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.
PLATFORM UPGRADES
Private Messaging
Private messaging for students and instructors has a new look which will make it easier to keep track of communication. See the Student View >>
LMS Integrations
Simplified LMS integration makes course set up and customization easier, with the convenience of automated grade sync. Learn More >>
New Math Mindset Modules
New mindset modules including academic integrity, equity and self-advocacy and diversity and inclusion are available for fall courses. Explore Now >>
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
Optimized Problems
OPs feature written solutions, often with supporting videos, as well as randomized parameters and targeted feedback for students who have incorrectly answered the problem.
*Available for College Physics (Serway/Vuille) & Physics for Scientists and Engineers (Serway/Jewett)
More Interactive Video Vignettes
Online video analysis and interactive individual tutorials address learning difficulties identified by PER (Physics Education Research).
*Available for College Physics (Serway/Vuille) & Physics for Scientists and Engineers (Serway/Jewett)
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
More Responsive Questions
Personalize learning by asking students to use their own real data, which informs the variables used to answer each question.
More Responsive Questions have been added to Mathematics: Journey from Basic Mathematics through Intermediate Algebra (Aufmann) Lockwood | Beginning and Intermediate Algebra: A Guided Approach (Karr/Massey/Gustafson) | Elementary and Intermediate Algebra (Tussy/Gustafson) | Elementary and Intermediate Algebra: Algebra within Reach (Larson)
Statistics
Select Your Scenario Questions
Increase engagement by providing students three choices and they’ll select the scenario that’s most interesting to them.
*Available for most Cengage Statistics titles
SALT Upgrades
A number of questions have been updated to use SALT (Statistical Analysis and Learning Tool), including usability updates and questions with ANOVA and Normal Probability Plots.
*Available for most Cengage Intro Statistics titles
SALT Tutorial Questions
Help your students learn how to use SALT in their WebAssign assignments with scaffolded instruction demonstrating how to use SALT to compute and analyze data.
*Available for most Cengage Statistics titles
Quick Reference Feedback
When students submit an incorrect answer, they’ll be provided quick reference reading material in the form of feedback.
*Available for latest editions of Peck titles and Utts, Seeing Through Statistics, 4e
Liberal Arts Math
Responsive Labs
Responsive Labs are multi-step projects covering related topics within a section using personalized data provided by students.
Available for Nature of Mathematics, 13e (Smith) | Mathematics: Its Power and Utility, 10e (Smith) | Mathematics: A Practical Odyssey, 8e (Johnson/Mowry) | Mathematical Excursions, 4e (Aufmann/Lockwood/Nation/Clegg) | Discovering Mathematics: A Quantitative Reasoning Approach, 1e (Aufmann) | Topics in Contemporary Mathematics, 10e (Bello/Kaul/Britton).
Linear Algebra
Watch Its
Help your students learn how to solve problems with the newly added Watch It solution videos showing proper problem solving steps available in Elementary Linear Algebra, 8e (Larson)
Discrete Math
Proof Questions & Expanded Problems
Boost student understanding of discrete mathematics with new Proof Questions and Expanded Problems to show student reasoning available in Discrete Mathematics with Applications, 5e (Epp)
Differential Equations
New Tutorials & Exercises
Engage students across majors with new Expanded Problems, Master It tutorials, Watch It videos, and Calculus review exercises available for A First Course in Differential Equations with Modeling Applications, 11e (Zill)
Developmental Math
Master Its & Responsive Questions
Personalize students’ learning experiences with Responsive Questions and guide them step-by-step through problems with Master It tutorials, available as a resource and standalone question in Beginning and Intermediate Algebra: A Guided Approach (Karr/Massey/Gustafson)
Applied Calculus
Enhanced Grading
Improve student learning by assigning new questions with improved accessibility, enhanced grading capabilities, Watch Its and more available in Mathematical Applications for the Management, Life, and Social Sciences, 12e (Harshbarger/Reynolds)
Finite Math & Applied Calculus
New Expanded & Appendix Problems
Provide more variety in your assignments with 39 Appendix problems and 98 new Expanded Problems which will guide students in understanding each step required to get to the final solution. Available in Finite Mathematics and Applied Calculus, 7e (Waner/Costenoble)
Engineering
New Watch Its
Watch Its provide step-by-step instruction with short, engaging videos that are ideal for visual learners, now available for Mechanics of Materials, 9e (Goodno/Gere)
Engineering
New Expanded Problems
Expanded Problems are expanded versions of existing questions with intermediary steps to guide the student to the final answer, now available for An Introduction to Mechanical Engineering, 4e (Wickert/Lewis)
New Textbooks
Mathematics
College Algebra, Trigonometry & Precalculus
WebAssign with Corequisite Support for Functions and Change: A Modeling Approach to College Algebra
Bruce Crauder, Benny Evans, and Alan Noell
Available Now
WebAssign with Corequisite Support for Algebra & Trigonometry, 11th Edition
Ron Larson
Available Fall 2021
Other Math
Contemporary Mathematics for Business & Consumers, 9th Edition
Robert Brechner and George Bergeman
Available Now
Statistics
OpenIntro Statistics, 4th Edition
David M. Diez, Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel, and Christopher D. Barr
Available Now
Physics
An Introduction to Physical Science 15th Edition
James T. Shipman, Jerry D. Wilson, Charles A. Higgins, Jr. and Bo Lou
Available Now
Modern Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 5th Edition
Stephen T. Thornton and Andrew Rex
Available Now
Decision Sciences
Business Analytics, 4th Edition
Jeffrey D. Camm, James J. Cochran, Michael J. Fry and Jeffrey W. Ohlmann
Available Now
Engineering
The Science and Engineering of Materials, 7th Edition
Donald R. Askeland and Wendelin J. Wright
Available Now
Principles of Geotechnical Engineering, 10th Edition
Braja M. Das
Available Soon
Principles of Engineering Thermodynamics, 2nd Edition
John R. Reisel
Available Soon
Philosophy
