Align LearnSmart assignment start and end dates with your syllabus and lectures so as to expose students to the foundational terminology, concepts, and principles in your course at formative times.
Encourage students to return to previous LearnSmart assignments to practice challenging topics, refresh their knowledge, and increase their retention of course concepts.
The assignment results report area in Connect will record your student's highest level of mastery for each LearnSmart assignment by the due date you have set. The LearnSmart results report will record data in real-time, should students continue to use the modules for self-study after the due date.
Note that LearnSmart is not available with all Connect courses.
First, choose how many attempts you want your students to have on this assignment: one, two, three or unlimited. You may want to allow your students to attempt the assignment more than once if it is a homework or practice assignment, but only once if it is an exam.
If you select only one attempt allowed, then you’re all done with this section.
If you’re allowing your students to attempt the assignment more than once, decide if they should start fresh on each new attempt, or build on their previous work.
Starting fresh means your students will complete each assignment attempt from beginning to end, regardless of what they had previously answered correctly.
Building on their previous work means your students will return to their assignments as they were when they submitted them. Your students will get another chance to correct the answers they got wrong, as well as answer any questions they left blank.
Lastly, decide whether you want to deduct a percentage from the scores of students who use additional attempts. If you do want to, select this option and enter a whole, positive number to be deducted. You may want to apply a deduction to a quiz or an exam, to encourage your students to prepare and do their best on their first attempts, while still having the option of attempting the assignment again if they need to.
Select compound the deduction for each attempt to increase the deduction a student will receive when completing each additional attempt by the percent you entered.
For example, let’s say that you’re allowing your students unlimited assignment attempts, but you apply a 5% compounded deduction for each attempt after the first. A student who uses two assignment attempts will receive a 5% deduction to the overall score. A student who uses three assignment attempts will receive a 10% deduction. A student who uses four assignment attempts will receive a 15% deduction, and so on.
Click the add a comment button at the bottom of the post you want to respond to, and then enter your comment in the text box.
Click post to publish it to the blog. (These comments are visible to all your students in the blog.)
Select a student from the column on the right-hand side, and then go to the blue scoring area of the student’s blog.
The comments you leave in that section will be visible only to that student.
After you enter your comments and the student’s score, click submit score & comment.
Select the student, whose blog you would like to score, from the column on the right-hand side. That student’s blog will appear, with a blue scoring area at the bottom. Enter the student’s score in the text box next to “score this assignment.” If you have comments, enter them in the text box labeled “comments.”
Click submit score & comment.
Click the reply button at the end of the student’s post, and then enter your reply in the text box. Click post to publish to the discussion board. (Replies are visible to all your students in the discussion board.)
Select a student from the drop-down menu to see all the posts and replies by that student outlined in orange. Click on that student’s name in the column on the right-hand side to expand the scoring menu, and then provide a score and comments. The score and comments will be private to the student. When you’re finished grading all your students, click submit score & comment.
Open the comment you want to delete by clicking its orange speech bubble icon within the submission, or by clicking the comment in the “instructor comments” column on the right-hand side. Either way, it will appear in a yellow bubble with the option to delete. (Click cancel if you no longer want to delete.)
The orange speech bubble icons within the submission indicate where you’ve left comments. Clicking on an icon will open the corresponding comment. Your comments also appear in the column labeled “instructor comments,” on the right-hand side. Clicking on a comment in that column will open it relative to where you placed it within the submission.
You can add overall comments to both the assignments that were composed online and that were attached as word documents.
Enter your comment in the text box below “add a comment,” and then click post.
Enter the score in the blank box next to “score this assignment,” and enter any score-related comments in the text box labeled “comments.”
Click submit score & comment.
We’ve gathered the tutorials that will help get your course up and running without a hitch. After reviewing the Connect basics, be sure to check out even more how-to guides, expert advice and discipline-specific resources for your course at the Connect Success Academy!
Here's what you need to know to start using Connect now:
We’ve gathered the tutorials that will help get your course up and running without a hitch. After reviewing the Connect basics, be sure to check out even more how-to guides, expert advice and discipline-specific resources for your course at the Connect Success Academy!
Numerous assistance types are available to offer your students some help as they complete the assignment. (But not all of the assistance types are available for every question.) Most of the assistance types are already selected for you, but you can deselect any you don’t want to allow.
eBook & resources- The students who purchased the eBook for this course will be able to access it during the assignment by clicking the eBook Links icon that appears with each question. A student who uses this will see relevant readings that may help the student answer that question. This is a good option for practice and homework assignments, or open-book quizzes and tests.
You can apply a percent deduction for using the eBook by replacing the “0” with the percent you want deducted. Applying a deduction will reduce the student’s overall score once if the eBook is used throughout the assignment. (Once a student uses the eBook, that student has unlimited access to it for the rest of the assignment without further deduction.)
Hint- If a student is unsure of how to go about answering a question, the View Hint link will offer a suggestion. You can apply a percent deduction for using a hint by replacing the “0” with the percent you want deducted. Applying a deduction will reduce the student’s question score once per question. (Once a student uses a hint on a question, that student has unlimited access to hints on that specific question without further deduction.)
Allow students to check their work- When a student clicks the “check my work” link after answering a question, a “check” icon will appear if the answer is correct, or an “x” icon if the answer is incorrect. The actual answer won’t be given, but be aware that on multiple choice questions, students can use this feature to determine the correct answer through process of elimination.
There are two ways to encourage students not to rely on checking their work. The first is setting a limit on the number of times your students can check their work on each question. The second is applying a percent deduction on each question where a student checks the answer. (The deduction is only applied one per question, regardless of how many times a student checks their work on that one question.)
You can apply either or both of those options by selecting the boxes to the left of them.
Allow students to ask the instructor- Your students can ask you questions about the assignment. You’ll receive a message in your section homepage with the student’s question, and an image of the activity in question, for reference. You can respond directly to that student, or to the entire class if the information is relevant to everyone.
Show special character palette- Select this if the course is a foreign language, so that your students can answer the questions using the appropriate characters.
Show the solutions with the answer- This option appears for certain science, math and engineering questions. On those questions, students will be able to see the solutions. If a question is algorithmic, they can try answering it again with new algorithmic values.
Guide students to the answer- This option appears for certain science, math and engineering questions. On those questions, students can follow step-by-step guides to the solutions and can try answering the questions again with new algorithmic values.
Practice questions- This option is for available for most science, math and engineering algorithmic questions. It allows your students to practice non-scored versions of the assignment questions, with different values. This is best used on assignments intended for increased exposure to, and understanding of, the concepts (rather than assignments meant to assess understanding).
Showing feedback after attempts means your students will not get any feedback while they are completing their attempts. (Unless you selected allow students to check their work, within the “resources” settings. In that case, your students will see whether their answers are correct on the questions that they check their work.)
Use the dropdown menus to select the feedback you want your students to receive after each completed attempt. Then you have the option of delaying feedback to appear at a certain hour after the assignment is due, or at a date and time you select.
Delaying feedback will hold your students’ feedback until the desired date and time, and then provide them with the feedback from each attempt all at once. This is useful if you have numerous sections completing the assignment attempts at different times, or if the assignment contains questions that you will need to grade and provide feedback for yourself.
You have two options to delay feedback. The first option is to select 1 hour(s) after due. You can leave the delay at 1 hour, or replace the 1 with the desired hours you want feedback to be delayed. The second option is to select on this specific date, and then enter the desired date and time.
If you don’t want to delay feedback, do not select either of the options under delay your feedback. If you select one of the options by accident, or you change your mind about delaying feedback, the only way to undo your selection is to select show feedback after each question. This will clear all the policies you set under show feedback after attempts. Then you can reselect show feedback after attempts and reset the policies.
Showing feedback after each question can help your students know how they are doing on the assignment as they’re completing it, and identify the areas they need to study and improve. Seeing why they got a question wrong may help your students understand how to correctly answer those types of questions in the future, or later on in the assignment.
what the assignment policy settings mean for my students
First, choose how many attempts you want your students to have on this assignment: one, two, three or unlimited. You may want to allow your students to attempt the assignment more than once if it is a homework or practice assignment, but only once if it is an exam.
If you select only one attempt allowed, then you’re all done with this section.
If you’re allowing your students to attempt the assignment more than once, decide if they should start fresh on each new attempt, or build on their previous work.
Starting fresh means your students will complete each assignment attempt from beginning to end, regardless of what they had previously answered correctly.
Building on their previous work means your students will return to their assignments as they were when they submitted them. Your students will get another chance to correct the answers they got wrong, as well as answer any questions they left blank.
Lastly, decide whether you want to deduct a percentage from the scores of students who use additional attempts. If you do want to, select this option and enter a whole, positive number to be deducted. You may want to apply a deduction to a quiz or an exam, to encourage your students to prepare and do their best on their first attempts, while still having the option of attempting the assignment again if they need to.
Select compound the deduction for each attempt to increase the deduction a student will receive when completing each additional attempt by the percent you entered.
For example, let’s say that you’re allowing your students unlimited assignment attempts, but you apply a 5% compounded deduction for each attempt after the first. A student who uses two assignment attempts will receive a 5% deduction to the overall score. A student who uses three assignment attempts will receive a 10% deduction. A student who uses four assignment attempts will receive a 15% deduction, and so on.
You’re able to set a percentage tolerance for your assignment, but it’s best not to because most questions that require an answer tolerance will come with absolute or percentage tolerances pre-set.
If you choose to set an answer tolerance for your assignment, there are three possible situations to consider.
1. There were no absolute or percentage tolerances pre-set for any question answers. In this case, the percentage tolerance you enter will be applied as-is to every question answer in the assignment.
Example: You set a +/- 50% tolerance. Therefore, a question with a correct answer of 100 would accept values from 50 to 150 as correct.
2. There was a percentage tolerance value pre-set for some, or all, question answers. For these answers, any tolerance you enter will override the pre-set percentage tolerance.
Example: You set a percentage tolerance of +/- 35% for the assignment, but there is already a pre-set percentage tolerance of +/- 25% for a question with a correct answer of 100. Only your tolerance of +/-35% will apply to that question. So, answers ranging from 65 to 135 are correct.
3. There was an absolute tolerance value pre-set for some, or all, question answers. For these answers, any percentage tolerance you enter will be added as a percentage OF the pre-set absolute tolerance TO that pre-set absolute tolerance value.
Example: Let’s say a question has a correct answer of 100, but there is a pre-set absolute tolerance of +/- 6. Then you apply a +/- 50% tolerance on top of that pre-set absolute tolerance. The correct answer values for this question will range from 91 to 109.
This is because 50% of 6 (the pre-set absolute tolerance) is 3. This value (3), when added to the pre-set absolute tolerance (6) becomes 9. And 100 +/- 9 is 91 to 109.
Here’s the formula with our values plugged in:
(100 +/- (6 + (50% * 6)))= 91 to 109
Highlight the text you want to comment on.
Click the comment button that appears at the end of the selection and enter your comment in the text box.
Click "add comment" to post, or cancel, if you change your mind.
(Added comments will appear in gray bubbles next to the submission under “instructor comments” but won’t be visible to the student until you submit the score.)
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Your instructor should give you a student registration form that will have your unique course section web address.
Go to that web address to access your course section. You’ll see the course name, instructor name and the section you’re in. If that information isn’t correct, contact your instructor for the correct web address. Otherwise, click register now to get started.
Enter your email address and click submit. We’ll check to see if you already have a Connect account or if you need to create one.
Click Start Free Trial. If you don’t see this option, it’s because your course doesn’t offer a free trial.
Check how long your free trial will last (it varies depending on the textbook), and click Submit.
If you don’t have an account yet, fill out the registration form and click Complete My Registration to activate your account and begin the free trial. If you already have an account, your free trial has begun!
Purchase full access to your course before your free trial ends, so that you eliminate any unnecessary interruptions in Connect.
When you purchase full access, use the same email that you used to sign up for the free trial.
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Click add assignment (A) on your section home page, and select blog assignment (B) from the list.
Enter a name for your blog assignment (A), and the blog topic (B), and then move on to basic settings.
Decide how much the assignment is worth (C), and whether you want to make it available to your students now or later (D). (Now means once you’re finished creating the assignment.) If you choose later, enter the date and time you want it to become available.
Next, set the assignment due date and time (E), and then click next: review & assign (F).
To share this assignment with a colleague, click add colleague (A) and find the colleague you want to share with. Once you find and add your colleague, choose what assignment policies your colleague will be able to change.
You can attach files for your students to reference before starting their assignments. Click choose file… (B) and select the file you want to attach. There is no limit to the number of files you can attach.
Lastly, review the assignment policies you’ve set. If you want to make any changes, click previous: set up assignment (C). Click assign (D) when you’re finished reviewing.
Blog assignments are automatically submitted on the due date you set when creating the assignment. You’ll see a flagged message on your section homepage that indicates you have submissions to grade. Click that message to get started (A).
From your grading to-do list, find the blog assignment you want to grade, and click on a student’s name to begin (A).
Go to the blue scoring area at the bottom of the student’s blog. Enter the student’s score in the text box next to “score this assignment,” (A) and any comments regarding the score in the text box labeled “comments” (B). Click submit score and comments (C) and then click next student (D) to continue grading.
To begin, your students will select the blog assignment from their assignment list for your course (A).
Your instructions will appear along with their individual blog workspaces. To add a blog post, students will first click + add a new post (A).
Next, your students will enter the post’s title (A) and message (B). They will click post (C) to publish to their blogs.
Your students can switch between their classmates’ blogs by clicking a name in the “your classmates” column, on the right-hand side (A). They can comment on blog posts by clicking the add a comment button (B) at the bottom of the post they want to respond to, entering the comment into the text box, and clicking post (C) to publish to the blog.
Blog assignments are automatically submitted on the date you chose when setting up the assignment. It’s up to your students to post to their blogs and reply to their classmates before the due date.
You’ll give your students a topic and each student will write articles about that topic and post to their own blog, as well as read and comment on their classmates’ blog posts. Blogs allow your students to have their own individual workspaces to present their ideas, but also encourages discussion of these ideas through commenting.
You can also read your students’ blogs as they’re in progress, and comment on specific posts. Blogs are automatically submitted on the due date you set, at which time you can grade each student’s blog and provide overall comments about the score.
What are Blog Assignments?
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Your students can submit essays and supporting documents (such as a PowerPoint, outline, or bibliography) for you to review and provide feedback, allowing for one-to-one interaction with each student.
There are two ways your students can submit their writing assignments: by composing online or by attaching a document. Either way, you can provide overall comments and score the assignment on Connect. But if your students compose the essay online, you’re also able to provide inline comments, which is helpful in giving contextual input and pinpointing the sentence or idea you’re addressing.
After you leave comments for a student, you can submit the student’s score.
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A discussion board is a roundtable for your students to discuss and debate a topic you provide. Each student can post their thoughts to the discussion board and comment on their classmates’ posts. You’re also able to post and comment on your student’s posts.
Discussion boards are automatically submitted on the due date you set. You can filter out each student’s posts to evaluate their participation, and provide a score and overall comments about the score.
What are Discussion Board Assignments?
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We’ve gathered the tutorials that will help get your course up and running without a hitch. After reviewing the Connect basics, be sure to check out even more how-to guides, expert advice and discipline-specific resources for your course at the Connect Success Academy!
Here's what you need to know to start using Connect Enterprise now:
From the add assignment tab, you can add the "assign to Connect" bookmarklet to the links area of your browser.
PC users
Right-click the "Assign to Connect" button (A) and select "Add to Favorites". Then, click "yes" to add this bookmarklet."
MAC users
Click and hold or control-click the "Assign to Connect" button (A) to add it to your Bookmarks. MAC users using the Safari browser can add the “Assign to Connect” bookmarklet (A) by dragging the button to the links area.
You can also add the "Assign to Connect" bookmarklet on the web assignment page.
Now, when you come across a website you would like your students to visit. Click the “Assign to Connect” bookmarklet (A) to assign the website for student review.
When you use the “Assign to Connect” bookmarklet, a new browser window will open, prompting you to sign in.
After you have signed in, you’ll see the web address for the site you wish to assign is automatically captured.
Next, select the section (A), and whether to add the assignment to an existing group or a new group(B) and specify the group name (C).
Next, you can add the availability and due dates for this assignment.
Rename existing question pools:
- Click edit pools and select rename pools.
- From the pop-up menu, click the edit icon next to the pool you want to rename.
- Modify the name of the question pool.
- Click save. If you're finished renaming question pools, click close window to return to the Organize Questions view.
Move questions to a pool:
- Select any of the listed questions you want to move to a pool and click edit pools and select move to pool.
- From the pop-up menu, select a pool to move the selected question to or create a new pool by selecting Create a new pool.
- Click apply.
(Note: If you move all questions from a pool, i.e. leaving it empty, the pool is deleted.)
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When a student submits a question bank assignment, you’ll be notified in the assignments to grade area of your section home. Click the assignment that you want to grade (A).
In the student activity tab for that assignment, you’ll see the number of students who are ready to be graded (A). Click show the grading queue (B) to see these students’ names and begin grading.
The grading queue (A) lists the students who have submitted their assignments but whose submissions haven’t been graded. If you assigned any file attachment questions, click download your students’ responses to these questions (B). Then click a student’s name in the grading queue (C).
First, let’s go over what happens when you select a student from the grading queue. You will go to that student’s latest (most recent) assignment attempt, where you’ll see the student’s name and section, due date, submission date, and which attempt you’re viewing (A). If any questions in the assignment were autograded by Connect, click view autograded portion (B) to view the student’s scores.
The other students in the grading queue will appear in a row above the assignment, so you can easily get to a different student’s assignment when you’re done grading this student (C).
Now let’s get to grading!
Each question has its own score and comments area (A). To grade a question, simply enter the student’s score and any optional comments, and then click apply (B) to save the score and comments. Before your score is saved, you’ll see score unsaved! (C). After a successful save, that message will change to score saved! If you assigned any file attachment questions, review the responses that you previously downloaded, and then provide scores and comments in Connect this same way.
If you want to award full credit for a question, or withdraw a question from the assignment, for all your students, click adjust credit for all students (D).
Select award full credit or withdraw this question, and then click adjust (A).
Credit adjustment will apply to all students who take (or have already taken) this assignment, across all sections and attempts. It will also override any scores you already gave for this question on other student’s assignments. The questions that you award full credit will move to the autograded portion of the assignment.
Five questions will appear on a single page. If your assignment has more than five questions for you to grade, use the next and previous buttons, at the bottom of the assignment, to navigate through pages of questions. Continue scoring questions until the entire assignment has been graded.
When you’re finished grading, select another student to grade (A) or click student activity (B) to go back to the student activity tab. The student(s) you graded will disappear from the grading queue as long as you scored every question in the assignment, and you graded the most recent attempt. If a student who you’ve already graded submits another assignment attempt, the student will reappear in the grading queue.
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Using Short Answer
1. Enter or edit the question text in the first text box under the question type heading.
2. In the Lines box, enter the number of lines for the student's response.
3. When you are finished, click Save & Exit at the top of the page.
To continue authoring questions, select a question type from the New dropdown menu and click New.
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Enter or edit the question text in the first text box under the question type heading.
