Check Your Understanding (CYU) vs. Strengthen Your Skills (SYS)

Check Your Understanding (CYU) assessments and Strengthen Your Skills (SYS) activities are now available in select Stukent courseware. These activities bring turnkey, career-relevant activities into your classroom, allowing you to assess your students’ progress at a glance.

What is the difference between them?

Essentially, CYUs are checking students' understanding of the concepts in the text, and SYSs are asking them to apply that knowledge to real-world scenarios.

What is Strengthen Your Skills?

Strengthen Your Skills is a formative learning activity that allows students to practice the application, analysis, and evaluation of concepts aligned to chapter learning objectives. Scoring is automated, so learners will know right away how well they're progressing toward mastery before they move on to higher-stakes assessments. End-of-chapter Strengthen Your Skills activities ask your students to apply concepts in the courseware to real-world scenarios. These immersive activities develop students’ critical thinking and professional skill sets, presenting them with authentic problems to solve through analysis and evaluation. Strengthen Your Skills activities bring turnkey, career-relevant connections into your classroom, helping you engage your students in their coursework with less hassle and stress.

What is Check Your Understanding?

Stukent courseware includes auto-graded Check Your Understanding activities in each chapter. These activities allow educators to bring additional enrichment and experiential learning into their curricula, increasing students’ employability and confidence. Check Your Understanding questions are embedded throughout the text and provide students with an engaging, one-question interaction to provide a benchmark for comprehension. Each courseware chapter includes multiple Check Your Understanding activities embedded in the text. These engaging, one-question interactions are aligned with chapter learning objectives and content, allowing you to assess students’ comprehension of the material at a glance.