We understand that, in today's teaching environment, offering a textbook alone is not sufficient to meet the needs of the many instructors who use our books. To teach effectively, instructors must have a full complement of supplemental resources to assist them in every facet of teaching from preparing for class, to conducting a lecture, to assessing students' comprehension. The O'Leary Series offers a fully-integrated supplements package and Web site, as described below.

Instructor's Resource Kit

The Instructor's Resource Kit contains a computerized Test Bank, an Instructor's Manual, and PowerPoint Presentation Slides. Features of the Instructor's Resource Kit are described below.

• Instructor's Manual The Instructor's Manual contains lab objectives, concepts, outlines, lecture notes, and command summaries. Also included are answers to all end-of chapter material, tips for covering difficult materials, additional exercises, and a schedule showing how much time is required to cover text material.
• Computerized Test Bank The test bank contains over 1,300 multiple choice, true/false, and discussion questions. Each question will be accompanied by the correct answer, the level of learning difficulty, and corresponding page references. Our flexible ExamView ProTest Generating System Software allows you to easily generate custom exams.
• PowerPoint Presentation Slides The presentation slides will include lab objectives, concepts, outlines, text figures, and speaker's notes. Also included are bullets to illustrate key terms and FAQs.

Online Learning Center/Web Site
Found at www.mhhe.com/oleary, this site provides additional learning and instructional tools to enhance the comprehension of the text. The OLC/Web Site is divided into these three areas:

• Information Center Contains core information about the text, supplements, and the authors.
• Instructor Center Offers instructional materials, downloads, and other relevant links for professors.
• Student Center Contains chapter competencies, chapter concepts, self-quizzes, flashcards, additional Web links, and more.

Skills Assessment
SimNet (Simulated Network Assessment Product) provides a way for you to test students' software skills in a simulated environment.

• Pre-testing options
• Post-testing options
• Course placement testing
• Diagnostic capabilities to reinforce skills
• Proficiency testing to measure skills
• Web or LAN delivery of tests.
• Computer-based training tutorials (new for Office 2003)
• MOS preparation exams
  
  For more information on skills assessment software, please contact your local sales representative, or visit us at http://www.mhhe.com/catalogs/irwin/it/

Digital Solutions to Help You Manage Your Course

PageOut is our Course Web Site Development Center that offers a syllabus page, URL, McGraw-Hill Online Learning Center content, online exercises and quizzes, gradebook, discussion board, and an area for student Web pages.
Available free with any McGraw-Hill/Irwin product, PageOut requires no prior knowledge of HTML, no long hours of coding, and a way for course coordinators and professors to provide a full-course web site. PageOut offers a series of templates-simply fill them with your course information and click on one of 16 designs. The process takes under an hour and leaves you with a professionally designed Web site. We'll even get you started with sample web sites, or enter your syllabus for you! PageOut is so straightforward and intuitive, it's little wonder why over 12,000 college professors are using it. For more information, visit the PageOut Web site at www.pageout.net.

Online courses are also available. Online Learning Centers (OLCs) are your perfect solutions for Internet-based content. Simply put, these Centers are "digital cartridges" that contain a book's pedagogy and supplements. As students read the book, they can go online and take self-grading quizzes or work through interactive exercises. These also provide students appropriate access to lecture materials and other key supplements.

Online Learning Centers can be delivered through any of these platforms:

• Blackboard.com
• WebCT (a product of Universal Learning Technology)
  
  McGraw-Hill has partnerships with WebCT and Blackboard to make it even easier to take your course online. Now you can have McGraw-Hill content delivered through the leading Internet-based learning tool for higher education.