Work with your Pearson eText

1. From a book page, drag to select the passage you want to highlight. In select eTexts you can also highlight a video or an image, which includes figures and tables.
2. Select a highlight color (yellow, green, or pink).

   

   • Add a note and optionally share with the class —
     Select New note, enter your text, and select Save. To share the note with the class, select  then select Save. (The sharing option appears only to the course owner.) Shared instructor notes appear with a blue highlight in the eText to all class participants.

   • Edit a note —
     Select an existing highlight, then choose Edit note. You can change the highlight color and/or change your note text.

Note markers appear in the margin of the book page. Use these to open, edit, or delete a note.

• Show/hide highlights —
  Select from the eText sidebar menu to adjust the Show highlights setting. (The default is to show highlights.). Any note markers remain in the margin.
• Review notes associated with a highlight —
  Select from the eText sidebar menu. See the next section for details about using Notebook features to study.
• Remove a highlight —
  Click anywhere on the highlight then select Delete highlight and note.

Use the Notebook to organize and work with your notes. Your Notebook contains all of your notes, whether associated with a highlight or not.

The Notebook for your eText may provide some or all of the features described below.

Open the Notebook

Select from the eText sidebar menu to open the Notebook.

• Open to the note highlight in the book —
  From the Notebook, select the highlight text from a listed note to show its book context on the right.

• Widen your view of the Notebook —
  Select to work in a wider view of the Notebook. Select to return to the original Notebook width, with more book content shown.

Add notes without a book highlight

From the Notebook , select or to add notes not associated with a book highlight.

• Associate your note with a chapter — You can associate the note with a chapter or choose No chapter.

• Share your note with the class — When available, select . The sharing option appears only to the course owner.

• Add a link in a note to a resource outside of the eText —
  Enter the URL beginning with www. When this feature is available, the URL becomes active and turns blue.

Filter your notes by chapter or color

1. Select from the eText sidebar menu to open the Notebook.
2. Make selections to filter your notes view by chapter or highlight color—yellow, green, pink, blank, or blue (for instructor notes).
   

   To show only notes not associated with a highlight, select Blank.

Export your notes

1. Select from the eText sidebar menu to open the Notebook.
2. Prepare the list of notes you want to export.
   You can filter your notes by chapter or highlight color. See the section above for filter details.
3. Select and identify where you want to send your notes in PDF format.
   Any colored highlights will appear in the notes.

If you’ve spent time adding eText highlights and notes to share with your students, you may want to get your notes into another course that uses the same eText.

Either transfer the eText notes by copying the course (easiest, usually done before the start of the course term) or copy the notes from an eText into other eTexts, which can be done at any time. Either way, the eText book edition must be the same.

If you use the same account to create another course with the exact same eText, any notes and highlights from the earlier course will appear in the newly created eText.

Transfer eText notes by copying a course

Copy a course using the same edition book. The eText notes and highlights will appear in the eText of the new course. Do this before the start of the next school term.

This feature doesn’t apply to PDF eTexts.
PDF eText customers should see instead the next section “Copy instructor notes from one eText into another.”

How do I know if I have a PDF eText?
The pages in a PDF eText match the print book exactly. You can also check in the eText. Select your account initials then Title info. If you have a PDF eText, you'll see "PDF" in the second line.

Copy instructor notes from one eText into another

This feature may not appear in your eText.

1. Open the eText from each course at least once. (This allows the eText copy notes process to locate your courses.)

   Important: You must be the owner of each of the courses you want to copy eText notes to or from. (If you’re coordinating a course group and other instructors have created their own member sections, you’ll be unable to copy eText notes into their courses.)

2. Open either the eText that contains the notes or the one into which you want to copy the notes.
3. Select from the eText sidebar menu, then choose Copy notes.

   Don’t see the “Copy notes” option? This means you don’t have to copy any notes. All of your eText notes for the current book are available to you, no matter which course you launched your eText from.

4. Choose whether to copy the eText notes TO or FROM another course. Only courses that contain copyable notes appear in the list.
   
   • Copy notes from the eText of another course into the current eText — Accept the prefilled TO and select the course name with course ID that you want to copy the notes FROM. Only courses with copyable eText notes are provided in the checkbox list.
   • Copy your notes from the current eText into the eText of another course — Select to reverse the copy direction. Then select the course TO which you want to copy your eText notes.
5. Select Copy notes.
   Any instructor shared notes are viewable by all course participants.

   You can’t undo this action. If you copy notes you don't want, you can delete them individually later.

1. From a book page, drag to select the passage you want on a flashcard.

2. Select New flashcard.

   

3. Create a new deck or associate the new flashcard with a deck.

4. Add a term or question for the front of the card. The back of the card contains your selected text. You can keep it as is or edit it. To switch content between the Front and Back boxes, select .

When you create a flashcard from book content, a flashcard marker appears in the margin of the book page. Use these markers to open, edit, or delete a flashcard.

1. Select from the eText sidebar menu to view any provided study content.

2. Select to create a new deck and add flashcards to it. Or, select a deck to edit its flashcards.

   • Create a deck or edit an existing deck —
     If this is your first deck or you want to create a deck, enter a name for it. To edit an existing deck, select for it, then edit the deck name, add flashcards to it, or delete the deck.

   • Create/edit flashcard content —
     

     1. Enter a term or question to answer to appear on the front of the flashcard.

     2. Enter a definition or answer to appear on the back of the flashcard. To switch content between the Front and Back boxes, select .

     3. Select either Save and close or Add another to repeat the process.

1. Select from the eText sidebar menu to see your flashcard decks or any provided decks.

2. Select a deck from the My decks, Practice questions (available for select eTexts), or Key terms.

3. Practice answering questions or matching terms with their definition.
   

   • Select a study activity

     Practice —
     Based on your previous answers, uses an adaptive learning algorithm to select the 20 cards you should practice next. Content is a mix of multiple-choice questions, flashcards, and type-in answer questions.

     View all —
     Flip through to view all flashcards. Available only for "My decks" and "Key terms".

     Matching —
     Match key terms with the definitions. Available only for "Key terms".

   • Pick items to review —
     Choose whether to review all items or just your favorite items. To make key terms a favorite, select Favorite “term name”.

Select  (top right) to bookmark your current eText location.

1. Select  from the eText sidebar menu.
2. Choose Bookmarks for a list of recent bookmarks.

3. Select a bookmark entry to open its page.
   

Access to all bookmarks —
Select from the eText sidebar menu, hover along the bar, and then select the point for a bookmark label.

1. Select from the eText sidebar menu.

2. Select Bookmarks.

   • Remove individual bookmarks —
     Select  for each bookmark you want to delete from the Bookmarks list.

   • Remove all listed bookmarks —
     Select Remove all bookmarks below the list.

Remove a bookmark with its page in view — Select   (top right).