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Updated 16 Dec 2021

For targeted study, you can add highlights, notes, bookmarks, and flashcards in your Pearson eText in a browser. See also open and navigate the eText (in a browser) and app for Pearson eTexts (Pearson+), which syncs with your eText work in web view.

Add highlights that you can associate with notes. Use the Notebook to add notes independent of a highlight and to filter or export your notes.

Your work syncs between the web and app views of your eText. Any highlights, notes, flashcards, or bookmarks you add when working offline in the app are synced to the browser view of the eText after the app is back online.

Copy and paste functions are disabled in eTexts to protect author intellectual property.

Any notes with a blue highlight are notes your instructor has shared with the class.

1. From a book page, drag to select the passage you want to highlight. In select eTexts you can also highlight a video or an image, which includes figures and tables.

2. Select a highlight color (yellow, green, or pink).

   

   • Add a note —
     Select New note, enter your text, and select Save. The note is associated with the highlight.

   • Edit a note —
     Select an existing highlight, then choose Edit note. You can change the highlight color and/or change your note text.

Note markers appear in the margin of the book page. Use these to open, edit, or delete a note.

Use the Notebook to help you study and prepare for tests. Your Notebook contains notes you add (with or without an associated highlight) as well as any instructor-shared notes.

The Notebook for your eText may provide some or all of the features described below.

Select

• Open to the note highlight in the book —
  From the Notebook, select the highlight text from a listed note to show its book context on the right.

• Widen your view of the Notebook —
  Select

  
  to work in a wider view of the Notebook. Select
  
  to return to the original Notebook width, with more book content shown.

From the Notebook

• Associate your note with a chapter — You can associate the note with a chapter or choose No chapter.

• Add a link in a note to a resource outside of the eText —
  Enter the URL beginning with www. When this feature is available, the URL becomes active and turns blue.

1. Select
   
   from the eText sidebar menu to open the Notebook.
2. Make selections to filter your notes view by chapter or highlight color—yellow, green, pink, blank or blue (for instructor notes).

   To show only notes not associated with a highlight, select Blank.

Use the Study area to quiz yourself. Create your own flashcards and use any provided flashcards. In most eTexts you can study with a matching game, fill-in-the-blank questions, and multiple choice questions.

1. From a book page, drag to select the passage you want on a flashcard.

2. Select New flashcard.

   

3. Create a new deck or associate the new flashcard with a deck.

4. Add a term or question for the front of the card. The back of the card contains your selected text. You can keep it as is or edit it. To switch content between the Front and Back boxes, select

   
   .

When you create a flashcard from book content, a flashcard marker appears in the margin of the book page. Use these markers to open, edit, or delete a flashcard.

1. Select

   
   from the eText sidebar menu to view any provided study content.

2. Select

   
   to create a new deck and add flashcards to it. Or, select a deck to edit its flashcards.

   • Create a deck or edit an existing deck —
     If this is your first deck or you want to create a deck, enter a name for it. To edit an existing deck, select

     
     for it, then edit the deck name, add flashcards to it, or delete the deck.

   • Create/edit flashcard content —
     

     1. Enter a term or question to answer to appear on the front of the flashcard.

     2. Enter a definition or answer to appear on the back of the flashcard. To switch content between the Front and Back boxes, select

        
        .

     3. Select either Save and close or Add another to repeat the process.

1. Select

   
   from the eText sidebar menu to view your flashcard decks or any provided decks.

2. Select a deck from the My decks, Practice questions (available for select eTexts), or Key terms.

3. Practice answering questions or matching terms with their definition.
   

   • Select a study activity

     Practice —
     Based on your previous answers, uses an adaptive learning algorithm to select the 20 cards you should practice next. Content is a mix of multiple-choice questions, flashcards, and type-in answer questions.

     View all —
     Flip through to view all flashcards. Available only for "My decks" and "Key terms".

     Matching —
     Match key terms with the definitions. Available only for "Key terms".

   • Pick items to review —
     Choose whether to review all items or just your favorite items. To make key terms a favorite, select Favorite “term name”.

Add bookmarks so you can easily return to areas in the book, like to study for a test. Whenever you reopen an eText, it shows the last content you had open. This applies even if you switch between using the eText in a web browser or in your app for Pearson eText.

Select 

1. Select 
   
   from the eText sidebar menu.
2. Choose Bookmarks for a list of recent bookmarks.

3. Select a bookmark entry to open its page.
   

Access to all bookmarks —
Select

1. Select 
   
   from the eText sidebar menu.

2. Select Bookmarks.

   • Remove individual bookmarks —
     Select 

     
      for each bookmark you want to delete from the Bookmarks list.

   • Remove all listed bookmarks —
     Select Remove all bookmarks below the list.

Remove a bookmark with its page in view — Select