WebAssign: Your Guide to Preparing Students for Final Exams

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Reading Time: 3 minutesHas planning for final exams got you and your students stressed? Let us help! Check out this step-by-step guide to help your students prepare for final exams. Plus: You can even share it with your students. STEP 1: EVALUATE Before your students start prepping for final exams, show them how to evaluate their course performance. […]

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10 Tips for Teaching Online: Practical Advice from Instructors

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Reading Time: 3 minutesNo matter how long you’ve been standing in front of a classroom, teaching online can be a daunting task. Online classes can feel quite different from in-person classes, and you may not be able to do all the same things online that you did face-to-face. But that’s not to say you can’t create the same […]

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The Skills Students Need to Succeed in the College Success Center

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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe opportunities in college are endless: from choosing classes, sleep schedules, having a social life, extracurricular activities, you name it! But if managed incorrectly, a student’s college experience can become stressful. With the new College Success Center, Cengage Unlimited student-subscribers can access dozens of skill-based activities to confidently tackle their semester and avoid an overwhelming […]

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Cengage Unlimited Explorations: Writing Skills

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Reading Time: 2 minutesThis Cengage Unlimited Exploration was created by Sandy Keeter—professor in the Information Technology Department at Seminole State College in Florida.   Writing is an important skill for any college student, no matter their major or career goals. Being able to explain something to a friend, customer, instructor, subordinate or boss both verbally and in written […]

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Cengage Unlimited Explorations: Employee Skills

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis Cengage Unlimited Exploration was created by Sandy Keeter—professor in the Information Technology Department at Seminole State College in Florida.   Career readiness is something we try to infuse into our courses wherever we can so our students can be ready to successfully apply the concepts from class in the real world. Cengage Unlimited includes […]

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Cengage Unlimited Explorations: Proper Nutrition

Cengage Unlimited Explorations: Proper Nutrition

Reading Time: 2 minutesUpdated: 9/11/2023 This Unlimited Exploration was created by professor Tracy Daly from Cal State San Marcos, Azusa Pacific University, Miramar College.   If your students are taking a Nutrition course and looking for resources to explore specific topics further, here are some nutrition resources I’ve picked from the Cengage Unlimited catalog.   Title: Nutrition Concepts […]

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Student Perspective: Using the Career Center

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Reading Time: 2 minutesBy: Andrew Boeres, Wittenberg University student and Cengage intern   The majority (77%) of current and former college students, like myself, are worried about having the skills needed for post-graduation in their careers. To reduce this worry, the Cengage Unlimited Career Center can not only help find careers that students want after graduation, but also […]

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Professors and Partisanship in Intro to American Politics

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Reading Time: 2 minutesAuthor: Emily Farris, Texas Christian University This past spring, I opened my Introduction to American Politics asking my students to come to the first day having read the syllabus and Dr. Seth Masket’s piece in Pacific Standard, “The Crisis in Political Science Education.” Dr. Masket writes: “Professors are increasingly finding that their commitment to non-partisan […]

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