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Reorder the list of assignments on your Assignments page.

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View Assignments

Find out when your next assignments are due on the Assignments page.

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Edit Assignments

Once you have created an assignment, you can go back and edit it. Try to edit your assignments before they become available to your students. If some students have already begun the assignment, the changes you make might not apply to those students, and you may be limited in the changes you can make.

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Organize Assignments

Reorder the list of assignments on your Assignments page.

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Archive Assignments

Archive assignments to hide them from your Assignments and Grades pages without deleting them. Use this feature to save assignments that haven't been assigned or that do not count toward students' final grades.

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View Assignments

Find out when your next assignments are due on the Assignments page.

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Retrieve Archived Assignments

Retrieve assignments you have previously archived to add them to your Assignments and Grades pages.

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Archive Assignments

Archive assignments to hide them from your Assignments and Grades pages without deleting them. Use this feature to save assignments that haven't been assigned or that do not count toward students' final grades.

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Retrieve Archived Assignments

Retrieve assignments you have previously archived to add them to your Assignments and Grades pages.

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Complete Homework Assignments

Complete your homework assignments in CNOWv2.

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Excuse Assignments for Individual Students

Excuse an assignment for a student to remove it from their gradebook. Excused assignments will not impact the student's grade.

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Complete External Homework Assignments

External assignments are linked from your Assignments page and completed outside of CNOWv2.

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Complete Homework Assignments

Complete your homework assignments in OWLv2.

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Excuse Assignments for Individual Students

Excuse an assignment for a student to remove it from their gradebook. Excused assignments will not impact the student's grade.

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Complete External Homework Assignments

External assignments are linked from your Assignments page and completed outside of OWLv2.

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Complete Mastery Assignments

Complete Mastery assignments to understand new concepts. Mastery assignments are made up of groups of questions. To earn points for a group, correctly answer the required number of questions within the group.

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Complete Quick Prep Assignments

Quick Prep assignments prepare you for new material. They consist of an introduction to the material, a quiz, and a set of activities based on your quiz results.

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Schedule Assignments

If you did not set a due date when you created an assignment, you can set one later. Try to edit your assignments before they become available to your students.

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Edit Assignments

After creating an assignment, you can edit the assignment information, content, and options.

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Schedule Assignments

If you did not set a due date when you created an assignment, you can set one later. Try to edit your assignments before they become available to your students.

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Create Assignments

You can create and manage assignments in CNOWv2. There are several types of assignments available.

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Create Assignments

You can create and manage assignments in OWLv2. There are several types of assignments available.

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Complete Assignments

Find and complete your assignments in CNOWv2.

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Complete Assignments

Find and complete your assignments in OWLv2.

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Grade CNOW Assignments

CNOW assignments with open response questions require manual grading.

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Complete Reading Assignments

Read assigned sections of your eBook.

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Comment on Assignments

Leave comments on individual students' assignments to let them know what they are doing well and what they still need to learn.

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Add Assignments to Grading Categories

Add your assignments to grading categories. Scores for the assignments in a grading category are averaged and count as a percentage of students' overall grades.

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Complete Reading Assignments

Read assigned sections of your eBook.

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Comment on Assignments

Leave comments on individual students' assignments to let them know what they are doing well and what they still need to learn.

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Add Assignments to LMS

Create links from your LMS to content in WebAssign.

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Add Assignments to LMS

Create links from your LMS to content in CNOWv2.

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Add Assignments to Grading Categories

Add your assignments to grading categories. Scores for the assignments in a grading category are averaged and count as a percentage of students' overall grades.

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Add Assignments to LMS

Create links from your LMS to content in OWLv2.

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Add Assignments to LMS

Create links from your LMS to content in MindTap for K–12.

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Save Assignment Settings

Save assignment settings as an option set to reuse for future assignments.

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Add Assignments to LMS

Create links from your LMS to content in MindTap for K–12.

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Edit Assignment Options

After you have created an assignment, you can edit the assignment options. Assignment options vary, but often include grading policy and feedback availability. If some of your students have already begun the assignment, the changes you make do not apply to those students. You cannot edit the assignment options for Reading assignments.

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Save Assignment Settings

Save assignment settings as an option set to reuse for future assignments.

