the course points ensures students complete the reading and understand important.