Enter the answers. Type the correct Choice and Match in each box. You may also enter distracters (choices with no correct match). Connect automatically scrambles the choices and distracters when the test is generated.
To edit a choice, enter the changes in the choice box. To add another choice, click the Add Pair icon and enter answers. To delete a choice, click the Delete item icon next to the choice.
When you are finished, save your question and return to your list of questions by clicking the Save & Exit button. If you want to continue authoring questions, select a question type from the New dropdown menu and click the New button. Clicking any of the active navigation buttons at the top of the page also saves your question.
These next steps are optional:
Enter the text for the explanation in the Explanation box.
Add optional hints for the students to view during the online exam. Enter the hint in the numbered text box and click Add hint to add additional hints.
If this question belongs under a section break heading containing instructions, enter the name of the section break reference in the Tie to Reference box.
If the answer is referenced within a textbook, enter the textbook page number(s) on which the question is referenced in the Textbook Page(s) box.
If you are using random variables, enter the variable information by scrolling down and clicking New Variable.
If you want to add this question to a category, click Categorize and select the category you want to add the question to, or create a new category.
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Enter or edit the question text in the first text box under the question type heading, and then enter the number of lines for the students’ responses in the lines box.
When you’re finished, save your question and return to your list of questions by clicking the Save & Exit button. Clicking any of the active navigation buttons at the top of the page will also save your question.
If you want to continue authoring questions, select a question type from the New dropdown menu and click the New button.
These next steps are optional:
Enter the text for the answer in the Answer box.
Add hints for the students to view during the online exam by entering the hint in the numbered text box. Click Add hint to add additional hints.
Enter a selection title to allow the question to be listed by this title when viewing the question from the Select Questions from Banks page, and the list by title option is checked in the Source Frame.
If this question belongs under a Section Break heading containing instructions, enter the name of the Section Break reference in the Tie to Reference box.
If the answer is referenced within a textbook, enter the textbook page number(s) on which the question is referenced in the Textbook Page(s) box.
If you are using Random Variables, enter the variable information by scrolling down and clicking the New Variable button.
If you want to add this question to a category, click the Categorize button and select the category you want to add the question to, or create a new category.
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Creating "check all that apply" questions
1. Enter or edit the question text in the first text box under the question type heading.
2. Enter the answer choices for the test question in the available choice text boxes.
3. To add another choice, click Add choice and enter your text in the text box.
4. To edit a choice, enter the changes in the choice box.
5. To delete a choice, click the Delete icon next to the choice.
6. To indicate the correct answer(s), select the check box next to each correct choice.
7. When you are finished, click Save & Exit at the top of the page.
To continue authoring questions, select a question type from the New dropdown menu and click New.
When adding questions to an assignment, use the question category filters located on the left side of the add questions page to narrow down your questions results list.
- To view filter options for each category, click the category name to reveal the options for that category.
- Select as many filter options as you'd like and click update results.
- The updated results will show all the questions that match any one of the options you selected for that category.
- If you filter numerous categories, your question criteria builds, so that the results will show only the questions that satisfy at least one of your selected options from every category you filtered.
The exact question categories you see will depend on the question source you’re using, but they will still work the same!
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Setting answer tolerances
Tolerance settings (if available for your book title) allow you to set the variance in acceptable answers by your students. You can also customize the tolerance setting, applying different settings to different course sections.
- Click the course options menu and select tolerance settings. The tolerance settings page appears.
- On the Tolerance Setting page, you have two options:
Manage Section Tolerances:
- The current tolerance setting for each section is displayed, along with a dropdown menu that allows you to select a different tolerance setting. When you are finished, click Save to apply the changes.
- Clicking a show details link next to the tolerance setting drop down menus opens a window displaying the details of each tolerance setting.
- To customize the tolerance settings, click edit at the top of the window. To understand how to customize preset tolerance settings, see Edit Presets. If you want to close this window, click close.
Edit Presets:
- On this page, you can see all available tolerances for the selected preset tolerance setting.
- You can select any preset from this list and the system will show you the different tolerances for that preset. Select or de-select individual tolerances as needed. Click on the name of a tolerance setting to see a description.
- The Global Answer Tolerance setting is highlighted in yellow. The Global Answer Tolerance Setting will only increase question level answer tolerances that are equal or less than the Global Answer Tolerance setting. Questions containing question level answer tolerances greater than the Global Answer Tolerance setting will not be affected.
- When you are done editing the preset tolerance settings, click save as… to save your custom tolerance setting.
- Enter the tolerance name and click save.
- You can save the modified tolerance setting with the same name only if you created it originally. If the setting is provided to you by the system or by the primary instructor, then you can only save the customized tolerance setting with a new name.
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In your section homepage, click on the assignment. In the student activity page, click the assignment options tab (A) and select manage extensions from the dropdown menu (B).
Select one or more students from the list (A), click edit (B) next to each category and enter the new information (C). Click save before exiting (D).
Note: If you set the student extension due date beyond a previously set date of delayed feedback for the assignment, you will prompted to confirm or change that feedback date in order to prevent the student with the extension from receiving answers from other students to whom feedback has already been revealed.
You can edit or remove student extensions from two locations: Assignments and Roster
Assignments:
On the extensions page (accessed by clicking on the assignment and selecting manage extensions from the dropdown menu) enter the new information (A), click add more extensions (B) or click remove extension (C). Click save before exiting (D).
To edit or remove student extensions from the roster, access the roster for the section that contains your assignment. Next to the appropriate student’s name, click manage (A). You’ll have the option to edit the extension, or remove it by clicking remove extension.
With student extensions, you can make student-specific changes to some policy settings for an assignment. For example, if a student had a medical emergency and, as a result, would be late doing an assignment, you could use this feature to extend the assignment due date just for that student.
You can change any of the policy settings listed below:
- Start date
- Due date
- Time Limit
- Attempts
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As your students submit their speech assignments, you’ll see a flagged message on your section homepage that says how many responses you have to grade. Click that message.
The students who’ve submitted their speech assignments will have ready to grade as their status. Click on any one of those students.
This is the student’s assignment page. Click play to watch the student’s speech/video.
You can leave time-stamped comments throughout the speech by pausing the video and clicking the green plus (+) button in the video bar. White circles within the video bar indicate where you’ve left comments. Roll over these circles to see the comments you left.
Next, answer the questions in the rubric you provided, below the student’s video. Click see all questions to expand the rubric, or click the down arrow to go question by question.
You can add general comments in the text box below the rubric.
* Make sure to click post.
When you’re finished filling out the rubric and adding comments, click next: score this student to provide a score for this assignment.
Here you’ll see a summary of this student’s self review rubric score (if assigned), peer review rubric scores (if assigned), and the rubric score you gave.
Click any student’s name to look at the rubric they completed about this speech (A).
If you want to watch the video again before providing a final score, click play (B). Roll over the time-stamped comments you left, and add more if you like.
Provide a final score in the text box next to score (C), and include any additional comments in the comments box provided.
When you’re finished scoring, click submit (D).
Grading speech assignments
Grading these speeches is comprehensive and easy. You can fully customize the rubric provided to suit your needs and meet your grading criteria, as well as leave time stamped and overall comments. You can assign student self reviews and peer reviews, so your students can watch each other’s videos, comment, and discuss.
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Hiding widgets
You can hide the bookmarks and feeds widgets from your students, but still use them yourself. Hiding those widgets from your students will free up space in the right column of the section home.
To hide the bookmark or feeds widget from students, click the visible (eye) icon. The icon changes to the invisible (eye with a slash through it) icon, indicating this widget is not visible to students in this section. Click the invisible icon again to make this widget visible.
You'll see the visible icon only after you've added some feeds or bookmarks.
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Using the Section Info widget
The section info widget provides a thumbnail of the textbook cover (if available) and the section web address your students use to access your course.
Clicking the book title link takes you to the eBook for this text located in the Library (if available). See eBook for more information about eBooks.
Clicking the gear icon in the top right of the section info widget opens a section options menu.
These options provide the same section management functionality described in the my courses course list. See Course List for more information on these section management options.
You can also upload your course syllabus using the upload syllabus link at the bottom.
To upload your syllabus:
Click Browse… to locate your syllabus file. The syllabus must be a Word DOC, PDF or text (TXT) file and maximum of 150 KB in size.
Check the box apply to all sections in this course if you want the syllabus to appear in every section of the course you are teaching.
Click upload to upload the syllabus.
The links at the bottom of the section info widget change to view and edit to allow your students to now view the uploaded document.
Use the edit link to change or remove the syllabus.
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The bookmark widget provides a method of adding related web site links to your section home page for students to reference. Each link you add opens a new browser window.
To add a bookmark:
Click the options icon in the top right corner of the bookmarks widget. The bookmarks window appears.
Enter the name of the bookmark as you want it to appear in the bookmarks widget list of links.
Enter the web address of the link.
Select apply to all sections in this course if you want this bookmark to appear in all sections in this course.
Click save. You are presented with a confirmation message that the bookmark was added. If you receive an error, the web address may be incorrect. Also, be sure you have the http:// prefix in the web address you are adding.
Click close. Your bookmark now appears in the bookmark widget.
How do I edit or delete a Bookmark?
Click the options icon in the top right corner of the bookmarks widget. The bookmarks window appears.
Click edit bookmarks to view the current bookmark list.
From the edit bookmarks tab, you can:
a) Click the bookmark name to view it in a new browser window.
b) Click the edit icon to update the bookmark name or web address. Click save to save your changes.
c) Click the trash can icon to remove the bookmark.
d) Click the visible icon to hide the bookmark widget from students in this section. Click the invisible icon to make it visible again.
When you are finished click close window to return to the section home page.
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Managing messages
View and managing your messages:
- Go to your section home page and click the gear icon in your message area then select "manage past messages".
- To edit a message, select the message you wish to edit, click save when you are finished editing.
- To remove a message, click the trash can icon next to the message.
- Click "close window" to return to the section home page.
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Click the options icon in the top right corner of the feeds widget. When the feeds window appears, click edit feeds to view the current feeds list.
From the edit feeds tab, you can:
Click the feed name to view it in a new browser window.
Click the edit icon to update the feed name or web address. Click save to save your changes.
Click the trash can icon to remove the feed.
When you are finished click close window to return to the section home page.
At a glance see how well your students are doing on your course assignments using this widget.
Each bar represents an assignment that has been taken by your students in this section. You can customize the default set of assignments and choose the assignments you want to appear by clicking the "gear" options icon.
Rolling your mouse over any of the bars in the chart provides additional details on that assignment, and clicking a bar in the chart takes you to the Assignments Results detail report.
You can easily look up specific students by typing their name in the field at the bottom of this widget.
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The recorded lectures widget
The recorded lectures widget provides access to the Tegrity lecture recording service. You can easily record, manage, and allow your students to view your lectures online. Your students can access Tegrity for free within Connect.
Your students can relax and participate during class instead of trying to write down everything you are discussing. They can always go back later and review your lecture through Tegrity Campus using a web browser, iPod, or other mobile device.
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Go to your section home page and click the gear icon in your message area then select "post new message".
- Type your new message in the message field (A).
- If you have more than one section you can click the checkbox next to other sections you want the message to appear in.
- Click save.
- A confirmation message will appear briefly
- The message window now displays a "manage messages" tab, for you to view and manage all the messages you have sent to your students.
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Creating Yes/No Questions
1. Enter or edit the question text in the first text box under the question type heading.
2. Indicate the correct answer for this question by selecting Yes or No from the Answer is dropdown box in the top right of the question editing area.
3. When you are finished, click Save & Exit at the top of the page.
To continue authoring questions, select a question type from the New dropdown menu and click New.
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When you have used a chat activity within an assignment, the assignment will have the chat activity icon next to it (A).
The assignment instructions will appear and inform your students that they’ll need a microphone and/or a webcam to submit an audio or video recording. Additional browser compatibility information is also included.
When they reach the question with the chat activity, instructions will be provided along with the dialogue for the conversation they will record. They’ll locate a chat partner by clicking the find a partner (A) link.
Connect will display a list of students in your class. The colored icons next to the student names indicate their online chat status. Green indicates the student is online and logged into Connect. Yellow indicates the student is logged into Connect but not available. Red indicates the student is offline. For those students online, they’ll click the invite to chat (A).
The student being invited will receive an invitation to chat. They will then need to accept the invitation to begin the online chat.
When the invitation is accepted, the synchronous chat interface will appear asking the student to select the web cam or microphone they want to use to record the chat activity. Once selected, they will be able to see and hear each other. They’ll click start recording (A) to begin recording their conversation following the prompts in the dark gray instructional area (B).
When they are finished with the conversation, they’ll click stop recording. Connect displays a link to the recording below the video area. They can record the conversation again and then pick the best version to upload for you to review later if needed.
If there are multiple recordings, each student can select the recording they feel is their best (A) and click submit recording (B) for the current question. They can also use the text chat area (C) to send text messages back and forth to each other in real time. Each student would then continue to the next question (D) in the assignment.
Alternatively, a student may not have had someone to chat with and can leave an asynchronous message recorded earlier for someone to respond to. The asynchronous messages have a video icon next to them. Clicking the video icon (A) opens the asynchronous chat interface.
They’ll click play message (A) plays the pre-recorded message from their classmate. After the message has finished playing, the student can record a response message. (B)
As with synchronous chat, they can record multiple versions of their response message following the prompts in the instruction area. If a student only has a microphone, an avatar will appear in place of the video (B). They can then select the chat activity recording they want to submit for the assignment question (D) and continue on to the next question in the assignment.
Chat activities provide a method for your students to practice their speech skills, whether it is speaking a foreign language or other dialogue exercises, using a webcam and/or microphone.
The Connect gradebook makes it easy to calculate your students’ final grades directly in Connect. Currently only available for World Language titles.
You can weigh scores by assignment type, arrange your assignments into categories, and add your own custom categories.
Blackboard instructors may want to use Blackboard Grade Center instead of the Connect gradebook, because grades entered into this gradebook can’t be exported to Blackboard.
Export the gradebook to excel and then upload the document to your school’s learning management system. The gradebook can integrate with any LMS.
To grade your class on a curve, simply choose which percentage values (out of 100%) respond to each letter grade.
The Student Performance Report displays individual student performance across all assignments. To view a report of a student, type a student’s name in the search text box in the page.
You'll see the matching student names in the current section by default.
If you select in all sections in this course (including those linked to you), the system searches the student in all sections in this course. Click on the relevant student for whom you want to see the report and then click the Search button.
Displayed assignments can be filtered by assignment type using the Show menu.
If multiple attempts are allowed for an assignment, each attempt is listed with the assignment heading row and includes the score, start date, submission date and the date the assignment was scored. A red asterisk (*) next to a score indicates if a student submitted the assignment past the due date.
Click the assignment name to open a new window containing an assignment preview along with the assignment policies and other base information.
Click the score to view student performance on the assignment.
The initial view shows the students assignment correct/incorrect answers.
The Info tab shows assignment type, due date and when the assignment was submitted.
The Performance tab provides a performance chart based on different question categories. This scrollable frame contains a Performance Summary graph at the top, followed by question and answer details.
Best Practices:
Each question displays correct and incorrect answers, and an editable point field. To modify the awarded point value, enter the new point value and click the Award button.
If you can click on Correct, the system only shows the student’s correct answers. If you can click on Wrong, the system only shows the student’s wrong answers.
You can also award full credit for a question to all students in your sections as well as your linked sections. Secondary instructors cannot award full credit.
If full credit is already awarded, then you cannot see the question/answer and also you cannot revert to it. All students are awarded full credit for this question for all attempts (past/resumed/future).
Connect also provides a question comparison with all the correct answers. This comparison area is contained in a green rectangle and located to the right of the student question-and-answer response. You may need to scroll to the right to see it.
The Instructor View of the Student Performance (Historical) report can only be exported in the Microsoft Excel format.
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Creating LearnSmart results reports
If available for your title, Connect provides an overall progress report and a detailed progress report of the any LearnSmart modules you have assigned.
Overall Progress Results
Detailed Progress Report
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The Item Analysis report provides statistics on each question within a single assignment.
To begin, select report options and then click View Report to generate the Item Analysis report.
Available report options:
- Select Section(s) – Select which section(s) will be on the report. Choose from the current section, linked sections within the same course and secondary instructor’s linked sections.
- Select One Assignment– Select one assignment to be displayed in the report. Your choice of sections determines the assignments listed here.
For example, if you select "Section 1", only the assignments in "Section 1" will be displayed. If you select "Section 1" & "Section 2", only linked assignments, that are in both sections are displayed. Use the checkboxes along the top of the assignment list box to filter the list by assignment type.
Question item statistics include:
Number of students who submitted this assignment
- Number of times this assignment was submitted
- all attempts score: Average percentage score for all assignment attempts made.
- 1st attempt score: Average percentage score of first assignment attempt.
- last attempt score: Average percentage score of last assignment attempt
Click a question link to open a question preview window.
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Creating category analysis reports
The Category Analysis report provides statistics on each content category among assignments. To begin, select report options and then click View Report to generate the report.
Category Analysis report options include:
Select Section(s) – Allows you to select which section(s) will be on the report. Choose from the current section, linked sections within the same course and secondary instructor’s linked sections.
Select Assignment(s) – Allows you to select which assignments will be on the report. Your choice of sections will determine the assignments listed here. For example, if you select Section 1, only assignments in Section 1 is displayed; if you select Section 1 and Section 2, only linked assignments that are in both sections is displayed.
Filter assignments by type by using the checkboxes next to each assignment type you want to appear in the Select Assignment(s) list box. You can also select and deselect assignments by using the CTRL key while clicking assignment names in the list box. Convenient Select All and Clear All links are also available at the bottom of the list box.
Specify Report Date Range – Allows you to specify an optional date range for the report. Select a From and To date using the calendar icon date picker.
Select Category(ies) – Allows you to select which categories to use to evaluate students’ performance. Your choice of sections and assignments determines the categories listed here. A category or category group is only available when a selected assignment contains a question with content related to this category or group.
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Creating assignment statistics reports
The Assignment Statistics report provides a set of common assignment report statistics. If multiple attempts were allowed for assignments, statistics for each attempt can be viewed by clicking the assignment name link.
Available report options are:
- Select Section(s) – Allows you to select which sections will be on the report. Choose from the current section, linked sections within the same course and secondary instructor’s linked sections.
- Select Assignment(s) – Allows you to filter the assignment list and select which assignments will be on the report. Filter assignments by type using the checkboxes next to each type of assignment you want to appear in the select assignment(s) list box. You can also select and deselect assignments by using the CTRL key while clicking assignment names in the list box. Convenient select All and clear All links are also available at the bottom of the list box.
The Assignment Statistics include:
- Mean Score – Calculated mean score value from all assignment attempts.
- Highest Score – Highest of all assignment attempt scores.
- Lowest Score – Lowest of all assignment attempt scores.
- # Student Submitted – Number of students who accessed the assignment.
- # Times Submitted – Number of times the assignment was accessed.
- Click the assignment name to expand the list of attempts for that assignment.
- Use the expand all | collapse all links above the assignment column to expand/collapse the assignments listed.
- When more than one section is selected, the report contains summary data for each section instead of the detailed data for each attempt shown when only one section is selected.
