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www.masteringaandp.com Mastering is the most effective and widely used online homework, tutorial, and assessment system for the sciences. It delivers self-paced tutorials that focus on your course objectives, provide individualized coaching, and respond to each student's progress. Mastering helps instructors maximize class time with easy-to-assign, customizable, and automatically graded assessments that motivate students to learn outside of class and arrive prepared for lecture or lab. Instructors can now set up their MasteringA&P class in 5 minutes or less! Recent "ease of use" improvements to MasteringA&P include time-saving pre-built "best of" homework assignments, and a drag-and-drop calendar tool for quickly setting assignment due dates. *14 New, assignable Focus Figure Coaching activities expand upon the popular Focus Figures in the text by guiding students through complex processes step by step with hints and specific wrong answer feedback. *250 new, assignable Art-labeling activities require students to interact with key figures from the text by dragging and dropping labels into place.
*16 New Dissection Videos and 29 New Bone Videos can now be assigned as Coaching Activities with hints and specific wrong answer feedback to help students preview or review for lab exercises involving dissection and bone identification. *Dozens of assignable "Reading Questions" have been revised for the Seventh Edition, and all of them are different from the self study questions that are available to students in the related "Study Area." Reading Questions include: Reading quizzes (10 per chapter), Art Questions (10 per chapter), Chapter Test Questions (30 per chapter), and Clinical Questions (in select chapters). *Revised Test Bank questions include 300 new and revised questions to improve assessment of material in the textbook. *NEW! Get Ready for A&P, Third Edition gets students up to speed on basic study skills, math skills, anatomical terminology, basic chemistry, cell biology, and more! Each chapter includes a pre-test, guided explanation, interactive quizzes and exercises, and an end-of-chapter cumulative test.
The content is now available in both the Study Area and as assignable items in the Item Library of MasteringA&P, and features brand new Video Tutors of tough topics, Pre-Test with instant Feedback, chapter guides, Post-tests, and study plans. *Study Area contains case studies, self-study quizzing, practice tests, and activities for students to get extra practice, plus PAL 3.0, A&P Flix with self-study quizzes, Dissection and Bone Videos, Histology Atlas, Get Ready for A&P, Third Edition, glossary, flashcards, and eText. * In addition to the above features, MasteringA&P New Design is now available and offers: *Seamless integration with Blackboard Learn. Using a Blackboard Building Block, this integration delivers streamlined access to your customizable content and highly personalized study paths, responsive learning tools, and real-time evaluation and diagnostics within the context of Blackboard Learn. *Student registration offers temporary access, allowing students to access their Mastering course materials from day one but defer payment for up to 17 days while they are waiting on financial aid.
*Improved registration experience that provides a single point of access for instructors and students who are teaching and learning with multiple Mastering courses. *Simple user interface allows for quick and easy access to Assignments, eText (also available offline with an iPad app), and Results as well as more options for course customization. *Communication Tools, including Email, Chat, Discussion Boards, and ClassLive Whiteboard can be used to foster collaboration, class participation, and group work.