SaplingPlus | BFW Publishers

Engaging students.
Empowering educators.

Created and supported by educators, Sapling Learning’s instructional online homework drives student success and saves educators time.

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Jumpstart student success with one-on-one educator support and time-saving tools.

SaplingPlus e-book

With intuitive navigation, this fully accessible online & offline e-book includes bookmarks, notes, highlights, and more.

Online Homework with Targeted Feedback

SaplingPlus provides students with real-time targeted feedback based on their specific misconceptions or understanding of the course material.

Practice with LearningCurve

LearningCurve* adaptive quizzing offers individualized question sets and feedback for each student based on their responses.
*only available with select titles

Diverse, Thoughtful Questions

Multiple question types—such as clickable area, ranking, sorting, labeling, multiple choice, multiple select, graphing, and numeric entry—enhance student engagement and critical thinking skills.

Gradebook

An easy-to-use Gradebook provides a clear window onto performance for the whole class, for individual students, and for individual assignments, to help you to give every student the support they need.

Integration Options

You can work with us to integrate with your campus LMS—including Blackboard, Canvas, D2L/Brightspace, Moodle—or with iClicker Student Response System.

The SaplingPlus Advantage

Accessible, mobile-ready e-book

Online homework with targeted feedback

Robust multimedia learning tools

Personal course dashboard

Easy-to-use Gradebook

Engaging e-books for guided learning

Accessible and mobile-friendly, our interactive e-book brings together the resources students need to prepare for your class, working with the textbook you’ve selected. And for most titles, students can now download the e-book to read offline, or to have read aloud to them.

With intuitive navigation, this dynamic e-book includes bookmarks, notes, highlights, and more.

Targeted feedback tailored to individual student responses

With content written by leading subject-matter experts, SaplingPlus homework provides real-time feedback based on specific misconceptions of the problems at hand. Regardless of a student's initial response, SaplingPlus ensures everyone arrives at the correct answer for the right reasons.

Assignments, due dates, and question weights are all customizable to educators' preferences, and the SaplingPlus platform supplies metrics related to attempts taken, time spent on each question, and more—offering immediate insight into class and individual student performance.

Student- and educator-preferred adaptive quizzing

LearningCurve*—our most popular digital tool among students and teachers alike—is adaptive, game-like quizzing that challenges students by focusing on the material with which they need the most help. Students move quickly through mastered content, and when they get a question wrong, built-in feedback provides help and links them to relevant course material for review—and then they get a chance to try again. All LearningCurve questions are tied directly to the course e-book to encourage students to utilize the resources at hand.

LearningCurve supplies classroom analytics to educators through three types of reports: an overview of class performance, a snapshot of all student activity scores, and an individual student topic breakdown. Our overview structure makes it simple to identify areas in which more instructional time is needed, and which concepts are already well-retained.
*only available with select titles

Supporting resources to meet your needs

Videos for teachers and students, textbook-specific Teacher’s Resources Materials, and more are embedded in the SaplingPlus courseware, giving users easy access to all available resources.

Download the SaplingPlus Flyer for Your Chosen Discipline:

Chemistry Economics AP^® Environmental Science AP^® Physics 1 AP^® Statistics

VIDEO: Sapling Learning for Introductory Statistics

VIDEO: How to Navigate the E-book and Features

VIDEO: How to Contact Support

VIDEO: SaplingPlus for Krugman's Economics for the AP® Course | Part 1

VIDEO: SaplingPlus for Krugman's Economics for the AP® Course | Part 2

VIDEO: SaplingPlus for Krugman's Economics for the AP® Course | Part 3

SaplingPlus Support for Teachers

Please review the following videos designed to assist you in building out your SaplingPlus course! SaplingPlus contains a variety of helpful resources that can either be assigned or used by students for self-study. Depending on the SaplingPlus you have adopted, those resources might include homework, quizzing, videos & more! Most all of these resources can be assigned for points in the SaplingPlus gradebook.

RECORDING: SaplingPlus Training

In this video, a BFW Client Success Specialist walks through the SaplingPlus program in a recorded training session. Learn how to use the e-book, teacher and student resources, LearningCurve, online homework, gradebook, and more. The specialist uses Friedland/Relyea's Environmental Science for the AP® Course, Third Edition as the sample text, but the tools and tips apply to all SaplingPlus courses.

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Access, Set-up, and Log-in

In this short video, a BFW Specialist explains how to access SaplingPlus, set up your course, and have students join.

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How to access and download your BFW e-book

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RECORDING: Engaging students in online learning

In this webinar, recorded at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a BFW Learning Solutions Specialist explains how SaplingPlus supports recognized theories and models of online learning and student engagement. After viewing this webinar, you should feel empowered to facilitate active virtual learning based on the key functionality of SaplingPlus technology. In particular, the webinar focuses on the system's robust guided feedback, how to create student-engaging assessments, how to download and use the e-book, and more.

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