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From the reports tab (A), click on “assignment results” (B) to open the report options menu.
Select Section(s) – Select which sections of your course will be on the report. Choose from the current section, sections within the same course, and secondary instructor’s shared sections (if applicable).
Select Assignment(s) – Select which assignments will be on the report (A). You can filter assignments by type using the checkboxes (B) next to each type of assignment you want to appear in the Select Assignment(s) list box. Select and deselect assignments by using the CTRL key while clicking assignment names in the list box. Use Select All and Clear All links (C) available at the bottom of the list box.
Specify Report Date Range – Specify an optional date range for the report. Select a From date and To date using the calendar icon. Note: if you don’t see any scores when you click “view report” ensure the date range is wide enough to encompass the assignments you wish to view or the entire term.
Select Attempt – Specify how the student assignment score is calculated and displayed when your students are allowed multiple attempts for an assignment.
Best – Displays the best score of all submitted attempts.
Last – Displays the score of the most recently submitted attempt.
All – Display scores from all submitted assignment attempts. Note: Blackboard and WebCT imports only accept reports that contain single attempt scores, such as “Best.”
Average – Displays the average score of all submitted assignment attempts. Note: Average option is not available when more than one section is selected.
Exclude attempts submitted after due date – Checking this option removes any scores from assignments that were submitted after a set due date.
Drop assignments with the lowest scores – Checking this option allows you to remove assignments with the lowest scores from the report. This option is not available if you selected “Best” attempt.
More Options – enables you to further customize the report, such as points vs. percentage score display. Additional detail can be found by clicking the help link atop the screen.
Click View Report
The assignment results report will display with a list of your students in the first column and a subsequent column for each assignment with corresponding student scores.
Optional grade range highlights can be customized or turned off via the highlight ranges menu bar(A).
Options to export to excel or print the report can be found in the menu bar above the report(B).
A “total score” will calculate in the last column in the report (you may need to scroll to the right (C) to view this column).
You can drill-down into a student’s assignment by clicking on an individual’s score. This allows you to view the questions received, the student’s responses, and the correct answers.
A student performance report is opened, enabling you to navigate through an individual student’s assignment(A), adjust the points received for a question(B), and/or leave comments for the student(C).
Note: The ability to “adjust credit” (D) is also available to disqualify a question from an assignment and automatically adjust assignment scores for all students. Please see the QuickGuide titled “Adjust Credit for a Question in an Active Assignment” for more information.
Tip: You can also drill-down to an individual student’s assignment directly via the student performance report option under the reports tab.
The assignment results report is the default report, providing access to an aggregate of student scores on the assignments you’ve created. Assignment results provides a list of all students, in one or more sections of your course, and their corresponding scores on all or selected assignments. The assignment results report can be exported to excel for further management outside of Connect.
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Report options:
Select Section(s) – Allows you to select which section(s) will be on the report. Choose from the current section, linked sections within the same course and secondary instructor’s linked sections.
Select Assignment(s) – Allows you to select which assignments will be on the report. Your choice of sections will determine the assignments listed here. For example, if you select Section 1, only assignments in Section 1 will be displayed; if you select Section 1 and Section 2, only linked assignments that are common in both sections will be displayed. Filter assignments by type using the checkboxes next to each type of assignment you want to appear in the Select Assignment(s) list box. You can also select and deselect assignments by use the CTRL key while clicking assignment names in the list box. Convenient Select All and Clear All links are also available at the bottom of the list box.
Specify Report Date Range – Allows you to specify an optional date range for the report. Select a From date and To date using calendar icon.
Select Attempt – Allows you to specify how the student assignment score is calculated and displayed when your students are allowed multiple attempts for an assignment.
Best – Displays the highest score from all submitted attempts.
Last – Displays the score of the most recently submitted attempt.
All – Displays the scores from all submitted attempts. Note: Blackboard and Blackboard Vista only accept reports that contain single attempt scores.
Average – Displays the average of all submitted attempts.
Exclude attempts submitted after due date – Checking this option removes scores from attempts submitted after the due date.
Select Score Style- Allows you to specify how scores are displayed in the report. You can select points, percentages, or both. Note: Any reports you export for Blackboard or Blackboard Vista are exported using points. Available under "more options"
Customize Report Information – Provides additional customization options.Available under "more options"
Show date started – Includes the date each student started the assignment. This option will not appear in the report if it contains multiple assignments.
Show date submitted -Includes the date each student submitted the assignment. This option will not appear in the report if it contains multiple assignments.
Exclude students with no submissions – Provides a way to filter out students that did not submit the assignment.
Group columns by assignment type – Group the assignment columns by assignment type.
Show custom roster column name – Checking the box displayed for each custom column in your roster causes that column to be displayed in the report.
Creating Custom Reports
Connect provides several custom report options, shown below. However, the options listed below may not all be available for the type of report you are generating.
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The gradebook sync list shows all the assignments with scored submissions. To sync these scores, simply select the assignments you want to sync and choose which attempt scores to sync from the dropdown menu. You can sync the best, last, or average attempt scores.
After selecting which attempt score to sync, you’ll see the “sync in progress” confirmation.
For each assignment in the gradebook sync list, you’ll see its name, type, sync status, due date, and the attempt score you last synced. The assignments are default sorted by sync status.
There are four possible sync statuses:
- Never synced: You have never synced the assignment to your school gradebook.
- Last synced: You last synced the assignment on the date listed. If you see a green arrow, your gradebook is up to date. If you see a yellow triangle, there is at least one new submission, and you may want to sync again. Click the link to see exactly how many scored submissions there are to sync.
- In progress: You’re currently syncing the assignment.
- Last sync failed—try again: At least one score didn’t sync, so you need to re-sync the assignment scores.
Keep in mind that in order for a student’s score to sync, that student must be paired with McGraw-Hill Campus. If you’re not sure which students are ready to sync, click check your roster to find out.
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Changing a student's grade
If you need to edit a particular student's assignment grade, you'll need to access the Student Performance report for a particular assignment.
You can access this in one of two ways:
Method 1:
1. Click the student’s assignment score link in the Assignment Results page.
2. This accesses the Student Performance Assignment Detail.
Method 2:
1. Click the Student Performance link in the Reports tab menu.
2. Select the student whose assignment grade you need to change.
3. Click the score link in the assignment row you want to edit.
4. The Student Performance Assignment Detail page opens.
The Student Performance Assignment Detail page lists all of the assignment questions along with a score field next to each.
To change the point level for a question, enter the new score above the question and click Award (A). This affects the student’s overall assignment grade accordingly.
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Getting your students ready to sync
To be able to sync, your students need to be paired with McGraw-Hill Campus. Check the “gradebook sync-ready” column to see which students are paired. A green checkmark means the student is paired and ready to sync. The red stop sign means the student is not paired and not ready to sync.
Here’s how your students can get ready to sync:
Sign in to your school’s learning management system.
From the learning management system, find and click your course.
Click the link for McGraw-Hill Campus.
Click the Connect button.
Follow the steps to sign in to Connect (either signing in with an existing account or registering for Connect).
At this point, students with active licenses will be paired with McGraw-Hill Campus and taken to your course. Students without active licenses will be asked to renew their registrations, and then they will be taken to your course.
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Connect provides the ability to export your assignment grade reports to other course management software. Microsoft Excel is the universal format for exporting your reports. Other common course management formats supported by Connect are Blackboard and Blackboard Vista.
NOTE: These two course management formats are only available from the Assignment Results report, and only if your roster contains Blackboard or Blackboard Vista custom columns.
Blackboard 8:
Due to formatting changes in Blackboard 8, you must add the Blackboard Vista ID column to your Connect Roster. The added Blackboard Vista ID column will be used to import your students' BlackBoard Usernames into. Below are the steps to set this column up and import Blackboard data.
Skip ahead to Exporting Your Report if you already have already added the Blackboard Vista ID column and imported your students' BlackBoard usernames.
- In Blackboard's Grade Center, select Download Grades.
- Choose the Tab Delimited option and save file to your desktop.
- Within Connect, go the section's Roster from my courses.
- Click on customize columns.
- Click the add column button and choose Blackboard Vista ID.
- Click Apply and then Save.
- Click on import student information.
- Click on Export your current roster as a *csv template and save file to your desktop.
- Open both the Blackboard Gradebook downloaded previously and the Connect Roster in Microsoft Excel.
- Copy the Username from the Blackboard file into the User ID column in the Connect Roster file and save your Excel file.
- When complete, in Connect select the roster file and click Upload.
Exporting Your Report
- Select a section from my courses.
- Click the Reports tab at the top right of the page.
- Select a report, changing any options if needed.
- Click View Report to generate the report.
- Some reports, like the Assignment Results report, allow you to uncheck columns to exclude them from your report. Uncheck any columns you do not want exported.
- Select the Blackboard Vista format option from the drop-down.
- Click Export and save the file to your Desktop.
- In the file that was just downloaded, open it in Microsoft Excel and change the first column's name from User ID to Username and save it.
- Within Blackboard's Grade Center, choose Upload.
- Click Browse and navigate to the saved file on your Desktop, keep Delimiter Type as Auto.
- Follow any remaining prompts within Blackboard and click Submit.
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When you have an in-assignment question from a student, you’ll see "You have a new student question" in your message center on your section home. Click that link to go to the student questions thread, where all new questions are highlighted and bolded.
Click the blue arrow to expand the question list, and click reply to answer a question. Enter your response in the modal that appears, and then click send. You can respond to only the student who asked the question, or to the entire section.
Your messages are saved here so you can reference them at any time and have a record of the questions and responses.
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Setting registration dates simplifies your course management, and saves you time and effort later in the semester. By choosing a specific start and end date, students can register for your course only within that time frame, instead of all semester long. This gives you control over when students can register, prevents students from registering more than once, and regulates your scoring and reports.
It’s quicker and easier to monitor who’s in your course when students aren’t continuously registering throughout the semester. Continuous registration can also affect your scoring and reports. Duplicate student accounts, or students registered for the wrong sections, will cause unnecessary and inaccurate scoring—and more work for you as you sort through students to determine who belongs where.
Setting registration dates is an easy way to reduce your course management and time spent organizing your students.
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Managing your roster
Your section roster displays each student’s name, email address, and account status. You’ll also see the number of active students in that section. “Active” means students have purchased registration for the course or are using the free trial option.
There are four possible account statuses: licensed, free trial, license expired, and inactive. Licensed means the student has registered and paid for the course. Free trial means the student has signed up for a free trial of the course, which will expire on the date listed. License expired means the student’s free trial has expired, and the student can’t take any more assignments until buying access. Inactive means you have changed the student’s status from active to inactive.
You might want to change the status of a student to inactive if the student doesn’t belong in that section of your course, or in your course at all. To do this, first click the student’s name, and then choose inactive as the student’s status, and click save. You’re always able to change the status back to active.
Compare this roster to the roster from your school and make sure the number of active students and student names are the same on both rosters.
If a student is registered in the wrong section, or multiple sections, you can change the student’s status to inactive or delete the student altogether.
The account status column should read primarily “licensed” statuses. If there are excessive free trial statuses, remind your section that the trials will run out and they should buy access to the course.
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The Self Quiz and Study is a “help yourself” self-study aid for your students to review key concepts and take practice assignments. It is available here in your library for you to recommend to your students as additional study material.
It’s impossible to choose the right policies for your assignment if you’re not sure what they mean. That’s why we’ve compiled this list of policy tutorials to explain what each setting does and how it will impact your assignment and students. Check them out:
Once you have created your custom roster columns, Connect provides the ability to import roster information saving you time. The information below shows you how to prepare the file used to import your student information into your new custom column(s). Importing a student information file allows you to update several custom columns at once.
Connect accepts a data file format called “comma-delimited.” This is a common universal format for exchanging database information. It is a basic text file that contains commas between each piece of information you are importing. We’ll show you how to organize your information in Microsoft® Excel® and then export it as a “comma-delimited” file that Connect can understand.
In addition to the custom comma-delimited file mentioned above, Connect can import exported Blackboard® and Blackboard Vista® roster files directly. See the Importing Blackboard & Blackboard Vista Files section for more information.
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Preventing common registration problems
Here's what your students need to know to start using Connect now:
Click the book cover or title on the section home.
Click the Library tab from the section home, and then click the eBook in the Library navigation.
While working on an assignment with eBook enabled or previewing an assignment or a question, click the eBook button (not available when previewing a question) or eBook link to access the eBook. Clicking the eBook button opens a new window showing the complete eBook content by default. Clicking eBook link opens a new window showing only the eBook resources related to the question by default. You can look at different resources by clicking the topics, which are usually sections from chapters.
You can always switch between viewing the complete eBook and viewing the question-related eBook resources by clicking the Resource tab or the Content tab.
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To get started, your Students will first select the library tab then select outline tool in the “Speech preparation tools” area.
Note: The title of the tool may vary depending on your course.
Your Students can click create new outline, or select from the list of saved outlines if available.
Your students will enter their speech title, with the option to rename at any time.
Note: For select titles, students will have the option to enter their Speech Objectives.
The Speech Outline tool includes three main areas of focus: the Introduction, Body, and Conclusion.
Students can enter their copy into the fields provided and use the tools in the toolbar to easily format and organize their speech.
Included in the toolbar controls are the following options:
indent single line
outdent single line
move single line up
move single line down
add/create new line
add Connective
Students can use the Connective tool to help identify a transition statement between major talking points within the Outline.
“Below this point” adds a new connective to the next point of the outline body, below the current cursor location or highlighted text.
“Below this section” adds a new connective between the current section (where your cursor is located or text is highlighted) and the next section below.
After adding a Connective, students will have the option to 'categorize' a new Connective by using the drop-down menu to select one of the following labels:
Transition
Internal Preview
Internal Summary
Signpost
To provide a transition from 'Introduction' to 'Body and/or from 'Body' to 'Conclusion' students can also add a connective category in between these fields.
Note: Connectives and Lines of text within the Introduction, Body or Conclusion text areas can be added, deleted or re-ordered using the toolbar, or via drag-n-drop methods.
Students will be able to see a preview of their work, by selecting Print Preview.
While creating their outline, students can click DONE to save all data currently in the Outline and to return to the Outline List, or simply click SAVE to save all data currently in the Outline. The system will also continue to auto-save.
When finished, students can click Export to export their Outline as a Word (.doc). once they have reviewed the export confirmation screen, they can select continue to export to complete the file export.
Note: Connect will export the outline maintaining the proper formatting, including your header & footer information.
Students can now locate and open their outline on their computer’s hard drive to include the Works Cited/Bibliography, if applicable, and Save.
Students can submit their outline by going to their assignment list on the home tab and selecting the appropriate assignment.
Students can click browse, to locate the corresponding file and click submit assignment (B) to upload and submit their file.
Note: The maximum file size for upload is 25MB. Click the info icon for information on accepted file types for uploading.
There are a number of speech preparation tools that can be accessed through the Library, including the following:
- Topic Helper – helps you select a topic for your speech.
- EasyBib – simplifies and automates the formatting of citations and bibliographies
- Survey Monkey – helps your create and manage audience-analysis questionnaires.
Quick Tips
- Most keyboard shortcuts are supported in the paragraph-formatted fields.
- Tab, Shift+Tab, and Cmd+Z/Ctrl+Z are not supported.
- Copying and pasting HTML text (except from Word) into any paragraph-formatted field is supported.
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Using the ebook
If the McGraw-Hill textbook you are using for your course is available in ebook format, the ebook feature is available to you in your Connect course.
After you open the ebook, you can:
(A) Switch sections within a chapter by clicking the blue arrows, or the section drop-down menu.
(B) Go to a specific page by entering a textbook page number.
(C) Navigate with the book contents drop-down menu.
(D) Highlight text, add your own notes, add a bookmark, or print the content on the current page.
(E) Adjust the font size or hide book images with the gear tool.
(F) Search ebook content by keywords.
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How your colleague's settings will affect your assignment
When you share an assignment with a colleague, you can allow your colleague to edit all of the assignment’s policies, none of the assignment’s policies, or only the assignment’s start and due dates.
Here’s how each setting will affect your assignment:
• All policies: Selecting this will give your colleague the most privileges. Your colleague will be able to edit all the policies you’ve set, and those edits will appear in your section(s) for your students. This means that your assignment will receive any edits made to the assignment’s category, start and due dates, basic settings, attempts settings, resources, feedback, and content policies.
• No policies: Selecting this will give your colleague the least privileges. Your colleague will not be able to edit any of the policies you’ve set.
• Only start and due dates: The only policies that your colleague will be able to edit are the assignment’s start and due dates. Any edits to the dates will appear in your section(s) for your students.
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On your section home page click the add Assignment tab to create an assignment.
Select web activity.
Enter a name for your activity (A)
Then provide instructions for your students (B).
If the activity involves visiting a website, include the name and web address of the site you'd like your students to visit (C).
If you have additional web links, click + add another web link (D) to add more.
Click next: assign (E) to continue.
Select the availability and due dates for this web activity (A).
Web activities are a great way to create open-ended, real-world assignments or to enrich learning experiences by providing links to timely and relevant web resources!
Use this feature to highlight relevant websites or other resources, such as material from the Library Tab Resources
NOTE: The items you post in Web Activities are non-gradable and will not be visible in the Connect Reports area
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Adding bookmarks in the eBook
You can add a bookmark to a specific section of your eBook for you or your students to reference. The bookmark tool allows you to add bookmarks as well as jump to specific bookmarks.
To add a bookmark:
- Navigate to the page you want to bookmark
- Click the bookmark tool and click add bookmark. Alternatively you can press the B key to create a bookmark.
Jump to a bookmark:
- Click the bookmark tool to open the bookmark menu.
- Click the Jump to Bookmark menu and select the bookmark you want to go to.
You can add "sticky" style notes to ebook pages for you or your students to reference.
To add a note:
- Navigate to the page you want to add the note to.
- Click the Notes tool and select the color for your note.
- Click add note.
- The note appears in the ebook page.
- Click the sample text inside of the note to add your own text. Click save when you are done.
- Click and drag the top edge of the note to position it where you want on the page.
Alternatively you can press the N key to add a note to the current page you are viewing.
To hide all notes, select hide notes from the Notes tool menu.
To delete a note click the small trash can icon in the top right of the note.
All note references are stored in my notebook. See Using My Notebook for more information.
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Available eBook exercises associated with specific chapters in your textbook are listed. If you do not see the assignments, click the blue arrow next to the chapter name to reveal the assignment list.
To assign an eBook exercises:
- Click the assign button in the row of the assignment you want to assign.
- You are presented with the assign to students screen.
- Select the section(s) and group you want to add this assignment to.
- Modify the availability date if needed.
- Adjust any additional assignment settings if needed.
- Click assign.
The black assigned marker indicates exercises already assigned. Position your mouse cursor over the assigned icon to view which sections have the item assigned.
Alternatively you can assign all assignments by clicking the assign all button in the column heading above the assign buttons.
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If an assignment or part of its content has not been assigned to any sections yet:
- Check the box next to the exercise you want to assign.
- Click assign checked items.
- The Assign to Students page will open.
- Select the section and group you want this assignment assigned to.
- Click assign.
You can preview an assignment before assigning it by clicking the assignment name.
