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McGraw Hill Connect® 102: Managing Your Course

Explore assignment types, best practices, and reporting tools to support student success.

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

Description

Designed as the next step after Connect 101, this session helps you take course management to the next level. Led by a fellow educator who teaches with Connect, this webinar explores various assignment types, best practices for creating and managing assignments, and how to use reporting and insights to support student success.

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.

  • Patrick Soleymani

    Patrick Soleymani is the associate dean for outreach and strategic engagement and an associate professor within the management area in the Costello College of Business at George Mason University.

    As a senior leader, Soleymani oversees the school's external relationships, including advancement, business engagement, and marketing & communications. In his instructional role, Soleymani is an award-winning professor in the fields of Organizational Behavior, Principles of Management, and Entrepreneurship. He teaches in both the undergraduate and graduate programs at the Costello College of Business, and has led numerous global residencies to Europe and the Middle East.

    Soleymani received his Bachelor of Science in Management and Master of Business Administration from George Mason University before receiving a Juris Doctor from the University of Baltimore. He is also a member of the Maryland State Bar.