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Click here to preview BioPortal
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New for the Eighth Edition, BIOPORTAL is the digital gateway to all of the teaching and learning resources that are available with Life. BioPortal integrates the Life textbook, 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. All of this means that your students get easy access to learning resources, presented in the proper context and at the proper time, and you get a
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complete learning management system, ready to use, without hours of prep work.
BioNews from Scientific American
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This new
feature provides continuously updated
news stories from all areas of biology.
Available within both BioPortal and the
Life Instructor’s Web site,
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. The new BioNews feed
is a great way for you to bring the dynamic
nature of the biological sciences and
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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:
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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. |
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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. |
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Easy-to-use custom assessments 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. |
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Comprehensive question banks including test bank, study guide, textbook self-quiz, and online quiz questions. |
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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. |
Integration and Customization
Virtually every aspect of BioPortal
is customizable, from the layout of the course
and its elements to the content 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:
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Custom chapter and resource selection |
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Re-ordering
and re-organization of all resources |
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Easy instructor
resource integration |
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Custom
assignments and assessments |
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Editing
of test bank questions |
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Upload
of documents |
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