From the preview screen you can:
- Answer and page through the exercise as a student would.
- Print the exercise question you are currently viewing.
- View the exercise polices by clicking policies.
- Edit the exercise to make it your own customized version. This customized version appears in your section assignments list.
- Click assign
- Return to the ebook by clicking return to ebook located above the exercise title.
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Assigning eBook readings
To assign an item of the eBook:
- Check the box in the row of each item you want to assign.
- Click assign checked items.
- You will be presented with the assign to students screen.
- Select the course section(s) and group to add this assignment to.
- Optionally set the dates when you want this assignment to be available for.
- Click assign.
You're returned to the Table of Contents of the eBook. The item(s) you assigned will now have the assigned icon next to them.
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Deleting notebook items
To delete notebook items, click the trash can icon next to the item you want to delete.
The item will be removed from your notebook as well as from the eBook section it was referenced.
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Enabling and disabling the eBook
You can enable or disable the eBook link during an assignment. For example, you might want to disable the eBook link for an exam, so students are not able to access the eBook at that time.
This setting can be changed in assignment policies. On Step 3 (set policies) under the settings section, click the resources button. Under "assistance types" is "eBook and resources." Check this box to enable or disable.
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Printing notebook items
Highlighted text and notes you’ve added can be printed from Connect.
To print notebook items:
Check the box next to the item(s) you want to print and click print checked items.
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Printing the eBook
You can print sections of the ebook to your printer for reading offline.
To print an ebook section:
- Navigate to the section you want to print.
- Click the print icon.
- A new window opens containing the ebook section.
- Click the print button to print the section.
- Click close window when you are done printing to return to the ebook.
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Sharing notebook items with students
You can share your notes, highlights, etc. with your students by clicking the invisible (eye) icon. By default the notebook is private.
Clicking the eye icon will make the notebook item available for your students to see when they view the eBook. Clicking the eye icon will hide the item again.
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Using the Connect+ eBook navigation
If the McGraw-Hill textbook you are using for your course is available in ebook format, the ebook feature is available to you in your Connect course.
After you open the ebook, you can:
(A) Switch sections within a chapter by clicking the blue arrows, or the section drop-down menu.
(B) Go to a specific page by entering a textbook page number.
(C) Navigate with the book contents drop-down menu.
(D) Highlight text, add your own notes, add a bookmark, or print the content on the current page.
(E) Adjust the font size or hide book images with the gear tool.
(F) Search ebook content by keywords.
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The eBook views
The two different eBook views in Connect
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Using the notebook
Clicking the "my notebook" opens a personal notebook that stores highlighted text, sticky notes, bookmarks, videos and images you added to your notebook.
You can delete items using the trashcan icon and you can also share your notebook content with your students by clicking the eye icon.
All items within the notebook are organized by ebook chapter.
To jump to the specific item reference, simply click the item.
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View student activity for an assignment
To view student activity for a writing assignment, simply select the assignment from your section home.
The student activity tab gives you a comprehensive look at your students’ progress on a writing assignment. This is especially useful when the assignment has multiple parts and due dates, such as drafts and peer reviews.
Sort your students by name or peer review group, and see individual statuses for every element of your assignment (drafts, peer reviews, and final submissions). You’ll find out who has submitted, who’s in progress, and who hasn’t started.
Connect supports several assignment types such as Quizzes, Homework, Practice and Exams. Assignments are easy to create. To begin creating assignments in Connect, you must first have a course and at least one section created.
From your section homepage, click add assignment (A), and select create new from question bank (B).
After naming your assignment and entering instructions, you will select a question source.
Select questions to assign. Before you do, there are several things to know about this page:
- To change the question source, click questions from… (A).
- To create your own questions, click create your own question (B).
- To narrow the question pool, use the filter and select a question type (C).
- To have a question list generated for you, click add random selection (D).
- You can change the assignment name at any time by clicking rename (E).
To proceed, select the checkboxes next to the questions of your choice (A), click add checked questions and choose to add as individual questions or add to a pool (B). Click next: set policies (C).
Set the assignment start and due dates (A). Select whether to make the assignment available now or later. Selecting now will allow students to see the assignment as soon as you’re finished creating and assigning it. Selecting later allows you to enter a start date. Select the assignment category (B). Use the settings menu (C) to move through the policy options. To proceed, click next: review & assign (D).
To share the assignment with colleagues, click add colleagues (A). After adding colleagues, you can choose what policies your colleagues can control. To attach files, click choose a file (B) and select the file you want to attach. There is no limit on the number of files you can attach. Review the assignment policies (C) and questions (D), and click assign (E).
To help build student familiarity and confidence with your course and with Connect, create a tutorial assignment at the start of the term using a sampling of questions
At the start of the term, create shorter assignments
Set assignment due dates that prevent last-minute work and unexpected issues (for example, avoid 11:59 p.m. on Sunday)
Remember, if you want to save your work during the assignment creation process, but are not ready to make the assignment available to student, click Save & Exit. (The assignment will be highlighted in yellow in the Instructor View). Once you choose to make the assignment available, edit the assignment and click Assign
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To add a Speech Assignment:
Click add assignment on your section home page. Then click speech from the list of assignments.
This is the speech assignment setup page.
First, enter a name for your assignment, then decide how much the assignment is worth, and whether you want to make it available to your students now or later (now means once you’re finished creating the assignment).
Select how you want to assess your students’ speeches: in class (as each speech is delivered in the classroom) or online (you will watch video recordings of each speech).
Next, set the date and time your students will need to have posted their speech videos.
To turn on the student self review, click the on-off switch.
Choose a rubric for your students from the drop-down menu. To edit a rubric, select it from the menu and click view/edit rubric.
To turn on the student peer review, click the on-off switch. Enter the due date and time for the completed peer reviews, and select a rubric for your students. If you want to edit a rubric, click view/edit rubric.
Select the number of students you want in each peer review group. Groups will be created for you, but if you want to rearrange the students in each group, click view/edit group.
Next, select who will be allowed to view the peer review comments and rubrics.
Select the rubric you want to use as you grade. To view or edit a rubric, click view/edit rubric.
If you don’t want to review or grade this speech assignment, turn instructor review/grading off using the on-off switch.
If you see a lock next to the instructor review/grading on-off switch, it’s because you decided to review the speeches in class, and therefore can’t turn this option off.
Next, include a message for your students in the textbox, or attach a file (optional). Then click next: review & assign.
TIP: If you turn self-review and peer review on and turn instructor review/grading off your students can use Connect to practice their speeches, view them, and get peer feedback as practice prior to delivering the speech in class. Any such “practice” speech will be scored automatically, resulting in full points for any student who submits a video and 0 points for students who do not submit videos.
Here you’ll review the selections you made. If you want to make any changes, click set up your assignment (A) to go back to the previous page.
When you’re finished reviewing, click assign. That’s it!
Your students will see the assignment on their assignment list depending on the availability dates you have set, your students are able to view and begin the assignment.
To learn more about how your students will submit speech/video assignments view the student help topic.
Your students can record and upload videos for review, which allows for greater feedback, more class time and easier grading of speeches.
There are two types of speech assignments to choose from: in class and online.
- In class means your students will deliver their speeches during class, while being recorded. Then they’ll each upload their own video.
- Online means each student records their speech on their own time and uploads the video, which can preserve valuable class time.
Note: Speech assignments are not available to all disciplines.
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Click view/edit rubric when you’re creating the assignment. For this demo, we’ll use the student self-review rubric.
What can you change in this rubric? Just about everything! All the text you see can be edited or replaced. Click on the text you want to change anywhere within the rubric and it will become editable (the category names and specific criteria, the points columns, the descriptions—everything!).
In addition to changing the text of categories and criteria, you can add more criteria under a category by clicking + add item.
To add an entirely new category, click + add category.
Fill in the grey box with the category name, and the white box with a descriptive item.
To delete entire categories or criteria, click the trashcan icon next to what you wish to delete.
The categories are automatically weighted equally, but if you want to change the weights, click weigh outcome categories.
Enter the new weights in the modal that appears. The weights you enter can be as varied as you like, but need to total 100.
Click save to apply your changes. You’ll see the adjusted weights next to each category.
To add open-ended questions to the rubric, click + add item, under “open-ended questions.”
If you ever want to revert back to the original rubric, just click reset rubric, at the top of the page.
Click save when you’ve tailored the rubric exactly to your needs.
Enter a new name for this customized rubric. You’ll be able to use this rubric again on other assignments, make more changes if you want, as well as have access to the original rubric. When you're finished, click save.
The publisher-provided rubric is ready to use as is, but you can fully customize it to your specific needs. Whether you want to change one detail or revamp the whole thing, it’s up to you!
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From the section home page select the speech assignment (A) from your list of assignments.
Review the instructions, then click close instructions window.
When the video recorder loads, click Allow for Flash Player to access your camera and microphone.
Next, select the quality of the video. The default for a typical broadband connection is medium, but if you have a slower connection you may need to select low.
After you select the quality, click Okay.
Now you’re ready to record!
Click the red record button to begin recording your speech. The video recorder bar will display a timer in the left hand corner once you start recording.
When you finish your speech, click the red record button again to stop recording.
If your speech didn’t go as well as you’d like, click re-record this video. When you’re satisfied with your video, click save.
Next, add the title of your speech and a description, and attach any other files your instructor may have requested (such as the outline, visual aids, or reference materials). When you’re all set, click step 2: self-review.
Review the instructions for self review and click close instructions window.
- Click play to watch your speech. You can leave time-stamped comments throughout the speech by pausing the video and clicking the green plus (+) button (A) in the video bar.
- That’s the best way to address specific moments in your speech.
- If your instructor included a self review rubric, complete the evaluation (B).
- You can include general comments in the text box below the video. Make sure to click post (C).
When you’re finished with your self review, click done! submit assignment. That’s it!
submitting speech/video assignments
Connect allows you to upload or record a video assignments using a webcam or other video camera connected to your computer. Speech assignments can be used for public speaking and other speech and video based assignments.
The following tutorial shows you how to record a speech assignment video. For assistance on uploading a video, see How do I upload a speech/video assignment?
**If you experience problems using your webcam or video camera with the online video recording web site, check out the Troubleshooting section or visit Connect Customer Support for more assistance.
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You can change the registration dates for one or more sections so that students can only register between the specified start and end date. This feature helps you control the roster and prevent unwanted registration.
You can set registration dates during course creation or from the my courses page.
To change registration dates:
- Click set registration dates located the my courses page (A).
On the Set Registration Dates page, you have two options:
- You can change registration dates for all sections. This option allows you to set the same registration dates for all sections within the same course.
- You can change registration dates for specific sections. This option allows you to specify different registration dates for different sections within the same course. Click specific sections to view start and end dates for each section in your course.
- Enter the start and end dates (B).
- Click apply to save the changes (C).
Your registration dates will appear in the registration info column on your my courses page.
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Editing and deleting a course or section
Deleting a course deletes All of the course sections, assignments, student roster and any grade report data contained in the course.
- IMPORTANT: You cannot retrieve a course that has been deleted.
Note: A Course must have at least 1 section in order to delete the Course, you cannot delete a course that does not contain any sections.
To delete a course:
- Go to the my courses page select delete course.
- A confirmation window appears.
- Click Delete Course. A dialogue box will appear, asking you if you really want to delete this course.
- Click OK to confirm deletion of the course.
- Once the course has been deleted, a confirmation appears at the top of the my courses page and the course and its section(s) are no longer listed.
IMPORTANT: Deleting a section will also delete All grade report data for that section. Additionally, you can not delete a section if it is the only one in the course. You must delete the course instead.
To delete a section
- Go to the my courses page select "delete section" from the section options dropdown menu.
- You will be asked to verify that you want to delete the section.
- Click OK. You are prompted one last time to verify that you are sure you want to delete the section.
- Click OK again.
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Click a student's name in the roster.
The information for the selected student is displayed. To change a student's status:
- You cannot change their username/email address (only your student can change their e-mail address).
- You can change the status of the student.
- Active is the default status, meaning there are no restrictions.
- Inactive students cannot take assignments and can only view their grade reports.
Select the status for the student and click save.
To remove a student from your class:
- Click the delete this student button to the right.
- Note: Once this is done, you will no longer be able to access their grade information in your Connect reports.
To delete multiple students at one time:
- Click the delete students link above the roster table.
- A delete students roster table appears.
- Select the students you want to delete by checking the box next to their name. To delete all students, click select all located just above the student column.
- A note at the bottom reminds you that deleting students prevents them from accessing this section's assignments, reports and eBook (if applicable). Export any report information you want to save before deleting students. Caution: You cannot undo this!
- If you are ready to delete students, click the delete button to continue.
- You will see a confirmation page with the selected students displayed.
- Click delete selected students to continue. Note: Deleted students and their grade data are not recoverable. After confirming that you want to delete the students, you are returned to the roster page with the deleted students removed from the roster list.
Adding & Deleting students from your roster
The Connect roster is designed to allow your students to self register for your Connect section. Simply print and distribute the student registration information which includes your course section Web address. When they arrive at the Connect home page they can use the Register Now button and their registration code or they can purchase access if they do not have a registration code.
Once registered, they will appear in your section roster.
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Exporting your roster
We've provided a link to export your current roster as a which intended as an import file template in order to make your job easier in creating your own custom comma-delimited file. However, you can use this exported file for your own purposes too.
To export your current roster as a *.csv template:
- Click the import student info link from the roster screen.
- Next, click the Export your current roster as a *.csv template link at the top right of the screen.
- A dialogue box will open to save the template to your computer.
- Once saved, open it in Microsoft Excel to view your roster.
Login to your Blackboard account and select the course you want to un-pair.
Click “Tools” in the left navigation menu.
Click “McGraw-Hill Higher Education” from the list of available tools.
On the McGraw-Hill Higher Education page, scroll down to the bottom and click "Reset
Pairing with Connect Section" located under the My Connect Section area.
You’ll be asked to verify you want to un-pair your course. Click OK.
A confirmation message will appear toward the top of the page confirming your course was un-paired successful. The next time you want to access your Connect section from Blackboard you will have to pair your Connect section again.
by unpairing your Blackboard course and Connect Section, any Connect assignments that you have deployed to your Blackboard course will no longer be available. However, grades will remain in the Blackboard Grade Center.
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Login to your Blackboard account and select the course you want to stop automatic sign in for.
Click “Tools” in the left navigation menu.
Click “McGraw-Hill Education” from the list of available tools.
On the McGraw-Hill Education page, scroll down to the bottom and click “Reset Single Sign-On” located under the McGraw-Hill User Account area.
You’ll be asked to verify you want to reset your registration information. Click OK.
A confirmation message will appear toward the top of the page confirming your automatic sign in to connect was successful. The next time you want to access any Connect assignments through Blackboard you will be prompted to sign in to Connect to access your Connect section.
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Access and use Connect Image Bank
Connect Image Bank is currently available for Art and Humanities titles. To see if Connect Image Bank is available for your textbook within Connect, follow the steps below:
Within Connect, click the Library tab. If the Connect Image Bank is available for your textbook, then you'll see the images option in the Library. Click on images.
You can browse and search by textbook, chapter, keyword, style, period, medium, and world culture.
Click the Add button underneath each image that you would like to add to the download bin.
Note: You may only download a total of 10MB at a time (this is approximately 4 pictures). Repeat this process to download more images.
Once you have selected all of your pictures, click the blue download button on the top right.
Select Optimized Images or High Resolution Images and choose a location to save the files to your computer.
Once you have saved the files to your computer, you can open them on your computer and/or use them in a PowerPoint Presentation.
View images from other McGraw-Hill Education art textbooks
Connect Image Bank offers over 2,500 images from titles on McGraw-Hill’s Art and Humanities lists. We will continue to add more images to Connect Image Bank as new titles and new editions publish. You have access to view the entire catalog of images.
Resolution and format of the Image Bank files
All images in Connect Image Bank are in jpeg format. You have two options when downloading images from Connect Image Bank: images that are optimized for use in PowerPoint and images that are high resolution versions with larger file sizes. The optimized versions, which are all 72 dpi, will look great when projected from a computer, and the file size will not slow down the performance of your PowerPoint slides. If you require higher resolution images, that option is available. The high resolution versions of the images vary in resolution, and the file sizes can be several times larger than for the optimized versions of the same images.
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Recording lectures
The recorded lectures widget provides access the Tegrity lecture recording service. You can easily record, manage and allow your students to view your lectures online.
Your students can relax and participate during class instead of trying to write down everything you are discussing. They can always go back later and review your lecture through Tegrity Campus using a web browser, iPod or other mobile device.
Note: Your students will have to subscribe to Tegrity Campus to access your online lectures.
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Viewing instructor resources
- Go to the Library and select instructor resources
- The Instructor Resources option opens a new browser window containing the MHHE Online Learning Center for your textbook. Here you will find additional presentation materials, instructor manuals, web resources, quizzes and more.
- Click view resources from the main library page instructor resources box or click instructor resources from the library menu to view this material.
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Get Started
Select the library tab then select customize (A) in the “Speech preparation tools” area. Note that the title of the tool may vary depending on your course.
Outline Tool: basic settings
Here you will find the basic settings for the outline tool. You have the ability to edit the fields that are seen by your students.
Sample Outline
By providing a Sample Outline (A), students will have the option to view an outline supplied by you, creating an example of an outline that meets your expectations.
You have the option to view the sample outline (B), replace it (C), or delete it (D).
Outline Objectives
For select titles, you will have the option to enter your Speech Objectives. The Objectives help to keep the students focused while creating their outline.
By default the objectives, are; “General Purpose”, “Specific Purpose”, and “Central Idea”, you can edit the objective fields (A), delete the objectives (B), or add new objectives (C).
Outline Copy
Select outline or paragraph format (A), by selecting the format type, your students will follow your formatting preferences when creating their outline
After all customizations are complete, click save.
View as a student
By selecting view as a student you will be able to preview what your student’s will see while creating their outline (A).
To go back, click customize (B).
After all customizations are complete, click save.
There are a number of speech preparation tools that can be accessed through the Library, including the following:
Topic Helper – helps you select a topic for your speech.
EasyBib – simplifies and automates the formatting of citations and bibliographies
Survey Monkey – helps your create and manage audience-analysis questionnaires.
Quick Tips
Most keyboard shortcuts are supported in the paragraph-formatted fields.
Tab, Shift+Tab, and Cmd+Z/Ctrl+Z are not supported.
Copying and pasting HTML text (except from Word) into any paragraph-formatted field is supported.
Click Reset at anytime, to revert back to the default settings.
From the library main page you can view your already created assignments as well as create new assignments from our question banks or from pre-built assignment collections.
Use the options available in the main area of the Library landing page to:
Access eBook resources and search your textbook
Create an assignment from our question banks, including your own custom questions using the Assignment Builder.
Record and view your lectures.
View all the assignments you've created by clicking View my assignments at the bottom of this area.
Below the main area, you'll find the pre-made assignment collections.
You can use them as is or edit them to create your own custom assignments. When you select an item from these collections to assign or customize for your course, a copy of the assignment is added to your section's assignments list. The items here are references to the original pre-made assignment resource.
To view your customized assignment, open it using the my assignments assignment list.
