Connect® Plus Business is McGraw-Hill’s Web-based assignment and assessment platform that gives students the means to better connect with their coursework, instructors, and with the important concepts that they will need to know for success now and in the future. With Connect Plus, instructors can deliver assignments, quizzes, and tests easily online. Connect Plus Business includes:
LearnSmart is an adaptive learning system to help students learn faster, study more efficiently, and retain more knowledge for greater success. It pinpoints concepts the student does not understand and maps out a personalized study plan for success. Based on students’ self-diagnoses of their proficiency, LearnSmart intelligently provides students with a series of adaptive questions. This provides students with a personalized one-on-one tutor experience. Instructors have access to reports that highlight progress and areas for additional reinforcement for students as well as an at-a-glance view into students’ strengths and weaknesses.
McGraw-Hill Education’s SmartBook is the first and only adaptive reading experience available for the higher education market. Powered by an intelligent diagnostic and adaptive engine, SmartBook facilitates the reading process by identifying what content a student knows and doesn’t know through adaptive assessments. As the student reads, the reading material constantly adapts to ensure the student is focused on the content he or she needs the most to close any knowledge gaps.
Updated! Interactive Presentations for all Learning Goals in all chapters. This study tool engages students in multi-media presentations for each learning goal. Students can either listen to an audio narration, or read a text narration and are prompted to quiz themselves on key concepts reinforcing knowledge all along the way making this a great prep tool for students – when students are better prepared, they are more engaged and better equipped to participate in class. These animated, visual, engaging presentations (not basic PPT slides) are assignable through Connect.
Updated! Interactive Applications for each chapter of the textbook that allow students to practice real business situations, stimulate critical thinking, and reinforce key concepts. Students receive immediate feedback and can track their progress in their own report. Detailed results let instructors see at a glance how each student performs and easily track the progress of every student in their course.
Integrated eBook allows for anytime, anywhere access to the textbook. With each assignment directly mapped to the topic in the book, the student is only one click away from the textbook. The eBook also includes a powerful search function that allows students to quickly scan the entire book for relevant topics.
Tegrity Campus is a service that makes class time available all the time by automatically capturing every lecture in a searchable format for students to review when they study and complete assignments. With a simple one-click start and stop process, you capture all computer screens and corresponding audio. Students can replay any part of any class with easy-to-use browser-based viewing on a PC or Mac. Tegrity Campus is available stand-alone or within Connect.
Blackboard® Partnership McGraw-Hill and Blackboard have teamed up to simplify your life. Now you and your students can access Connect and Create right from within your Blackboard course – all with one single sign-on. The grade books are seamless, so when a student completes an integrated Connect assignment, the grade for that assignment automatically (and instantly) feeds your Blackboard grade center. Learn more at www.domorenow.com.
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