COURSEWARE

FOR LEARNINGDESIGNED

What’s a webtext?

Customized Text and Multimedia Content

Analytics

Discussion Questions, Test Bank, Activities

Integrated Questions

• American Government • Composition • Critical Thinking • Organizational Behavior • Psychology • Sociology of Development • Student Success • U.S. History • World Literature

SOOMO TITLES

Why use a webtext?

SOOMO HELPS YOU INTERVENE WITH STUDENTS

EARLIER

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LIKELIHOOD OF

PASSING

*N=2,880 students over four terms

Completion of Webtext Chapter 1

Ashley Adamson

Kristin Anderson

Roger Beatrix

David Brentshore

Talia Gonzalez

Romaine Jackson

Organizational Behavior Summer 2015

weekly email

seamless sign-on for students

about 1,000 words per page

embedded videos

rollover vocabulary

highlighting and annotation

Real-World Cases

progress bars

bookmarking

Soomo messaging

customizable chapters

2 - 3 hours of study

ENGAGE THROUGH

QUESTIONS

Soomo webtexts

Hundreds of questions

strengthen comprehension

and provide immediate feedback.

“more than 100 years of research has yielded several hundred experiments showing that practice testing enhances learning and retention”

Dunlosky, et al. Improving Students’ Learning

with Effective Learning Techniques, 2013

analysis assignments

Custom Assessments

Polls and Response Boards

ASSIGNED FOR

CREDIT

Designed to be

Just 20-30% of students do assigned reading.

HobsonGetting Students to Read, 2004

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Webtext CompletionSpring 2014

median✦ 4% study

question completion

✦ 86 questions ✦ 4.8 hours

active time

PSC1113

*N=165 students

Each column represents one student.

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Webtext CompletionSpring 2014

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*N=153 students

Each column represents one student.

✦ 100% study question completion

✦ 479 questions ✦ 13.5 hours

active time

"This semester with Soomo has been one of the most productive and seamless semesters I've ever had. Students clearly learned from the Get the Gist questions (sometimes catching me off guard with the detail with which they learned the material).”

- Wendy Watson, University of North Texas professor

grade integration

instructor view

Soomo providesACTIONABLE

ANALYTICS TO FACILITATE

STUDENT LEARNING

Analytics

analytics dashboard

spot missing work

hover for more information

Ashley Adamson

Kristin Anderson

Roger Beatrix

David Brentshore

Talia Gonzalez

Romaine Jackson

weekly email

Organizational Behavior Summer 2015

Ashley Adamson

Kristin Anderson

Roger Beatrix

David Brentshore

Talia Gonzalez

Romaine Jackson

red flags need attention

Organizational Behavior Summer 2015

work offline with the

Soomo App

QUESTIONS?

• American Government • Composition • Critical Thinking • Organizational Behavior • Psychology • Sociology of Development • Student Success • U.S. History • World Literature

SOOMO TITLES