You will automatically transition to the Modified Mastering platform when you copy your existing Mastering course or create a new course. Find out what to expect — and what's better in Modified Mastering.

Tour the features of Mastering Microbiology

See how Mastering Microbiology helps students master key concepts and improve results.

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Empower learners

Pearson+

Pearson+ is available within your Mastering course. It gives your students instant access to your course eTextbook and study tools, in one intuitive interface. Designed for students, by students, Pearson+ lets them choose how they learn best. They can listen to the audiobook, find what they need with enhanced search, and study their own way with notes and flashcards. The app lets them read where life takes them, no wi-fi needed.

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Help your students succeed in the microbiology lab

Micro Lab Explorations

Micro Lab Explorations provide decision-tree style lab exercises that allow students to learn and get feedback in a low-stakes environment. Students develop critical-thinking skills and confidence, while learning important lab techniques and concepts for wet or virtual lab experiences





Lab Technique Videos

Re-filmed and updated Lab Technique Videos show proper procedures and provide assessment to ensure preparedness for the wet lab experience.








MicroLab Practicals

67 MicroLab Practical activities give students the opportunity to practice analyzing and interpreting lab results.

MicroLab Explorations
MicroLab Explorations
Lab Technique Videos
Lab Technique Videos
MicroLab Practicals
MicroLab Practicals

Engage students with challenging health care scenarios

Interactive Microbiology

Interactive Microbiology is a dynamic suite of interactive tutorials and animations that teach key microbiology concepts, including Operons, Biofilms and Quorum Sensing, Aerobic Respiration in Bacteria, Complement, and more.

Tutorials actively engage students by presenting concepts within real healthcare scenarios that emphasize problem solving. Students learn from manipulating variables, predicting outcomes, and answering formative and summative assessment questions.

Interactive Microbiology tutorials:

  • Antimicrobial Resistance: Mechanisms
  • Antimicrobial Resistance: Selection
  • Aerobic Respiration in Prokaryotes
  • Biofilms and Quorum Sensing  
  • Operons 
  • Complemen 
  • The Human Microbiome
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Engage students in a comprehensive virtual online lab experience

NEW Pearson Interactive Labs

Engage students and teach them to think like scientists with online labs built around the process of science. The labs feature real-world scenarios with guided feedback so students can make and learn from their mistakes. Learn more about Pearson Interactive Labs.

Increase student retention in your course

Early Alerts

Early Alerts use predictive analytics based on a student’s work in Mastering, such as correct answers on the first try. This information helps identify struggling students as early as possible — even if their assignment scores are not a cause for concern. This insight enables instructors to provide support when students need it so they can stay — and succeed — in the course.

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Personalize learning for each student

Dynamic Study Modules

Dynamic Study Modules are assignable modules that adapt to each student’s performance and offer personalized, targeted feedback to help them master key concepts. Available for select titles.

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Identify and remediate student knowledge gaps

GapFinder Diagnostic and Study Modules

GapFinder Diagnostic Modules assess students' prerequisite knowledge such as study skills, foundational science, and math concepts, and then recommend GapFinder Study Modules with personalized remediation specific to the student's individual knowledge gaps. GapFinder Modules are assignable in Mastering as Dynamic Study Modules, but are completed and graded differently, and available to students for self study in Mastering.

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Link from your LMS to Mastering Microbiology

Link from your LMS to Mastering Microbiology

Learning Management System (LMS) Integration

You can link from Blackboard Learn, Brightspace by D2L, Canvas, or Moodle to Mastering Microbiology.* Access assignments, rosters, and resources, and synchronize grades with your LMS gradebook.

For students, single sign-on provides access to all the personalized learning resources that make studying more efficient and effective.

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*Note that LMS integration is available only for Modified Mastering Microbiology.

Additional Features

Imagine the impact of first-day access on your course

Offering course content through the Pearson Inclusive Access model can help students achieve more by providing affordable, high-quality digital course materials on or before the first day of class. Because all students have access by day one, faculty can start teaching and students can start learning. Learn more about Inclusive Access.

Microboosters

MicroBooster video tutorials and assessments cover foundational material that some students may need to review (or learn for the first time), including, Math, Basic Chemistry, Cell Biology, and Basic Biology. Watch this video to learn more. Watch this video to find out more.

Everything you need in an easy-to-use format

Mastering provides a rich and flexible set of pre-built courses and assignments to get you started quickly. These assets can be used as is or customized to fit your specific teaching needs. The Calendar View on the course home page displays upcoming assignments and due dates, so you can easily stay organized. Questions are now easy to edit and delete for assignments and courses.

A powerful gradebook & analytics

The Mastering gradebook records all scores for graded assignments. Struggling students and challenging assignments are highlighted in red, giving you an at-a-glance view of potential hurdles in the course. The robust diagnostics within Mastering provide unique insight - with a single click, you can view charts that summarize the most difficult problems, identify vulnerable students, and indicate grade distribution and score improvement.

Learning Catalytics gives every student a voice

With Learning Catalytics™, you'll hear from every student when it matters most. You pose a variety of questions that help students recall ideas, apply concepts, and develop critical-thinking skills. Your students respond using their own smartphones, tablets, or laptops. Watch a video and learn more.

Wrong-answer feedback personalized for each student

Using data gathered from all of the students using the program, Mastering offers wrong-answer feedback that is specific to each student. Rather than simply providing feedback of the "right/wrong/try again" variety, Mastering guides students towards the correct final answer without giving the answer away.

Hints that offer clear guidance to students

Mastering provides hints of two types that help students work through, and ultimately solve, problems. Declarative hints provide advice on how to approach the problem, guiding students to the final answer. Socratic hints break a problem down into smaller sub-problems, which makes it easier for students to complete the original problem.

Dynamic, best-in-class content

Mastering is continually improving based on data generated through classroom use, resulting in content that is driven by the performance of actual students. We make corrections to improve problems that have ambiguous answer choices, ineffectual detractors, or tricky language, and continue to strengthen each problem through ongoing review of the data generated by Mastering students.

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