Welcome to G-W Ignite for The Culinary Professional, fourth edition. This guide will help you quickly find the tools, activities, and media assets available to you and your students with your adoption. This document also links to online, knowledge-based articles that will help you learn how to use the platform and assets you will find within your course.

• Access our support site to view all how-to videos, instructions, and recorded trainings.
• Find helpful resources for students to navigate their course.
• Contact your Educational Consultant with additional questions.
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The following list describes each kind of activity found throughout your course with support links to knowledge-based articles related to these activities. For a complete listing of all available activities in The Culinary Professional, click here to view the master activities spreadsheet.

Online Textbook Readings- The Online Textbook is an enriched digital textbook that works well on all devices and is compatible with screen readers to meet accessibility standards. Readers navigate the eBook by scrolling downward. The eBook also offers complimentary access to digital drill and practice activities. 

Culinary Recipe Collection - The authors created a Culinary Recipe Collection of 180 standardized recipes especially for your use. You can locate recipes on this site either by performing a recipe title search, browsing by recipe category, or using the recipe index. Once you have located your recipe, either print it in portable document format (PDF) or in the online format. The online format allows you to scale the recipe automatically to the desired yield.

Culinary Video Clip Library - The Culinary Video Clip Library contains 55 short, tutorial videos with Chef Koetke and Chef Draz to show students how to complete specific skills or recipes used in the professional kitchen. These videos are also included as video quizzes within the learning path.

Lesson Pre/Post Tests - Pre and Post Tests are short, auto-graded assessments found at the beginning and end of each lesson. Pretests introduce students to the key terms and concepts they will learn, while the posttest can help instructors to measure student growth over the course of each lesson.

Workbook Activities: Vocabulary Review - The Vocabulary Review Workbook activities include multiple choice questions to help students gauge their understanding of key vocabulary for the chapter. Completed in a downloadable Docx file, students can answer the questions in the document and upload their file for the teacher to grade, or they can print out the file and submit it in class.

Chapter Exams - Pre and Post Tests are short, auto-graded assessments found at the beginning and end of each lesson. Pretests introduce students to the key terms and concepts they will learn, while the posttest can help instructors to measure student growth over the course of each lesson.

Video Quizzes - Video Quizzes make the Culinary Video Library assignable as students watch a video they will need prior to working in the kitchen that ends with auto-graded questions to ensure comprehension before moving on in the course.

Reading Review Questions - Reading Review Questions are short answer questions labeled with pages in the reading for students to reference. Completed in a downloadable Docx file, students can answer the questions in the document and upload their file for the teacher to grade, or they can print out the file and submit in in class.

Lesson Workbook Activities - Lesson Workbook Activities offer fill-in-the-blank questions for key vocabulary from each lesson. Completed in a downloadable Docx file, students can answer the questions in the document and upload their file for the teacher to grade, or they can print out the file and submit it in class.

Lesson Lab Activities - Lesson Lab Activities include an introduction, sanitation and safety reminders, an ingredient list, and step-by-step recipes students will complete in the kitchen. Integrated Chef Notes offer bolded tips while completing the task. A Chef’s Journal sections asks students to reflect on their lab performance and describe how their recipe turned out and how they can improve in the future.  Completed in a downloadable Docx file, students can answer the questions in the document and upload their file for the teacher to grade, or they can print out the file and submit it in class.

Vocabulary Activities - Learning new vocabulary is critical to student success. These vocabulary activities, which are provided for all key terms in each lesson, provide an active, engaging, and effective way for students to learn the required terminology. Vocabulary activities offer e-flashcards—some that include images to help students identify kitchen utensils and ingredients, matching activities, and a vocabulary game to help students remember key terms.

Instructor Resources - The Instructor Resources contains an assortment of instructor materials. Resource Materials include the Instructor's Materials and Lesson Plans. Chapter Resource content includes Textbook and Lab Manual Answer Keys, Lesson Plans, and Presentations for PowerPoint®. You’ll also find Guided Worksheets for the videos, correlations to the American Culinary Federation and NOCTI Assessments, and planning documents. Assessment Software & Question Pools includes the ExamView® Assessment Suite v11 Software and Question Pools for Other Learning Management Systems. Instructor curriculum is provided in modifiable and shareable formats (PDF, DOCX, PPSX, PPTX, QTI). These types of files will require compatible programs and or extensions (i.e., Google Docs, Google Slides, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe PDF reader).