Navigating Through a Personalized Study Assignment

Personalized Study assignments are assessment-centered learning tools that help you gauge your unique study needs and provide a personalized learning plan that focuses your study time on the key concepts and problems you need to learn.

Typically, a Personalized Study assignment consists of a pre-test, a study plan, and a post-test. You will take a pre-test and, based upon your results, you will have an interactive lesson plan generated. Though lesson plans vary from one discipline to another, you will notice that they are typically divided by sections and include such things as tutorials, interactive exercises, videos, animations, figures, text PDFs, and other learning material.

Your work on a Personalized Study assignment will be graded only when you access it from the Assignments page. If your instructor has designated the pre-test as a graded assignment, the pre-test Take counts as an assignment Take.

To take a Personalized Study assignment

On the Assignments page, click Take, Retake, or Resume for the Personalized Study assignment you want to take.

Your Personalized Study learning module loads. It includes a Pre-Test, a Personalized Study Plan, and a Post-Test, plus additional links that vary from product to product.

Click Take A Pre-Test under Step 1...Pre-Test, located on the left side of the screen.

Your test appears on the right side of the screen, with navigation through the test on the left. Enter your answers.

Click on View Results and Submit for Grading, located just above the test area.

A summary screen appears with the results from your Pre-Test. Based on your Pre-Test results, topics will be highlighted for your further study. This Personalized Study Plan contains study materials designed to cover any concepts with which you had problems in the Pre-Test.

Click on the first highlighted topic to access a study plan that includes links to a variety of learning materials, including videos, textbook PDFs, simulations, review questions, web sites, and lecture outlines.

After studying the material, click on Take A Post-Test under Step 3...Post-Test, located on the left side of the screen.

Your test appears on the right side of the screen, with navigation on the left. Enter your answers.

When you are finished, click on View Results and Submit for Grading located just above the test area.

Your test results appear, providing an evaluation of what you've learned after working through the Personalized Study Plan. Additionally, you receive a revised lesson plan that is a direct result of the Post-Test. If permitted by your instructor, you can study the material and take the Post-Test again.