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
Instructor Experience
Teaching will be easier this fall with instructor experience improvements including a more intuitive site navigation and assignment-creation process. Learn More >>
Common Error Assistance
This new feature will automatically assess student responses for common format and syntax errors and provide helpful assistance within the question, without giving the answer away. Coming this fall for select titles. Learn More >>
LMS Integration: Improved Grade Syncing
This fall, you’ll be able to push a button and send a 0 to your LMS gradebook for un-attempted student work in WebAssign. 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.
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)
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 forCollege Physics (Serway/Vuille),Physics for Scientists and Engineers (Serway/Jewett), Openstax Astronomy and Seeds/Backman Astronomy titles
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, Utts, Mind on Statistics, 6e 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)
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)
Liberal Arts Math
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 Mathematics: A Practical Odyssey, 8e (Johnson/Mowry). Also available with corequisite version.
New Textbooks
Mathematics
Calculus
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
Other Math
Contemporary Mathematics for Business & Consumers, 9th Edition
Robert Brechner and George Bergeman
Available Now
Statistics
WebAssign with Corequisite Support for Understandable Statistics, 13th Edition
Charles Henry Brase/Corrinne Pellillo Brase
Available Spring 2022
Understandable Statistics, 13th Edition
Charles Henry Brase/Corrinne Pellillo Brase
Available Spring 2022
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
Philosophy
