A proven tool to help students earn better grades and instructors optimize their time and energy, Connect for Finance enables instructors to seamlessly create and auto-grade assignments. Adaptive technology offers students immediate, detailed feedback on their work, allowing them to focus on areas where they need improvement.
Assignable, animated videos with 3 accompanying questions help students understand the key learning objectives. These dynamic (2-5 minutes in length) videos are especially helpful to keep students engaged and for students who would like additional review outside of the text. Videos are available with select Corporate Finance and Personal Finance titles.
Prep Courses
Prep Courses cover the basic concepts in Math, Statistics, Accounting, Excel, and Economics, and are comprised of animated tutorial modules with quiz questions. Instructors can assign as homework or include for optional practice. Prep Courses give instructors more time in class to cover finance topics and ensure that students do not get left behind.
Guided Examples
Guided Examples provide narrated and animated, step-by-step walkthroughs of algorithmic versions of assigned exercises, allowing students to identify, review or reinforce the concepts and activities covered in class. Immediate feedback is provided so students can focus on the areas where they need the most guidance.
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.
Integrated Excel
The power of Microsoft Excel meets the power of McGraw Hill Connect in our all-new integration of Excel in Connect. 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.
Application Based Activities
These highly interactive, automatically graded exercises in Connect provide students a safe space to practice using problem-solving skills to apply their knowledge to realistic scenarios. Each scenario addresses key concepts and skills that students must use to work through and solve course specific problems, resulting in improved critical thinking and relevant workplace skills.
Kaplan CFA Questions
McGraw Hill has partnered with Kaplan Schweser to provide over a thousand additional sample CFA questions for the CFA exams. These questions represent the kinds of questions that professionals in the field believe are relevant to the "real world." Located in Connect, this bank of assignable questions is sorted by topic, level, and year of the CFA exam it was included.
Tableau
Tableau Dashboard Activities allow students to explore live Tableau dashboards directly integrated into Connect and include auto-graded questions focused on both calculations and analysis. Students can check their understanding and apply what they are learning within the framework of analytics and critical thinking.
Interactive Data Problems
Interactive Data Problems allow students to visualize and interact with data in different ways. Students use the interactive tools to manipulate data and answer accompanying problems that test multiple levels of understanding.
Assignable, animated videos with 3 accompanying questions help students understand the key learning objectives. These dynamic (2-5 minutes in length) videos are especially helpful to keep students engaged and for students who would like additional review outside of the text. Videos are available with select Corporate Finance and Personal Finance titles.
Excel Simulation Problems
Excel Simulation Problems allow students to practice their Excel skills within the context of Corporate Finance or Investments. Questions feature animated, narrated Help and Show Me tutorials for students, as well as automatic feedback and grading for both students and professors. Excel Simulation problems are available with select Corporate Finance, MBA Corporate Finance, and Investments titles.
Personal Financial Plans
The assignable, auto-gradable plans correlate with sections of the text and have students work through a case and apply concepts learned.
Prep Courses
Prep Courses cover the basic concepts in Math, Statistics, Accounting, Excel, and Economics, and are comprised of animated tutorial modules with quiz questions. Instructors can assign as homework or include for optional practice. Prep Courses give instructors more time in class to cover finance topics and ensure that students do not get left behind.
Guided Examples
Guided Examples provide narrated and animated, step-by-step walkthroughs of algorithmic versions of assigned exercises, allowing students to identify, review or reinforce the concepts and activities covered in class. Immediate feedback is provided so students can focus on the areas where they need the most guidance.
Smartbook
SmartBook 2.0 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 Insights is a data analytics tool with a series of visual data displays each framed by an intuitive question. It provides at-a-glance information on how your class section and students are doing as well as how an assignment doing. With the five key insights, Connect Insights allows you to make a positive impact on your course, knowing who the at-risk students are and intervening when necessary.
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