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Edit Assignment Content

After you have created an assignment, you can edit the content included in it. You cannot edit the content in Reading, Adaptive Study Plan, or Quick Prep assignments.

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Create an External Assignment

Use External assignments to link to additional, outside assignments from CNOWv2. Creating External assignments allows you to include outside assignments in your gradebook.

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Create CNOW Homework Assignments in MindTap

Create CNOW homework assignments to assign to your students in MindTap.

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Create a Homework Assignment

Use Homework assignments to help your students review information and understand new concepts. You can add a variety of pre-made questions, as well as questions you've created. You can include up to 150 questions in a single assignment.

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Create a Mastery Assignment

Use Mastery assignments to help your students understand new concepts. Mastery assignments consist of groups of questions related to a concept or skill, and are designed to encourage conceptual understanding. You can include up to 70 groups of questions in a single Mastery assignment, and the numbers and chemical systems in each question are randomized.

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Create a Reading Assignment

Use Reading assignments to assign entire chapters or specific sections of your eBook to your students. Reading assignments are available with assignable eBook resources, and they are not graded.

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Create a Reading Assignment

Use Reading assignments to assign specific sections of the eBook to your students. Reading assignments are available with assignable eBook resources, and they are not graded.

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Create an External Web Link Assignment

Use External Web Link assignments to link to additional assignments outside of OWLv2. Creating External Web Link assignments allows you to include external assignments in your gradebook.

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Duplicate CNOW Assignments in MindTap

After creating a CNOW assignment in MindTap, you can copy the assignment to reassign or make adjustments.

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Edit Adaptive Study Plan and Quick Prep Assignment Options

You can edit the default assignment options for Adaptive Study Plans and Quick Prep assignments. If some of your students have already begun the assignment, the changes you make do not apply to those students.

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Create an Activity, Problem, or EOC Assignment

Use Activity, Problem, or EOC (End-Of-Chapter) assignments to reinforce concepts and provide reviews for your students. You can add a variety of pre-made questions, as well as questions you've created. You can include up to 150 questions in a single assignment.

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Create a Quick Prep Assignment

Use Quick Prep assignments to prepare your students for new material. Students take a quiz to assess what they already know and what they don't, then work through a customized study plan based on their results. Some Quick Prep assignments end with another quiz to show what the student learned.

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Add Assignments to LMS

Create links from your LMS to content in Keyboarding in SAM.

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Add Assignments to LMS

Create links from your LMS to content in SAM.

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Add Assignments to LMS

Create links from your LMS to content in MindTap.

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Add Assignments to LMS

Create links from your LMS to content in MindTap.

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Edit Assignment Information

You can edit your assignment name, dates, and other general information after creating it.

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Allow Extra Assignment Takes for Individual Students

Allow individual students extra assignment takes, or remove the limit to allow unlimited takes.

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Allow Extra Assignment Takes for Individual Students

Allow individual students extra assignment takes, or remove the limit to allow unlimited takes.

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View Assignment Takes

View your assignment takes and the details of how your assignment was graded. An assignment take refers to the assignment exactly as you submitted it with your answers entered. Look back at your old assignment takes to understand your grade and identify areas you might need to work on.

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View Assignment Takes

View your assignment takes and the details of how your assignment was graded. An assignment take refers to the assignment exactly as you submitted it with your answers entered. Look back at your old assignment takes to understand your grade and identify areas you might need to work on.

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Edit Assignment Scores

Edit assignment scores from the Assignment Details page.

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Add Additional Assignment Scores to Your Gradebook

You can add columns to your gradebook for assignments completed outside of CNOWv2. This allows you to see your students' course grade accurately reflected in CNOWv2.

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Sync Dates to Blackboard

After adding activity links from Blackboard, your assignments' available dates and due dates sync to Blackboard based on your settings. If automatic syncing fails, you can request a manual date sync to Blackboard.

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Edit Assignment Scores

Edit assignment scores from the Assignment Details page.

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Add Additional Assignment Scores to Your Gradebook

You can add columns to your gradebook for assignments completed outside of OWLv2. This allows you to see your students' course grade accurately reflected in OWLv2.

