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Save time and help every student succeed with faster setup, smarter grading and guided learning in the new MindTap experience.
Cut prep time by 30 minutes with intuitive tools, so you can focus on maximizing your teaching impact.
Keep students engaged and on track with updated features that make it easier to accommodate varied needs.
Use an enhanced gradebook and bulk grading tools to get faster feedback and actionable strategies to support every student's success.
The latest MindTap updates put you in the driver's seat, enabling customization and allowing you to support each student's needs. See what's new and improved for you and your students.
Make edits to assignment settings or details and set student accommodations to one or multiple activities with ease.
Manage activity settings, hide, reorder or remove activities — you can even grade activities directly within the learning path.
Extend due dates, adjust time limits or implement specific accommodations for one or multiple students to ensure each student receives the right support to succeed.
Self-author, edit or remove questions, assemble activities and filter to find exactly what you need — all while building a new assignment or working with a ready-made one.
Ready to guide learning your way? See how MindTap combines proven content, diverse pedagogical approaches and tools tailored to your subject area for more impactful college courses.
*For select courses:
Student Test Prep for ASE Certification: Give students a safe, low-stakes space to practice ASE exam skills. Students can build confidence, track progress and identify where to focus their study time to prepare for certification testing — without added grading work for you.
*For select courses:
Updated Image Labeling Activities: Support student mastery with a new experience for image labeling activities. Students can now practice labeling structures and other images related to body descriptors.
Updated Pronounce Activities: Empower students to speak like professionals by recording and receiving instant feedback on their pronunciation of key medical terms. The enhanced Pronounce activities are now powered by Microsoft Azure.
*For Peffer's "Biology for Life":
Digging Into Data: Help students build data literacy and analysis skills by engaging with graphs, charts, images and other real scientific evidence. These activities enable students to explore how biologists use data and get instant feedback with auto‑graded questions.
Video Quizzes: Connect biology concepts to real research with National Geographic Learning videos and accompanying auto-graded questions that reinforce each chapter’s real‑life applications.
*For all courses:
Applied AI Skills Assessment: Help students strengthen their communication, analytical thinking and problem-solving skills by shifting the focus to how they think. These assignments prompt learners to explain their code reasoning and use AI responsibly — from brainstorming ideas to analyzing AI‑generated code and refining prompts. Powered by Bongo, recorded submissions scale easily through AI Smart Scoring or instructor‑graded rubrics.
*For select courses:
Updated Certification Exam Preparation Experience: Streamline exam prep with an improved user experience for creating, editing and assigning practice certification exams within the Learning Path. Pre-made mock exams are available and integrated with enhanced gradebook reporting.
Student Test Prep for Certification Exams: Empower students to create their own practice certification exams and monitor their progress in a private, low-stakes setting, helping them take ownership of their preparation and build confidence before high-stakes tests.
New Instrumentation Quizzes: Support student mastery with auto-graded quizzes that include multiple choice (single and multiple response), matching and order list questions. These quizzes help students identify the instruments required for 14 dental procedures and the sequence for use.
Dental Charting Simulation: Enable students to practice dental charting for adult, pediatric and periodontal patients with 15 interactive simulation activities.
*For select courses:
Educator Studio, Powered by Bongo: Support future educators as they practice instructional decision-making skills in realistic classroom scenarios. Recorded responses and instant AI feedback, powered by Bongo, help them refine their judgment and build classroom readiness before they enter student-teaching placements.
*For select courses:
Think Like a Scientist Activities: Enable students to practice scientific reasoning with real evidence, helping them learn to interpret data, evaluate patterns and draw clear, evidence-based conclusions — the same skills professional Earth scientists use.
Data In-Depth & Data Interpretation Labs: Give students hands-on experience working with real scientific datasets, enabling them to build quantitative reasoning skills and confidence communicating and interpreting graphs, patterns and trends — key competencies across Earth sciences.
