Author’s Guide To Using Digital Tools McGraw-Hill LearnSmart ® is a popular tool that helps students learn material ahead of class and practice with it afterward. I assign LearnSmart before each week’s lectures and let my students practice with it all they want throughout the semester.You can assign any sections you want and adjust the amount of detail depending on how much time you expect students to spend on the assignment. Reports show which topics students struggled with, so your in-class time can be spent more productively. New SmartBook™ measures what students know and then highlights the content they most need to study. SmartBook predicts when students are likely to forget specific information and revisits that content to promote long-term memory. McGraw-Hill Connect ® question banks contain integrative activities that can be sorted by Bloom’s Level, Topic, Section, or Learning Outcome. I assign Connect homework assignments using interactive questions before each exam. This edition features new question banks that integrate content from each chapter in the unit and between units. Connect reports reveal which topics need additional review prior to the exam. Reports can help assess overall class performance or data for a specific student, using several different criteria. xi
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Author’s Guide To Using Digital Tools
McGraw-Hill LearnSmart® is a popular tool that helps students learn material ahead of class and practice with it afterward.IassignLearnSmartbeforeeachweek’slecturesandletmystudentspracticewithitalltheywantthroughoutthesemester.Youcanassignanysectionsyouwantandadjusttheamountofdetaildependingonhowmuchtimeyouexpectstudentstospendontheassignment.
New SmartBook™ measures what students know and then highlights the content they most need to study. SmartBookpredictswhenstudentsarelikelytoforgetspecificinformationandrevisitsthatcontenttopromotelong-termmemory.
McGraw-Hill Connect® question banks contain integrative activities that can be sorted by Bloom’s Level, Topic, Section, or Learning Outcome. IassignConnecthomeworkassignmentsusinginteractivequestionsbeforeeachexam.
Connect reports reveal which topics need additional review prior to the exam.Reportscanhelpassessoverallclassperformanceordataforaspecificstudent,usingseveraldifferentcriteria.
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You can use McGraw-Hill Tegrity® to record your lectures and make them available to students in Connect as a first step to learning your content or as review.Whetheryourcourseistraditional,fullyonline,orahybrid,yourstudentscanaccessyourcontentwhenitworksforthem.
New customizable PowerPoint® Lecture Outlines are focused on concepts and are useful for online, hybrid, or traditional courses. Iuseclickersinmycourse,andIfindtheclickerquestionsinthePowerPoints®tobeahandywaytoincreasestudentengagementandassesswhereIneedtospendmoretime.
Use McGraw-Hill Create™ to develop course material that matches what you do in the classroom.Createletsyouselectthechaptersyouwanttouse,arrangethemtofollowyoursyllabus,combinematerialfromothersources,anduploadyourownnotes.
Animated tutorials guide students through complicated topics, using illustrations and examples from the book. Icreatedthesetowalkstudentsthroughthemostdifficultmaterial,stepbystep.Youcanassignthetutorialswithaccompanyingcriticalthinkingquestionsfromtheinteractivequestionbanks,orusetheembeddedPowerPoint®filesinyourpresentations.
