Work with your Pearson eTextbook

If you don’t see the eText Analytics Dashboard option as you follow the instructions below, the dashboard isn’t available for the eTextbook in your course. For example, PDF eTextbooks don’t support this dashboard, nor do Mastering Direct Integration courses.

MyLab —
Open the MyLab course for which you want to see eTextbook student engagement data. Select Gradebook, More Tools, then eText Analytics Dashboard. (Applies to courses created/copied after Dec 20, 2022. Does not apply to courses that don’t provide Manage Course tools in the course menu.)

Mastering —
Select eText Analytics Dashboard from the Performance area of the Course Home page. You can also select eText Analytics Dashboard from the overview page of a Scheduled Reading assignment. This method also lets you select the dashboard for a different course

With the eText Analytics Dashboard open, select  next to Recent student activity, then specify the % rate in the statement “Students with low activity spend 0 minutes or x% less time reading than the class average.”

The default for low activity students is spending 30% less time than the class average.

When you first open the eText Analytics Dashboard it shows engagement data for the entire class. The Readings tab is active.

For more details, point to an area of the dashboard.

• x/y students or low activity students —
  Unless you change the Activity settings, low activity means these students either spent no time or 30% less time reading than the class average.
• Send an email to low activity students —
  Select low activity for a chapter then  to ask students if they need help. If you send the message to multiple students, they receive messages individually and cannot see the names of other recipients.

  

• x% students viewed reading —
  Select viewed reading to see student names, emails, and how much time each student spent.
• x% min avg time spent —
  Select time spent to see how much time students spent and the distribution of each duration for students in your course.
• Show/hide the subsections in an eText chapter/section —
  Select a chapter/section name or  Show items to list its subsections below the chapter’s activity data. To hide the subsections, select the chapter/section name again or select  Hide items.

Open the eText Analytics Dashboard, then select Students below eTextbook (or eText).

Show data for all students or those with low activity

Data for all students automatically shows. To show students with low activity, select Students with low activity then Apply. To change back to show data for all students, select Reset or Reset filters.

Show data for one student

Enter the student’s name in the  Filter Students… box.

If you filter by student name...

• The dashboard reports the total reading time as well as the number of notes and highlights for each student.
• If applicable, the summary data might show the low activity label.
• To check which chapters/sections the student read, select  Show items next to “total reading time”.

1. From a book page, drag to select the content you want to highlight. In select eTextbooks you can also highlight figures, tables, images, and videos.

   You cannot overlap highlights or add more than 100 highlights (or highlights with notes) per page.

2. Select a highlight style (yellow, green or pink) next to Highlight on the menu that opens.

   

   • Share your highlight with the class —
     As instructor course owners add or edit a highlight, select  Share note. The highlight changes to the blue style and displays the same way to everyone in the course. On the book page,  shows in the margin next to the highlight for all class participants. (Shared highlights show in the eTextbook of course copies created by the same Pearson account.) To share notes with your class, see below.
   • Show/hide all highlights —
     Select from the menu then select Show highlights. The default is to show highlights.

     

     If you hide the highlights, any note markers ( or ) remain in the margin.

   • Delete a highlight later —
     Click in the highlighted text so the menu opens, then select either Delete highlight or Delete highlight and note.
   Customize menu (to reduce options shown)

   1. From a book page, select some text then choose  Customize menu.
   2. Select whether to hide or show menu options, such as for Highlight.

      

3. Add a note associated with this highlight (Optional).
   Select  New note, enter your text, then select Save. Format options for note text include bold, italics, numbered or unnumbered lists, and more.

    displays in the margin next to the highlight. The note is added to your .

   • Share a note with the class —
     As you add or edit a note, select Share note then select Save. (The sharing option displays only to the course creator in browser view, not in the Pearson+ app.) On the book page,  shows in the margin next to the blue-highlighted text for all class participants.
   • Edit a note (highlight color, note text, or delete) —
     On a book page, select  or next to the note highlight, then make your edits. Or select from the menu and right-click on a note to choose  Edit note.
   • Review notes associated with a highlight —
     Select from the menu. See the next section for details about using Notebook features to study.

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 eTextbook might provide some or all of the features described below.

Open the Notebook

Select from the menu to open the Notebook.

• Edit a note (highlight color, note text, share/unshare, or delete) —
  From the Notebook, right-click on a note, select  Edit note, make your changes, then select Save. Format options for note text include bold, italics, numbered or unnumbered lists, and more.
• See the book context for a note —
  From the Notebook, either select the highlighted text in a listed note or right-click then select View in content. You might need to scroll to find the highlight in the book section.

Add notes without a book highlight

From the Notebook , select  to add notes not associated with a book highlight. Select a chapter or No chapter, write your note, then select Save.

• Share your note with the class —
  Select Share note. The sharing option displays only to the course owner. Share notes from the eTextbook in a browser—you cannot use the Pearson+ app.
• Other notes —
  Notes without a book highlight and not associated with a chapter show at the bottom of the Notebook in the section Other notes.
• Notes exported from AI Study Tools —
  When AI Study Tools are available in your eTextbook, you can export a formatted chatbot response to a note.

