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What’s New

With the pace of change, you don’t stand still and neither do we! To ensure you and your students are getting the most out of your WebAssign experience, upgrade your teaching by using new platform features, deploying new content available in your current course, and the newest edition of your title.

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PLATFORM UPGRADES

Time Accommodations | Summer 2025

Support students who require extended time with a new way to grant more time to one or more students – that will apply to all timed assignments.

attendance

Redesigned Extensions | Summer 2025

Easily manage student requests with a redesigned extensions page, allowing you to quickly adjust assignment dates, provide extra attempts and give bulk extensions to multiple students or assignments.

instructor experience

Respondus Monitor | Fall 2025

Alleviate cheating concerns with Respondus Monitor, coming soon to WebAssign. This optional, proctoring solution lets you record students via webcam during exams and provides video analytics. Learn More

instructor experience

New Instructor Experience | Available Now

Save time finding pages and features or creating assignments with a newly redesigned navigation and Assignment Editor. Learn More


DIGITAL CONTENT UPDATES

You no longer need to wait for a new edition of your title to access fresh or updated assignment content, questions and resources for your course. New digital content is released each semester to support the unique learning needs of each course. Explore some of the latest releases below and note that these impact the latest title editions only.

Physics & Astronomy

Digital Workbook Problems
Digital Workbook problems combine narrative and assessment elements as part of a singular learning activity in WebAssign with a variety of media types with assessments and introductions.

*Available for An Introduction to Physical Science, 15e (Shipman/Wilson/ Higgins/Torres) , College Physics, (Serway) and can be added to any course.

New & Updated Virtual Astronomy Labs
A set of interactive experiences that combine analysis of real astronomical data with robust simulations to provide a true online laboratory experience for your introductory astronomy course.

*Available to add to any Astronomy course.


Developmental Math

Learn It Modules
A resource within questions, Learn Its offer targeted instruction and practice with narrative, videos and tutorials—all in one place. Learn More.

*Available or coming soon to most Cengage Developmental Math & Math Corequisite titles

Scaffolded Course Packs
These Course Packs are a set of pre-built assignments that are built to make scaffolding easier. The assignments enable students to build skills in a structured way through a steady lessening of support and a subtle increase in complexity.  Learn More
Textbook Course Packs
We’ve added Course Packs to more titles, which offer a set of pre-built assignments mapped to learning objectives for all of your course needs. Learn More.

Newly available for  Elementary and Intermediate Algebra (Tussy/Gustafson) | Elementary and Intermediate Algebra: Algebra within Reach (Larson) | Intermediate Algebra: Algebra within Reach (Larson) | Elementary Algebra: Algebra within Reach (Larson)  | Intermediate Algebra: Connecting Concepts Through Applications (Clark/Anfinson) | Intermediate Algebra, 5th Edition (Tussy) | Elementary Algebra, 5th Edition (Tussy)


Statistics

New Course Pack & Questions
Set up your Biostatistics course more easily with a set of pre-built assignments, also known as Course Packs.

SALTSALT Upgrades: Determine How SALT Appears in Assignments
New for fall, you can decide how you want SALT to appear in your assignments, including the ability to turn the tool off. Learn More

*Available for most Cengage Intro Statistics titles

 

New Course Pack
Create your course more easily with a set of pre-built assignments, also known as Course Packs.

*Available for Wackerly, Mathematical Statistics with Applications, 7e

Common Error Assistance
This feature will automatically assess student responses for common format and syntax errors and provide helpful assistance within the question. Learn More

*Available for Utts, Mind on Statistics, 6e , Rosner, Biostatistics and Devore, Probability and Statistics, 7e.


Engineering

Chapter Quiz Questions
Chapter Quiz questions in each chapter encourage students to test and apply what they have learned in each chapter. Learn More

Available for the following titles: Das, Principles of Geotechnical Engineering 10e | Reisel, Principles of Engineering Thermodynamics 2e

Watch It Videos
New Watch It videos are added to questions to provide step-by-step instruction using short, engaging videos that are ideal for visual learners.

Added to the following titles: Glover, Power System Analysis and Design, 7e| Logan, A First Course in the Finite Element Method Enhanced Edition, 6e, | Striebig, Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Design, 2e


Applied Calculus

Common Error Assistance
This feature will automatically assess student responses for common format and syntax errors and provide helpful assistance within the question. Learn More

Available for Tan’s Applied Mathematics for the Managerial, Life, and Social Sciences 7e |
Harshbarger’s Mathematical Applications for the Management, Life, and Social Sciences, 12e

Liberal Arts Math

Learn It Modules
A resource within questions, Learn Its offer targeted instruction and practice with narrative, videos and tutorials—all in one place. Learn More.

