Microbiology
Connect for Microbiology
A proven tool to help students earn better grades and instructors optimize their time and energy, Connect for Microbiology enables instructors to seamlessly create and auto-grade assignments correlated to learning objectives. Adaptive technology offers students immediate, detailed feedback on their work, allowing them to focus on areas where they need improvement. Explore features available within Connect:
What is Connect?Connect for Microbiology Features
Connect Overview
Connect strengthens the link between faculty, students and coursework. Watch to learn more.
SmartBook
Available within Connect, SmartBook 2.0 personalizes learning to individual student needs, continually adapting to pinpoint knowledge gaps and focus learning on concepts requiring additional study. For instructors, SmartBook tracks student progress and provides insights that guide teaching strategies and advanced instruction, for a more dynamic class experience.
Connect Insight
Connect Insight offers easy-to-use visual displays of student performance and gradebook data. Quickly track performance across your entire section, all of your assignments, or drill in to find data insights for a specific class, individual student, or particular assignment.
Connect Reports
Save time and gain student insights. Connect provides customizable reports on student performance, learning outcomes, at-risk students, and integrates easily with LMS gradebooks.
Tegrity
Tegrity is a video capture and remote proctoring solution available within Connect that drives student engagement in traditional, flipped, hybrid, or fully online courses.
Bloom's Taxonomy
As a learning science company, we create content that builds up higher-order thinking skills. Within McGraw-Hill Connect®, we tag it accordingly so you can filter your search, assign it, and receive reporting on it. These content asset types can be associated with one or more levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Best Practices
- How SmartBook 2.0 can facilitate achieving course specific objectives...
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- Engage Your Microbiology Students with Real Life Applications using Relevancy Modules
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- Epidemiology for a Pandemic - Lecture in a Box
- How to Implement Prep for Microbiology
- Why do we use the ASM Curriculum Guidelines?
- McGraw-Hill: Our Culture Makes a Difference Grow Microbiology, Episode 24
- Do these Three Things and See your Students Succeed, Grow Microbiology, Episode 3
- From Flipping the Classroom, Teaching Tips to ANTHRAX, Grow Microbiology, Episode 15
- Digital Solution Leads to Increase of Two Letter Grades on Exams
- Allergic to Online? Two Instructors make it simple with advice to teaching online.
- What’s new in Non-Majors Microbiology in 2020?
- A growing number of students take Microbiology at a community college and will struggle with the science.
- Tips: How to Rock Every Microbiology Lecture!, Grow Microbiology, Episode 12
- Microbiology Read Anywhere Best Practice
Grow Microbiology Podcast
An audio podcast series dedicated to the sharing of ideas, best practices, teaching tips, educational solutions, and other exciting topics in Microbiology.
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How to Answer the question Why by Dr. Dorothy Wood
Let’s Talk Vaccines and COVID-19 by Dr. Kelly Cowan
Epidemiology of a Pandemic by Dr. Kelly Cowan
Featured Products
Resources
Benson’s Microbiological Applications is now available in a 15th edition, 2022c
Benson's Microbiological Applications, 15th edition, has been the "gold standard" of microbiology laboratory manuals for over 35 years. The 15th edition has a new co-author, Heidi Smith from Front Range Community College, and a number of updates to include a new CRISPR lab.
iTeach Microbiology
iTeach Microbiology, our web community, enables you to share, network and coordinate your efforts in a group setting. Join iTeach to communicate with your peers and discuss the most current topics in the media.
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Hosted by award-winning faculty from colleges and universities around the country, our digital workshops and webinars focus on winning classroom strategies, methods and the use of technology to drive student success in your class.
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Hear From Your Peers: Digital Faculty Consultants
Dorothy earned her Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Pathology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000. She was Assistant Professor of Biology at North Carolina Central University from 2001 – 2004 before making the switch to the North Carolina Community College system. Dorothy has taught a variety of classes throughout her teaching career, including general biology, microbiology, pathophysiology, biotechnology and bacteriology. Dorothy is the science coordinator at Durham Technical Community College’s satellite campus in Hillsborough, NC and is a mentor for Duke University’s ‘Preparing Future Faculty’ program. In addition to teaching science, Dorothy is a regular presenter at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Government on health and wellness issues.
Science Coordinator
Durham Tech Community College
Self-Service Customization
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Full Integration
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McGraw-Hill Campus integrates all of your McGraw-Hill digital products with your school LMS for quick and easy access to best-in-class content and learning tools. Build an effective digital course, enroll students with ease and discover how powerful digital teaching can be.
Blackboard Integration
Two LMS Integration Services = One Solution.
McGraw-Hill Higher Education offers two pathways for LMS integration. McGraw-Hill Campus enables seamless access from any LMS in use to all of our content and learning platforms. Blackboard customers may also leverage the McGraw-Hill Connect and Create building block specific to their LMS for the tightest integration available today for Connect and Create users.