Our learning platform Connect® gives you digital learning solutions that support teaching and help every learner reach their potential.
Our content and instructional materials are available alongside digital solutions designed to help instructors teach the way they want to. With the flexibility to build modules, add in content, and seamlessly integrate with your course, Connect® can provide supportive structure and increase visibility of student interaction and engagement.
In short: it gives you the space to do what you do best and free to teach your way, with a range of tools to help with course management, insight and tracking.
Connect is McGraw Hill's course management and adaptive learning platform with ready-made course content, assessment and tools that integrate seamlessly with your own LMS.As an instructor, Connect is an end-to-end solution for your course, providing you with the ability to assign homework and online assessments whilst giving you detailed student analytics and progress reports.
Prepare students for the real world with Application-Based Activities (ABAs) in Connect. These highly interactive, assignable exercises boost engagement and provide a safe space to apply concepts learned to real-world, course specific problems. Each ABA involves the application of multiple concepts, providing the ability to synthesize information and use critical thinking skills to solve realistic scenarios.
Role Playing ABAs
Role-Playing Application-Based Activities (ABAs) inspires students to think critically whilst solving real-world problems and applying the skills learned from their Marketing course. We also offer theory-based questions that highlight correct and incorrect answers, and there are also branching questions that allow students to make decisions based on the concept they have learned. Each ABA focuses on one topic and is intended to take approximately 15-20 minutes to complete.
Marketing Mini Sims
Marketing Mini Sims places students in the role of a Marketing Manager for a manufacturing business, giving them beneficial practice using problem solving skills to apply their knowledge to practice and make real business decisions.
Case Studies
A variety of cases, found in most chapters, provide an opportunity for students to delve further into the topical content and read about real-life products and companies. Accompanied by assignable, thought-provoking questions that check students’ ability to apply the course material to these scenarios, these case analyses help students foster their critical thinking abilities and develop their workplace-readiness skills.
Comprehensive Test Bank
Connect includes a comprehensive test bank of various question types, allowing the instructor to create auto-graded assessment material with multiple problem types, algorithmic variation, and randomized question order.
Connect Reports
Assignment reports give you granular information about your students' interaction with assignments set through Connect, including how much time students have spent engaging and which concepts your class may be struggling with. All of this data is available at an aggregated or individual level so you can gain deeper insight into students who seem to be struggling and take remedial action. Crucially students also have access to their own data to help them manage their own learning and create informed study plans.
Critical Thinking Assignments
Help students engage with academic reading analytically and critically with a tool that gives them strategies to apply before, during and after reading. This additional support allows them to reflect, respond, analyse, and evaluate the materials they are working with.
With an expanded range of European-focused CTAs, students develop the thinking skills required for deep understanding that gives them a solid foundation for their academic career and beyond. For instructors, you can place structured activities around cases and journal articles, simplify marking and feedback, and put a mechanism in place to monitor student engagement with the reading.
iSeeIt! Videos
Brief, contemporary, and engaging videos offer dynamic, student-centered introductions, illustrations, and animations to guide students through challenging concepts. Ideal for before class as an introduction, during class to launch or clarify a topic, or after class for formative assessment.
Marketing Analytics Exercises
These auto-graded, marketing analytics activities challenge students to make decisions using metrics commonly seen across marketing professions. The goal of these activities is to give students practice analyzing and using marketing data to make decisions.
Marketing Plan Prep Exercises
These exercises use guided activities and examples to help students understand and differentiate the various elements of a marketing plan.
Practice Marketing
Practice Marketing is a 3D, multiplayer business strategy game. Students put their marketing skills to the test in a fun and competitive, simulated 'real-world' environment in the role of a marketing decision-maker for a small backpack company. Drawing on all of the theory they have learned, students will research and segment the market and make decisions in each of the 4P areas in a bid to become market leader.
Tableau Dashboard Activities
Tableau Dashboard Activities allow students to explore live Tableau dashboards directly integrated into Connect and include auto-graded questions focused on both calculations and analysis. Students can check their understanding and apply what they are learning within the framework of analytics and critical thinking.
