results driven innovation
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Results-Driven Innovation
Kiltie Tompkins
9 April, 2013
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Questions I hope to answer today…
• What McGraw-Hill Education products are
faculty using on my campus?
• How do these products interact with
Blackboard Learn?
• Why is this important to me?
• How do I get started?
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Problems we wanted to solve
Inability to control,
edit and customize
publisher content
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Blackboard and McGraw-Hill
partnered to deliver the first
integrated course solution
Makes McGraw-Hill ConnectTM, Create™, and Simnet™ content accessible
directly inside Blackboard Learn
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What are McGraw-Hill’s Digital
Products?
• LearnSmartTM, a powerful adaptive learning system;
• TegrityTM, a lecture-capture tool;
• Library of media-rich eBooks.
McGraw-Hill Connect®: A leading online assignment tool and
assessment engine offering innovative, digital features including:
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What are the
McGraw-Hill Digital Products?
McGraw-Hill Create™: a custom publishing tool, provides simple way
for instructors to customize their course materials and easily pull together
different sources to create textbooks and eBooks tailored to their course
and syllabus.
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SimNet® for Office: An online training and assessment
program within a virtual Microsoft® Office environment that provides robust
simulation, in-depth question sets and multiple scenarios to ensure students
master learning objectives.
What are the
McGraw-Hill Digital Products?
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What’s in it for you? The “best of both worlds”…
• Endless resources: Dynamic, rich-media content & tools that is customizable
• Leads to: Better student Engagement
• Easy to use: Native Bb workflow
• Leads to: Instructor and student efficiency
• Gradebook integration
• Single sign-on
• Leads to: Efficiency + student engagement
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Tried and True
“Having a McGraw Hill integration with Blackboard has been a game
changer for sure. The single sign on and grade book synch saves
time and reduces student frustration. It has increased student
participation and engagement and has allowed us to receive
feedback on the progress of each student immediately, and provides
online test proctoring that was not available to us before. It’s a win-
win for both students and us as instructors!” – Cameron Harmon &
Kathy Chavis, Fayetteville Technical Community College
• Almost 1 million Connect users across
700 schools with the Building Block
• Access to more than 4,000 Connect
and Learn Smart titles via Blackboard
• Current version (2.1) is the third
iteration, updated based on user
feedback
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Instructor Testimonials
“The integration of Blackboard and Connect is it
allows me to set up the course and students access
to the resources they need. An important feature is
the gradebook synchronization : students do their
assignments and the grades are automatically put
into Blackboard. I as the professor don’t have to
upload grades.”
– Liz Wilson, Marketing Professor
“I teach at least 3
online courses (along
with live ones) per
semester and this is
like hitting the jackpot
for me.”
“A students are going to make
A’s regardless of what is asked
(or not asked) of them. The
Connect and LearnSmart
assignments force all of the
students to study in a variety of
ways… which evidently
improves their understanding.” -
Sharon Feaster, Biology
Instructor
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Student Testimonials
“The one-click access to my
assignments saved me time
because I use Blackboard for my
other assignments. Having
Connect integrated into the service
I already use daily was a huge time
saver.”
“It made doing assignments 10 times
easier and overall reduced time.”
“I was able to put more focus
on my studies rather than
exerting all my time and
energy towards the access
process alone.”
“I didn’t have to leave the Blackboard
site, go to other websites, login with a
different name. And, the bonus was
that it immediately posted my grades
for my work to Blackboard, unlike
other courses where I had to wait for
the teacher to post them to
Blackboard.”
The Instructor Experience: Building a Course
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What’s in it for you? The “best of both worlds”…
• Dynamic, rich-media content & tools
• Student Engagement
• Native Bb workflow
• Instructor efficiency
• Gradebook integration
• Single sign-on
• Instructor efficiency + student engagement
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How can I access the integration?
• The integration is free for you and your
institution to begin using.
• There is no additional cost to students to use
the integration if they already use Connect.
• An IT system administrator needs to “turn on”
the integration inside of Blackboard Learn
• Let me know if you’re interested and I can
assist!
For more information, visit:
www.blackboard.com/mcgraw-hill or www.domorenow.com.
Questions?