hi and welcome to the Connect training overview in this video we will prepare
you for your upcoming training with connect the first thing that you'll need
to do is log onto the mcgraw-hill connect site you can get there by going
to connect.mheducation.com putting in your email address and password so
i'll go ahead and sign in to my account here and we'll get started
you may or may not have courses listed in your account already
if a colleague has copied or shared a course to you they would be listed here
but let's assume you need to build your own course to do that we will click Add
course here at the top select your subject scroll through the available
textbooks for that subject
you can also search for your text by typing in the name author or ISBN
once you've found your text and selected it you can confirm that down here at the
bottom and then click Next
on this page you will name your course and section the course name should be
something generic that could be used from semester to semester make sure that
your timezone is correct here set registration dates here
identifying when students are able to register for the course then you will
name your section
this should be something specific for each section whether you're teaching one
or multiple sections each term in this case i'll go ahead and call it fall 2014
when you're done go ahead and click create course
when you click create course it's going to generate a section specific URL for
this class every section that you teach will have a unique URL and you'll find
that down here at the bottom of the page
this must be provided to your students to register to your course if you're
integrating connect with your schools learning management system do not use
the URL in this case direct students to the link in your learning management
course to register and access connect let's move ahead and click continue to
get to the section homepage
now that you're in your course section we'll walk through the three tabs of your
course we have home library and performance tabs
starting out on the Home tab you'll see that you do have the ability to post
messages at the top of the page here by clicking this icon students will see
these right away when they log into the course at the top of the screen if we
look over to the right here you have the ability to toggle between an instructor
view and a student view at any time you can add your photo email address and
office hours here you'll have access to the full ebook by clicking on the cover
or the title of the book here
and then you'll find your section web address listed here at all times
in addition to being able to upload your syllabus at any time
continuing down the right side of the screen you have additional course
resources the first resource that may be available is LearnSmart LearnSmart as
mcgraw-hill study tool designed to maximize students efficiency and
learning it provides students what they need exactly when they need it to ensure
every minute the students spend studying is efficient and valuable through
deliberate practice smart book combines the power of LearnSmart with an e-book
and exposes students to new content moves content into their long-term
memory and helps them recall it when needed
if available clicking on the LearnSmart icon or assignment will take the student
directly into smart book
you also have section performance here which will give you a chart of your
assignments in the class so a quick snapshot of what's going on with the
assignments in your course you can look up a particular student and see their
scores here
you are able to use mcgraw-hill lecture capture program called Tegrity to record
and post lectures for your students
this allows you to record your voice of video or picture as well as your screen
to create a lecture which is available here for your students
at the bottom you have the ability to add in a link to web sites by using
bookmarks or add links to RSS news feeds here at the bottom
let's continue back up to the top here on to the left hand side of the screen
which is your assignment list now I currently don't have any assignments
listed but if we click on add assignment it will show you a list of assignment
types available to you as the instructor the most commonly used assignments are
going to be up at the top
the question bank will allow you to build from end of chapter or test
questions LearnSmart is assignable in addition to being available as a course
resource on the homepage as an instructor this is where you would go to
actually assign LearnSmart for points in your class you'll also have a variety
of other assignment types available here under add assignments the library tab
provides you and your students additional resources you can access the
e-book from the library tab in addition to where we saw it on the Home tab you
can find the test bank integrity lectures here as well you can upload
materials such as powerpoints or course documents and make them available to
your students this links out to the instructor resource page to access
additional instructor resources students will have the ability to link to the
Student Resource Area with additional resources specific for them
the performance tab allows you to run a variety of reports to gauge how the
students in the class are performing the most commonly used report is the
assignments results report for more information please refer to our digital
success academy by clicking on the icon on the home page
thank you for watching and have a great day