Concept Animations & Real-World Video Quizzes: Help students visualize complex systems like plate tectonics and atmospheric circulation through short, engaging media. Application-based questions ensure they connect concepts to real-world phenomena.
*For select courses:
Educator Studio, Powered by Bongo: Support future educators as they practice instructional decision-making skills in realistic classroom scenarios. Recorded responses and instant AI feedback, powered by Bongo, help them refine their judgment and build classroom readiness before they enter student-teaching placements.
*For select courses:
Are You Ready (AYR) Assessment: Give each student a personalized starting point by quickly identifying strengths and gaps across grammar, core skills and study strategies. Targeted review activities help you differentiate instruction without extra manual work.
How to Research Videos and Tutorials: Guide students through each stage of the research process with 50 scaffolded video activities and auto-graded comprehension checks, helping them build independence and confidence as researchers.
*For select courses:
Updated Certification Exam Preparation Experience: Streamline exam prep with pre-built mock exams and clearer reporting, helping you quickly assign practice opportunities while giving students targeted feedback to prepare for certification.
Student Test Prep for Certification Exams: Empower students to create their own practice certification exams and monitor their progress in a private, low-stakes setting, helping them take ownership of their preparation and build confidence before high-stakes tests.
*For all courses:
Scenario Activities, Powered by Bongo: Help students develop essential communication skills while applying their technical knowledge with scenario-based assignments, powered by Bongo. In recorded submissions, learners practice explaining the rationale for their technical decisions — from justifying configuration choices to diagnosing network issues — and learn to communicate complex IT concepts effectively to technical and non‑technical audiences. Students gain actionable feedback from AI Smart Scoring or instructor-graded rubrics.
*For select courses:
AI in Action Modules, Powered by Bongo: Help students build clear and effective communication skills for the workplace with real-world scenario practice. Students record their responses and receive instant, AI-powered feedback.
*For select courses:
In My Life Labs: Connect Intro Psych concepts to everyday life with highly engaging, media‑rich activities. In these activities, students step into the role of researcher or research participant, learn key psychological concepts through mock experiments and compare their results to existing studies.
*For select courses:
Action Assignments, Powered by Bongo: Give students a platform to apply sociological concepts and theories through short, focused video reflections, powered by Bongo. These assignments help them demonstrate understanding in their own words and connect theory to lived experience.
Introduction to Sociology YouTube Channel: Offer students curated, up-to-date videos aligned to each chapter so they can see how sociological concepts play out in everyday life, extending learning beyond the classroom.
*For all courses:
Applied AI Skills Assessment: Help MIS students learn to translate business needs into technology solutions that improve performance and drive value. In these scenario-based assignments, students practice interpreting business data and record themselves delivering concise, professional briefings tailored to various business stakeholders. Powered by Bongo, these activities support communication, analytical thinking and decision‑making skill development and offer feedback from AI Smart Scoring or instructor‑graded rubrics.
*For select courses:
AI in Action Modules, Powered by Bongo: Help students build clear and effective communication skills for the workplace with real-world scenario practice. Students record their responses and receive instant, AI-powered feedback.
*For select courses:
New Pronounce Activities: Empower students to speak like professionals by recording and receiving instant feedback on their pronunciation of key medical terms. Pronounce activities are now in Chapter 5 of Michelle Blesi's "Medical Assisting," 10e.
Virtual Skills: Walk students step by step through various administrative and clinical medical assisting skills with Virtual Skills simulations, a guided multimedia experience replacing Learning Labs.
Updated Image Labeling Activities: Support student mastery with a new experience for image labeling activities. Students can now practice identifying the location of various anatomical structures.
Updated Certification Exam Preparation Experience: Streamline exam prep with an improved user experience for creating, editing and assigning practice certification exams within the Learning Path. Pre-made mock exams are available and integrated with enhanced gradebook reporting.
Student Test Prep for Certification Exams: Empower students to create their own practice certification exams and monitor their progress in a private, low-stakes setting, helping them take ownership of their preparation and build confidence before high-stakes tests.