Video Cases
An assortment of short video cases challenge students to analyze concepts as they manifest in real-life products and companies. Accompanied by assignable, thought-provoking questions that check the students’ ability to apply the course material to these video cases, they help to develop students’ critical thinking abilities and workplace-readiness skills.
Writing Assignment
This assignment type delivers a learning experience that helps students improve their written communication skills and conceptual understanding. As an instructor, you can assign, monitor, grade, and provide feedback on writing more efficiently.
The Smartbook tool integrated within Connect maximises learning by helping students study more efficiently, highlighting the most important points in the chapter, asking verification questions and indicatingadditional resources.
More personalised - SmartBook constantly adapts to students' needs, creating a personalised learning experience. More productive - SmartBook creates an extremely productive learning experience, focusing students' attention on the concepts they need to learn. More prepared - SmartBook helps students prepare for lessons, allowing you to use class time more dynamically.
Author Blogs
Looking for current content to include in your course quickly and easily? Searching for ways to increase student engagement? Our award-winning author blogs are regularly updated and give instructors a steady stream of recent articles, videos, discussion questions and much more.
Connect Reports
Reports in Connect provide customisable analytics on student progress, learning outcomes, at-risk learners and more, easily integrating with LMS gradebooks. Our Connect reports help you save time and gain better student insights.
ISEEIT! Videos
Short, succinct videos provide stimulating, animated introductions to key course concepts. Available at the discipline level and perfect for pre or post lecture assignments.
Marketing Mini-Sims
Marketing Mini Sims places students in the role of a Marketing Manager for a manufacturing business, giving them beneficial practice using problem solving skills to apply their knowledge to practice and make real business decisions.
Marketing Plan Prep
We use guided activities and examples to help students comprehend and differentiate between various elements of a marketing plan. The following exercises are assignable within most Principles of Marketing titles:
Business Vision, Mission and Objectives
SWOT Analysis - Identifying Key Opportunities
Implementing and Executing the Marketing Mix
Evaluating Performance using Marketing Metrics
Role Playing ABAs
Role-Playing Application-Based Activities (ABAs) inspires students to think critically whilst solving real-world problems and applying the skills learned from their Marketing course. We also offer theory-based questions that highlight correct and incorrect answers, and there are also branching questions that allow students to make decisions based on the concept they have learned. Each ABA focuses on one topic and is intended to take approximately 15-20 minutes to complete.
Video Cases
We have a selection of mini cases and videos featuring real business examples accompanied by questions that help students analyse and apply relevant marketing knowledge.
AI Tools in Connect®
AI Readerlets you maintain control over how students are using AI, with trusted materials and guided use that promotes academic integrity. With this embedded AI learning tool, they can dive deeper into the McGraw Hill content you or your department have carefully selected instead of seeking information from less reliable sources.
Translation Toolin our Connect eBooksallows students and instructors to translate text, choosing the preferred language and seeing the original and translated text side by side.
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Smartbook in Connect®
Connect's integrated Smartbook tool aids learning by making it personalised, helping study be more productive, and getting learners preparedin advance so you can use class time more dynamically.
At risk students can be identified by cross referencing engagement data from multiple courses, ensuring student wellbeing and support can be prioritised. Improved attainment also leads to better career opportunities and progression, which in turn impacts the university's appeal to future cohorts.
Introduction to Fahy 8th edition with Svend Hollensen
Hear from new co-author Svend Hollensen about the updates to Foundations of Marketing 8e and what new perspectives he brings to this marketing leading text.
Practice Marketing is a 3D, multiplayer business strategy game. Students put their marketing skills to the test in a fun and competitive, simulated 'real-world' environment in the role of a marketing decision-maker for a small backpack company. Drawing on all of the theory they have learned, students will research and segment the market and make decisions in each of the 4P areas in a bid to become market leader.
Practice Marketing is available through a Connect subscription to our key marketing titles.
Practice Marketing: Put Your Skills to the Test!
Practice Marketing is a 3D, multiplayer business strategy game. Students put their marketing skills to the test in a fun and competitive, simulated 'real-world' environment in the role of a marketing decision-maker for a small backpack company. Drawing on all of the theory they have learned, students will research and segment the market and make decisions in each of the 4P areas in a bid to become market leader.
Practice Marketing is available through a Connect subscription to our key marketing titles.
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