Study with your eText

Updated 06 Jul 2021

In addition to providing book content, the eText can help you study. It can provide video, audio, and study activities. You can add highlights, bookmarks, and work with notes in your eText. The eText app syncs with your eText work in web view. How to open and navigate the eText

Add highlights with or without notes while reading your eText. Your instructor may also share notes with the class. The Notebook can help you to study. Use it to add notes independent of a highlight and to tag, filter, or export your notes.

If your book contains blue highlights with notes, these are notes from your instructor that are shared with the class.

  1. From the open book, drag to select the passage you want to highlight. In select eTexts, you can also highlight an image (includes figures and tables) or video.
  2. Select a highlight color (green, yellow, or pink).
  3. [Optional] Enter your note in the box that appears. Or, you may need to select Add/edit note to enter your note associated with the highlight.

When you finish, select an area outside of the note. A note marker appears in the right margin of the book page.

  • Show/hide highlights in your personal view of the eText — Select View settings (top right) and then select Show highlights. Any note markers remain in the margin.
  • Review notes associated with a highlight — Select Menu then Notebook. See the next section for details about working with the Notebook.

Use the Notebook to help you study and prepare for tests. Your Notebook contains notes you add (with or without an associated highlight) as well as any instructor-shared notes.

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

Select Menu then Notebook..

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

To add a link 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.

  1. Select the notes you want to tag from the Notebook, either by selecting the lower left of individual notes or by filtering your notes view (described in the next section).
  2. Select Tag notes and assign a hashtag, such as #review_questions. You can tag notes with multiple hashtags, like to identify if the note is for a video (in select eTexts).
  1. Select Filter from the Notebook.
  2. Make selections to filter your notes view by chapter (all or specific ones) or highlight (green, pink, yellow, or no highlight). To show only your custom notes, select No highlight.

  1. Filter to select the set of notes that you want to export. For filter instructions, see the section above.
  2. Select Export notes and identify where you want to send your notes. Notes exported in PDF format show the colored highlights.

Add bookmarks if you want to look back at a number of areas in the book, like to study for a test.

Note that when you reopen an eText, it shows the last content you had open. This applies even if you switch between using the eText in a web browser or in the Pearson eText app.

Select Add bookmark (top right) to bookmark the current page.

  1. Select Menu then History.

    Your bookmarks are listed in book order below the “Recently visited” section.

  2. To show the bookmarks at maximum width, select Expand.
  3. Select a bookmark to go to its page.
  1. Select Menu then History.

  2. Select Remove bookmark.

Your Study Guide work is not reported to the course gradebook.

  1. Select Menu then Study.

    The Study Guide is unavailable in PDF eTexts or books without a glossary.

  2. Select Key terms or Multimedia, if available. (These options appear in select eTexts only.)
    • Key terms — Practice all glossary terms or choose only your favorites. Quiz yourself by doing flashcards, matching, or practice (multiple choice) questions.
    • Multimedia — Choose figures or play interactive media, organized by chapter. Open the media in the book context or in full screen mode.

Select the More... menu (top right) then Print page to print a page at a time. (Not all books provide the print option.)