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What students learn matters.
How they learn prepares them for what’s next. 

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Beyond the Answer:
How Connect Fosters Genuine Learning

In a world where students can generate answers in seconds, what matters most is not just what they learn, but how they learn. Connect is a digital learning platform that supports students in working through challenges—not around them—to build knowledge and skills that last beyond the course.  

  • Supporting the Productive Struggle

    We believe students learn best when they are supported in working through challenging concepts. Connect guides them through this process using personalized support tools like SmartBook®, featuring AI Reader and Translation Tool.

  • Building Skills That Transfer

    Effective digital learning platforms must build critical thinking, AI literacy, and other core skills that students will carry into their next course and the real world. Connect prepares students with practical, immersive and targeted assignments and activities.

  • Built for Learning. Designed for Teaching.

    Students deserve an accessible, relevant learning experience, and instructors should be empowered with time-saving, insightful tools. Connect delivers on all of this.

Learn more about Connect Features

Supporting Preparedness Through Productive Struggle 

SmartBook: An adaptive, assignable reading experience that personalizes student learning. With embedded features like AI Reader and Translation Tool, it builds comprehension through simplified explanations, self-quizzing and multilingual support. 

Sharpen Companion: Available to bundle and assign through Connect, this mobile-first study app delivers a continuous learning loop with bite-sized videos, chapter summaries, flashcards and quizzes. 

ReadAnywhere App: Reduce study barriers by giving students offline access to read course materials anytime, anywhere. 

Building Transferrable Skills

Gen AI Prep Assignments: Practical learning modules that build AI literacy and prepare students to apply generative AI thoughtfully and effectively in academic and professional settings. 

SIMskills Badge in Generative AI: A self-paced course designed to build prompt-writing skills and teach students to use AI ethically, culminating in a verified digital credential. 

Application-Based Activities: Interactive scenarios that help students apply concepts, strengthen problem-solving skills, and bridge the gap between theory and practice. 

Critical Thinking Activities: Push learners beyond memorization with exercises that encourage analysis and strengthen independent problem-solving skills. 

Built for Students. Designed for You.

Seamless Course Updates: Keep your class current and engaging. Our Evergreen delivery model uses a release-centered process, delivering new and updated content, tools, and accessibility features directly to your course. 

Built-in Accessibility: Connect is designed to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 Level AA and support the varied needs of all learners. 

Actionable Insights: Real-time reporting helps instructors identify at-risk students and make data-informed decisions that support targeted instruction. 

Proctorio Integration: Support academic integrity with seamless online proctoring and trusted assessment experiences. 

  • The Proof is in the Results: Connect Effectiveness Study 

    Our latest Connect Effectiveness Study showcases the real-world results faculty are getting from Connect and provides a detailed look at the teaching strategies they use to reach them. 
    Read the Study

  • See Connect in Action 

    Take a self-guided tour to see exactly how tools like SmartBook and Application-Based Activities (ABAs) engage students in the learning process and build skills that last.
    Explore Connect

Integrating With Your Campus LMS 

Streamline your course setup with our newly redesigned learning management system (LMS) integration experience, featuring smarter section pairing and direct assignment deployment to eliminate friction and keep your focus on teaching. 

Real Stories from Real Classrooms: Success Stories with Connect