The Norton Illumine Ebook enhances students’ reading and learning experience through engaging features that illustrate and reinforce core concepts for all students in a supportive, accessible, and low-stakes environment. 

• New chapter-opening author videos help students connect the chapter concepts to real-world people and situations and understand each chapter’s main learning objectives.
• Check Your Understanding questions at the end of each section in the chapter provide low-stakes concept checks to ensure students understand what they have read before moving to the next section.  
• Interactive versions of the popular Who Are Americans? and Who Participates? infographics help students explore data and think critically about how different groups are affected by politics and government. Each interactive includes low-stakes questions with answer-specific feedback. 

Norton’s easy-to-use adaptive learning tool personalizes the experience for students, helping them master key learning objectives and better understand how to apply fundamental concepts to real-world examples and scenarios.

• InQuizitive’s adaptive functionality ensures students receive questions that target their individual learning needs. 
• Students receive answer-specific feedback, whether they get a question right or wrong, reinforcing the material and encouraging them to evaluate their answers.  
• The Fifteenth Edition includes thoroughly updated questions featuring real-world situations and examples—new through the 2024 elections—as well as new and updated questions on the Who Are Americans? and Who Participates? infographics, and new questions based on Dynamic Data Figures.  
• A Data Literacy InQuizitive Module includes questions that help students become more proficient at analyzing visual representations of data.  
• An Evaluating Sources InQuizitive Module helps students assess the validity and accuracy of the political information they come across in the media.

Online simulations accompany every chapter, allowing students to engage further with the topic addressed in the chapter. Each simulation allows students to inhabit the role of various political actors to help them better understand political decision-making. 

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