Filter your notes by chapter or color

1. Select from the menu to open the Notebook.
2. Make selections to filter your notes by chapter or highlight color, then select Apply. Color options include yellow, green, pink, blank, or blue - instructor note.
   • Filter for notes without a highlight —
     Select Colors, then Blank.
   • Remove the current filter —
     Select Chapters or Colors, then Reset filter.

Export your notes

1. Select from the 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 to prepare the export PDF.
4. Select Download and identify where to place the exported notes PDF.
   Any colored highlights show in the notes.
   

You can share instructor eTextbook notes among your courses that use the same edition textbook.

Copy the course —
This is the easiest option, usually done before the start of the course term. The copy must be based on the same edition textbook.

Copy the notes —
Copy the notes from an eTextbook into same edition eTextbooks in other courses, which can be done at any time.

Create another course —
If you use the same Pearson account to create another course with the exact same eTextbook, any notes and highlights from the earlier course show in the newly created eText.

Transfer eTextbook notes by copying a course

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

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

How do I know if I have a PDF eTextbook?
The pages in a PDF eTextbook match the print book exactly.

Copy instructor notes from one eTextbook into another

This feature might not display in your eTextbook.

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

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

2. Open either the eTextbook that contains the notes or the one into which you want to copy the notes.
3. Select from the 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 eTextbook 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 display in the list.
   
   • Copy notes from the eTextbook of another course into the current eTextbook — Accept the prefilled TO and select the course name with course ID that you want to copy the notes FROM. Only courses with copyable eTextbook notes are provided in the check box list.
   • Copy your notes from the current eTextbook 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.

Each Channel provides explainer videos and practice problems/questions for a field of study, such as Trigonometry. There may not be a Channel available for the field of study for your eTextbook.

1. Open Channels in a web browser using one of these paths.
   • From an open eTextbook, select  from the menu. It may also be active by default.
   • From the MyLab or Mastering course menu, select the eTextbook option, then select .
   • You can also access Channels from Pearson+.
     eTextbooks associated with a MyLab and Mastering course currently provide Channels at no cost. Student subscriptions for other eTextbooks do not include Channels, which can be purchased separately.
2. Select  and find your channel (area of study) to watch videos and quiz yourself with practice questions.

1. From a book page, drag to select the passage or answer you want on a flashcard.
2. Select  New flashcard.

   

3. Select one of your flashcard decks or enter a name to start a new deck.
   
4. For Front, add a term or question for the front of the card. Back contains your selected text. You can keep it as is or edit it. To switch content between the Front and Back boxes, select .
5. Select Save.

When you create a flashcard from book content,  shows in the margin of the book page. Select  from the book page to open, edit, or delete a flashcard.

1. Select   from the menu.
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. For Front, enter a term or question to answer to display on the front of the flashcard.
     2. For Back, enter a definition or answer to display 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.

All flashcard and study activities use the same content.

1. Select  from the menu to see your flashcard decks or any provided decks.
2. Select a deck from My decks or select Key terms. Some eTextbooks might also provide a Practice questions option.
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 —
     Choose whether you want to review all terms or just your favorites. Flip between terms and definitions. Choose Shuffle and start over as needed. (Available only for "My decks" and "Key terms".)

     Match —
     Match key terms with their 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”.

Students may be able to use an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot for study help from some eTextbooks. Students can practice and learn while working in Pearson content, without needing to check outside resources.

AI Study Tools may be available in select eTextbook titles

Use this study tool from an eTextbook in a web browser. It’s not available on the Pearson+ mobile app.

MyMarketing Lab — Principles of Marketing, 18e

Mastering Biology — Campbell Biology, 12e

Mastering Chemistry — A Molecular Approach, 6e

About this Beta release

• As a Beta release, you may notice updates to these tools during the school term.
• To help us evaluate these tools some random users may not receive access to these tools to act as a control group.
• MathML, used to format math notation online, is not initially supported in the AI chatbot for eTextbook.

Open AI Study Tools from the eTextbook

To start a chat session, select  from any eTextbook page in a browser. Or select some text then select AI Study Tool from the menu that opens. Type your request about book content in the chatbot. When available, you can also choose Summarize, Practice, or Explain and then ask for study help.

Export  a response to save it as a flashcard or Notebook note in your eTextbook, or you can copy the response. To provide feedback about a particular interaction, select  and  in the chatbot.

Select  from a book page to bookmark your current eTextbook location.

1. Select  from the eTextbook menu.
2. Choose Bookmarks for a list of recent bookmarks.
3. Select a bookmark entry to open its page.
   Don't choose from the Bookmarks list. This removes a bookmark when working with your eTextbook in a browser.
   

You can also select from the menu, hover along the bar, and then select the point for any bookmark.

1. Select from the menu.
2. Select Bookmarks.
   • Remove individual bookmarks —
     Select  for each bookmark you want to delete from the Bookmarks list in browser view.
   • Remove all listed bookmarks —
     Select Remove all bookmarks below the list.

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