Connected Instructors

Instructors have paired Connect with their LMS in the past 12 months. 

Time Spent on Teaching

When using Connect, instructors dedicate 90% more time to active learning experiences. 

Uptime

Dependable technology to ensure your students remain on track.

Student Satisfaction

In a 2022 Student NPS Survey, 92% of students expressed satisfaction with Connect after using it for a term.

Instructor Benefits

Connect elevates the digital course experience by promoting increased student involvement with the content. Through its flexible course design, top-notch digital materials and assessments, and easy-to-use analytics and reporting tools, it delivers a top-tier online learning experience.

With a dedicated Education Consultant and implementation team to support you, we'll help you get set-up and running quickly and easily, and remain on hand for as long as you need.

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Student Benefits

Connect provides every student with an individualised digital learning experience crafted to enhance their study efficiency and elevate their academic performance. Your students will have immediate access to a set of powerful learning tools including the award-winning adaptive reading and learning experience, SmartBook; practice assessments, quizzes and simulations; comprehensive reporting tools to track their progress and identify knowledge gaps; and the complimentary mobile eBook app, ReadAnywhere®.

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With a dedicated Education Consultant and implementation team to support you every step of the way, we will help you get set-up and running quickly and easily, and remain on hand for as long as you need.

Outcomes are our key driver, and Connect helps students reach their full learning potential through more efficient study practices.

With Connect, you students will have immediate access to a set of powerful learning tools that will bring them value throughout their course including:

• The award-winning adaptive reading and learning experience, SmartBook
• The ReadAnywhere app, so they can work offline and on the go
• Practice quizzes and assignments to ensure they are prepared
• Comprehensive reporting tools to track their progress and identify knowledge gaps.

97%

of students agree that
Connect helped them
retain new concepts

The New Experience enhanced instructor interface will automatically be toggled on from June 21, 2023. The New Experience allows instructors to access necessary information with fewer clicks, makes it easier to collaborate with colleagues, provides built-in accessibility, mobile optimization, plus more. 

• Fewer clicks to locate necessary information.
• Easier Collaboration with colleagues: New and expanded roles & permissions enable you to collaborate with your colleagues more easily and seamlessly.
  • Add a new instructor or teacher assistant to your course.
  • Share a particular section with another instructor.
• For a complete list of roles & permissions, please click here.
• Built-in accessibility: Keyboard navigable, compatible with screen readers, and supports up to 400% magnification - features only previously available for students.
• Mobile-friendly: Optimized and responsively designed to support both, phone and tablet screens.

New Features:

• New My Courses Page:
  • Streamlined to reduce visual clutter.
  • Addition of “Current” and ”Previous” tabs allow you to easily move courses from past semesters out of view (into the ”Previous” tab), so that your My Courses list is clean and organised.
  • NEW ability to launch to eBooks directly from My Courses! 
• Polling: A new tool to allow you to easily engage with students and data. 
  • Create and edit multi-question polls
  • Easily open, close, and re-open polls
  • See results instantly
  • See student names attached to answer choices in the results
  • Duplicate polls for re-use.

• New Roles and Permissions for Additional Instructors and Teaching Assistants: As an instructor, you can now add a co-instructor or Teaching Assistant role to co-teach sections. 
• Section Dashboard: Re-designed to surface important information about student performance and assignments at-a-glance. Student Performance is broken down into Assignment Performance, Assignment Activity, and Student Performance.
• Assignment Overview: A clean interface with the ability to view important assignment information without additional clicks, such as dates, and number of students who have started/not started/submitted the assignments.

SmartBook®

Available within Connect, SmartBook, is a powerful adaptive learning environment for students that better prepares them for each class.

SmartBook allows your students to pinpoint what they do and don’t know, so they can focus on areas that require attention.

Accessible and available on all smart devices with both online and offline functionality, the flexibility of SmartBook truly empowers students to succeed.

Application Based Activities (ABAs)

Available within selected Connect courses, ABAs are interactive, automatically graded exercises that allow students to practice applying their problem-solving skills to realistic scenarios.

Each scenario addresses key concepts and skills that students must use to work through and solve specific problems, resulting in improved critical thinking and relevant workplace skills.