McGraw Hill Connect is an award-winning digital learning solution that enables students to attain better grades and allows instructors to improve course management. Connect Accounting provides an adaptive learning tool that help students target what they know and what they don’t know, while end-of-chapter problems provide challenging practice sessions.
Assignable within Connect, these questions allow students to see how transactions post from the general journal all the way through the financial statements, providing a much-improved experience for students working with accounting cycle questions.
Concept Overview Videos
Concept Overview Videos teach each chapter's core learning objectives and concepts through an engaging, hands-on presentation; bringing the text content to life.
Assignable End-of-Chapter Material
Assignable and gradable end-of-chapter content helps students learn to apply accounting concepts and analyze their work in order to form business decisions.
Guided Examples
These narrated, animated, step-by-step walkthroughs of algorithmic versions of assigned exercises provide immediate feedback and focus on the areas where students need the most guidance.
Integrated Excel
The power of Microsoft Excel meets the power of McGraw Hill Connect in our all-new integration of Excel in Connect. With Integrated Excel, Excel now opens seamlessly inside Connect with no need for uploading or downloading any additional files or software. Instructors choose their auto-grading solution, either grading for formula accuracy or for the solution value.
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.
SmartBook
SmartBook personalizes learning to individual student needs, continually adapting to pinpoint knowledge gaps and focus learning on concepts requiring additional study. For instructors, SmartBook tracks student progress and provides insights that guide teaching strategies and advanced instruction, for a more dynamic class experience.
Connect offers customizable reports on student performance, learning outcomes, at-risk students, and integrates easily with LMS gradebooks.
Data Analytics in Accounting
McGraw Hill’s Data Analytics for Accounting is designed to progressively build a student’s data analytics skills and comprehension from the introductory level all the way up through capstone courses. Our consistent digital tools are unique to the needs of each course area and are assignable within connect, with a majority of them being auto-gradable.
We have 5 different types of assignments in many core course areas, building on one another. These consistent digital tools are unique to the needs of each course area and are assignable within connect, with a majority of them being auto-gradable. As students move up this staircase of our core data analytics content, it mirrors their climb in the Accounting curriculum and the growth in their skills. Each assignment type adds a bit more level of understanding than the last, becoming more robust and fostering higher-order thinking. Check out the following tabs to learn more about our Data Analytics offer within Connect.
Data Visualizations
The lowest level of our Data Analytics offer will be our Data Visualizations, where students are interpreting accounting data from looking at static visualizations and making conclusions.
Tableau Dashboard Activities
Tableau Dashboard Activities have students looking and manipulating an active dashboard and answering scenario-based questions.
Excel Analytics
Excel Analytics assignments will go beyond basic data manipulations and excel skills. Students will be working with complex data sets in Excel to analyze data sets and derive solutions.
Applying Tableau
Applying Tableau assignments give students hands-on usage and skill-building within the free Tableau software. Students then have to answer critical-thinking and calculation questions, requiring manipulation and interpretation of data sets.
Applying Power BI
Applying Power BI introduces and teaches students to drive better business decisions by analyzing data for insights. Students create their own reports and dashboards, harnessing data to tell a compelling business story.
Excel Tools
In addition to our four Data Analytics tools, we also have Excel assignment types available within Connect.
Excel Simulations allow students to practice their Excel skills, such as basic formulas and formatting, within the context of accounting. When enabled by the instructor, these questions feature animated, narrated Help and Show Me tutorials.
Applying Excel enables students to work select chapter problems or examples in Excel. These problems are assignable in Connect and give students instant feedback as they work through assignments in Excel. Accompanying Excel videos teach students how to use Excel and the primary functions needed to complete each assignment. Short assessments can be assigned to test student comprehension of key Excel skills.
Integrated Excel will be fully integrated into Connect and auto-graded for both correctness and formulas. Our Excel integration delivers on seamless Excel access paired with the power of the Connect platform’s auto-grading.
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