What’s That Sound? 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
- Discussion questions
- Class activities
- Lecture outlines and PowerPoints
- Video resources
- Students get access to
- Norton Illumine Ebook with Sound Check interactive activities, Listening Guides, and Check Your Understanding questions, and illustrative audio excerpts
- InQuizitive – formative, adaptive online assessment that challenges students’ understanding of the history, culture, and music within each chapter
14 new Listening Guides
- Listening Guides provide students background, credits, form, time signature, instrumentation, and a time-stamped guide for working their way through each piece carefully. Among the new guides are songs from The Temptations (“Papa Was a Rolling Stone”), The Doors (“Light My Fire”), Jimmy Eat World (“The Middle”), and more.
An interactive ebook that helps students appreciate and analyze rock music and its history
- For instructors, The Norton Illumine Ebook can be integrated directly into your learning management system, making for easy assignability and easy student access. You can also embed your own content, notes, and videos into the ebook to further direct your students.
- For students, The Norton Illumine Ebook format will inspire and engage your rock history students. Students work through Sound Check interactive modules, complete Check Your Understanding questions that provide answer-specific feedback, and listen to licensed music through the Interactive Listening Guides and illustrative audio excerpts.
Formative, adaptive online assessment that includes questions with licensed music
- For instructors, Track students’ progress in InQuizitive through reports that deliver student-specific feedback. InQuizitive also provides reports that show how the overall class is performing on the learning objectives that are tied to the Norton Illumine Ebook.
- For students, InQuizitive, authored by Carey Campbell (Weber State University) and Alyssa Barna (University of Minnesota), challenges students’ knowledge of artists and songs and their understanding of the elements that make up a distinctive style, recording feature, or sound.
NortonAI for the Norton Illumine Ebook
- NortonAI is an optional feature that boosts student engagement and is grounded in the content of What’s That Sound? NortonAI uses a powerful generative AI engine with strategic guardrails to support—but not replace!—the process of learning. Students can rephrase complex ideas or provide helpful examples, and on-demand questions allow students to work through important concepts in a low-stakes practice environment.
It's Your Call
When you assign a Norton Illumine Ebook, you have full control to enable or disable NortonAI at any time for all 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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