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. Programming in Visual Basic .NET 2003: Update Edition offers a fully-integrated supplements package and Website, 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 a chapter overview, lecture outlines, teaching tips, teaching strategies, and answers to all end-of chapter material.



• Computerized Test Bank: The test bank contains multiple choice, true/false, and short answer questions. Each question will be accompanied by the corresponding correct answer, objective, difficulty level and corresponding page references. ExamView® Pro Test Generating Software – ExamView is a testing tool that lets you create paper and online tests. This test generator is ideal for building tests, worksheets, and study guides (practice tests) in any subject. Using the online testing features, you can access numerous reports that will help you focus on your students' learning needs



• PowerPoint Presentation Slides: The presentation slides will include lecture outlines, text figures, and speaker’s notes. Also included are bullets to illustrate key terms.

Online Learning Center/Web Site
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, additional exercises, and other relevant links for professors.

Student Center: Offers learning objectives for each chapter, student data files, and short quizzes for each chapter.

Digital Solutions to Help You Manage Your Course

• PageOut—PageOut is our Course Web Site Development Center that offers a syllabus page, URL, McGraw-Hill Online Learning Center content, online exercises and quizzes, grade book, discussion board, and an area for student Web pages.

  Available for 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 Website. 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 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:

  • McGraw-Hill Learning Architecture (TopClass)
  
  
  
  • Blackboard.com
  
  
  
  • Ecollege.com (formally Real Education)
  
  
  
  • 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.

PowerWeb

PowerWeb is an exciting new online product available from McGraw-Hill. A nominally priced token grants students access through our website to a wealth of resources—all corresponding to computer literacy. Features include an interactive glossary; current events with quizzing, assessment, and measurement options; Web survey; links to related text content; and WWW searching capability via Northern Lights, an academic search engine. Visit the PowerWeb site at www.dushkin.com/powerweb .