We have listened to instructors and students and have redesigned Connect by organizing common tasks in a new easy to use interface.
The biggest change to Connect has been the new Section Home and Library areas.
The Section Home provides quick access to all of your course section tasks communicating to your students and managing assignments for the section.  New features now include:

• Groups (previously called sessions) to easily organize your assignments. (R3b)
• Drag and drop functionality to easily reorder assignment lists or move them into groups. (R3b)
• Question Pooling feature to create categorized, random questions
  within your assignments. (R3b)
• Access your section roster from the Section Home page. (R3b)
• Web activities
• Your recorded lectures using Tegrity Campus
• Web bookmarks to save important course related web site links.
• News feeds to subscribe to pertinent course related news.
• LearnSmart Study Modules to see how well your students understand the course content. (not available for all titles)

The Library provides a central location to access all of your course related material available for your textbook. This includes assignments, eBooks, LearnSmart Study Modules, Personalized Study Plans, Recorded Lectures, and additional instructor resources.
The Reports have also been updated to include visual reporting of section performance and a new LearnSmart Study Modules results report.