BioPortal Features:
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.
Bio Assessment Tool
Assessment
The BioPortal platform offers powerful assessment tools in an integrated environment that includes a wealth of student and instructor media resources and the complete eBook. Pre-built Personalized Study Plans give students guidance on which areas of each chapter they should focus on in their studies, and give instructors an instant report on overall class comprehension of the major areas of each chapter. In addition, multiple banks of test questions can be used to quickly create and assign custom assessments. Assessment features of BioPortal include:
- Integrated Personalized Study Plans offer study guidance to students and instant class comprehension feedback to instructors, along with targeted resources for those areas that need the most attention.
- eBook Media Integration allows instructors to easily insert supplemental photos and videos from the Instructor’s Media Library or your own content into the eBook notes truly customizing the student experience.
- 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.