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Product Information: For Instructors

We recently hosted an online conference, where instructors who currently use Mastering gave presentations on a number of different topics you might find interesting. You can access these presentations here.

Used by over a million science students, the Mastering platform is the most effective and widely used online tutorial, homework, and assessment system for the sciences.

MasteringBiology:

  • Engages and motivates students to learn
  • Provides students personalized coaching and feedback
  • Quickly monitors and displays student results
  • Easily captures data to demonstrate assessment outcomes


  • Visualize Biology: BioFlix® 3-D movie-quality animations help students visualize difficult biology topics and include automatically graded activities (to test student understanding).

    Image capture from Bioflix 3-D animations

  • Accommodate different teaching and learning styles: break free from multiple choice with a wide variety of automatically graded assignment options.

    Image of woman with MasteringBiology assignments in background

  • MasteringBiology provides unparalleled tutoring and coaching: allowing students to learn science by practicing science and offering personalized feedback and help along the way.

    Screen capture from MasteringBiology tutoring and coaching activity

  • Motivates students to come to class prepared: assign reading quizzes before lecture to keep students on track.

    Screen capture of MasteringBiology pre-lecture quiz question

  • Find out how your students are doing before the first exam: the color-coded gradebook instantly identifies students in trouble and challenging topics for your class as a whole.

    Screen capture of color-coded gradebook in MasteringBiology

  • Customize and personalize assessment: to perfectly match your teaching style and course goals.

    Screen capture of Mastering import feature

  • Assessment you can use: easily capture data to demonstrate assessment outcomes.

    Graph depicting student answers

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“These tutorials are valuable formative assessment tools for students at all levels of understanding. They re-expose students to lecture material, provide visual reinforcement for difficult concepts or processes, are dynamic and engaging for students...”

Professor Karen Curto, University of Pittsburgh