Connect®
Connect is an online platform integrating ready-made course content with assessment and tools. The platform uses the most established adaptive digital technology to deliver a more effective learning experience for both students and educators across over 90 disciplines.
Since 2010, Connect has helped transform learning for 3.9 million students around the world.
Student retention improved by
28%
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Digital learning is here to stay, students feel at ease with the digital learning experience, more so than just reading a book. Connect is designed to help them actively engage in course content and develop higher-level critical thinking skills while offering educators the flexibility to tailor their course to suit the diverse ways of teaching and the ways students learn.
Connect creates personalised pathways that recognise students’ strengths and weaknesses, measures engagement and adapts in real time. Instant feedback and reporting improve students’ motivation and confidence, as they feel more in charge. From an educator’s point-of-view, every student is supported, and no one gets left behind.
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Formative assessments can be supported with a range of assets such as: adaptive readings from our leading textbooks or shorter interactive exercises such as simulations, labs, or case study content. Summative assessments can be delivered through our vast testbanks of questions for all different disciplines. The range of questions include multiple-choice questions, true or false questions, ranking questions, algorithmic problem sets where values change each time, to questions that require a student to label a diagram. Each question is tagged by Blooms Taxonomy as well as levels of difficulty and can all be customised and reordered as needed.
For added security of assessing online, educators can build question pools, randomise questions, add time limits and passwords, and enable remote proctoring, to ensure each student benefits from exam conditions as much as possible.
Connect students earning A & B grades increased by
39%
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When it comes to learning, everyone is unique. Connect has changed the paradigm from students adapting to the classroom to education adapting to each student. Connect’s interactive technology provides each student with a tailored learning journey enabling them to learn at their own pace and in their own way.
Real-time and continuous assessments help accelerate learning and drive continuous progression. This is proven to help drive up retention rates, boost grades and improve the overall learning experience for students and educators. In fact, for every unit a student progresses through in Connect, their odds of passing their course increases by a whopping 31%!
Don’t believe us? Download the Connect Whitepaper below, which demonstrates that students spending more time practising in Connect leads to greater student success!
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Smarter teaching and learning techniques are here to stay. Connect enables educators to develop their course their way using the most robust online learning tools.
Connect offers some of the most varied prepared adaptive content for higher education, saving management time to focus on teaching. And that means instructors can devote more time to students, supporting their learning journey and igniting the spark to propel them forward. The result for everyone is improved outcomes. Improved learning and teaching outcomes.
Connect will automatically grade assignments and quizzes, providing educators with easy-to-read reports, so they know which students need more guidance. Assignments can be easily tailored to fit the goals of specific courses and students’ needs. From small classes to large institutions, Connect can support every student in every environment.
Course leaders spend 72% less time on admin and 90% more time on teaching
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Within Connect, students have access to SmartBook, an adaptive learning and reading tool that personalises content to their unique needs. Because SmartBook creates the ideal study path for each student, every minute they spend studying is the most effective minute possible.
SmartBook highlights the key topics students should focus on, and supplies links to additional learning materials. It also quizzes them along the way, making sure they understand the key concepts.
Students can use SmartBook on their laptop, tablet or smartphone.
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Hear what instructors have to say as they share their experience with Connect and how easy to use it is and has measurably improved academic performance.
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Driving success with collaboration and co-creation
“The most important thing from an educator perspective is using the resource to complement what you are doing. We were able to personalise the resource and make it work for our staff and students.” Dr Oliver Gibson, Senior Lecturer in Exercise Physiology.
In 2016 McGraw Hill provided Brunel University with a Connect trial for 60 students in one course. From 2016 - 2020 this number has grown to 910 students over four cohorts. Brunel University wanted to monitor the success of digital platforms along with their current teaching methods, to understand more about how these systems can work together to produce greater outcomes and the results were impressive.
We know you want to read more about how this solution provided Brunel University with some great results. To read more about this collaboration, download the Connect Case Study.
Maximise study time
Connect’s integrated, adaptive SmartBook maximises learning by helping students study more efficiently, highlighting where in the chapter to focus, asking review questions, and pointing them to additional resources until they master the content.
High-quality course materials
You want the best content for your students. Our content is authored by the world’s best subject matter experts, including master teachers and academic researchers, ensuring the materials your students use meet the highest academic standards and reflect the most relevant research.
We’re also being effective as we develop our products– be it print or technology through our heatmaps. From analysing student responses in Connect, we’re able to identify sections, parts, topics, and even words students may have found confusing and provide immediate revisions.
Analytics & reporting
Monitor progress and improve focus with Connect’s visual and actionable dashboards. Reports are available to empower both instructors and students with real-time performance analytics.
Connect Insight generates easy-to-read reports on individual students, the class as a whole, and on specific assignments.
ReadAnywhere
Connect’s mobile and offline functionality, available through the ReadAnywhere app, gives students the flexibility to study via their mobile device, anywhere, anytime.
Seamless integration
Connect integrates with all major Learning Management Systems, offering single sign-on for a seamless student experience and gradebook synchronisation to keep instructors organised.
Connect offers comprehensive service, support and training face-to-face, online or over the phone, throughout every phase of working with us.
Remote proctoring
Delivering online assessment just became that much easier - McGraw Hill and Proctorio have partnered to seamlessly deliver assessment integrity tools within Connect. This includes: browser lock-down, remote proctoring (recording) as well as verification capabilities.
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