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Delete Assignment Takes

Delete assignment takes to allow students to use that attempt again.

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Edit Individual Assignment Scores

Edit individual students' assignment scores.

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Video Tutorial: Create Self-Authored Questions

You can author your own questions in CNOWv2 and include them in your assignments.

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Delete Assignment Takes

Delete assignment takes to allow students to use that attempt again.

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Edit Individual Assignment Scores

Edit individual students' assignment scores.

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Answer Questions

There are many different question types in CNOWv2 assignments. This topic explains some of the most common question types.

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Video Tutorial: Create Self-Authored Questions

You can author your own questions in OWLv2 and include them in your assignments.

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Assignment Name Not Accepted

OWLv2 will not accept your assignment or test name.

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Assignment Name Not Accepted

CNOW in MindTap will not accept your assignment or test name.

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Edit CNOW Assignment Options in MindTap

After you have created an assignment, you can edit the assignment options. Assignment options vary, but often include grading policy and feedback availability. If some of your students have already begun the assignment, the changes you make do not apply to those students.

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Answer Questions

There are many different question types in OWLv2 assignments. This topic explains some of the most common question types.

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Edit CNOW in MindTap Assignment Name

Edit CNOW in MindTap homework assignment and test names.

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Edit CNOW Assignment Content in MindTap

After you have created an assignment, you can edit the content included in it.

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Contact Instructor

If your instructor allows it, you can email them from CNOWv2 during your assignment to ask questions.

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Contact Instructor

If your instructor allows it, you can email them from OWLv2 during your assignment to ask questions.

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Add Links in Blackboard to CNOWv2 Activities and Resources

If your LTI Advantage LMS is not otherwise specified, the following steps apply to any LTI Advantage compliant LMS.If your LTI 1.0 LMS is not otherwise specified, the following steps apply to any LTI 1.0 compliant LMS. After setting up your CNOWv2 course, create links from Blackboard to activities or other content in CNOWv2. Linked graded activities are included in the Blackboard gradebook unless you choose to exclude them. Linked graded activities are included in the Blackboard gradebook.

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Link to CNOWv2 Activities and Resources

After setting up your CNOWv2 course, create links from Brightspace to activities or other content in CNOWv2. Linked graded activities are included in the Brightspace gradebook unless you choose to exclude them.Linked graded activities are included in the Brightspace gradebook.

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Add Links in Canvas LTI Advantage to CNOWv2 Activities

After setting up your CNOWv2 course, create links from Canvas to activities or other content in CNOWv2. Linked graded activities are included in the Canvas gradebook unless you choose to exclude them.

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Add a Link to Technical Support

After linking your Blackboard and CNOWv2 courses, add a Cengage technical support link in the same way as adding links to CNOWv2 activities. The technical support link is listed at the bottom of the list of activities.

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Add a Link to Student Dashboard

After linking your Blackboard and CNOWv2 courses, add a link to the student dashboard in the same way you add links to CNOWv2 activities. Students can use this link to access their purchases from the dashboard.

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Grading Categories

Use grading categories to group assignments and weigh them collectively in final grade calculations. The average score of the assignments in a grading category counts as a percentage of students' overall grades.

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Create a Course Using a Template

Cengage template courses contain ready-to-use assignments for the selected textbook. You can modify the course by adding your own assignments later.

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Create a Course

Before you can create assignments or enroll students on CNOWv2, you must create a course.

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Create Grading Categories

Create grading categories to group assignments. The average score of a grading category counts as a percentage of students' overall grades.

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Create a Section

If you have multiple sections of the same course, you can reflect that in CNOWv2. You can assign different instructors to your course sections. Sections can include assignments from the parent course, as well as additional assignments.

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Create a Course Manually

Create a new course in CNOWv2 and manually add assignments later.

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Create a Course Using a Template

Cengage template courses contain ready-to-use assignments for the selected textbook. You can modify the course by adding your own assignments later.

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Grading Categories

Use grading categories to group assignments and weigh them collectively in final grade calculations. The average score of the assignments in a grading category counts as a percentage of students' overall grades.

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Create an Adaptive Study Plan

Adaptive Study Plans are helpful for review and mastery of the concepts and skills in your course. Students take a quiz to find out what they need to practice and review, and then work through a customized study plan.