*Available or coming soon to most Cengage Liberal Arts Mathematics titles

Scaffolded Course Packs
These Course Packs are a set of pre-built assignments that are built to make scaffolding easier. The assignments enable students to build skills in a structured way through a steady lessening of support and a subtle increase in complexity.  Learn More

*Available or coming soon to most Cengage Liberal Arts Mathematics titles

 

New Textbooks

Astronomy

OpenStax Astronomy, 2nd Edition
Andrew Fraknoi, David Morrison, Sidney C Wolff

Available Now

Chemistry

OpenStax Organic Chemistry
John McMurry

Available Now

Chemical Principles in the Laboratory, 13th edition
Emil J. Slowinski, Wayne C. Wolsey, and Robert C. Rossi

Available Now

Mathematics

Applied Calculus and Finite Math

applied calculus Stefan Waner & Steven Costenoble
Applied Calculus, 8th Edition
Stefan Waner & Steven Costenoble

Available Now

finite mathematics Stefan Waner & Steven Costenoble
Finite Mathematics, 8th Edition
Stefan Waner & Steven Costenoble

Available Now

finite mathematics and applied calculus Stefan Waner & Steven Costenoble
Finite Mathematics & Applied Calculus, 8th Edition
Stefan Waner & Steven Costenoble

Available Now

Calculus

Calculus: Early Transcendental Functions, 8th edition
Ron Larson and Bruce Edwards

Available Now

College Algebra, Trigonometry & Precalculus

Stewart/Redlin/Watson, Algebra and Trigonometry
Algebra and Trigonometry, 5th Edition
James Stewart, Lothar Redlin, and Saleem Watson

Available Now

openstax algebra and trigonometry
OpenStax Algebra & Trigonometry, 2nd Edition
Jay Abramson, Valeree Falduto, Rachael Gross, David Lippman, Melonie Rasmussen, Rick Norwood, Nicholas Belloit, Harold Whipple, Jean-Marie Magnier, and Christina Fernandez

Available Now

College Algebra, 8th Edition
James Stewart, Lothar Redlin, and Saleem Watson

Available Now

open stax college algebra
OpenStax College Algebra, 2nd Edition
Jay Abramson, Valeree Falduto, Rachael Gross, David Lippman, Melonie Rasmussen, Rick Norwood, Nicholas Belloit, Harold Whipple, Jean-Marie Magnier, and Christina Fernandez

Available Now

Stewart/Redlin/Watson, Precalculus: Mathematics for Calculus,
Precalculus: Mathematics for Calculus, 8th edition
James Stewart, Lothar Redlin, and Saleem Watson

Available Now

OpenStax Precalcilus
WebAssign for OpenStax Precalculus, 2nd Edition
Jay Abramson, Valeree Falduto, Rachael Gross, David Lippman, Melonie Rasmussen, Rick Norwood, Nicholas Belloit, Harold Whipple, Jean-Marie Magnier, and Christina Fernandez

Available Now

Developmental Math

Mathematics: Journey from Basic Mathematics through Intermediate Algebra
Mathematics: Journey from Basic Mathematics through Intermediate Algebra, 2nd Edition
Richard N. Aufmann & Joanne Lockwood

Available Now

Elementary and Intermediate Algebra, 6th Edition
Elementary and Intermediate Algebra, 6th Edition
Alan S. Tussy & R. David Gustafson

Available Now

Math Foundations: Prealgebra through Intermediate Algebra, 1st edition
Alan S. Tussy, Diane Koenig, and R. David Gustafson

Available for Fall 2025

Quantitative Reasoning

Discovering Mathematics: A Quantitative Reasoning Approach
Discovering Mathematics: A Quantitative Reasoning Approach, 2nd Edition
Richard N. Aufmann

Available Now

Physics

OpenStax College Physics, 2nd edition
Paul Urone, Roger Hinrichs, Kim Dirks, Manjula Sharma, Kenneth Podolak, and Henry Smith

Available Now

Statistics

statistics: learning from data roxy peck
Statistics: Learning from Data, 3rd Edition
Roxy Peck

Available Now

Understanding Basic Statistics
Charles Henry Brase/Corrinne Pellillo Brase

Available Now

Engineering

Principles of Foundation Engineering, 10th Edition
Braja M. Das

Available Now

Engineering Fundamentals, An Introduction to Engineering, 7th Edition
Saeed Moaveni

Available Now

Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Design
Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Design, 2nd Edition
Bradley A. Striebig, Adebayo A. Ogundipe, Maria Papadakis, Lauren Heine

Available Now

Energy, Environment, and Sustainability
Energy, Environment, and Sustainability, 2nd Edition
Saeed Moaveni

Available Now

A First Course in the Finite Element Method
A First Course in the Finite Element Method, Enhanced 6th Edition
Daryl L. Logan

Available Now

Power System Analysis and Design
Power System Analysis and Design, 7th Edition
Duncan J. Glover, Thomas J. Overbye, Mulukutia S. Sarma, Adam B. Birchfield

Available Now

Philosophy

A Concise Introduction to Logic, 14th Edition
Patrick J. Hurley

Available Now

Nursing

Curren's Math for Meds: Dosages and Solutions 11th edition
Math for Meds: Dosages and Solutions, 11th edition
Anna M. Curren and Margaret H. Witt

Available Spring 2024

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