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McGraw Hill Connect® 101: Getting Started

Build your course and manage assignments with confidence.

  • Higher Education
  • Event
  • On-demand
  • Connect
  • Accessibility
  • Implementation Training
  • Higher Ed Disciplines & Courses
  • 105 Minutes
  • On-Demand Video

Description

Prepare to hit the ground running with Connect with this session, specifically designed for new users and those seeking a refresher on the basics. Led by a fellow educator who teaches with Connect, this webinar offers practical guidance on setting up your course and creating, organizing, and managing assignments. It also highlights support resources to guide you every step of the way.

About Your Speaker

  • The McGraw Hill Connect Team

  • Michele Hampton

    Dr. Michele Hampton brings over two decades of higher education experience to the virtual stage as a professor in the Business department at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio. With a background that spans engineering, consulting, entrepreneurship, and instructional design. Michele is passionate about leveraging technology to create more engaging, efficient, and effective learning experiences.

    She holds a PhD in Education with a specialization in Instructional Design for Online Learning from Capella University, an MBA in High Technology Operations from Northeastern University, and a bachelor’s in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University. A longtime advocate for online and blended learning, her academic interests include adaptive learning, student immediacy, and social presence.

    An award-winning educator, Dr. Hampton was named Teacher of the Year by the Ohio Association of Two-Year Colleges, a Faculty Innovator finalist by the American Association of Community Colleges, and a recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award at Tri-C. In this session, she’ll share how McGraw Hill Connect has helped her strategically enhance her course design and how it can do the same for yours.

  • Luke Williams

    Dr. Luke S. Williams is the FlexIT Program Coordinator at Central Washington University, where he oversees Washington State's only public credit-bearing competency-based education program — now in its tenth year of operation. 

    He recently completed a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) at Columbia International University, where his applied doctoral research examined program effectiveness in CBE across higher education institutions nationwide using phenomenological methodology. 

    Luke brings a practitioner-researcher perspective to the intersection of CBE, authentic assessment, AI, and workforce alignment, and is actively engaged in translating his research and teaching practice into actionable guidance for program administrators and instructional designers working in online and technology-enhanced learning environments.