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Narrator: Aplia's by far
the most successful digital solution for Economics.
You've probably heard by now
that certain publishers who've made their products
available with the Aplia homework system
are phasing out their partnership with Aplia,
and that Aplia will no longer be available
for the new editions of their Principles texts.
The choice they'll give you
is to switch to one of their homegrown digital options.
But you don't have to give up Aplia.
In fact, you can now have upgrades and features
that were not available to you.
What I would like to do in the next couple of minutes
is show you the incredible Aplia features
that have only been available with Cengage text material.
At the end, we'll let you know
how you can have your own personal demonstration,
as well as tell you which titles come with Aplia.
There've been some amazing advances
for students and instructors
in the past number of years
that were not available in Aplia for non-Cengage texts.
One of the most exciting entries
into the environment of digital teaching solutions
is MindTap powered by Aplia.
In addition to the tried-and-true Aplia assignments,
MindTap keeps students focused and on task
within an instructor-controlled Learning Path.
While MindTap is a very intuitive
and robust product right out of the box,
its real power is giving you the ability
to put your own personal stamp on the course
by adding your own materials within the Learning Path
or right within the digital text itself.
Now this is an opening screen for MindTap.
A student will immediately see
what is required for the week,
when it is due, where access to their resources are.
They would also be able to see their progress
at any given time.
They can see what's due next week and when that is due.
And you'll notice down here with the assignments,
if I were to click on Homework
it would take me right into Aplia.
But let's look at another view here.
This is what we call the Learning Path view.
And let's go to Chapter 4: Supply and Demand.
Now what they're gonna have here
is Pre-Lecture Activities and Assignments,
interactive ebook, video lessons, homework.
Let's click on Homework.
Now here is Homework,
which is the traditional Aplia homework,
and this will look very familiar to you.
You get the same robust Aplia problems,
and also the great explanations that are key to Aplia.
Here you go, this is,
the explanation are of course more robust
than in any other product.
And also, you also get the problems
from the end of the text as well.
So that is something that instructors and students
have told us that they really like.
Video Problem Walk-Throughs.
What happens at 11 o'clock on a Sunday night
when the Aplia assignment is due the next day?
These are walk-throughs--
Man: The price of automobiles is going to increase.
Narrator: That show students
very similar problems that they would see
in their Aplia assignments,
and it'll walk them through that material.
One of the things instructors tell us they really like
is this Graph Builder feature.
Most of the figures in the text
are also available as Graph Builder,
which means students
can actually see the graphs being built,
with the explanation above changing
as the graph is being constructed and deconstructed.
And then they get a little assignment, a little question,
and they can actually draw graphs on their own
and see the correct graph.
They can submit that for a grade if they want to.
So Graph Builder is a feature
that instructors really tell us that they like.
And in the text itself, there's also these concept clips.
And these are very brief demos
of key concepts and vocabulary words.
Students tell us that they really find these helpful.
Something that students really like
is the Adaptive Test Prep feature.
Now what this allows students to do
is to take as many practice tests as they want.
And it will give them not only the answer to the question,
but it'll give them remediation
and take them to the place in the textbook
where the question was drawn from.
I'll just answer a few of these and go Next.
Let's Submit and Review the Test.
It tells me I haven't finished it, but that's okay.
So here we are, and actually I did pretty well
except for Question 4.
It'll give me the correct answer.
It'll give me feedback.
And then for most of these,
it will also give me a Quick Coach video,
which is an instructor walking the student
through that exact same problem.
And then the student can go to the eReader
and it will take them to the exact place in the digital text
where that question was drawn from.
So the student isn't just digging all over the place.
They can get a very targeted explanation
right from the text itself.
So with MindTap powered by Aplia, what do you get?
You get the same great Aplia that you've always had,
and you get an incredible new user experience
for both you and your students.
So what texts are available with MindTap powered by Aplia?
Well, we have Roger Arnold's new edition;
Baumol and Blinder;
Gwartney, Stroup, Sobel, Macpherson;
Greg Mankiw's best-selling Principles of Economics;
and Tucker, Economics for Today.
Would you like a personal demonstration?
We can do that.
Just contact your local Cengage Learning Consultant,
or you can contact me, john.carey@cengage.com.
Thanks so much.
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