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Connect® for Management
Our learning platform Connect® gives you digital learning solutions that support teaching and help every learner reach their potential.
Our content and instructional materials are available alongside digital solutions designed to help instructors teach the way they want to. With the flexibility to build modules, add in content, and seamlessly integrate with your course, Connect® can provide supportive structure and increase visibility of student interaction and engagement.
In short: it gives you the space to do what you do best and free to teach your way, with a range of tools to help with course management, insight and tracking.
Connect for Management Features
Connect is McGraw Hill's course management and adaptive learning platform with ready-made course content, assessment and tools that integrate seamlessly with your own LMS. As an instructor, Connect is an end-to-end solution for your course, providing you with the ability to assign homework and online assessments whilst giving you detailed student analytics and progress reports.
Application Based Activities (ABAs)
Prepare students for the real world with Application-Based Activities (ABA) in Connect. These highly interactive, assignable exercises boost engagement and provide a safe space to apply concepts learned to real-world, course specific problems. Each ABA involves the application of multiple concepts, providing the ability to synthesize information and use critical thinking skills to solve realistic scenarios.
Case Analyses
A variety of cases, found in most chapters, provide an opportunity for students to delve further into the topical content and read about real-life products and companies. Accompanied by assignable, thought-provoking questions that check students’ ability to apply the course material to these scenarios, these case analyses help students foster their critical thinking abilities and develop their workplace-readiness skills.
Comprehensive Test Bank
Connect includes a comprehensive test bank of various question types, allowing the instructor to create auto-graded assessment material with multiple problem types, algorithmic variation, and randomized question order.
Connect Reports
Assignment reports give you granular information about your students' interaction with assignments set through Connect, including how much time students have spent engaging and which concepts your class may be struggling with. All of this data is available at an aggregated or individual level so you can gain deeper insight into students who seem to be struggling and take remedial action. Crucially students also have access to their own data to help them manage their own learning and create informed study plans.
Drag and Drop Exercises
These exercises help students make the connection between theory and application through matching, ranking, or grouping activities. They might have students’ pair key terms to their definitions, place steps of a complex process in the correct order or categorize different examples according to the process or concept they represent. Instructors have the option to turn on hints for their students. Students access the hints by hovering over each item.
European Course Resource (ECR) for Strategic Management
Your gateway to European-focused content for Strategy and Strategic Management courses.
Designed to complement the Strategy and Strategic Management portfolio including Rothaermel, Thompson and Strickland, and Gamble titles, the ECR offers a seamless solution for delivering engaging, region-specific coursework without the hassle of recreating Connect courses for new editions.
GoReact
Developing students' presentation and oral communication skills is essential in preparing them for the business world. Seeing themselves on video, combined with instructor feedback, is the best way for students to develop these skills. Fully integrated into Connect for Management, Video Capture powered by GoReact makes this possible. Additionally, AI Assistant offers real-time, personalized feedback while customizable rubrics, peer/self-review tools, and time-coded feedback in text, video, or audio formats supports simplifying grading.
ISeeIt! Videos
Brief, contemporary, and engaging videos offer dynamic, student-centered introductions, illustrations, and animations to guide students through challenging concepts. Ideal for before class as an introduction, during class to launch or clarify a topic, or after class for formative assessment.
Manager's Hotseat
These actor-portrayed videos depict real-life situations where a manager is faced with a dilemma that needs to be analyzed based on management concepts. These videos enable students to see how managers in realistic situations deal with employees and complex issues. Students will use their critical thinking skills to apply, analyze, and evaluate these managerial challenges, while learning from the manager’s mistakes. Each video includes follow-up multiple-choice questions that are assignable and auto-gradable.
Practice Operations
This game-based 3D interactive simulation allows students to manage the operations of a clothing manufacturing and distribution company, reinforcing key concepts while promoting critical thinking and strategic decision making.
The simulation takes them through:
- Placing bids for contracts
- Managing physical and human resources
- Ordering raw materials
- Turning raw materials into refined clothing
- Shipping the final products to the client
The game follows focused modules that deal with issues in the production process, capacity, supply chain, JIT, labour management, order fulfilment, customer satisfaction, and quality control.
Proctorio
With Proctorio in Connect, instructors get seamless exam security – browser control, student monitoring and instant integrity reports.
Self-Assessments
Our self-assessments are research-based and are designed to promote self-reflection, awareness and professional as well as personal development. Students are able to better interpret their scores through structured feedback.