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Enable Student Self-Registration in Cognero

Enable student self-registration for your Cognero classes to allow students to register for your class and access assignments.

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Take Tests

Take tests administered in CNOWv2.

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Create a Course

Before you can create assignments or enroll students on OWLv2, you must create a course.

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Drop Lowest Scores

You can set your gradebook to automatically drop each student's lowest scoring assignments from their course score.

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Create Grading Categories

Create grading categories to group assignments. The average score of a grading category counts as a percentage of students' overall grades.

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Create a Section

If you have multiple sections of the same course, you can reflect that in OWLv2. You can assign different instructors to your course sections. Sections can include assignments from the parent course, as well as additional assignments.

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Create a Course Manually

Create a new course in OWLv2 and manually add assignments later.

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Extend Test Time Limits for Individual Students

Make accommodations for students that require extra time to complete tests. Copy your original test, edit the time limit, and make the test available only to those students.

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Switch to Student View

View your course as a student to understand how they experience CNOWv2. You can complete assignments and view your gradebook in student view.

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Complete Adaptive Study Plans

Adaptive Study Plans help you review and understand the concepts and skills in your course. They consist of a quiz and a customized set of study materials based on your quiz results.

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Sync Dates to LMS

After adding activity links from LMS, your assignments' available dates and due dates sync to LMS based on your settings. If automatic syncing fails, you can request a manual date sync to LMS.

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Sync Dates to Blackboard

After adding activity links from Blackboard, your assignments' available dates and due dates sync to Blackboard based on your settings. If automatic syncing fails, you can request a manual date sync to Blackboard.

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Sync Dates to Brightspace

After adding activity links from Brightspace, your assignments' available dates and due dates sync to Brightspace based on your settings. If automatic syncing fails, you can request a manual date sync to Brightspace.

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Sync Dates to Moodle

After adding activity links from Moodle, your assignments' available dates and due dates sync to Moodle based on your settings. If automatic syncing fails, you can request a manual date sync to Moodle.

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Sync Dates to Sakai

After adding activity links from Sakai, your assignments' available dates and due dates sync to Sakai based on your settings. If automatic syncing fails, you can request a manual date sync to Sakai.

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Sync Dates to Schoology

After adding activity links from Schoology, your assignments' available dates and due dates sync to Schoology based on your settings. If automatic syncing fails, you can request a manual date sync to Schoology.

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Sync Dates to Google Classroom

After adding activity links from Google Classroom, your assignments' available dates and due dates sync to Google Classroom based on your settings. If automatic syncing fails, you can request a manual date sync to Google Classroom.

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Take Tests

Take tests administered in OWLv2.

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Sync Dates to Canvas

After adding activity links from Canvas, your assignments' available dates and due dates sync to Canvas based on your settings. If automatic syncing fails, you can request a manual date sync to Canvas.

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Sync Dates to LTI Advantage LMS

After adding activity links from LTI Advantage LMS, your assignments' available dates and due dates sync to LTI Advantage LMS based on your settings. If automatic syncing fails, you can request a manual date sync to LTI Advantage LMS.

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View Study Tools Scores

Review your scores for study tool activities like Quick Prep assignments and Adaptive Study Plans.

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Drop Lowest Scores

You can set your gradebook to automatically drop each student's lowest scoring assignments from their course score.

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Create an Adaptive Study Plan

Adaptive Study Plans are helpful for review and mastery of the concepts and skills in your course. Students take a quiz to find out what they need to practice and review, and then work through a customized study plan.

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Extend Available/Due Dates for Individual Students

You can grant extensions by changing or removing the due date or making the available date sooner.

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Copy A Course

Create a new course by copying one of your own courses and all of its assignments. To copy someone else's course, ask them to add you as a co-instructor.

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Export a Course

You can export your CNOWv2 courses and save them to your computer. Exported course files include all of the assignments and settings associated with your courses, so you can later import and reuse them.

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Take Proctored Exams Through Your LMS

If you use an LMS like Blackboard, Canvas, or Moodle, your instructor can administer exams through the LMS with a proctoring service. Proctoring services ensure academic integrity in multiple ways and often block you from opening any new tabs while taking your test.

