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Connect^® Plus Business Communication 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 for Business Communication includes:

• NEW! LearnSmart Achieve within Connect^® Business Communication develops or improves editing skills and empowers students to put responsible writing into practice. LearnSmart Achieve 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 Achieve 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.

• NEW! Presentation Capture within Connect^® Business Communication gives instructors the ability to evaluate presentations and students the freedom to practice their presentations anytime, and anywhere. With its fully customizable rubric instructors can measure students' uploaded presentations against course outcome and give students specific feedback on where improvement is needed. Instructors have the ability to assign students into groups to peer review presentations empowering students to thoroughly master presentation skills.

• Interactive Applications for each chapter of the textbook 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.

• NEW! INSIGHT ENABLED CONNECT Plus for Business Communication offers easily-interpreted visualizations of student performance and assignment efficacy through McGraw-Hill's Connect Insight. Designed for your tablet or desktop computer, Insight helps you optimize your time by showing you the students and assignments that can benefit most from your attention.

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.

MHCampus^TM: McGraw-Hill Campus™ is a new one-stop teaching and learning experience available to users of any learning management system. This institutional service allows faculty and students to enjoy single sign-on (SSO) access to all McGraw-Hill Higher Education materials, including the award winning McGraw-Hill Connect platform, from directly within the institution's website. McGraw-Hill Campus™ provides faculty with instant access to all McGraw-Hill Higher Education teaching materials (e.g. eTextbooks, test banks, PowerPoint slides, animations and learning objects, etc), allowing them to browse, Search, and use any instructor ancillary content in our vast library at no additional cost to instructor or students. Students enjoy SSO access to a variety of free (e.g. quizzes, flash cards, narrated presentations…etc.) and subscription based products (e.g. McGraw-Hill Connect). With this program enabled, faculty and students will never need to create another account to access McGraw-Hill products and services. Learn more at www.mhcampus.com.

Assurance of Learning Ready
Many educational institutions today are focused on the notion of assurance of learning, an important element of some accreditation standards. Business and Administrative Communication is designed specifically to support your assurance of learning initiatives with a simple, yet powerful solution. Each test bank question for Business and Administrative Communication maps to a specific chapter learning outcome/objective listed in the text. You can use our test bank software, EZ Test and EZ Test Online, or in Connect Business Communication to easily query for learning outcomes/objectives that directly relate to the learning objectives for your course. You can then use the reporting features of EZ Test to aggregate student results in similar fashion, making the collection and presentation of assurance of learning data simple and easy.

AACSB Statement
McGraw-Hill is a proud corporate member of AACSB International. Understanding the importance and value of AACSB accreditation, this text recognizes the curricula guidelines detailed in the AACSB standards for business accreditation by connecting selected questions in the test bank to the six general knowledge and skill guidelines in the AACSB standards. The statements contained in this text are provided only as a guide for the users of this textbook. The AACSB leaves content coverage and assessment within the purview of individual schools, the mission of the school, and the faculty. While Business and Administrative Communication, and the teaching package make no claim of any specific AACSB qualification or evaluation, we have within Business and Administrative Communication, labeled selected questions according to the six general knowledge and skills areas.