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Library Resources Overview
The Library is where you access instructor resources, collections of assignments and other related information or services related to your course.
To access the library for your course section:
- Navigate to your section home page and select the library tab. Note: The Library is a dynamic area and only presents associated materials and services that are available for your subject and textbook. Not all items shown in this tutorial may be available your particular subject and/or textbook.
- Use the menu located on the left side of the Library view to access the various items available.
- Once you click an item in the Library menu, a submenu appears highlighting what is currently being displayed.
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stop sharing an assignment
Once you have shared an assignment with a colleague, it's easy to stop sharing that assignment if you need to as well. When you stop sharing an assignment, any changes you make to your assignment (questions, policies, etc) will not be seen by the colleague you choose to stop sharing with.
To stop sharing an assignment with a colleague:
- In your section assignment list, click the sharing icon next to the assignment you want to stop sharing.
- Check the section(s) of the colleague you want to stop sharing the assignment with and click stop sharing.
- Click OK to the confirmation window that appears.
- Connect will provide a confirmation message that the assignment is no longer being shared.
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As your students submit their writing assignments, you’ll see a flagged message on your section homepage that indicates you have submissions to grade. Click that message to get started.
You’ll be taken to your grading to-do list. Find the assignment you want to grade, and select the student whose submission you want to grade. (The students who’ve submitted their assignments will have a green flag and “ready to grade” as their statuses.)
How you grade the student’s assignment depends on how it was submitted.
If it was composed online, you can leave inline comments.
- First, highlight the text you want to comment on.
- Click the comment button that appears at the end of the selection (A) and enter your comment in the text box provided.
- Then click add comment to post or cancel if you change your mind.
If your student attached the assignment as a word document (A)
- Download the file.
- Add your comments within the document and save it to your computer.
- Then, below “attach student’s doc with your comments,” click browse(B).
- Select the student’s file with your comments.
You can also add overall comments to the assignment (A). Enter your comment in the text box below “add a comment,” and then click post (B).
After providing your comments, move on to the blue scoring area. To grade the student, enter the student’s score and any comments regarding the score.
Click submit score & comments, and then click next student to continue grading.
ALTERNATE:
How you grade a writing assignment depends on how it was submitted. Select whether the student composed online or attached a document to find out how to review and score.
Discussion board assignments are automatically submitted on the due date you set when creating the assignment. You’ll see a flagged message on your section homepage that indicates you have submissions to grade. Click that message to get started.
From your grading to-do list, click on the discussion board assignment you want to grade.
Select a student from the drop-down menu to see the posts and replies by that student outlined in orange. Click on that student’s name in the column on the right-hand side to expand the scoring menu, and then provide a score and comments.
When you’re finished grading all your students, click submit scores and comments.
Click add assignment on your section home page, and select discussion board assignment from the list.
Enter a name for the discussion board (A), and the discussion topic (B), and then move on to basic settings.
Decide how much the assignment is worth, and whether you want to make it available to your students now or later. (Now means once you’re finished creating the assignment.) If you choose later, enter the date and time you want it to become available.
Next, set the discussion board due date and time, and then click next: review & assign.
To share this assignment with a colleague, click add colleague and find the colleague you want to share with. Once you find and add your colleague, choose what assignment policies your colleague will be able to change.
You can attach files for your students to reference before starting their assignments. Click choose file… and select the file you want to attach. There is no limit to the number of files you can attach.
Lastly, review the assignment policies you’ve set. If you want to make any changes, click previous: set up assignment. Click assign when you’re finished reviewing.
Click add assignment on your section home page, and select writing assignment from the list.
Enter a name for your assignment (A), and the instructions for your students (B). Moving on to basic settings, enter the amount of points the assignment is worth (C), and choose whether to make it available to your students now or later (D). “Now” means once you’re finished creating the assignment. If you choose “later,” enter the date and time that you want the assignment to be available.
Choose how your students will submit their assignments (A). If you want to assign drafts or peer reviews with this assignment, you need to choose “compose online.” Click the question mark icon to find out more about each submission format. After choosing “compose online,” select a text editor palette for your students (B).
You can assign no drafts, one draft, or two drafts of the assignment in addition to the final submission. Select the number of drafts from the dropdown menu (A). If you selected any drafts, enter their due dates (B). Peer review is automatically included with each draft. If you don’t want to assign peer review, simply uncheck include peer review (C).
If you’re including peer reviews, enter peer review due dates (A) and click view/edit questions (B) to select questions for your students to answer in their peer reviews. Then select the number of students you want in each group (C). Connect will place your students into groups automatically, but you can rearrange group members by clicking view/edit group (D). Next, select who can see peer review comments and whether student names should be hidden (E).
Enter a due date and time for the final submission (A) and click next: review & assign (B).
To share this assignment with colleagues, click add colleague (A) and search for the colleagues. After you find and add your colleagues, you need to choose which assignment policies your colleagues will be able to change.
If you want to attach files for your students, such as instructions, examples, or supporting documents, click choose file… (A) and select the files you want to attach. Last, review the assignment policies you’ve set. If you want to make any changes, click previous: set up assignment or save & exit to finish creating this assignment later. Click assign (B) when you’re finished reviewing and ready to assign to your students.
Review this checklist before giving students the web address to register for your Connect Enterprise course.
1. Do you want to pair your course with a McGraw-Hill product?
Pair your course before providing its course web address to students. Pairing your course after giving out registration information may result in higher costs for your students.
Pair Your Blackboard Course With Connect
2. Have you deployed Connect assignments to Connect Enterprise?
After students register, they’ll be able to see their Connect assignments when they sign in to Connect Enterprise. Students can only start their assignments on the date you specified.
Deploy Connect Assignments to Blackboard
3. Give your course web address to students.
You can copy and paste the Connect Enterprise course web address into the course syllabus.
Here’s how you can always find the course web address:
You can assign a first draft and second draft with peer reviews, or assign the drafts only. Select the number of drafts from the dropdown (A) and then enter the due dates for the drafts (B).
Peer reviews are automatically included for each draft. Simply uncheck the boxes if you don’t want to include peer reviews (C). If you do include peer reviews, move on to the “student peer review” section and select the due date for each peer review (D).
When you’ve set your due dates, click view/edit questions (E) to select peer review questions to assign.
Expand the question categories to select individual questions (A). Click + add item to create your own question to assign (B). Questions you create and save will remain in the peer review question list for use in later assignments. Click add selections to assignment when you’re done (C).
You’ll be taken back to the assignment set up. The next step is to select the number of students you want in each peer group (A). Connect puts your students into groups for you, but if you want to organize your students, click view/edit group (B).
Next, adjust the privacy settings for peer review comments to allow all peer group members to see each others’ comments, or allow only the student writer to see the peer comments (B). If you want peer comments to remain anonymous to your students, select hide student names from peer group and student writer (C). You’ll still be able to see who wrote the comments.
Accessibility with McGraw-Hill Connect® - 508 Compliance
McGraw-Hill Education is committed to making McGraw-Hill Connect® accessible to as many instructors and students as possible.
This effort requires McGraw-Hill to frequently review Connect web accessibility through a series of rigorous audits to ensure compliance is maintained with the wealth of standards in education, including those required by the American Disabilities Act (ADA). By participating in these audits, we are working to meet the needs of governing agencies and institutions as required by the ADA’s Section 508 guidelines, but most importantly to our Connect users with disabilities. Further, we are confident that through our compliance, we are helping these students learn and succeed in the classroom and beyond with top quality resources available from McGraw-Hill content experts and authors.
Given that Connect is a web-based application developed in HTML, which makes use of Flash-based applications, videos, eBooks, assessment tools and other multimedia resources, browser plug-ins may be required for vision-impaired or hearing-impaired students to gain access.
You can access personalized learning assignments in two places: your section’s add assignment tab and the library tab. Click on personalized learning, and then you’ll be able to choose the whole adaptive study plan or just individual study topics. The whole personalized learning plan is intended to cover all topics and learning objectives, so students can progress through the course material at their own pace. The individual learning topics give instructors more control over what topics are covered at a given point in the course. Once you decide on the right fit for your course, follow the steps to customize the assignment and assign it to your students.
Personalized Learning is an intelligent learning system based on cognitive mapping that diagnoses each student's knowledge of a particular subject, and then creates an individualized learning path geared to success.
The unique diagnostic tool offers individual assessments, and then creates customized study calendars and activity plans to help your students master the content. The study material and activities are based on the learning objectives defined by content experts for your course.
You choose whether to assign the complete diagnostic and learning plan, or just the specific activities topics to hone a certain skill. Your students' results are recorded in the Reports tab under "Personalized Learning Results."
You’ll get an overall progress report and a detailed progress report of the Personalized Learning modules you assigned (if available). To see these results, just click the reports tab and select Personalized Learning results.
Personalized Learning features
Each student will receive a complete, customized learning plan based on which concepts the student already knows and understands, and which concepts need more attention.
Students can choose how many days a week they want to study, and a study calendar will be created for them, complete with how long to spend studying each day and which activities to do. But that doesn’t need to limit them! Students are free to work ahead of schedule if they want. The calendar will track each student’s progress and adjust the activity and study schedule. A widget on the section homepage will show each student whether they are right on track, falling behind schedule or ahead of schedule.
Instructors can use Personalized Learning reports to monitor their students’ progress and see which concepts are causing trouble. Based on that, instructors can assign individual activities to target these areas.
Content tooltips are notes, glossary terms, or other information that relates to a specific question. Students will see this information in context as they complete the question by clicking the underlined word with the tooltip attached.
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Instructor Info
Instructor Info lets you provide contextual information to instructors about a specific question. Then the instructors can choose to assign the question to students. Instructors will see this information by clicking the information icon in the Assignment Builder or the assignment preview.
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Survey question heading
Survey questions are non-scorable polls meant to gather student opinions or suggestions. The survey question heading is the survey title, or label, that students will see.
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Section break reference pop-out window
Displaying the section break as a reference pop-out window will hide the section break contents above the questions within the section. The section break contents will show only when a student clicks the icon.
Adding a Section Heading
1. Enter/edit the instructions for the series of questions in the text box under the Section Break heading.
2. Enter a unique name for this set of instructions in the Use As Reference box. The name of each set of instructions in your test bank must be unique. To link this set of instructions to the questions that belong with it, enter this name in the Tie to Reference box for each question in the series. For this feature to work as expected, the questions must be sorted manually under this section heading using the reorder icons in your list of assignment questions.
3. When you are finished, save your question and return to your list of questions by clicking the Save & Exit button at the top of the page.
If you want to continue authoring questions, select a question type from the New dropdown menu and click the New button. Clicking any of the active navigation buttons at the top of the page will also save your question.
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Worksheet question
A worksheet question allows you to create one question with different parts and answer types. A worksheet question can be comprised of True/False, Multiple Choice, Number, Word Phrase, Unscored Essay, Labeled Value Group, and Learning Objective questions.
You can also assign the Accounting Tool, Graphing Tool, Highlighter HTML, NQI HTML, Standalone ClickDrag, and Wimba Tool.
You can express grade entire assignments to swiftly award 100% scores to a section of your course. Simply choose whether to award 100% to all students (in that section), just the students who started the assignment, or just the students who submitted the assignment, and then click save.
Express grading an assignment will override any scores you previously gave for that assignment, and can only be reversed if you manually enter new scores. Express graded assignments are marked by orange tags in your gradebook.
Sections have assignment limits to keep your course running as smooth and quick as possible for you and your students. There are a few ways you can organize your section to make sure it never reaches the limit. If your section already has, the simplest way to reduce the number of assignments is to delete any unnecessary assignments.
See these tutorials to learn more about streamlining and managing your sections:
Blackboard IM is a convenient and effective resource for your students to communicate, learn, study, and get help outside of the classroom. Features include instant messaging and web conferences, and collaborative tools like screen sharing and the whiteboard. Blackboard IM automatically syncs with your roster so that your students can easily connect with you and each other.
To begin using Blackboard IM, simply create a Blackboard IM account, or sign in with your existing Blackboard account. Then download Blackboard IM from your section home. For more detailed instructions on creating an account, installing, and using Blackboard IM, visit the User Guide.
For technical and troubleshooting help, visit the Blackboard Collaborate Support site. From there, choose your area of interest and then look for specific Blackboard IM help.
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Grading chat assignments
Click the student’s voice board recording and then click the play button to listen. You can pause, stop, and resume playing the recording at any time. Use the participants dropdown to select another student and listen to that student’s response.
Then enter a score and comments, and click apply. If you want to award full credit to the section, or withdraw the question from the assignment, click adjust credit for all students,/b> and follow the steps.
Keep in mind that if you listened to other students’ voice board responses, you are providing a score only for the initial student. To switch to another student, select the student from the row up top.
The limited pilot of Outcomes-Based Assessment (OBA) is available for English courses.
We recommend reading the Outcomes-Based Assessment guide before getting started, and printing it for reference throughout the term.
The comprehensive guide explains exactly how to use learning outcomes in your course, from setting up, managing, and scoring learning outcomes to running the powerful reports.
The limited pilot of Outcomes-Based Assessment (OBA) is available for English courses.
We recommend reading the Outcomes-Based Assessment guide before getting started, and printing it for reference throughout the term.
The comprehensive guide explains exactly how to use learning outcomes in your course, from setting up, managing, and scoring learning outcomes to running the powerful reports.
The limited pilot of Outcomes-Based Assessment (OBA) is available for English courses.
We recommend reading the Outcomes-Based Assessment guide before getting started, and printing it for reference throughout the term.
The comprehensive guide explains exactly how to use learning outcomes in your course, from setting up, managing, and scoring learning outcomes to running the powerful reports.
The limited pilot of Outcomes-Based Assessment (OBA) is available for English courses.
We recommend reading the Outcomes-Based Assessment guide before getting started, and printing it for reference throughout the term.
The comprehensive guide explains exactly how to use learning outcomes in your course, from setting up, managing, and scoring learning outcomes to running the powerful reports.
The limited pilot of Outcomes-Based Assessment (OBA) is available for English courses.
We recommend reading the Outcomes-Based Assessment guide before getting started, and printing it for reference throughout the term.
The comprehensive guide explains exactly how to use learning outcomes in your course, from setting up, managing, and scoring learning outcomes to running the powerful reports.
Click the student’s document to download it to your computer for review (A). To leave inline comments, do so within the document and save it to your computer. Then upload the document with your comments by clicking Browse… (B) under “attach student’s doc with your comments,” and selecting the file.
You can leave overall comments and provide a score in Connect. Enter your comments in the text box below “add a comment” and then click post (C). The student will get these comments when you submit the score.
Enter a score next to “score this assignment,” (D) and any additional comments below. Click submit score & comment (E) when you’re done.
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See how to score: compose online
You may have assigned a final submission only, or also included drafts, peer reviews, and learning outcomes with the writing assignment.
Here are tutorials on how to review each part, so you can learn just what is relevant to your assignment:
How you score a writing assignment depends on how it was submitted. Select whether the student composed online or attached a document to find out all you need to know.
The limited pilot of Outcomes-Based Assessment (OBA) is available for English courses.
We recommend reading the Outcomes-Based Assessment guide before getting started, and printing it for reference throughout the term.
The comprehensive guide explains exactly how to use learning outcomes in your course, from setting up, managing, and scoring learning outcomes to running the powerful reports.
You can upload your own files to the Library using the my files link in the Library menu.
To upload a file:
Click the upload files button.
Click Browse and locate the file on your computer.
Click upload and Connect will begin uploading your file.
Once uploaded, the file will appear on the my files page.
How do I upload files in the Library?
The following file types are currently supported:
- Image: .jpg, .png, .gif, .eps, bmp,
- Document: .pdf, .doc, .docx, .ppt, .pptx, .xls, .xlsx, .zip, .txt, .html, .vsd, graffle
- Audio/Video: .mp3, .avi, .flv, .mp4, .h264
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You can upload your own files to the Library using the my files link in the Library menu. To upload a file: Click the upload files button.
Click Browse and locate the file on your computer.
Click upload and Connect will begin uploading your file.
Once uploaded, the file will appear in the my files list.
The default setting will hide it from your students’ view. Click the “eye” icon to “show” the file to your students. Remember to do this for each file you want visible in your students’ library. Connect will provide a confirmation message when you show or hide a file from your students’ library.
Click upload additional files (B) and follow the previous upload steps if you have more files you want to add to your library.
Once uploaded, your file will appear in the “my files” list.
The default setting will hide it from your students’ view. Click the “eye” icon (A) to “show” the file to your students. Remember to do this for each file you want visible in your students’ library. Connect will provide a confirmation message when you show or hide a file from your students’ library.
Click upload additional files (B) and follow the previous upload steps if you have more files you want to add to your library.
Now, let’s take a look at your students’ view when a file is shared. Students will receive a notification in the message center (A) on the home tab. Students can click this message or go directly to the library tab (B) to view the shared files.
Once students are in the library, clicking course files (A) will display the files you’ve shared.
Upload and show reference documents in your course
Connect enables you to add course files within the library for student reference outside of an assignment, providing a customized resource center for your students. You can even upload all relevant documents at the start of the term and keep them hidden from students until they’re relevant for the course. Connect will support up to 20GB of file storage per course in your account.
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Reset your password
Follow these steps to reset password:
1. Click here.
2. Enter your email address you used to register for CONNECT and click Submit.
3. Type in a new password
4. Retype your new password
5. Answer your Security Question
6. Click the Submit button
If your email address is not found in the system or if you are unable to reset your password for any reason, please go to www.mhhe.com/support and click on the “Contact Us” tab for further password assistance.
Our support hours and contact information can be found on the “Contact Us” tab.
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Get Started
register for Connect
Sign up for a Instructor Webinar Orientation.
Fill out the form. The Web address will be provided during the Online Orientation.
Submit the Web-Form for approval and setup. We’ll contact you by e-mail and include our Welcome Kit once your account has been approved and set up. The Welcome Kit includes helpful documents created by our technical support team, and we encourage you to review and keep them for future reference.
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Using the Instructor Info widget
The Instructor Info widget provides the ability to upload your photo, add your email address and other information such as your office hours, and see the section URL. To add your information and upload your photo, click the options icon in the top right corner of the widget. The instructor info form will appear containing fields for your instructor info widget.
To add your picture (optional), just click the Browse button and select the photo from your computer. The photo must be a JPEG, GIF or PNG file and be 150 k or smaller in file size.
Enter your e-mail address and add additional basic information such as your office hours. Leave the box “apply to all sections in this course” checked to have this instructor information appear on all course section home pages for this course. Click save and the instructor info widget will be updated.
If you have shared documents or sections with your colleagues, you can use the view my course colleagues link to view your colleagues and manage shared assignments.
You can also upload the syllabus.
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Using the Student View to view an assignment
To view an assignment as a student:
Go to the section home page for the assignment you want to view.
Click switch to student view above the instructor info widget.
Note: Only published assignments will appear in the Student View.
Click the assignment you want to view as a student.
Clicking on an assignment in Student View opens the assignment as it would appear to the student.
You can use this to preview your assignment before making it available to your students.
To return to your section home, click save & exit.
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There a couple of ways to copy an assignment.
Method #1:
This method is great when you need to make a copy of more than one assignment.