Video Cases
An assortment of short video cases challenge students to analyze concepts as they manifest in real-life products and companies. Accompanied by assignable, thought-provoking questions that check the students’ ability to apply the course material to these video cases, they help to develop students’ critical thinking abilities and workplace-readiness skills.
Writing Assignment
This assignment type delivers a learning experience that helps students improve their written communication skills and conceptual understanding. As an instructor, you can assign, monitor, grade, and provide feedback on writing more efficiently.
SmartBook
The Smartbook tool integrated within Connect maximises learning by helping students study more efficiently, highlighting the most important points in the chapter, asking verification questions and indicating additional resources.
More personalised - SmartBook constantly adapts to students' needs, creating a personalised learning experience.
More productive - SmartBook creates an extremely productive learning experience, focusing students' attention on the concepts they need to learn.
More prepared - SmartBook helps students prepare for lessons, allowing you to use class time more dynamically.
Application Based Activities
Application-Based Activities can be assigned and are auto-graded, allowing students to practice their problem-solving skills and apply their knowledge to relevant scenarios. As students make their way from foundational concepts to more complex scenarios, they will see the consequences of their choices and receive feedback on how management theory informs their decision-making process.
Cases
Our selection of written and video cases encourage students to analyse concepts as they may appear in real-life scenarios. The cases inspire students to think critically, with stimulating questions that test their ability to apply theory to practice and build their career development skills.
Click & Drag Exercises
We have a wide range of click and drag, matching and grouping exercises that help students connect theory to practice. These exercises ask them to pair terms to definitions, order process steps or categorise examples depending on the concept they represent.
Connect Reports
Connect Reports provide customisable analytics on student performance, outcomes, highlight any at-risk students and much more. These reports easily integrate with LMS gradebooks, ensuring you save time and gain more specific student insights.
ISEEIT! Videos
These student-focused videos take students through multiple concepts in an innovative and engaging way. iSeeIt! Animated Videos are the perfect pre-class assignment to introduce students to key topics and can be used during class to launch a topic, or after class within assessments.
Manager’s Hotseat
These videos give students the ability to sit in the manager's hot seat, applying their critical thinking skills and theories to real-life managerial scenarios. As acting manager, students must answer multiple choice questions and make decisions on the spot through this exercise.
Self-Assessments
Our self-assessments are research-based and are designed to promote self-reflection, awareness and professional as well as personal development. Students are able to better interpret their scores through structured feedback.
European Connect Resource
Strategic Management in Connect now comes with a brand-new case study collection looking at how European and international companies deal with contemporary issues affecting strategic management in a regional context.
Designed to work alongside our Strategic Management Connect resources and content from best-selling authors including Rothaermel, Thompson and Strickland, and Gamble, the Strategy ECR offers a fantastic collection of written and video case studies from across the world.
From giants such as Google Deepmind and KFC to smaller, entrepreneurial companies like Luna, these cases are great for lectures and case classes - with teaching notes to help you put your students in the role of the protagonist!
AI Tools in Connect®
AI Reader lets you maintain control over how students are using AI, with trusted materials and guided use that promotes academic integrity. With this embedded AI learning tool, they can dive deeper into the McGraw Hill content you or your department have carefully selected instead of seeking information from less reliable sources.
Translation Tool in our Connect eBooks allows students and instructors to translate text, choosing the preferred language and seeing the original and translated text side by side.
Smartbook in Connect®
Connect's integrated Smartbook tool aids learning by making it personalised, helping study be more productive, and getting learners prepared in advance so you can use class time more dynamically.
At risk students can be identified by cross referencing engagement data from multiple courses, ensuring student wellbeing and support can be prioritised. Improved attainment also leads to better career opportunities and progression, which in turn impacts the university's appeal to future cohorts.
The Business Strategy Game (BSG)
and GLO-BUS
These online simulations help students make business decisions in competitive situations, mirroring the real-life business environment. The stimulating games divide your class into teams and assign them the task of running a footwear company (BSG) or a camera company (GLO-BUS). Students compete against each other in a global market arena.
Students will learn how to craft and execute strategies that:
- result in a respected brand image
- keep the companies in place for global market leadership
- produce a solid financial performance
The Business Strategy Game (BSG)
and GLO-BUS
These online simulations help students make business decisions in competitive situations, mirroring the real-life business environment. The stimulating games divide your class into teams and assign them the task of running a footwear company (BSG) or a camera company (GLO-BUS). Students compete against each other in a global market arena.
Students will learn how to craft and execute strategies that:
- result in a respected brand image
- keep the companies in place for global market leadership
- produce a solid financial performance
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