The upgraded Life 9e BioPortal takes advantage of a number of technical innovations and the helpful feedback of current users. BioPortal integrates the Life ebook, all of the student and instructor media, extensive assessment resources, and course planning resources all into a powerful and easy-to-use learning management system. BioPortal provides you with an online course environment that is ready-to-use, saving you hours of prep time.
Prep-U: Smarter than the Average Quiz
New for the Ninth Edition, the powerful adaptive quizzing of Prep-U is available from within BioPortal. This new integration allows you to assign Prep-U quizzing from within BioPortal, view reports of your students’ activity, and get results automatically reported into your BioPortal gradebook.
Interactive eBook
The Life, Ninth Edition eBook is a complete online version of the textbook that fully integrates all the student media resources. In addition, the eBook offers instructors unique opportunities to customize the text with their own content.
Interface and Customization
The redesigned BioPortal interface is easier to use and offers more intuitive navigation, course setup, and course management. Virtually every aspect of BioPortal is customizable, from the layout of the course and its elements to the contents of the eBook. Instructors can easily add their own resources to their course, remove those elements they don’t want to use, create custom assignments and assessments, and assign anything included in BioPortal. Features include:
- Custom chapter and resource selection
- Re-ordering and re-organization of all resources
- Easy instructor resource integration
- Custom assignments and assessments
- Editing of test bank questions
- Upload of documents
Additional Assessment Tools within BioPortal
BioPortal offers powerful assessment tools that have been enhanced for the Ninth Edition, giving instructors more in-depth data on student and class performance.
- Enhanced question banks now include questions ranked according to Bloom's taxonomy.
- New question filtering makes it easy to select questions based on Bloom's category and/or textbook section.
- Diagnostic Quizzing offers study guidance to students and instant class comprehension feedback to instructors, along with targeted resources for those areas that need the most attention.
- Easy-to-use custom assessment tools allow you to quickly create quizzes and many other types of assignments using any combination of the questions and resources provided and your own materials. Resources can be easily added and reorganized, and everything is assignable.
- Comprehensive question banks including test bank, study guide, textbook self-quiz, and online quiz questions.
- Student self-assessment resources, such as Interactive Quizzes that include diagrams, instant feedback on all answer choices, and direct links to textbook pages for review.
BioNews from Scientific American
Easily accessible from the BioPortal home page, BioNews is a continuously updated feed of current news, fascinating science commentary, and other biology-related stories and images. Content includes news updates, podcasts, magazine articles, science blog entries, "strange but true" stories, and more. BioNews makes it easy for you to bring the dynamic nature of the biological sciences and up-to-the-minute currency into your course.
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