1. From the Assignment List, click the checkbox in the blue column to select the assignment(s) you want to copy (A).
2. Click the Copy icon at the top or bottom of the list (B).
3. The "should I share or copy?" reminder window opens. Select I want to copy.
This method allows you to make a copy of multiple assignments at a time.
Method #2:
1. Click the assignment name from the Assignment List.
2. From the Assignment Preview. Click the Copy Assignment button (A).[gallery]
3. The "should I share or copy?" reminder window opens. Select I want to copy.
Using either method above will display the copy assignment options page. From here you can copy the assignment to any of your current sections or add a colleague to copy the assignment to. You may copy the assignment to any Connect instructor using the same textbook you are using for the selected assignment.
To add a colleague to copy the assignment to:
1. Click the copy to colleague tab
2. Enter the email address your colleague uses to sign into Connect and click find colleague.
3. Once your colleague is located, select any of their sections you want the assignment copied to.
4. Click the copy button to copy the assignment.
Operating System: Windows How to change your screen resolution in Windows XP:
- From the Start menu, go to the Control Panel
- Open the Display Control Panel
- Select the Settings tab
- Change your screen resolution
- Click Apply
How to change your screen resolution in Windows Vista:
- From the Start button, go to the Control Panel
- Open the Personalization control panel
- Click Display Settings
- Click the drop-down list next to Resolution, move the slider to the resolution you want, and then click Apply.
- Click Keep to use the new resolution, or click Revert to go back to the previous resolution.
How to change your screen resolution in Windows 7:
- Open Screen Resolution by clicking the Start button.
- Click Control Panel, and then, under Appearance and Personalization, click Adjust screen resolution.
- Click the drop-down list next to Resolution, move the slider to the resolution you want, and then click Apply.
- Click Keep to use the new resolution, or click Revert to go back to the previous resolution.
Operating System: Mac How to change your screen resolution:
- From the Apple menu
- Select System Preferences
- Select Display from the Hardware section
- Select the resolution from the Display view
You may find that lowering your screen resolution will magnify the html site pages and help you see text and images more easily. As a start, try a lower resolution of 800 x 600 and see how that works for you.
For more information regarding McGraw-Hill Connect® accessibility compliance and general inquiries, please submit requests here
To use McGraw-Hill print media for a low-vision or blind student, McGraw-Hill Education can provide PDFs of your textbook or eText, Student Solutions Manuals, and other ancillaries, which can then be used with such accessibility technologies as screen readers and Braille displays. You can also convert the PDF files into another format, such as a printed Braille book.
Users who have low-vision and need to magnify site pages most or all of the time may find that using a magnification program works better for them as there are more options for magnification strength and other helpful display settings.
ZoomText
ZoomText is available for Windows operating systems only.
Tips:
- In addition to magnification functionality, ZoomText also tells the user what actions are taking place.
- For some computer configurations, the XFont setting needs to be turned off. If so, select None or Standard for your Font Enhancements setting.
Microsoft Magnifier
Magnifier is available on Windows XP Professional, and Windows 7.
Tips:
- In addition to magnification functionality, Magnifier has settings for color contrast.
Mac OS X
Tips:
- Zoom is available on Mac OS X. The magnification level is selectable and magnification can be turned on or off using the keyboard.
- ALT + Apple + “+”
- ALT + Apple + “-“
- ALT + Apple + 8 to turn on/off
Mouse with Magnifier
Magnification is available with several computer mice including:
- Microsoft Comfort Optical Mouse
- Microsoft Optical Mouse 3000
Tips:
- By using a button on the mouse, magnification can be turned on and off.
- The magnification level and size of the magnification window can be selected.
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How to change your contrast scheme:
Windows XP Professional
- From your Control Panel select Accessibility Options
- From the Display tab turn on “Use High Contrast”
- Go to Settings and select the contrast scheme
- For black text on a light background, use “High Contrast Black”.
- For white text on a dark background, use “High Contrast White”.
Try different contrast schemes until you find the one that helps you most. Note that, although this is a useful tool, it is limited. You may find that commercially available software such as ZoomText provides better contrast functionality.
Mac OS X
- From the Apple menu select System Preferences
- From System Preferences select Universal Access
- Select the Seeing tab
- For black text on a light background select “Black on White” from the Display options
- For white text on a dark background select “White on Black” from the Display options
- To change the contrast try a different contrast setting
If you find seeing in grayscale more helpful, you can change the display setting on your Mac operating system to grayscale.
In Windows, you will have to use additional software to see the site pages in grayscale, see How to see in grayscale.
Windows: Contrast-Analyzer
- Download the free software from the Paciello Group at: Contrast Analyser for Windows and Mac | The Paciello Group
- Go to Image menu and then select the Screen item
- From the Simulation pull-down, select grayscale
- To see the entire window in grayscale use the Select Window(List) item from the Image menu
A limitation with this software is that you cannot interact with the page in the grayscale view. For higher contrast try the invert display option.
Vision Australia Browser Toolbar for Internet Explorer
- Download the free software from Vision Australia Vision Australia Website
- Open your browser, go to the site page and select grayscale from the Color option
A limitation with this software is you need to perform this action for each site page you visit.
Mac: Universal Access
- From the Apple menu select System Preferences
- From System Preferences select Universal Access
- Select the Seeing tab
- Select “Use grayscale” from the Display options
It may be easier for you to see site pages by changing the color scheme. For example, you can change to light text on a dark background, dark text on a light background, or grayscale.
You can choose your contrast scheme from the operating system’s settings.
If you have difficulty using your mouse because of motility impairment, you may find using your keyboard easier. Low-vision users may also find using the keyboard easier as it may be difficult to see the mouse pointer and its location on the screen.
You can use the TAB key to navigate all links, buttons, and form controls in the html portions of the site.
You can interact with form controls using standard keystrokes on your keyboard. For example, use the TAB key to navigate to an input field. Then use the alphanumeric keys to enter in your information. Once you have completed entering in your information, use the TAB key to move to the next field in the form. When using screen readers, instructions on how to interact with the form controls using the keyboard are given.
You can use keyboard shortcuts for the math palette tools when working on questions. The keyboard shortcuts are provided in the online help.
Click add / edit group from your section home page and select edit groups.
Within the edit groups window you can:
A) Use the arrows in the first column to reorder the group selection menu list. Alternatively, you can drag and drop a group to a new position in the group list. Once you have the groups in the order you want, click save new order.
B) Click the edit icon to rename and change the description of a group. Make your edits and click save.
C) Once you are done editing your groups, click save new order to return to the section home page.
First select the assignment(s) you want to delete by checking the boxes at the end of each assignment row (A).
Click delete from the assignment list options (B).
The delete assignment confirmation window appears reminding you that the assignment(s) and all the reporting a data, if available, will be lost when you click OK. Additionally, this affects ALL assigned sections. You cannot undo this!
Click OK.
A confirmation message appears briefly before you are returned to the current group assignment list with the deleted assignment removed.
GET CONNECTED ON YOUR FIRST DAY OF CLASS!
Using technology in today’s learning environment starts on DAY ONE. Start your students off on the right foot using customizable PowerPoint decks, videos and other resources designed to help your students get the most of their digital learning experience.
Find your PowerPoint decks that have been customized for each Connect discipline.
Watch student and instructor videos showcasing their experiences with using Connect/LearnSmart.
Need more information? Browse through a few helpful links to help you get started.
Add image captions to your PowerPoint presentation
When you download images from Connect Image Bank, the title and caption information appears in a separate text file (.rtf). This text file gives you the flexibility to decide what information you want to include as part of your presentation.
Use your selected images in PowerPoint
Connect Image Bank is created to support instructors in building their lecture presentations. Content on Connect Image Bank is under copyright and may only be reproduced for classroom use or used in a secure electronic network environment that prevents downloading or reproducing this copyrighted material. All other uses or reproduction by any means—whether graphic, electronic or mechanical means, including, but not limited to, photocopying, recording, taping, web distribution, information networks or retrieval systems—without the Publisher’s prior written permission is strictly prohibited.
Only images with secured permissions will appear
McGraw-Hill is working to deliver as many images as possible from our Art and Humanities titles to instructors for educational purposes, while respecting intellectual property rights. Only images we have secured permissions for posting in our Image Bank are made available. We are continuing efforts to work with rights owners to best meet everyone's interests.
Does McGraw-Hill's Image Vault still exist?
As of December 2010, the Image Vault has been discontinued and is no longer be available.
You can leave general inline comments on a student’s draft, as well as respond to the peer review questions you assigned (if any). To leave general inline comments, highlight text in the student’s draft with your cursor and click the comment button that appears when you release your mouse (A).
Type your comment in the text box (A) and click save comment (B). An orange speech bubble will appear where you left your comment. Click the bubble to read, and have the option to delete, the comment.
If you assigned peer review questions and want to respond to them, use the arrows to scroll to the next question (A). When you’re done commenting and ready for the student to see your comments, click submit comments, at the bottom of the draft (B).
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Peers who have commented on the draft will appear in the dropdown menu next to view comments by: (A). Select a student from the dropdown to see comments.
The student’s comments are marked by orange speech bubbles. Click the speech bubbles to read the comments (A). When you’re done reading the student’s comments, select another student from the dropdown to continue reviewing peer comments.
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You can leave inline comments, overall comments, and a score on the student’s final submission. To leave inline comments, highlight text with your cursor and click the comment button that appears when you release your mouse (A). Type your comment in the text box and click add comment. If the assignment has learning outcomes, you’re able to tag the comment to a specific outcome.
When you add your comment, an orange speech bubble will appear in the submission (A). Click the bubble to read, and have the option to delete, the comment. Your comments will also appear in the column labeled “instructor's comments” (B).
Provide a final score and comments in the area labeled "score the entire assignment" (A). Click submit final score & comments (B) when you’re ready for the student to see the score and comments.
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There are two steps to scoring learning outcomes. The first step is optional: providing inline comments tagged to learning outcomes. To do this, highlight text with your cursor and click the comment button that appears when you release your mouse (A).
Type your comment in the text box (A) and select an outcome category and outcome to tag (B). Click add comment (C). Continue adding comments tagged to learning outcomes throughout the student’s submission.
The second step is providing scores. Below the student’s final submission is an area labeled “score the learning outcomes.” Use the arrows to scroll through the learning outcomes (A); select a score for each outcome (B); and enter optional comments (C).
The scores you select will appear in “learning outcome results,” below the learning outcomes scoring area. Select show learning outcome results to the student (A) if you want the student to see the scores, descriptions, and comments. These learning outcome scores are submitted when you submit the student’s final assignment score.
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Change Dates allows you to set and modify assignment start and due dates.
To change assignment dates:
- Select the checkbox next to the assignment(s) you want to change dates for.
- Click the change dates option located at the top (and the bottom) of the assignment list.
- The dates and settings screen is displayed.
- Set the available from and due by dates as needed.
- Optionally, add any student exceptions, e.g. if you have a student that is turning their assignment in later than the rest of the class.
- Click submit.
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From your section home, click add assignment (A), and select create new from question bank (B). Next, name your assignment and enter instructions for students. Then click next: add questions.
After selecting a chapter, select the checkboxes next to the questions you want to add (A), click add checked questions (B) and choose to add as individual questions or add to a pool (C).
If you choose to add to a pool, you will have to create a pool name (A), choose how many questions you want to draw (B) and select how many points each question is worth (C). Then click save (D).
You can create multiple pools for multiple chapters.
If you choose to add questions individually, you will be able to set points after adding all of your questions. Click the organize assignment tab (A) and then click set all point values (B).
You will select from three options: set points for the entire assignment, for each question or for specific question types. Then enter the point value and click set points. To proceed, click next: set policies.
To add more questions from another chapter, click questions from … (A) under the add questions tab (B).
Select the chapter you want or click return to table of comments to choose another question source. Repeat the steps for each chapter you want to add.
Once you’ve added all the chapters, click next: set policies and follow the steps for reviewing and assigning.
To change an assignment date, select the assignment from your section home (A)
and click manage dates (B). You can select multiple assignments.
To change the dates of all selected assignments, click edit next to the start or due date (A), enter the new date and click save (B).
Note that the in bulk tab (C) on the top right is automatically selected.
To change each assignment’s start and due dates separately, click manage individually (A), enter the new dates for each assignment (B) and click save (C).
To remove dates, delete the date fields (A) and click save (B).
In your section homepage, click on the assignment. Click preview (A) and then click edit questions (B).
Click on the question you want to edit, then click the edit symbol on the top right of the page (A).
Make your changes, click save (A) and then click exit (B).
To edit additional questions, click the dropdown menu at the top of the page (A) and select the question to want to edit. Enter your changes, click save (B) and then click exit (C).
After editing your questions, you can adjust point values by clicking list (A) under the organize assignment tab (B) and entering the new point values (c). Click continue to proceed (D).
From your section home, click add assignment (A) and choose personalized learning assignments (B).
You can also access personalized learning assignments from the library tab (A) by clicking personalized learning (B).
You can choose the whole personalized learning plan (A) or individual study topics (B).
- The personalized learning plan covers all topics and learning objectives so that students can progress through the course material at their own pace.
- The individual study topics give instructors more control over what topics are covered at a given point in the course.
If you choose the whole personalized learning plan: Click the unit name to see all modules (A). Uncheck the boxes for material you don’t want students to review (B). You can adjust the depth of coverage for the assignment (C). Set the assignment’s point value (D) and click next: assign (E).
If you choose the individual study topics: Click the unit name to expand or collapse the modules (A). Select the module you want by clicking assign (B).
Choosing individual study topics continued: Uncheck the boxes for material you don’t want students to review (A). You can adjust the depth of coverage for the assignment (B). Set the assignment’s point value (C) and click next: assign (D).
You can share the assignment with other sections in your own course (A) and with colleagues (B). Set start and due dates (C) and click assign (D). To change the assignment name, click rename (E).
If you choose individual study topics, you can assign multiple assignments. After you assign each assignment, you will be returned to the unit list, where you can select additional modules and assignments. Once you have selected the additional assignment, repeat the steps.
From your section home, select the checkboxes next to the assignments you want to copy (A). Click the copy icon (B).
The should you share or copy? window opens (A). Select I want to copy (B).
Note that when you copy an assignment, you are only copying the original assignment as it is at this point in time: Future edits to content and policies will not apply to the copied assignment. If you share an assignment, all edits to content and policies in the original will apply to the shared assignments.
You can copy to another section in your course (A) and copy to a colleague (B). To copy to another section in your course, select a section (C) or add a new section (D). Then click copy (E).
To copy to a colleague, enter the colleague’s Connect email address (A) and click find colleagues (B). Once your colleague has been located, choose a section to which to copy (C) and click copy (D).
In your section homepage, click add assignment, then select create new from question bank. After naming your assignment (A) and adding student instructions (B), click next: add questions (C).
Click cancel when the question source window opens.
Click create your own question (A).
Choose the type of question you want.
Enter the question title (A), the question (B) and the answer choices (C). Click save (D) and then click exit (E).
Click add more questions (A) to continue. Repeat the steps until you have finished adding questions. Then click next: set policies (B). After setting your policies, click next: review & assign. Then review and assign the assignment.
From your section home, click on the assignment. Click assignment options (A) and from the dropdown menu select edit assignment (B).
Select the question to which you want to tag a Learning Objective and click the edit symbol (A).
Click categories (A). From the dropdown menu select Learning Objective (B). Then enter your Learning Objective (C) and click new (D). Then click save (E).
You can add Learning Objectives to the other questions in your assignment by using the dropdown menu at the top center of the screen (A). When finished, click exit (B).
From your my courses page, click on + add course (A).
Select the subject and choose the new edition of your textbook (A). Enter your course name, time zone and registration dates (B). Then name your section (C). You can copy assignments from a section in one of your existing courses (D). Then click create (E).
The student registration information page will open. To change the section web address, click edit this address (A). Then click continue to section home page (B).
If you selected to copy assignments from an existing section, they will appear in your section home. If not, click add assignment (A) and choose create new from question bank (B).
After naming your assignment, adding instructions and clicking next: add questions, the select a question source window will open (A). From the dropdown menu, choose assignments I created (B), and select the assignment you want to migrate to the new edition.
Select the questions you want to add to the assignment (A). To select them all, click the topmost checkbox on the right (B). Then click add checked questions (C) and choose whether to add as individual questions or add to a pool (D). To proceed, click next: set policies (E).
Renaming existing assignments prior to migrating will make them easier to locate during the migrating process.
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From your new course’s section home, click add assignment (A) and select create new from question bank (B).
Name the assignment (A) and enter student instructions (B). Then clicknext: add questions (C).
From the dropdown menu, select assignments I created (A). Select the assignment you want.
To select all the questions in the assignment, click the topmost checkbox on the right (A). Then click add checked questions (B) and select whether to add as individual questions or to add to a pool (C). Once you’ve added your questions, click next: set policies (D) and follow the steps for reviewing and assigning.
To add questions from other chapters or assignments, click questions from … (A) from under the add questions tab (B). Repeat the steps for each chapter you want to add.
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Go to the section web address listed on the student registration info sheet your instructor provided (A). If you don’t have a web address, ask your instructor or check your syllabus.
Click REGISTER NOW (A).
Enter your email address and click Submit (A).
Enter, in all capital letters, the registration code printed on the card that came with your textbook, or that you bought separately (A). Click Submit (B).
If you have already have an account, you’re finished. If you don’t have an account, create one by filling in your information (A) and clicking Complete My Registration (B).
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Connect and LearnSmart Introduction
New to Connect? Learn the basics of setting up and navigating your Connect course.
You'll learn:
Where to find major course components like the assignment builder, instructor resources, and instructor reports
All about LearnSmart, our adaptive learning system that helps students learn faster, study more efficiently, and retain more knowledge through key concept reinforcement
The Connect "Get Started: Quick Start Guide" contains a targeted set of tutorials designed to walk a returning user through preparation for a new term using an existing course.
This first Success Academy Guide, "Preparing to Use Connect," will help you plan your implementation of Connect in a new term and serve as a checklist for what you need to accomplish before classes begin. Let's get started!
To get started with Connect, you'll want to ensure you have an active instructor account and can login at http://connect.mcgraw-hill.com.
If you believe you already have an account, please keep the following in mind:
- Remember that your login is your full email address.
- You can also reset your password if necessary
If you need a Connect account created, please contact your McGraw-Hill Education representative to request access - Find my Sales Representative.
We also recommend that you use the Connect browser check to ensure your browser is optimized for Connect - Check My Computer.
Upon creation of your McGraw-Hill Connect account, you will be emailed a Welcome Kit, which contains helpful resources for you and your students. You can also download the Welcome Kit materials here by clicking each link:
As a new user, you'll want to spend some time planning how to incorporate Connect into your course. Considering the following questions can be helpful in planning your implementation.
- What are my goals for using Connect in my course this term?
- What types of activities will I assign through Connect to meet my goals?
- How will I incorporate Connect into my syllabus and course-grading scheme to make students accountable? Instructors typically find that making Connect part of the overall grading scheme (e.g., 10-20% of the course grade) ensures student participation and rewards students for their efforts.
