Walk students through the contents of LaunchPad Solo.

Visit the student welcome page, which offers brief descriptions of all the great content available in LaunchPad Solo, and discuss with students how the rhetorical skills covered in LaunchPad Solo will help them succeed in your course and in their future careers. You can access the welcome page via the table of contents.

Jumpstart your class sessions.

Supplement your text with robust instructor resources, including lesson plans, handouts, in-class activities, and research projects.

Enhance your instruction with tutorials.

Assign critical reading and working with sources tutorials to help students develop the habits and skills you cover in class, and help students see how audience and purpose work in different visual texts.

Critical reading tutorials highlight common critical reading strategies and ask students to answer reflection prompts with an eye toward putting strategies into practice. Visit “More Resources” to add critical reading modules to your course.

Assign LearningCurve adaptive quizzing for skills practice and grammar help.

Recommend LearningCurve as part of your feedback to students in order to help them focus on the writing and grammar skills they need the most help with. When they get a question wrong, feedback tells them why and links them to additional instruction. For more information on the research behind LearningCurve and to find out what students and instructors are saying, click here.

Help students access their digital resources.

Students can access LaunchPad Solo while they wait for their financial aid disbursement by clicking the “Temporary Access” link on the login page. Students who need technical support can click the “Help” link in the upper right corner to get help right away.