Create deeper connections with your students
A complete course platform designed to enhance student engagement and your unique teaching style. Connect automates prep work and allows you to easily customise your course materials to create exceptional teaching and learning experiences.
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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.
From course setup and LMS integration to ongoing implementation support, our ANZ team will help you build a Connect course that works for your teaching approach and your students.
We believe students learn best when they are supported in working through challenging concepts. Connect guides them through this process using personalised support tools like SmartBook®, featuring AI Reader and Translation Tool.
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.
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 personalises student learning. With embedded features like AI Reader and Translation Tool, it builds comprehension through simplified explanations, self-quizzing and multilingual support.
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 memorisation 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.
Learn how Connect can help address your biggest challenges and transform your teaching experience
Student Satisfaction & Engagement
Higher education institutions face the challenge of ensuring that students are satisfied with their learning experience and are actively engaged in their studies. Institutions must address issues such as student disengagement, lack of preparedness, and difficulty in connecting with course material.
Balancing Teaching & Research Demands
Educators can struggle to strike a balance between teaching and research responsibilities. Faculty members are expected to excel in both areas, which can be challenging and time-consuming. Is your institution providing the support and resources to help faculty manage their teaching and research workload effectively?
Technology & Academic Integrity
As technology continues to play a crucial role in higher education, institutions face the challenge of integrating it into teaching practices while maintaining academic integrity. The widespread availability of online resources and tools enhances learning experiences but also raises concerns about plagiarism, cheating, and unauthorized access to information.
Incorporating Career-Ready Skills
Higher education institutions are increasingly being called upon to prepare students for the modern workforce's demands, which requires a combination of academic knowledge and practical, career-ready skills. Instructors must find ways to bridge the gap between academic theory and real-world applications in their course.
See what Connect is making possible in ANZ classrooms
Helping more engineering students succeed at Macquarie University
“Now the failure rate is much lower—less than 15% and sometimes even less than 10%.”
Dr Salman Jalalifar, Instructor
By using Connect before, during and after class, Dr Salman Jalalifar created more opportunities for students to prepare and practise. The subject’s failure rate fell below 15% - and at times below 10%.
Building confidence and foundational knowledge at JCU
“They’re able to get to that core level where they need to be.”
Dr. Tasmin Rymer, Instructor, JCU
Dr Tasmin Rymer used SmartBook and weekly quizzes to support students through a compressed trimester. In the Cairns cohort, every student passed for the first time.
Connect Effectiveness Study
From Ireland to Egypt, to closer to home in Australia, educators are seeing the difference:
- Higher grades: Students using Connect consistently outperform their peers.
- Improved completion: Weekly assignments and adaptive learning tools keep students on track.
- Enhanced skills: Build digital fluency, critical thinking, and self-directed learning.
Mastering AI for Strategic Business Success: A Conversation with the Authors
The discussion focused on how AI is revolutionising business education, reshaping organisational strategies, and preparing students for the future workforce. It highlighted practical approaches for educators to integrate AI into teaching to boost student engagement and digital literacy. Professor Jonas Debrulle highlighted his successful pilot of the resource, across 13 postgraduate programs with ~140 diverse students, showcasing how Connect's adaptive tools and multi-modal design personalised learning for students.
Boost Student Engagement and Completion Rates with Connect
Dr. Salman Jalalifar (Macquarie University) and Dr. Angela Owens (University of Notre Dame) share how they increased student engagement and completion rates with Connect. Plus hear the student perspective from Rebeka Sultana Ratry (Macquarie University).
Engage Your Students in Data Analytics with Vern Richardson
Learn how McGraw Hill author and award-winning educator Vern Richardson integrates immersive labs to teach data analytics, incorporating industry-standard tools like Excel, Tableau, and Power BI plus Gen AI tools such as ChatGPT.
Latest Enhancements
Connect provides every student with a tailored digital learning experience, crafted to maximise their study efficiency and enhance academic performance. SmartBook and the complimentary ReadAnywhere® App facilitate productive and convenient study sessions.
Ongoing support
From initial consultation to instructor training, LMS integration, preparation for the first day of class, and continuous support, your Digital Learning Consultant (DLC) is dedicated to assisting you in reaching your course objectives.
Empower students to enhance their learning with AI Reader.
AI Reader is a generative AI learning tool within the Connect eBook that promotes active reading to drive meaningful engagements and deeper understanding of course content.
Visit the AI Reader page to watch a video and learn more.