- How will I describe Connect to set my students expectations? For example, describing how Connect provides immediate feedback, more practice opportunities, and the ability to deliver more personalized instruction in the course can help achieve student "buy-in".
- What future goals do I have for Connect as I gain more experience?
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E-mail Support:
http://www.mhhe.com/support (Click "Contact Us"). You can also click the "Customer Support" tab on the Connect Homepage.
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Log into your Connect account and go to the appropriate course on your my courses page.
Click the Student Registration Info icon next to the section you've created.
Customized student registration instructions will open with the section's specific web address. You're able to edit this web address to make it shorter and easier to remember. Click edit this address; then enter and save the new address. When your web address is final, you may want to print a handout for your students (A). You can also copy/paste your section-specific web address (B) into your syllabus and/or your learning management system for your students to access. Remember: You will have one unique web address for each section of your course created in Connect. Repeat the above process for each section.
Now let's take a look at what a student sees when they visit your section-specific web address to register in Connect. When students visit your section-specific web address, they can verify the course and section information and click "Register Now" (A) to get started. Students can choose to watch a video of the registration process before registering on their own.
Students will enter their email address to begin creating their account.
Next, students have the option to enter the access code included with their textbook package (A) (if applicable), purchase access directly online (B), or start a free trial (C). Note: "Start Free Trial" enables students to register in Connect Plus without entering or purchasing an access code and receive full access (typically 3 weeks) before being required to obtain access. This option is convenient for students awaiting financial aid; those who may drop the class and do not want to commit to purchasing Connect just yet; or students who want to try the Connect Plus eBook before they buy. All students will be able to register and get started with assignments at the start of your course!
Students buying Connect online will typically have two options – "Connect" standalone or "Connect Plus" (if available). Connect Plus contains all of the assignment and assessment features plus an integrated eBook. Connect standalone contains all of the assignment and assessment features without an eBook (this is a cost-saving, online purchase option for students who need Connect for your course but do not want an eBook). Students can also opt for Connect Plus in lieu of purchasing a hardcopy text.
Students will complete the registration process and click Go to Connect Now, which will populate your section's roster and provide them with access to your course and section.
If students change sections during the term, simply provide them with the web address of the new section they need to be transferred into, have them click Register Now, and follow the prompts.
Connect will recognize their account and allow the students to easily register in the new section.
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MH Campus Overview
Use a learning management system? Find out how to use MH Campus with your LMS.
MH Campus allows an institution to access all McGraw-Hill products and resources including Connect, LearnSmart, Tegrity, and Create. MH Campus also provides single sign-on and, in some cases, grade synching.
Align LearnSmart assignment start and end dates with your syllabus and lectures so as to expose students to the foundational terminology, concepts, and principles in your course at formative times.
Encourage students to return to previous LearnSmart assignments to practice challenging topics, refresh their knowledge, and increase their retention of course concepts.
The assignment results report area in Connect will record your student's highest level of mastery for each LearnSmart assignment by the due date you have set. The LearnSmart results report will record data in real-time, should students continue to use the modules for self-study after the due date.
Note that LearnSmart is not available with all Connect courses.
From your section homepage, click add assignment (A), and select create new from question bank (B).
After naming your assignment and entering instructions, you will select a question source.
Select questions to assign. Before you do, there are several things to know about this page:
- To change the question source, click questions from… (A).
- To create your own questions, click create your own question (B).
- To narrow the question pool, use the filter and select a question type (C).
- To have a question list generated for you, click add random selection (D).
- You can change the assignment name at any time by clicking rename (E).
To proceed, select the checkboxes next to the questions of your choice (A), click add checked questions and choose to add as individual questions or add to a pool (B). Click next: set policies (C).
Set the assignment start and due dates (A). Select whether to make the assignment available now or later. Selecting now will allow students to see the assignment as soon as you’re finished creating and assigning it. Selecting later allows you to enter a start date. Select the assignment category (B). Use the settings menu (C) to move through the policy options. To proceed, click next: review & assign (D).
Then the assignment type you want from the row of icons: homework, practice, quiz or exam (B).
Use the settings menu to move through all the policy options (C). When you’ve set exactly what you want in each category, click next: review & assign (D).
To share the assignment with colleagues, click add colleagues (A). After adding colleagues, you can choose what policies your colleagues can control. To attach files, click choose a file (B) and select the file you want to attach. There is no limit on the number of files you can attach. Review the assignment policies (C) and questions (D), and click assign (E).
To help build student familiarity and confidence with your course and with Connect, create a tutorial assignment at the start of the term using a sampling of questions
At the start of the term, create shorter assignments
Set assignment due dates that prevent last-minute work and unexpected issues (for example, avoid 11:59 p.m. on Sunday)
Remember, if you want to save your work during the assignment creation process, but are not ready to make the assignment available to student, click Save & Exit. (The assignment will be highlighted in yellow in the Instructor View). Once you choose to make the assignment available, edit the assignment and click Assign
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From the instructor section home page, select add assignment (A) and then click group assignment (B).
Setting up your group assignment is a four-step process. You’ll start with naming the group assignment (A) and providing instructions. We have pre-populated the student instruction area (B); however, you can select and delete the pre-populated instructions or add additional instructions below if desired. Click next: set policies (C) to continue.
In the next step, set policies, you'll select the type (A), set the score (B), and select the availability dates for the assignment (C). An available/start date is required. If setting up the assignment in advance of the term, you'll want to ensure the available date is set with enough lead time for you to organize groups once your Connect roster is populated.
Click next: define groups (D) to continue.
Define groups enables you to set-up the student groups within your section. Start by selecting the number of students per group (A). Connect generates groups based on the amount of students present in the roster and the selected number of students per group. If your group assignments are set-up before students have registered, groups will automatically generate based on the number of students per group you've selected. You can edit the assignment to arrange your groups if necessary at a later time. Click add topics (B).
You have the option to add topics (A) to vary the assignment from group to group, expanding upon the assignment name and instructions. Each topic can be assigned to a specific group of your choosing in the next step. Click add topics (B) to continue.
Next, you’ll arrange and assign topics (A) (if set in the previous step) to the groups. The student avatars (B) can be dragged from one group into another. You have the ability to use the same group set-up for future group assignments by selecting the save as default (C) check box. , You can override the default setting at anytime. Once set, click next: review and assign (D).
In the last step, review and assign, you can select the sections in your course (and in a colleagues' course if sharing your section) (A) in which the assignment should appear. You can also attach any relevant reference/template files (B) or web links (C) necessary for completing the assignment. Click assign (D) to finish building your group assignment.
Your group assignment will appear on the homepage in line with your other assignments.
It may helpful to remind students in the instructions area to coordinate in advance of the due date which group member will submit the final assignment on behalf of the team.
Within one week (7 days) prior to a group assignment start date, you will receive a notification in the message area if the section roster has fluctuated (students have been added or deleted) since the assignment was created.
You can move students to a different group after an assignment has started; however, their posts, comments, attachments, etc. will not transfer from their previous group to the new group.
Creating Group Assignments
Connect enables you to make custom, collaborative assignments by using the "group assignment" feature. Student teams can utilize a workspace in Connect to collaborate with each other and submit their final assignments for grading. Connect tracks the contributions of each team member within a group and provides a streamlined workflow for assigning grades.
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Blackboard and Connect Integration
Have a Blackboard section? See how to pair your Connect and Blackboard sections using the McGraw-Hill building block.
Pairing your sections allows single-sign on access to Connect through your Blackboard course as well as automatically brings grades from Connect into your Blackboard gradebook.
While you are previewing assignment questions and you need to contact McGraw-Hill Education about an issue with the assignment content, use the contact MH Publishing (A) link found along the bottom of the question to send us your inquiry.
A form will appear allowing you to select a message topic and to enter your message. Once you are finished click send.
Next: The McGraw-Hill Digital CARE team will respond to your inquiry.
Note: If you added your own question, edited or copied an old question from an earlier version of Connect, this feature will not be available.
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Creating Assignments and Policy Settings
Unsure about assignments? Learn to create Connect assignments and choose the right policy settings for your course.
Customize your Connect course with your photo, contact information, bookmarks, or RSS Feeds. It's a great way to personalize Connect and keep important references easily accessible to students
NOTE: Students cannot see your email address unless one is specified in the Instructor Information area on the Connect Homepage
News Feeds (i.e., RSS Feeds) are a way for many different publications, such as journals, newspapers, and blogs, to easily share their latest content with their readers in real-time. Use the feeds widget to add your own discipline-specific feeds and have the latest content and links appear on your section home page for student reference.
More information about feeds and finding feeds.
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From the Assignments folder (or any content page in Blackboard), select McGraw-Hill Assignment from the drop down.
Select from a list of assignments that already exist in Connect. Otherwise, you can also choose to create a new assignment following the Connect assignment creation process.
Select Add Selected Assignments.
Confirm the location of the content area in Blackboard to deploy the selected or newly created Connect assignments. Select whether or not folders in Blackboard should be created to match your Connect Assignment Groups (if applicable) and which student Score (based on their assignment attempts) should appear in the Grade Center.
Click Submit.
Press OK on the confirmation page that follows to deploy to your selected Blackboard location.
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When a student has submitted a message via the Ask Instructor link while taking an assignment, you will receive a notification in your section home messages area.
Click the message (A) to view the inquiries.
You'll be taken to the student inquires list which displays the student name and question title. Clicking the blue triangle next to the student name will reveal the most recent message thread for the inquiry. Click see snapshot to view the corresponding question.
To respond to a student inquiry, click reply (A).
A modal window will open with a message field for you to type your reply. You can send the response just to the student who initiated the inquiry or to the entire section. When you send a message to the entire section, the original student's inquiry is not visible to the rest of the section.
Click send (A) to send your response.
Your student(s) will receive a notification of your response in their section home messages area (A). They can click the notification to view your response.
After they've read your response, your student(s) can click reply to send a reply to your response.
Note: Once the message thread for a question reaches a total of 6 messages the thread is automatically closed.
You can also view the message history for any assignment. To view the message history, click on an assignment from the assignment list and then click on the message history (A) tab.
Message history is available for your reference. You will not be able to respond to messages in the message history.
The Ask Instructor option is not enabled by default but can be enabled in the policies section of the Assignment Builder.
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Access your Connect course section and click the library tab (A) and then select my files (B) from the library menu.
Click upload files (B).
Note: You can click learn more (A) to see a list of acceptable file formats.
Next, click browse (A) and select the file on your computer you want to upload. If a file format is not supported, it will not be selectable on your computer. Click upload (B) to begin uploading your file to your Connect library.
Connect provides you with the upload status view while your file uploads.
You can cancel the upload at anytime by clicking the "x" icon or cancel.
Once uploaded, your file will appear in the "my files" list.
The default setting will hide it from your students' view. Click the "eye" icon (G) to "show" the file to your students. Remember to do this for each file you want visible in your students' library. Connect will provide a confirmation message when you show or hide a file from your students' library.
Click upload additional files (H) and follow the previous upload steps if you have more files you want to add to your library.
Now, let's take a look at your students' view when a file is shared. Students will receive a notification in the message center on the home tab. Students can click this message or go directly to the library tab to view the shared files.
Once students are in the library, clicking "course files" will display the files you've shared.
Students can download and view the files (A) as needed by clicking the file name.
Course files made available to students through the library will appear in each section of your course (if you have multiple sections created).
Course files made available to students through the library do not carry over when you share or copy your course with another instructor. However, files attached as part of an assignment will carry over when you share or copy your course with another instructor.
When you duplicate your course for a new term, course files will carry over. The "replace" and "delete" icons can be used to update any files as necessary.
Attaching Reference Files to an Assignment
Connect enables you to add course files within the library for student reference outside of an assignment, providing a customized resource center for your students.
You can even upload all relevant documents at the start of the term and keep them hidden from students until they're relevant for the course. Connect will support up to 20GB of file storage per course in your account.
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Customize your Connect course with your photo, contact information, bookmarks, or RSS Feeds. It's a great way to personalize Connect and keep important references easily accessible to students
NOTE: Students cannot see your email address unless one is specified in the Instructor Information area on the Connect Homepage
New Feeds (i.e., RSS Feeds) are a way for many different publications, such as journals, newspapers, and blogs, to easily share their latest content with their readers in real-time. Use the feeds widget to add your own discipline-specific feeds and have the latest content and links appear on your section home page for student reference. For more information about feeds and finding feeds, click here
Go to the Blackboard content area you want to add Connect assignment to.
Click "Create Assessment" and select "McGraw-Hill Assignment".
Select from a list of assignments that already exist in Connect to add to the content area. Otherwise, you can also choose to add a new assignment following the Connect assignment creation process.
Confirm the destination content area to deploy the selected or newly created Connect assignments.
Your Connect assignments will be deployed to your selected Blackboard content area once you confirm.
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On your section home page click the add Assignment tab to create an assignment.
Select web activity.
Enter a name for your activity (A)
Then provide instructions for your students (B).
If the activity involves visiting a website, include the name and web address of the site you'd like your students to visit (C).
If you have additional web links, click + add another web link (D) to add more.
Click next: assign (E) to continue.
Select the availability and due dates for this web activity (A).
Web activities are a great way to create open-ended, real-world assignments or to enrich learning experiences by providing links to timely and relevant web resources!
Use this feature to highlight relevant websites or other resources, such as material from the Library Tab Resources
NOTE: The items you post in Web Activities are non-gradable and will not be visible in the Connect Reports area
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Group assignments will appear in the students' assignment list on their section home page. Clicking the assignment name with the group icon will open the group assignment (A).
For students, group assignments are made-up of two areas - "Group Workspace" (A) for collaboration and "Submit Assignment" (B) for turning in the final group project.
When students enter the Group Workspace, the name of the assignment (A), the group that the student is associated with (B), and the topic (if entered by the instructor) is displayed (C). Also displayed are the instructions for the assignment as well as any instructor attachments and web links.
Clicking Add a new Post (A) enables students to collaborate and send messages and files within the group. "Raise your hand" (B) provides students with the option of including their instructor on the message (sent to the instructor home view message center).
The Group Workspace supports a threaded discussion amongst the team members for each post, as well as the ability to start and add posts on new topics. Students can attach files to a new post for reference (C).
Connect tracks the level of participation and activity of each group member, which is visible to other team members and the instructor (A).
Students are alerted each time a new post occurs in their group's workspace (A). They can click the link to go directly go to the Group Workspace for the assignment.
When students have developed their final draft, the "Submit Assignment" tab (A) is used to attach a final submission (B) and leave any necessary comments (C) for instructor review. Clicking the Submit Assignment button sends the group response to the instructor. Additionally, the other group members will receive confirmation that the assignment has been submitted in their student message area on their respective section home page.
Students will receive a confirmation that their assignment has been submitted successfully. Each student in the group will also receive a notification in their message center on their section home page that the assignment has been submitted and by which group member (A).
It may helpful to remind students in the instructions area to coordinate in advance of the due date which group member will submit the final assignment on behalf of the team.
When students use the “raise your hand” feature to include you on a post in the Group Workspace, you’ll be notified via the message center on the instructor home view.
How do my students use and submit Group Assignments?
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The My Courses page is the first page you see when you sign in to your Connect account.
Use this page to manage your courses and sections. You also can view and access each roster and student registration information for each course section.
Each course area contains a list of sections you have created.
If you do not see the sections, click the blue triangle next to the course name to reveal the course sections and options menu.
Use the course options menu below the course name to edit course details, duplicate the course, modify tolerance settings (if available) or delete the course.
The section options menu (A) enables you to edit section details, duplicate the section within the same course, share or copy your section with other colleagues, or delete the section. Clicking on a section (B) takes you into your course/section.
The Section Home Page helps you deliver and manage your course assignments, provides a snapshot of what's occurring in your course, and enables you to personalize Connect. The course and section name are listed at the top left of the page (A) along with tabs at the right to easily access the Library and Reports.
Use the switch sections menu (B) located just below the section name in the top left-hand banner to switch sections or return to the my courses main page.
Clicking "add assignment" (C) is the easiest method to begin exploring the wealth of content available to build a variety of assignments and assessment activities.You can "switch to student home view" (D) to see what your students see and take assignments from a student's perspective.
This can be very helpful as you begin building assignments and want to preview the content and/or policies you've set. View our separate QuickGuide, "Customize Your Section Home Page," for more detail regarding the options to personalize Connect.
The Library provides access to additional resources related to your course, including the Connect Plus eBook (if available) and instructor resources, such as the textbook instructor manual, PowerPoint Presentations, etc. Other resources, such as pre-made assignments and student self-quiz and study plans, may be available based upon the title you're using in Connect. Note that students will typically have access to "student resources" in their library tab, which provides an opportunity for additional study beyond what you've assigned within Connect. This is a great resource for students who ask for additional help.
The Reports area provides a quick visual section performance chart and gives you access to run pre-defined reports on student results. There is nothing you need to do to set-up data collection in Connect reports. Any assignment created in Connect has student results automatically recorded. You simply choose the report you want to run and select the desired options and settings.
The help link atop the screen is a great way to learn more about any aspect of Connect in more detail. The help tool is context sensitive and, to save you time, will display initial results based on the area of Connect in which you are working.
Ask your students to log in and go to your Blackboard course.
If you have already deployed Connect assignments to your Blackboard course, ask your students to click on any of the Connect assignments in your Blackboard course. Otherwise, ask your students to go to "Tools", click on "McGraw-Hill Higher Education", and click on "Go to My Connect Section".
Ask your students to follow the steps to log in or register.
Your students will be able to take Connect assignments directly from within your Blackboard course once the process is completed.
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Before group assignment submission, note that you may receive messages from groups using the "Hand Raise" feature in the Group Workspace. This enables team members to include you on messages for clarification, notification, etc. Clicking the link in the message center takes you to the Group's Workspace to review and respond as necessary.
When group assignments are submitted, you will receive a notification in the message center on your section home page. Clicking this message will take you into the manual grading "to-do" list.
The "to-do" list for each group assignment is organized by group number, including group member names and topics (if applicable). Click view group submission to open a particular group's workspace and submission.
The instructor-grading screen opens in the group's Submit Assignment tab. You can view the group's topic (if applicable), comments, and download any files they have submitted. Details on each group member's activity is also included. Note: You can toggle to the Group Workspace to view the collaboration of the group while the assignment is available..
Upon review of the group's submission, you'll have the option to give all group member's the same grade, give individual grades, or send the assignment back to the group for re-submission. You can also leave overall comments for the group. Click Submit and Continue to record your selections and move to the next group's submission.
You can also view a group's active workspace or grade a group's submission by clicking on the assignment name on the instructor home view and selecting the "student activity" tab.
Grading Group Assignments
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Sign in and go to your Blackboard course. Next Go to the "Full Grade Center" to see Connect assignment scores.
If you want to view the submission detail of a Connect assignment or manually grade it, click on the dropdown next to the score and select the attempt you'd like to review.
The Connect student performance report will open. Click the score of the attempt to drill-down into the student's submission
You can view a student's assignment, including questions received, responses, and the correct answer. Points received can also be adjusted, which will update the Blackboard Grade Center. Click "return to Blackboard" to return to the Full Grade Center.
Tip: You can also use the "Manage" drop-down in the Full Grade Center to see all Connect reports or go to the Manual Grade To-do List page in Connect, which aggregates student responses (per assignment) requiring instructor grading.