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Create a Test

Use tests as exam preparation, at-home quizzes/exams, or as course exams given in a proctored testing environment. The default settings are more strict than other types of assignments; there are no available resources or feedback. You can add a variety of pre-made questions, as well as questions you've created. You can include up to 150 questions in a test.

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Switch to Student View

View your course as a student to understand how they experience OWLv2. You can complete assignments and view your gradebook in student view.

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Access Study Tools

Use your study tools to prepare for exams. Study tools include resources available with your textbook, and Quick Prep assignments and Adaptive Study Plans enabled for practice by your instructor.

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Complete Adaptive Study Plans

Adaptive Study Plans help you review and understand the concepts and skills in your course. They consist of a quiz and a customized set of study materials based on your quiz results.

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CNOW Activities

CNOW contains a bank of questions to assess your students' understanding of the content in your eBook. You can search through the questions by chapter, section, and question type and use them to create homework assignments and tests.

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Extend Available/Due Dates for Individual Students

You can grant extensions by changing or removing the due date or making the available date sooner.

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Enable Student Assistant

The Student Assistant is a generative AI assistant that provides students with guidance, but it will not reveal answers. It offers personalized feedback based on the student's input, the topic they are working on and the Cengage textbook used in your course. It will not use material outside of Cengage.

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Copy A Course

Create a new course by copying one of your own courses and all of its assignments. To copy someone else's course, ask them to add you as a co-instructor.

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Export a Course

You can export your OWLv2 courses and save them to your computer. Exported course files include all of the assignments and settings associated with your courses, so you can later import and reuse them.

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Take Proctored Exams Through Your LMS

If you use an LMS like Blackboard, Canvas, or Moodle, your instructor can administer exams through the LMS with a proctoring service. Proctoring services ensure academic integrity in multiple ways and often block you from opening any new tabs while taking your test.

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Create a Test

Use tests as exam preparation, at-home quizzes/exams, or as course exams given in a proctored testing environment. The default settings are more strict than other types of assignments; there are no available resources or feedback. You can add a variety of pre-made questions, as well as questions you've created. You can include up to 150 questions in a test.

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Complete Tax Forms Questions

CNOWv2 uses tax return modules throughout the coursework that helps you prepare for practical tax experience replicative of those seen in real-world personal or career practice.

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View CNOW Answer Keys

View the correct answers for CNOW activities.

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Grades

Keep track of your students' assignment scores and course scores in your CNOWv2 gradebook.

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Answer ChemDoodle Sketcher Questions

Some OWLv2 questions require you use the ChemDoodle Sketcher tool to draw a model of a molecule.

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Edit Multiple Scores

Easily make the same change to multiple students' assignment scores at the same time.

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Edit Grades

Override your students' assignment scores in CNOWv2. You can edit multiple scores at the same time, individual assignment scores, and item scores.

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Edit Item Scores

Edit the scores of individual questions in a student's assignment.

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Grades

Keep track of your students' assignment scores and course scores in your OWLv2 gradebook.

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Revert Edited Scores

If you incorrectly edited an assignment or item score, you have the option to revert back to the original score.

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Time Limit

Set a time limit for your test or assignment. Time limits give students less time to search for answers they do not already know.

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View Student Response Reports

View each student's performance on every question you have assigned in one report. The questions in the report are organized by assignment.

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Edit Grades

Override your students' assignment scores in OWLv2. You can edit multiple scores at the same time, individual assignment scores, and item scores.

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Revert Edited Scores

If you incorrectly edited an assignment or item score, you have the option to revert back to the original score.

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Edit Item Scores

Edit the scores of individual questions or groups in a student's assignment.

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View Student Grade Details

View individual student's scores for every assignment in your course.

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View Tax Form Grade Details

View student answers for tax form and blank sheet of paper items in assignment details.

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Edit Multiple Scores

Easily make the same change to multiple students' assignment scores at the same time.

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View Student Grade Details

View individual student's scores for every assignment in your course.

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View Tax Form Grade Details

View student answers for tax form and blank sheet of paper items in assignment details.

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Time Limit

Set a time limit for your test or assignment. Time limits give students less time to search for answers they do not already know.

