Packages & Promotions
Chemistry: The Science in Context can be packaged with ChemConnections modules or WebAssign.
ChemConnections
ChemConnections modules are available in both printed and downloadable PDF versions. Both versions can be packaged with Chemistry: The Science in Context at a discount.
WebAssign
W. W. Norton & Company is proud to be joined in partnership with WebAssign. WebAssign unlocks the door to a new way of teaching to a classroom without walls, where time isn’t a boundary and record keeping is no longer a constraint.
Our unparalleled homework delivery service harnesses the power of the Internet and puts it to work for you. Collecting and grading homework become the province of the WebAssign service, which gives you the freedom to get back to teaching. With WebAssign, the possibilities are endless.
- Motivate your students
- Boost learning and competence
- Increase time spent on task
- Encourage independent thinking
Help Desk
One of WebAssign’s most important features is the help desk. When this option is enabled, your students can submit specific questions about an assignment to the help desk for your review.Their queries will include the exact question, a record of the student’s answer, and the correct answer.This allows you or your TA to easily assess the problem and better guide the student toward a correct solution.
WebAssign provides instant e-mail notification, so you can e-mail one student, a group of students, or your entire class quickly and easily with a click of the mouse.This is a great way to keep in touch with your students and get the word out about an assignment, quiz, or test.
One-on-One Customer Support
When you have a problem or question, we know how important it is to get an answer quickly. Our support team monitors incoming calls and e-mails closely to ensure fast, accurate responses to all help requests.
Record Keeping
WebAssign retains the answers and scores for all submissions posted during the term, so you can easily monitor student progress and keep an accurate record of grades and performance.
WebAssign also allows you to upload student scores from other classroom activities and exercises, so all your grades can be kept in the WebAssign grade book.
By capitalizing on the accessibility and security of the grade-book feature, you can say goodbye to posting grades on your door or holding grades until the next week’s class. Students can access their grades anywhere, anytime, in a private and secure platform.
If you prefer, you can download WebAssign scores into an Excel file or other tab-delimited file.You can store just the student scores for each assignment, or you can keep a record of their final answers along with the number of attempts they made in answering the questions.You can also print a summary page showing histograms for multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions as well as all written responses.
Real-Time Functionality
Everything you do in WebAssign is reflected in real time, so you won’t experience delays between making a change and seeing it reflected in your assignment, grade book, or help-desk response.
WebAssign is a "transaction database." That means you don’t have to wait for a server to update files based on some scheduling protocol. All changes are instantly and automatically reflected on the server, and your information remains completely current.
Authentication
We can ask your school’s password server to tell us if student usernames and passwords are correct.That way you do not have to keep track of student passwords and upload them into WebAssign.Your students will only have to manage their passwords at one site.
Class Rolls
We can link to your registration and records systems so that your class rolls are automatically uploaded into WebAssign nightly. Then, when students add and drop classes,WebAssign remains up to date and students will be sure to get the correct assignments from the correct class.
Questions in WebAssign
WebAssign offers versatility when it comes to creating questions. Numbers, words, phrases, and even graphics and sound or video files can be randomized, so that each student receives a different version of the same question.WebAssign also allows you to share successful questions with your colleagues, thereby promoting a collaborative community of users that serves to enhance the teaching and learning process.
- Use questions directly from your textbook
- Write your own questions
- Modify any question in the database
- Add video, graphics, and sound files to your assignments
- Share your questions with colleagues
Question Types
- Numerical
- Multiple Choice
- Multiple Select
- Essay
- Submit File
- Fill in the Blank
- Symbolic
WebAssign can also display mathematical functions and chemical formulas as images and verify the use of significant figures.
WebAssign Pricing
WebAssign is a hosted subscription service that lets you put your assignments online immediately. Please visit WebAssign.net or contact your local Norton representative for pricing.
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