Awarding/Adjusting student scores in the Connect student performance report will update the Blackboard Full Grade Center.
If grades are not appearing immediately after student assignment submission, return to the McGraw-Hill Higher Education tool and click synchronize section. The student scores will come over automatically with the next institutional sync, which runs every 15, 30, 60 or 120 minutes per your Blackboard administrator's settings. To ensure instant grade entries, instruct students to ALWAYS click the "return to Blackboard" button after submitting assignments for grading.
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With Connect, you can reuse a course and all of its assignments when starting a new term. You can reuse the course as is or with edits to start and due dates, content and policies. You can also add new assignments to the course.
From the my courses page, find the course you want to reuse. Click duplicate course (A). Note that a duplicated course carries over your assignments but not the student roster or results from the previous term.
In the pop-up window, rename your course (A) and sections (B). Connect will automatically add the words “copy of” to the course and section names (C).
Note that there are only as many sections in the new course as there were in the original. Edit them as needed. You’ll be able to delete or add sections in a later step.
After receiving a confirmation message that your course has been duplicated, you’ll be returned to your my courses page, where you’ll see the new course. Note that it may take a few moments for the new course to appear on the page: Refreshing your browser might be helpful.
To edit, add, delete, copy or share a section, click section options (A).
Once your course and section have been created, click the student registration info icon (A) next to each section to obtain section-specific web addresses. Note that the web addresses for each new section are different from those of the previous term. You will need to update any areas where you’ve posted this information for students.
You can edit the section-specific web address from two locations. From the my courses page, click the student registration info icon. In the new window, click edit this address (A).
You can also edit the section-specific web address by clicking section options (A) and selecting edit section details from the dropdown menu (B). You can shorten the web address by removing “copy of” from the name and include your last name and brief course or section information for the term (such as smithecon101mwf).
You may find it helpful to use the course designation and term in the course name field (for example ACCT 201 Fall11) and section names that are easily distinguishable from each other (such as MFW 10-11am).
To save time and ensure consistency in your sections, make course-wide edits to existing assignments, such as content changes or policy settings, before duplicating an existing section.
Editing section-specific web addresses for the new term before providing students with the registration information is a good way to avoid confusion.
We recommend that you export student grades into an excel spreadsheet before deleting a course or section, in case you need to access the information again after the term ends. The export to excel option is available in the assignment results report within your previous course.
Reuse Your Course for the Next Term
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Be aware of the option to give full credit, drop questions and their associated points, or flag questions for manual grading even after students have submitted an assignment
Adjust Credit for a Question in an Active Assignment
A course can be made up of one or more sections, corresponding to the actual sections you are teaching at your institution. Each section maintains its own roster and student results.
Create a course using the course designation and term in the course name field (e.g., "ACCT 201 Fall11").
Select a name that easily distinguishes one section from another during that term (e.g., "M, W, F 10am").
Choose "Add Section" to create multiple sections within your own course that will provide the option to "share" assignments across all sections of your course as you build them.
Choose "Duplicate Section" to create additional sections within your own course when you're teaching more than one section, but have already created your assignments in another section within the same course. A duplicated section is an exact replica of your previously created section; however, the assignments within are not "shared" with the other sections. Edits to an existing assignment and reporting within one section of your course will not affect the other sections.
Blackboard users user Bb Grade Center instead of the Connect Spanish gradebook, as grades entered into Connect's Spanish gradebook cannot be exported to Bb.
How do I set-up and manage the Gradebook in Connect Spanish?
The Connect Spanish gradebook feature makes it easier to calculate final grades for your students directly within Connect. You can weigh scores by assignment type, and add your own custom columns.
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Connect Strategic Management Overview
An overview of the different types of assignments that are available within Connect Management supporting Thompson 18e.
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View the roster from the Home Tab by clicking on the Section Info area and then “Student Roster”
See detailed results of an assignment being displayed under Section Performance (on the Home Tab) by double-clicking on the bar graph
Improve strategic instruction and enhance the value Connect brings to your course by using the data and metrics in the Reports tab. For instance, you can:
Use the Item Analysis report to identify the success rate of individual questions in your assignments. Item analysis can be useful in planning lecture topics and/or exam review
Select the Assignment Statistics Report to share the average scores for the class with your students so they can gauge where they stand
Choose the Student Performance Report to better address individual student questions or concerns about their work
Review the Category Analysis Report to ensure specific learning outcomes are being met within the course and/or for accreditation purposes
View Your Roster & Reports
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How to assign the modular Personal Learning Plan (silver version)
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Interactive Applications Overview
An overview of the different types of Interactive Application exercises.
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Go to the section web address listed on the student registration info sheet your instructor provided (A). If you don’t have a web address, ask your instructor or check your syllabus.
Click REGISTER NOW (A).
Enter your email address (A) and click Submit (B).
Click Buy Online (A).
Enter your school information (A) and click Buy Connect (B) or Buy Connect Plus (C). Connect Plus gives you access to the course and the eBook, while Connect gives you access to the course only.
Make sure you’re buying the correct course and then click Submit (A).
If you already have an account, sign in. If you don’t, create one by filling in your information (A) and clicking Continue (B).
Enter your billing and payment information (A), and click Submit (B).
Review your order summary and payment information, and then click Place My Order (A).
Click the assignments with content updates link in your message center (A).
On the content update notices screen, you will receive a list, by assignment, of any questions or activities with updates, including the reason for (A) and date of the update (B). You will also be notified of the amount of student activity within the assignment (C). Click the question title (D) to review the question.
From the question preview you can review the updated question/activity to better determine your next steps - "adjust credit" or "dismiss the notice" Click back to content update notices to return to the previous screen.
Once you've reviewed the question, you can either ignore and remove the notification by clicking dismiss this notice (A) or adjust credit (B) for the question.
If students are actively working on the assignment, "adjust credit" allows you to award full credit (A) for the incorrect question/activity, or drop the question/activity and the associated points (B) from the assignment. Note: that this adjustment will be applied to all students associated with this course section.
If you select adjust credit or dismiss this notice for any questions listed, the updates for all of these questions in your existing assignments will automatically be applied the next time you copy your assignment or course/section for a new term.
Note: if you provide multiple assignment attempts, all student assignment attempts containing the question/activity will be flagged for review.
If you would like to reassign an updated question/activity in an active assignment so students work the latest version during the current term, you will need to copy your existing assignment and make this new assignment available to students.
Questions with content updates
If the McGraw-Hill Connect team makes any important updates to a question or activity that is currently being used in an assignment that your students have already started, we will notify you with a message on your section home page. This enables you to easily "adjust credit" for any previous or future student assignment submissions using the outdated content.
Any assignments you've created that have not been started by students will automatically receive the updated question/activity without any action required on your part.
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How to assign the holistic Personal Learning Plan (gold version)
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When a student answers any questions that require manually grading, they will be notified within their assignment that the question will not be automatically graded and that it will be sent to their instructor for review.
Connect will then inform you of any questions that need to be manually graded either from a message on your section home page or via the assignment results report. A small red "m" appears next to those assignments that require manually grading.
The following steps will show you how to manually grade your assignments.
Step #1: From the section home page, Connect notifies you of assignments that require manual grading in the Messages area of the section home page (A). Click the responses ready to manually grade message (A).
Step #2: The Manual Grading To-Do List is displayed. Click one of the "__ responses to grade" links to view and grade the question (B).
Step #3: Connect displays the question point value along with the question and the student's essay answer.
Step #4: Enter the number of points to award the student for their answer (C) and click the Award button (D).
Step #5: You can also adjust the question credit for all students who answered this question. Click adjust credit (E).
Step #6: You have the choice to award full credit, drop this question and its points, or flag this question for manually grading later. Note that this adjustment will be applied to ALL students, including those taught by other instructors you're sharing this assignment with and for all attempts on this assignment. The credit adjustment cannot be undone. To proceed, click adjust, or cancel to cancel out the credit adjustment window.
Direct students to enter their name exactly as it appears on their Student ID when registering for Connect. You’ll be able to easily match your Connect roster to your course roster
Choose to delete or "inactivate" students as needed so they can no longer take Connect assignments
NOTE: To view the roster from the Home Tab, click on the Section Info widget and click "Student Roster"
Organize related assignments by using the "groups" feature, such as by topic, week, chapter, etc. This can be helpful for students to relate assignments to your syllabus
Group Assignments on Your Assignment List
Groups (previously called sessions) were added to Connect in order to provide a method of organizing your assignments, making them easier to find and reuse.
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Step #1: You can easily remove questions from an active assignment or award full credit for questions to all students.
In the assignment list of your Section Home page, click an assignment name to possibly adjust it for question removal or to award full credit for certain questions.
Step #2: In this question preview page, you'll have the option to adjust credit for this question for all students by clicking "adjust credit".
Step #3: In the pop-up menu, you have the options to award full credit, drop this question and its points or flag this question for manual grading. Select the second button to drop this question and its points. A confirmation message will be then be displayed. Since you can't undo this action, it's important that you make sure this is the appropriate choice to make before you click "OK".
You can also adjust question item level scoring through your Reports options.
Step #4: In your Section Home page, click the Reports tab.
Step #5: In the Reports main page, click "Item Analysis" from the list of Report options.
Step #6: In the Item Analysis report page, select a section and an assignment to generate a report. Then click "view report".
Step #7: Your Item Analysis report displays the performance results for each question of an assignment. Click a question to preview the question content.
Step #8: In the question preview window, you'll see the point value for this question and the option to adjust credit for it. Click "adjust credit for all students."
Step #9: In the pop-up menu, you have the options to award full credit, drop this question and its points or flag this question for manual grading. Select the second button to drop this question and its points. Then click "OK".
Step #10: You'll then see a confirmation message indicating that the question has been dropped from your assignment.
Be aware of the option to give full credit, drop questions and their associated points, or flag questions for manual grading even after students have submitted an assignment
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LearnSmart Overview
A quick overview of how LearnSmart works.
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From your section home, select the assignment you want to edit (A). If the assignment is shared, indicated by the shared icon (B), your edits will be applied to the assignment in all shared sections. If not, you will have to edit the assignment in each section individually.
From the assignment options dropdown menu (A), select edit assignment (B).
If students have begun working on the assignment, you will receive a pop-up notification alerting you that the assignment is active and that editing options are limited.
To adjust point values and edit question pools, click the organize assignment tab (A). To add more questions, click the add questions tab (B). You can rename the assignment (C) or enter student instructions (D) at any time. Click continue (E).
Note that if a colleague shared the assignment with you, your editing capabilities may be limited.
To edit policy settings, click expand advanced settings (A). If you created the assignment and it is inactive, you can edit dates, categories and policy settings. If the assignment is active or shared with you, a notification at the top of the page will alert you that your editing options are limited. When you’re finished, click review & assign (B).
To apply your edits to the shared assignment across multiple sections within your own course, check apply policy edits to all my previously checked sections (A). To apply your edits to the shared assignment across your colleagues’ sections, check apply policy edits to all checked colleague sections that share this assignment (B). Review your changes and click assign (C).
Note that these options will only be available if the assignment is inactive. Edit active assignments within each individual section.
An overview of how LearnSmart fits into a course and best practices on how to assign LearnSmart.
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From the Connect instructor section home, click add assignment (A) and choose file attachment assignment (B).
The set-up assignment screen will open, enabling you to name the assignment (A), enter instructions for your students (B), and set the point value (C). Optionally click choose file... (D) to attach files for your students to reference or use as a template when completing the assignment.
If you're uploading a file for the assignment, you can upload a new file (A) and/or select a file already uploaded (B) to your course files areas in Connect. Once you've uploaded and/or selected the file, click attach file (C).
Once you've set-up the assignment, click next: assign (A).
The assign to students screen will appear, enabling you to select your sections (A) and your colleague's sections (B) (if sharing the assignment), as well as set the availability dates (C). Click assign (D) to complete the process.
Your assignment will appear in the section home assignment list along with your other assignments (A). The paper clip icon denotes that it is a "file attachment assignment".
This assignment type is best used when the goal of the assignment is for students to submit a single, final document for instructor review.
Creating a File Attachment Assignment
Connect enables you to create a manually graded assignment that students can respond to using a file attachment. You simply provide instructions and/or a prompt and receive files for grading from your students through Connect. You can include a template file for students to simply reference while working the assignment; or to download, complete, and upload for grading as their assignment submission.
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Set Assignment Policies:
After you add questions from the question bank, the next step in creating your assignment is setting assignment policies.
The assignment policies step is divided into three areas:
1. When is this assignment available and due?
2. What type of assignment is this?
3. Settings within each assignment type: basic, attempts, answer tolerances, resources, feedback and content policies
When is this assignment available and due?
In this section you’ll set the assignment availability and due dates, and select how the assignment will be submitted.
The option, allow for late submittal if the student begins the assignment before it’s due, is already selected for you. This means that any student who begins the assignment during the availability dates is able to submit the assignment after the due date.
You can choose to reduce credit by any percentage for each hour or day the assignment is submitted late or automatically submit “as is” on due date.
What type of assignment is this?
The four assignment types are: homework, practice, quiz and exam.
These different types enable you to keep your assignments organized for grading and reporting.
Each assignment type also has its own default policy settings that you can leave as-is or customize. You can customize the settings for the specific assignment you’re creating at the time, or change the default settings for future assignments of that type.
The Assignment Settings:
basic, attempts, answer tolerances, resources, feedback and content policies.
Basic settings:
- You can set a time limit for the assignment if you want your students to complete it in one sitting. The timer will begin when a student opens the assignment, and it can’t be paused or stopped even if the student exits the assignment. When the time limit is up, the assignment is automatically submitted.
- If you do not set a time limit, your students can take as much time as needed to complete the assignment (within the availability dates), and can stop and resume working on it as much as they want.
- You have the options of allowing printing, scrambling assignment questions and password protecting the assignment.
- Select allowing printing for Students to print hard copies of the assignment.
- Select scrambling assignment questions for any assignment that you don’t want students to be able to cheat.
- Setting a password is useful for assignments that only certain students need to take, such as a group of students who need to make up an assignment.
Attempts settings:
- You can set the amount of attempts allowed as one, two, three or unlimited. An “attempt” means a submitted assignment that will be graded (A).
- If you set multiple assignment attempts, select if your students should start fresh (B) or build on their previous work (C) with each attempt.
- If the assignment contains algorithmic or pooled questions, then in the start fresh mode students will see a new version of the assignment in each attempt, including new versions of any algorithmic questions.
- With build on their previous work, students will see the same version of the assignment used in their previous attempts (including identical numbers for algorithmic questions), as well as whether their responses were correct. Students won’t be given the correct answers by default.
- Next, you can select to deduct a percentage from the overall scores of students who use additional attempts (D).
- You also have the option of compounding the deduction for each attempt (E). Doing this will increase the deduction a student will receive when completing each additional attempt by the percent you enter.
Answer tolerances settings:
Depending on the questions in your assignment, you can set either language or numeric answer tolerances. Setting tolerances allows a wider range of answers to be scored as correct.
- Language tolerances are best used on assignments where grammar rules are unfamiliar. For example, if you’re teaching Spanish, you may want to allow all the language tolerances on the first assignment of the semester, and then take away tolerances on later assignments as your students learn the proper vocabulary and grammar.
- Numeric tolerances are best for assignments that have numeric questions where common rounding considerations may cause the correct answers to vary slightly. You’re able to set a percentage tolerance for the assignment, but try to avoid doing so because most questions that require answer tolerances will come with absolute or percentage tolerances pre-set.
Resources settings:
- Resources consist of various study tools your students can access while completing their assignments. There are two types of resources: reference and assistance.
Reference types options:
- Question title: Students can see the title of each question so they can reference it when answering.
- Point value: Students can see how many points the question is worth.
- References: Students can see information related to each question to help put the question in context, such as the section of the book the question relates to.
Additional settings for Chemistry, Physics, Math, Engineering and Astronomy:
- External links: this option allows your students to access links that may offer more information or examples.
- Net calculator: The calculator’s three modes (calculate, graph and table) may be helpful or necessary to complete some questions.
Assistance types options:
- eBook & resources: Students who purchased the eBook for this course will be able to access it during the assignment. You can also apply a percent deduction for using the eBook.
- Hint: Students can click the View Hint link to see suggestions on answering the question. You can apply a percent deduction for using a hint.
- Allow students to check their work: Students can click the check my work icon to see if their answer is correct. You can set a limit on the number of times students can check their work. You can apply a percent deduction for using checks the answer.
- Allow students to ask the instructor: Students can ask you questions about the assignment. You’ll receive their message in your section homepage.
- Show special character palette: Students can answer the questions using the appropriate characters, usually necessary for foreign language courses
Additional settings for certain science, math and engineering questions:
- Show the solutions with the answer: Students will be able to see the solutions. If a question is algorithmic, try to answer with new algorithmic values.
- Guide students to the answer: Students can follow step-by-step guides to the solutions and try to answer with new algorithmic values.
- Practice questions: allows students to practice non-scored versions of the questions, with different values.
Feedback settings: Your students can receive feedback after completing assignment attempts or after submitting each question.
- Show feedback after attempts: Students will not get any feedback while they are completing their attempts.
Unless you selected allow students to check their work, within the “resources” settings. In that case, your students will see whether their answers are correct on the questions that they check their work.)
- Select the specific feedback you want your students to see after each attempt from the dropdown menus. and decide the amount of feedback you want your students to get after completing each attempt.
- You also have the option of delaying feedback, which will hold your students’ feedback (from all attempts) until the desired date and time, and then provide them with the feedback from each attempt all at once.
- Show feedback after each question: Students will get feedback while they are completing their attempts.
After submitting each question, your students will see their scores, the correct answer, an explanation (when available) and the solution.
Content policies settings:
* Content policies only appear if you selected certain questions in Step 2.
- If you don’t see content policies, that’s OK. You’re done setting policies. If you do see content policies, review and customize them as necessary.
- The policies you see will vary depending on the specific questions in your assignment, but let’s use worksheet questions as example. Worksheet questions often have several answer form fields, and the options under content policies allow you to modify how these types of form fields are scored and interacted with.
Click on the (question mark) icons wherever you see them throughout the policies settings to see more information about a specific setting.
Finalize your assignment’s dates and policies before assigning it. If you make any changes to the dates or policies after any students have begun the assignment, the changes will not apply for those students until their next attempts. (So it’s possible that students in the same section will be completing different versions of the assignment.)
Finalize your assignment type before setting the policies. If you switch assignment types after setting policies, those settings will be lost. The assignment will assume the default settings of the new assignment type you selected.
Avoid setting numeric answer tolerances. The tolerance you set will be applied to every answer in the assignment, and there may already be tolerances set for individual questions.
In every setting where you make changes, be sure to click apply changes to save them before moving on.
Apply policy changes to all future assignments of that type, rather than setting policies for each individual assignment, to save time when creating assignments and to keep your policies consistent.
If your assignment has Flash questions, like lab or click-drag, we recommend deselecting the allow printing assignment setting. You can find this as you create or edit your assignment, within Step 3: Set Policies, under Basic settings.
To print the assignment, take a screenshot of each page and then print each screenshot individually.