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Secure Testing Best Practices

Follow these recommendations to ensure academic integrity in online tests in your CNOWv2 course.

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Create Custom Reports

Create custom reports to organize information about student performance in way that is helpful to you.

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Class Aggregate Reports

Class Aggregate reports give you an overview of your students' performance. There are several different ways to organize your Class Aggregate reports.

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Grade Sync Problems

Student grades in CNOWv2 do not sync to your LMS, or sync very slowly.

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Password Protection

Set a password to be sure your students cannot access tests ahead of time. Students will not be able to begin the test until you share the password.

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Limit Feedback

Do not allow any feedback on students' test performance until after the test is closed. Students that finish their tests early can use this feedback to assist those still taking the test.

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Assign a Test in Cognero

Make Cognero tests available to your students.

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Customize Your Gradebook Display Settings

You can customize your gradebook to display the information that is useful for you. The changes you make to your display settings do not affect your students' view of their grades.

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Give Full Credit

If you assigned a question that was too difficult or contained an error, you can give full credit for that question to all students in your course or section.

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System Requirements

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Delete Grading Categories

Delete grading categories that you are not using.

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Edit Email Addresses

Edit the email addresses associated with your course. These are the addresses that receive student emails sent from CNOWv2.

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Video Tutorial: Create a Course Using a Template

In this video tutorial, you will learn how to create a new CNOWv2 course using a template.

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Give Full Credit

If you assigned a question or group that was too difficult or contained an error, you can give full credit for that question or group to all students in your course or section.

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Shuffle Questions

Shuffle the question order for each student. Shuffled questions make it difficult for students to share answers.

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Create a New Schoology-Integrated CNOWv2 Course

If you have not created the CNOWv2 course you want to integrate with Schoology, create it from Schoology.

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Reorder Grading Categories

Organize your grading categories in the order you want them to display in your gradebook.

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Class Aggregate Reports

Class Aggregate reports give you an overview of your students' performance. There are several different ways to organize your Class Aggregate reports.

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View Grades

Keep track of your performance in your CNOWv2 course.

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Create a New Schoology-Integrated CNOWv2 Course

Open your Schoology course. If you do not have a default grade category in your Schoology course, create one. A default grade category is required to sync grades between Schoology and CNOWv2. Click Grade Setup . In Categories , click Add . Enter information for your category and click Create . To use this category for CNOWv2 assignments, click . On the Materials tab, click Add Materials › Cengage LMS Integration . If prompted, sign in to your Cengage instructor account to link your Schoology...

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Browser Plugins

Some content and tools might require the following browser plugins.

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Browser Plugins

Some content and tools might require the following browser plugins.

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Create a Cognero Class

You must create a Cognero class before you can assign content to your students.

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Export Gradebook

Export your gradebook to edit it outside of CNOWv2 or to upload it to your institution's LMS or registrar.

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Contact Support

Contact customer support with additional questions.

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Grade Tests in Cognero

Some Cognero questions require manual grading, and automatically graded questions can be edited.

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Question Variation

If algorithmic questions are included in your exam, you can set these questions to generate different numerical values for each student. Students will be tested on the same concepts but have different answers, so they cannot share answers.

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Getting Started

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Create a New Google Classroom-Integrated CNOWv2 Course

This task is different depending on the version of Google Classroom your school uses. To see which version your school uses, open the assignment editor and look for the Add-ons panel. If your assignment has Add-ons , your school uses Google Workspace for Education Plus. If your assignment does not have Add-ons , your school uses Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals/Standard. Open the Cengage integration tool. If your school uses Google Workspace for Education Plus: This integration...

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Getting Started

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Edit Course Information

Change your course name and number, and adjust the start and end dates for your course.

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Getting Started

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Getting Started

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Create a New Google Classroom-Integrated CNOWv2 Course

Before you begin, your Google Classroom administrator must have set up the Cengage tool in your Google Classroom, and you must have received an email from Cengage containing a Cengage Course URL. This task is different depending on the version of Google Classroom your school uses. To see which version your school uses, open the assignment editor and look for the Add-ons panel. If your assignment has Add-ons , your school uses Google Workspace for Education Plus. If your assignment does not have...

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