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As well as traditional encyclopaedia entries, Britannica also offers comprehensive web-based learning tools for all teaching levels.

Students can look up traditional reference works in addition to atlases, timelines, learning materials, magazines, websites and videos for more information and help with homework.

Find up-to-date information in magazines and publications about current affairs. Make use of exercises and guides in subjects such as English, maths, science and social science. The articles are ideal for use in the classroom or for projects and homework.

More than 39,000 pictures and 2,000 animations, sound clips and videos as well as daily content updates such as “Biography of the Day” and “This Day in History” make Britannica Online an important teaching tool.

You can now use the text editor in itslearning to find teaching materials to help you reach the skills targets set out in the sixth form curriculum.

New and exciting resources are added continually in the form of texts and exercises, video, animations, games, pictures and drawings.

You can now access Atekst, the same editorial archive used by the country’s leading media, directly from the text editor in itslearning. Atekst provides facts, comment and reflection on current affairs. Choose from more than 10 million articles dating from 1945 until the present day.

Atekst allows you to search and export articles back to itslearning’s text editor. Teachers can search for and access a selection of relevant articles and add them to a task in it’s learning with a single click. The Atekst search box can also be added to tasks, noticeboards, messages etc. – again using only a single click.

About Atekst

Atekst is an editorial archive used by many of the country’s leading newspapers and is the obvious search tool for accessing a range of original articles. The Atekst media archive helps pupils and teachers find facts, comments and reflections on current affairs.

Searching is easy in Atekst. Articles dating back to 1945 are presented in a visually appealing format as text only or as PDF.

Atekst is seen as a reliable source with unique quality-controlled content. Pupils and teachers have access to the same professional tool used by journalists, politicians and business. The archive is updated daily, contains 79 paper sources, 6 broadcast sources and more than 10 million searchable articles.

Access

Want to try it out? Contact Atekst for a free trial without obligation, directly in itslearning.