Explore additional resources

Include teaching resources appropriate for your course's textbook, such as presentations, images, and animations, instructor manuals or guides, and editable and printable quiz or test bank questions. Click Instructor Resources from the course menu (left navigation list) to open a new window.

Some Instructor Resources offerings are available through a hierarchy on the left in the new window. For chapter-specific resources, you may need to select a chapter from a drop-down list at the top of the page.

Instructor Resource Center (IRC)

If you don't see the Instructor Resources option, or if you would like to check for more resources, you might want to visit the Instructor Resource Center (IRC), which is outside of Mastering. For authorized users, the IRC provides access to resources for all disciplines, and is not limited to the textbook for your course.

Note: Section instructors who do not have a Pearson Educator account don't have automatic access to the IRC, but they can request IRC access. Your institution is contacted to approve this request. This option might be appropriate for an adjunct for whom your institution prefers not to grant a full Pearson Educator account.

Study resource that lets you and your students work with an online version of the course's textbook. In particular, the eText provides a flexible reading and studying option for students.

Availability

• Students can access the eText if their access code permits; if not, they can purchase eText access.
• Whether your text is available in eText or eText 2.0 format depends on the book. Your book is in eText format unless you see eText 2.0 when you open it from the course.
• If you don't see eText in the course menu, this feature isn't available for the course's textbook.

Features

• You can personalize your eText or eText 2.0 by adding bookmarks, highlights, and notes. You can also search, play media, and more. If you see the Print option (not available for all books), you can print select pages.

  For more about using an eText, choose Help from the eText window.

• Additionally, for eText 2.0 the text is screen-reader accessible, is adjustable for easier reading, and can be downloaded to read offline on a tablet or smartphone (requires the eText 2.0 mobile app). You (instructor) can copy your notes from one eText 2.0 book into the same eText 2.0 book for a different Mastering course you have created.
• About eText apps for tablets and smartphones
• Latest information about eText 2.0, available with some recently published textbooks

About eText access and Learning Catalytics

If you use Learning Catalytics with your Mastering course, each student's eText access also provides access to Learning Catalytics sessions and question review, without an additional purchase. A student who hasn't purchased your course's eText can still purchase Learning Catalytics access at a nominal cost.

Self-study resource that offers students self-paced learning through features such as key concepts, animations, videos, and glossaries. Students can repeat these activities as often as they like.

• If you don't see a Study Area tab or button, these self-study resources are not available for the course's textbook.
• Work that students do in the Study Area is not reported to the Mastering Gradebook, but some Study Area activities can also be assigned for credit. To assign these activities so grades get posted to the Mastering Gradebook, filter by selecting the Activity check box when you add items to an assignment.

• For some MasteringAstronomy textbooks, self-guided tutorials are available for independent study. You can also assign these tutorials so that grades get posted to the Gradebook.
• For some MasteringBiology textbooks, you can track student work on Study Area activities. To do so, open the Study Area and click Class Manager. Follow the on-screen instructions to create an online class, which engages the Grade Tracker. Provide the resulting Class ID to your students so they can join your online class from the Study Area. Students see their scores by clicking Results Reporter from the Study Area.