Open and navigate the Pearson eText

Updated 03 Jul 2021

The eText can help your students study more flexibly and with greater engagement. See Work with your Pearson eText for instructions about highlights, notes, study activities, and other eText features.

Students can access the eText for the duration of the course. Near the end of the term, students may have the option to renew their eText access. This feature is not available from a course integrated with an LMS.

After signing in to Pearson MyLab and Mastering, students select Renew your Pearson eText access from the course tile. If the course has ended, they should select Inactive to view past courses.

If students don’t see the option to renew eText access, they should check back later. The option should appear by the start of the next term.

The eText is screen reader accessible, although some content may be inaccessible.

  • For more information, open the eText, select More... (top right), About, and then Accessibility.
  • An  Audio Player option is available in some eTexts.

The Pearson eText app is for smartphones and tablets. After students download their book from the app over the Internet, they can study with the eText on their mobile devices—even when WiFi is unavailable. Instructors can also use the eText app.

  1. Select Pearson eText in the course menu.

    If you don’t see this option, an eText may not be enabled for your course.

  2. Choose the link or button on the content page, whether View, Access the eText, or other.

    The eText opens in its own browser window or tab. For navigation tips, see the next section.

If you encounter any issues opening the eText, contact Pearson Support.

When you first sign in, the eText opens with its Contents. When you sign in again later, the eText opens to your last view, like for a book page.

  1. Select Menu (top left) then Contents, if the Contents are not already active.
  2. To show the Contents at maximum width, select Expand.
  3. Select a chapter or section name to open it. To view sections within a chapter, select Expand.

    The Contents pane closes so you can see the book content at full width.

Instructor course owners can customize the Contents for their courses.

Quick View lets you scan surrounding pages in a chapter, while keeping track of your current location. It can help you quickly refer back to some material or to scan ahead, like flipping through print book pages.

The Quick View feature is available for select titles only. When available, the Quick View control appears in the lower left of a book page.

  1. Select Open Quick View from a book location to open Quick View on the left.

    Each chapter section appears as a single object in Quick View. The blue highlight indicates your current location in the book.

  2. Select another section to open it for scrolling. To investigate something, like to play audio or video, select the content.
  3. Select Expand or collapse to widen or narrow Quick View.
  4. Select Close drawer to close Quick View and return to your original content.
  1. Select Menu  then History.
  2. Select a location under “Recently visited” or select a bookmark. If you’ve added bookmarks, these are listed below any “Recently visited” locations.
    • Recently visited — Shows up to 3 eText locations you visited within the same session.
    • Bookmarks — Appear in chapter order with the Remove bookmark option.
  • Search by page number — Enter the page number in the Search content Search box, such as page 32. You may need to choose from several result matches, like Page 32 and Page 320.
  • Enter page number (PDF eTexts only) — If the current page number appears at the top of the page, you can also enter a different page number to switch to that print page.
  • In some eTexts, select the previous or next arrow at the top of the page. (Applies to PDF eTexts.)
  • In other eTexts, the print book page number appears in the left margin as you scroll. (Selecting the previous or next arrows along the sides takes you to the previous or next chapter section.)

Select a figure/table, audio/video, glossary term, or other link to open or play it directly from your current context.

You and your students can search the eText, adjust its display, and open the Contents, History, Notebook, and Study Guide.

  1. Select Search content and enter your search term or phrase. Search results will include content and glossary terms. In some eTexts, results may also include images, videos, math and chemical equations, highlighted text, notes, and note tags.

    Phrase searches — When searching on multiple words like atomic number, exact match results appear first followed by any matches to the individual terms, like atomic and number.

    Filter your search by content type — After you enter a search term in some eTexts, you can filter the results to show matches of a particular content type only. You can filter by chapters, figures, glossary, content, notes and note tags, or videos.

  2. Select a search result to jump to that content in the eText, whether a glossary definition, content snippet, or other. In some eTexts, you can play a video from the results area. You can also clear your search history (not available in PDF eTexts).

Select Display settings from the top toolbar to adjust font size, color contrast, or show/hide highlights. The color contrast option is not available for PDF eTexts.

Open features from the menu — Select Menu then either Contents, History, Notebook, or Study to open the feature in a drawer on the left. To expand your view of any of these options, select Expand.

Close the feature drawer — Select Close drawer from the book page toolbar to return to the current book page.

Select More... then Contact Support.

When this option is available, students can select More... (top right) then Get loose leaf. Students may also be able to buy a loose-leaf printed text from the page that appears when they select eText from the course menu. Not all books provide the loose leaf option.