- [Instructor] To sign in, you'll want to go
to connect.mheducation.com.
On this page, you'll enter in
your email address and password.
If you do not know your email address and password,
or if you don't believe you have a Connect account set up,
please contact your learning technology representative
and they'll be able to provide you with that information.
Once you've entered in your information, click Sign In.
Once you sign in, you'll be brought to the list
of your Connect courses.
You may have previously created courses here,
but any new courses will have a New banner
along the left hand side of the course name.
Click on the name of the section
to enter into your Connect course.
The first time you enter your course you'll be provided
with a section overview which details the number
of assignments, the settings on the assignments,
and the e-book information.
Click section home to enter into your course.
When you first click on a Connect course
you're automatically brought
to the home page of your course.
Along the left hand side you'll see a list
of all of the assignments in the course.
We'll spend a bit more time talking about that
later on in this video.
On the right hand side of the course,
you'll see the ability to switch over
to the Student view by clicking this button here.
You'll also see your section information.
If you click the gear icon to the right of Section info
you'll be able to edit your instructor information,
edit your section name and web address,
see the student roster, as well as see
your student registration information sheet,
which will contain your section web address.
Within this section, you'll also be able to access
your e-book and have quick access to your section
web address, which you'll need to provide to the students
if they are not accessing your course
through your school's learning management system.
You can also click here to upload a syllabus into Connect.
You'll also have access to your Library tab.
This area of Connect will give you access
to additional instructor resources.
If you click instructor resources on the left hand
side of the page, it will take you to our support site
for the textbook you are using where you can download
and access any available instructor resources.
Depending on your textbook, you may also have links
to videos or additional resources on this library page.
The third area of Connect is Performance,
and this is where you will be able to run reports
to track and monitor your student progress.
Returning to the home page of Connect,
let's review the different types of assignments
that may be available in your course.
In this course, we can click on group name
to expand to see the assignments underneath of that group.
Although the number and type of assignments
in your course will be determined by whoever
copied or shared the course with you,
there are two basic types that you can look for,
LearnSmart and the question bank.
LearnSmart assignments, or as the students experience
them through SmartBook, are adaptive reading
and learning assignments that actively tailor
the content to the needs of each individual student.
To preview a LearnSmart module as a student,
click on the title, then click on preview,
and select preview LearnSmart study module as a student.
The first time a student enters a SmartBook assignment,
they'll receive this brief tutorial,
which explains how the assignment works
with adaptive highlighting and adaptive questions.
Once students complete the tutorial,
they'll be brought to the first page
of the chapter that was assigned.
They can navigate using the buttons
along the bottom of the page,
which will take them either to the next highlighted
portion of the text, or to the next text
regardless of highlights.
Once the students have read through the highlighted
material, then they could click on Practice
in the bottom left hand corner to complete
the adaptive questions.
As the students are answering the questions,
they will select their confidence level
as well as answer the question,
and this helps the assignment better adapt
to the needs of each individual student.
Students will also have a Read about this button
available within each question, which will take them
back to the page where that topic is covered,
where they can review the content,
and then return to the question to answer it.
These assignments are graded off of progress.
So, as students answer questions correctly
their progress will be indicated
at the bottom of the screen.
When the due date hits, however many items they've learned
will calculate to their overall score on the assignment.
When students are ready to leave a SmartBook assignment
they can click the menu in the top left hand corner
and click Leave SmartBook.
Now, back on the home page of our Connect course
let's review the other assignment type in Connect.
If we expand chapter one again we'll see
a few additional assignments in addition
to the LearnSmart and SmartBook assignment.
In this course, we see a homework and a quiz assignment.
These are both created through what's called
our question bank, which allows whoever created the course
to select specific questions and point values
to create a customized learning assignment.
When using a prebuilt or shared course,
it's best to review the assignment content and setup,
so that you are familiar
and can inform your students properly.
Let's click on this Chapter 1 Homework
to see what it includes.
The first page you're brought to will show you
your student activity, which will allow you to monitor
who has started the assignment, who is still working,
and who has not started the assignment.
If we click on preview, this will give us
an instructor preview of the assignment
where we can see all questions,
including the correct answers.
You can navigate through all questions
in the assignment by clicking the arrows up above
to the left or right.
The next tab over in the assignment would be the policies.
This is going to detail how the assignments works
for the student.
In this course, anything with this notebook icon,
which is a homework assignment, which means students have
unlimited assignment attempts.
They must start over on each attempt.
They have access to the e-book, hints, and check my work,
and they get to see the detailed feedback
after each time they submit the assignment.
Now, your assignments may have different settings
for each different type.
So, please make sure to review those settings
before beginning your course.
If I click the home arrow to return back to the home page
of Connect, we can also review the settings
for other assignment types in Connect.
If I pull up Chapter 1 Quiz,
I'll have the same tabs that we had available
in the homework assignment, but if I jump to (mumbles),
you'll see that a quiz only allows for one assignment
attempt, only the e-book is accessible,
and the students only see their total score
when they submit their assignment.
Policies, now, let's return to the home page of Connect.
When using a prebuilt or copied course,
you may also need to adjust the due dates
on the assignments in your course.
To do that, expand groups if necessary.
And then using the check boxes on the right hand side
of the assignments select the assignments
that need adjustments for the due dates.
You can select the assignments individually,
or choose the group name to select all assignments
in that group.
You'll then want to go to the assignment options
dropdown menu and select Manage dates.
Here, it will allow you to bulk edit
the start and due dates for your course
by clicking edit, and entering in your desired due date.
If you need to adjust the dates individually,
you can click individually here in the top right hand corner
and adjust the dates for each assignment individually.
When you're done, be sure to click save
to save your changes.
You'll also have the ability to provide individual student
extensions as necessary.
To do that, select the assignment in which the student
needs an extension.
You can select one or multiple assignments
using the check boxes on the right.
Then go back up to your assignment options menu
and select Manage dates.
When you have students in the course,
you can click on extensions,
select the appropriate students,
and then adjust the settings over here on the right.
You can use extensions to change the due date
as well as the time limit and number of attempts
that that student is allowed.
When you've entered in all the necessary information,
click save to save those changes for the individual student.
If needed, you can also apply a default time limit
extension by student.
To do that, click on the gear next to Section info
and select see student roster.
Here, you'll see all of the students in your course.
Click on manage in the right hand column.
If they need a personal time extension,
select allow an additional and then you can choose
whether to apply that in percent of time
or number of minutes.
In this example, if the time limit for the assignment
was set to 20 minutes the student
would automatically get 40.
Click save when finished.
This page will also list any existing extensions
for the student and you can edit or remove
the extensions from this page as well.
When you're done, click roster page to return back
to your roster and then we'll select the course
to return to the home page of our Connect course.
Once your students have spent some time working
in Connect you'll want to make sure to monitor
their progress by checking the Performance tab.
There are many report types available.
Assignment results will give you an overview
of the entire class and any selected assignments.
This is the most comprehensive report type
and should give you the main information you need
to finalize student grades as necessary.
Student performance will allow you to look at each
individual student and see every assignment
that they submitted.
Assignment statistics will allow you to see
averages across a course on all of your assignments.
The Item analysis report will allow you to look
at individual questions in your question bank assignments
and see how students are performing across the board.
The Category analysis will allow you to look
at your question bank assignments
and sort the results based on categories
such as topic and difficulty.
The At risk report will give you an overview
of each student in the class and how engaged they are
in the course and how likely they are to be at risk
of not succeeding in your course.