WebAssign Instant Access for Larson/Edwards' Calculus, Multi-Term, 11th Edition

Ron Larson, Bruce H. Edwards

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WebAssign for Calculus is a flexible and fully customizable online instructional solution that puts powerful tools in the hands of instructors, enabling you to deploy assignments, instantly assess individual student and class performance and help your students master the course concepts. Enrich the teaching and learning experience with the superior content within the powerful digital platform of WebAssign. Tailor your course with a wide range of assignment settings, the ability to add your own questions and content, analytics at the individual and course level and student/teacher communication tools.

Meet the Authors

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Ron Larson

Dr. Ron Larson is a professor of mathematics at the Pennsylvania State University, where he has taught since 1970. He is considered the pioneer of using multimedia to enhance the learning of mathematics, having authored more than 30 software titles since 1990. Dr. Larson has also authored numerous acclaimed textbooks, including the best-selling calculus series coauthored with Dr. Bruce Edwards and published by Cengage. Dr. Larson received the 2017 William Holmes McGuffey Longevity Award for PRECALCULUS and for CALCULUS. He also received the 2018 Text and Academic Authors Association TEXTY Award for CALCULUS: EARLY TRANSCENDENTAL FUNCTIONS. In addition, Dr. Larson received the 1996 Text and Academic Authors Association TEXTY Award for INTERACTIVE CALCULUS -- a complete text on CD-ROM that was the first mainstream college textbook to be offered on the internet.

Bruce H. Edwards

Dr. Bruce H. Edwards is a professor of mathematics at the University of Florida. Dr. Edwards received his B.S. in mathematics from Stanford University and his Ph.D. in mathematics from Dartmouth College. He taught mathematics at a university near Bogotá, Colombia, as a Peace Corps volunteer. While teaching at the University of Florida, Dr. Edwards has received many teaching awards, including Teacher of the Year in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Liberal Arts and Sciences Student Council Teacher of the Year and the University of Florida Honors Program Teacher of the Year. He was selected by the Office of Alumni Affairs to be the Distinguished Alumni Professor for 1991-1993. Dr. Edwards has taught a variety of mathematics courses at the University of Florida, from first-year calculus to graduate-level classes in algebra and numerical analysis. He has been a frequent speaker at research conferences and meetings of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. He has also coauthored a wide range of award-winning mathematics textbooks with Dr. Ron Larson.

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Diverse Answers: A flexible and powerful answer evaluator that accepts diverse interpretations so your students are not penalized for entering a mathematically equivalent or differently formatted answer.
Analytics: With powerful analytics tools in WebAssign, you can assess course performance, determine concept mastery, and identify at-risk students.
Course Packs: Get started with the assignment portion of your course with pre-built assessments designed by subject matter experts. Use these as they are, customize them to your liking, or design your own by personally selecting the exercises you wish to assign.
By the Book: WebAssign elevates the superior content and pedagogy of the text by offering algorithmically-generated assignments based on end-of-section questions directly from the book.
Timely Help: Promotes independent learning with a wide range of help tools at the question or assignment level—such as Watch It videos, Master It tutorials, and Read It links to the ebook—and feedback when students need it to complete assignments and help them learn the concepts.
Teach Your Way: Facilitates learning through fully customizable settings including automatic point adjustments and browser lockdown, empowering you to build the course to your needs and keep students motivated.
Grading: WebAssign saves you time spent grading, while providing students with an intuitive experience and instant feedback.
Courses & Sections: Creating a course in WebAssign takes only a few minutes. Setup is intuitive, and its flexible platform supports all course designs.
Question Creation: Create your own questions in WebAssign with ease. Use our built-in templates or start from scratch with detailed documentation and step-by-step video tutorials.
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Peer Collaboration: WebAssign gives you the flexibility to share assignments and question sets with your faculty colleagues as well as share course management tasks with teaching assistants.
Communication: Built-in email and announcement capabilities provide flexible and convenient options for instructor/student communication.
LMS Integrations: WebAssign integrates with popular LMS systems for ease of use. WebAssign can eliminate manual entry of routine data by linking your institution’s information systems to our software.
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Accessibility: WebAssign is committed to making its services available to all students based on guidelines from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
Life-of-Edition Access: With WebAssign, if students are using the right code for the book, they will have continued access to the platform after the first semester as long as the course uses the same textbook and edition.

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Explore It: Developed in response to student feedback, Explore It modules begin with a brief video introduction outlining what the student will learn about and how to manipulate the interactive figure to improve conceptual understanding. The accompanying interactive figure offers guided hands-on explorations and practice questions, enabling students to test their knowledge of the dynamic, critical concepts of the course.

Animation: Interactive figures enable students to improve conceptual understanding through hands-on visualization.

Lecture videos: Available for all chapters and sections of the textbook.

Cengage YouBook: This fully interactive and customizable Flash-based e-Book includes lecture videos and enables students to customize their learning experience to their exact needs.

Watch It Links: Provide step-by-step instruction with short, engaging videos that are ideal for visual learners.

Master It Tutorials: Show students how to solve a similar problem in multiple steps by providing direction along with derivation to better understand the concepts and reasoning behind the problem solving.

Practice Another Version: Lets students try another version of the question if they get stuck or need some extra practice.

Read It: Links under each question quickly jump to the corresponding section of a complete eBook that also contains links to videos and tutorials to help students learn the concepts.

Personal Study Plan: Lets your students gauge their mastery of the material through chapter and section assessments and generates individualized study plans that include various online, interactive multimedia resources.

QuickPrep: Reviews 25 key precalculus topics to help improve student readiness for calculus. Assign any of these QuickPrep modules (or any of the questions from the modules) early in the course or whenever the review is most needed in the course.

Just-in-Time: For students needing to remediate their algebra and trigonometry skills in the context of the calculus taught, assign the new Just-In-Time problems. JIT problems are carefully selected prerequisite review questions tied to specific calculus problems and assignable at the section level.

Course Packs: Ready-to-use assignments built by subject matter experts specifically for this textbook can save you time and can be customized easily to meet your teaching goals.

Life-of-Edition Access: This available option gives your students unlimited access to WebAssign courses that use this edition of the textbook at no additional cost.

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