SmartWork Online Homework
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Developed in collaboration with Sapling Systems, SmartWork is an innovative online homework-management system. Featuring an intuitive and easy-to-use interface, SmartWork offers instructors flexible tools to manage assignments, while making it easy for students to compose mathematical expressions, draw vectors and graphs, and receive helpful and immediate feedback. Features include:
- An intuitive and easy-to-use interface
- Hinting and answer feedback
- Multi-step guided tutorial problems
- A wide range of supported question types
- Click-to-select palette for composing mathematical expressions
- Algorithmically generated variables
- Vector diagramming functionality
- Gradable units of measurement or value
- Adjustable tolerance for numeric answers
- An integrated ebook
- Fully-worked solutions; instructors control when (and if) students may view these
- And a full complement of tools for managing homework assignments and grades.
Two types of questions expand on the exposition of concepts in the text:
Simple feedback problems anticipate common misconceptions and offer prompts at just the right moment to help students reach the correct solution.
Right: Screenshot from a Simple Feedback Problem
Guided tutorial problems address more challenging topics. If a student solves a problem incorrectly, SmartWork guides the student through a series of discrete tutorial steps that lead to a general solution. Each step is a simple question that the student answers, with hints, if necessary. After completing all the tutorial steps, the student returns to the original problem ready to apply this newly obtained knowledge.
Right: Screenshot from a Guided Tutorial Problem
SmartWork problems use algorithmic variables so that two students are unlikely to see exactly the same problem. Instructors can customize ready-made questions and assignments, or use SmartWork to create their own.
SmartWork is available as a standalone purchase or with an integrated ebook version of Ohanian and Markert. Where appropriate, SmartWork prompts students to review relevant sections in the text. Links to the ebook make it easy for students to consult the text while working through problems.
SmartWork may be packaged with Physics for Engineers and Scientists for only $5 per semester (net price to bookstores). Please contact your local Norton representative for details or package information.