*For all courses:
Updated Certification Exam Preparation Experience: Streamline exam prep with an improved user experience for creating, editing and assigning practice certification exams within the Learning Path. Pre-made mock exams are available and integrated with enhanced gradebook reporting.
Student Test Prep for Certification Exams: Empower students to create their own practice certification exams and monitor their progress in a private, low-stakes setting, helping them take ownership of their preparation and build confidence before high-stakes tests.
*For select courses:
Identifying Misinformation Activities: Help students evaluate the credibility of nutrition information they encounter online. These short, expert-led videos and follow-up assessments build essential critical-thinking skills for navigating misinformation.
*For select courses:
Connect It Activities, Powered by Bongo: Give students structured practice in legal research, communication and presentation. Recorded responses and instant AI feedback, powered by Bongo, help them strengthen professional communication skills in a safe, supportive environment before entering the field.
*For select courses:
Identifying Misinformation Activities: Help students evaluate the credibility of nutrition information they encounter online. These short, expert-led videos and follow-up assessments build essential critical-thinking skills for navigating misinformation.
*For select courses:
Updated Certification Exam Preparation Experience: Streamline exam prep with an improved user experience for creating, editing and assigning practice certification exams within the Learning Path. Pre-made mock exams are available and integrated with enhanced gradebook reporting.
Student Test Prep for Certification Exams: Empower students to create their own practice certification exams and monitor their progress in a private, low-stakes setting, helping them take ownership of their preparation and build confidence before high-stakes tests.
Simulations: Support student career-readiness with simulation activities that place them in real-world environments, completing various tasks as health care professionals or pharmacy technicians.
New Applied Scenarios, Powered by Bongo: Enable students to practice skills such as patient communication with video-based activities that require them to record their answers responding to real-world scenarios. These activities create a safe, structured environment for students to build skills through repeated practice, feedback and AI smart-scoring, while giving instructors streamlined tools to evaluate progress.
*For select courses:
Updated Certification Exam Preparation Experience: Streamline exam prep with an improved user experience for creating, editing and assigning practice certification exams within the Learning Path. Pre-made mock exams are available and integrated with enhanced gradebook reporting.
Student Test Prep for Certification Exams: Empower students to create their own practice certification exams and monitor their progress in a private, low-stakes setting, helping them take ownership of their preparation and build confidence before high-stakes tests.
New Instrumentation Quizzes: Support student mastery with auto-graded quizzes that include multiple choice (single and multiple response), matching and order list questions. These quizzes help students identify the instruments required for procedures.
*For select courses:
Embedded eBook: Provide students with seamless access to the eBook within the Learning Path so they can easily find relevant readings. Enhanced navigation and audio/video features, like ReadAloud speaker, support diverse learning needs and promote more independent study.
Question Creation and Editing: Shape assessments that truly support your teaching goals by creating and editing questions directly in MindTap. This added flexibility makes it easier to align assignments with specific teaching objectives and give students clearer, more meaningful practice.
A/V Boards, Powered by Bongo: Give students more time to focus on communication skill-building with multimedia speaking and listening practice. Recorded responses, instant AI feedback and grading, powered by Bongo, help them strengthen their language skills in a safe, supportive environment.
New Pronounce Activities: Support students’ pronunciation development in the language they’re learning with auto-graded activities that offer immediate feedback, helping students refine accuracy and build confidence over time.
"The platform is now more intuitive and aligns more closely with how I navigate and search for information. I appreciate having key insights about student engagement—such as submission status, average scores, and points per acitivity—readily available on the main page. This visibility enhances my ability to assess student performance efficiently."
—Dr. Svitlana Maksemenko, Professor and Academic Director, University of Pittsbugh
"I like the format and it's also easier to move through the questions and see what the problem is without having to move through or back and forth between screens. I like that. I think the information is accurate and clear."
—Dr. Karen Acosta, Associate Professor, Valdosta State University
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Preview activities and new learning platform capabilities for your course.
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