Features
Connect Course
Building & Delivery
Building & Delivery
Features
Connect Course Building & Delivery
Connect helps you elevate your students’ learning experience and streamline your prep work, allowing you to focus more time on teaching.
Instructor Benefits
Quality Content:
Get Peace of Mind
with data-informed content
Cut down your prep time by leveraging our abundant instructor resources and content created by renowned subject matter experts from around the world.
Instructor Resources
Find instructor guides, presentations, media, and more within Connect.
Data-Driven Updates
Student behaviour data informs our authors’ content updates.
Multimedia Content
Find instructor guides, presentations, media, and more within Connect.
Instructor Benefits
Course Control:
Teach the way
you want
Connect gives you total flexibility and control to create, edit and make adjustments to your course.
Select Content
Some topics are more important than others. You’re in total control, selecting the content, choosing how much time you want students to spend on it, and selecting assessments associated with it.
Edit
You know what works best for your course. Edit the course content to fit your needs.
Adjust
Something missing? It's easy to add your own content within Connect.
Instructor Benefits
Auto-Grading:
Spend your time on teaching, not grading
Spend less time reviewing student work, and more time helping them learn with Connect – it does the grading for you.
Integrate
Seamlessly link Connect with your Learning Management System (LMS)
Auto-Sync
Connect automatically syncs student assignments and grades with your gradebook.
Reports
Use Connect’s built-in reports to identify which concepts your class struggles with most.
Seamless Student Experience
Use Connect’s built-in reports to identify which concepts your class struggles with most.
“Setting up the Connect assignments was very easy and user friendly. Anytime I had questions on how to do something, either the on-line support helped or I was able to email my McGraw Hill Account Managers for easy and quick solutions.”
- Brandy Mackintosh, Professor, University of Saskatchewan
Connect offers each student a personalized digital learning journey, designed to optimize their study time and boost grade potential. SmartBook 2.0 and the free ReadAnywhere® App allow for effective and convenient studying, while our Inclusive Access program provides early and affordable access to course materials.
Instructor Benefits
Assignments:
Create homework
with ease
Help your students make the most of their study time by helping them focus on the most important learning objectives.
Assignment Reporting
Create reports based on your students’ understanding of learning objectives, chapters, topics and more.
Learning Classifications
Design assignments that cover the range of Bloom’s taxonomy, or key course challenges.
Policy Settings
You have complete control of assignment dates, attempts allowed, grade percentages and more.
Assignment Creation
Pick and choose questions to create your quizzes, assignments and exams.
Personalized Learning
With SmartBook 2.0, assignments can be tailored to your students’ individual needs.
Question Pooling
Prevent students from answer sharing by creating groups of assignment questions.
Instructor Benefits
Turnkey Courses:
Build your ideal course in less time
Short on time? Let our team of Connect experts help with a ready-to-use course guided by instructional design principles.
Assessments
Get pre-built evaluations for every chapter, linked to the most important learning objectives.
Fast Orientation
Find your way around Connect quickly with helpful tips, videos and resources.
1-to-1 Support
Our team is here to help you get your course up and running quickly.
Instructor Benefits
Test Builder:
Quick and easy test creation
Connect’s cloud-based test creation tool allows you to build assignments quickly from our extensive test bank.
Customize
Choose question order and layout of your assessments, add instructions and more.
Promote Academic Integrity
Scramble questions to curb cheating and promote honest test taking.
Stay Up to Date
Any content updates are reflected in your assessments, so tests are always current.
Print or Digital
Distribute assessments in print or through your Learning Management System.