| Instructor's Supplements: Instructors Resource CD-ROM (0073361488) – includes IM, PPT, CTB, and TB. It includes sample syllabi, and each module includes a module overview; what’s in this supplement; key lecture points supported with teaching tips, in-class exercises, and where to discuss transparency masters; answers to the textbook assignments, and answers to the even-numbered Polishing Your Prose exercises (the odd-numbered exercise answers are provided in the book). The PPTs are included on the text web site and the Instructor’s CD. The Test Bank includes approximately 30 questions per module – consisting of true/false, multiple-choice, and fill-in-the-blank answers. Videos – New videos are available with this text – all are from the Manager’s Hot Seat video series. They discuss: - Negotiation and Cultural Differences
- Communication in the Virtual Workplace
- Active Listening
- Working in Teams
- Interviewing Effectively
- Interviewing Skills
- Project management and Reports
Online Learning Center (OLC)
(www.mhhe.com/bcs4e ) is a website that follows the text chapter-by-chapter with digital supplementary content germane to the book. OLCs can be delivered multiple ways – through the textbook website, through PageOut, or within a course management system (i.e., WebCT or Blackboard). Downloadable supplements are available for instructors on the OLC, as well as a discussion board to share ideas or questions with other BComm professors. PageOut is McGraw-Hill’s unique point-and click course Website tool, enabling you to create a full-featured, professional quality course Website without knowing HTML coding. With PageOut you can post your syllabus online, assign McGraw-Hill Online Learning Center or eBook content, add links to important off-site resources, and maintain student results in the online grade book. You can send class announcements, copy your course site to share with colleagues, and upload original files. PageOut is free for every McGraw-Hill/Irwin user and, if you’re short on time, we even have a team ready to help you create your site! You can customize this text. McGraw-Hill/Primis Online's digital database offers you the flexibility to customize your course including material from the largest online collection of textbooks, readings, and cases. Primis leads the way in customized eBooks with hundreds of titles available at prices that save your students over 20% off bookstore prices. Additional information is available at 800-228-0634.
Student's Supplements:
Writer’s Workout (ISBN 0073407097)
This can be purchased for $5 as a standalone product or can be packaged with a text. Writer’s Workout is a comprehensive online skill-building program designed to help individual students identify and then overcome difficulties in writing. The program’s powerful “drill-down” diagnostic process identifies the specific areas where students need help, and its individualized, self-paced skill building routines give students multiple opportunities to strengthen their skills. Writer’s Workout also offers a full complement of learning management tools for instructors. Grademax
Free with the purchase of a new text. GradeMax is an adaptive testing engine and remediation program that provides students customized remediation. Students are tested on the core concepts of Business Communication. As students answer each question, GradeMax alters the difficulty level of successive questions based on the students’ response. The result is a unique, detailed view of each student’s mastery of each chapter’s core concepts. It actually shows them a competency grid (weak, medium, strong) so students can see the skills they excel in and the skills they need additional help with. GradeMax is $20 with the purchase of any used book.
Online Learning Center
(www.mhhe.com/bcs4e).
– The Student Center of the OLC includes learning objectives, chapter summaries, a self-quiz for each module, Internet exercises, new exercises, a career corner, additional FYI’s, sample email messages and memos, and resume and letter templates.
Premium Content
Price: $10
The premium content includes Narrated PPTs, iPod quizzes, and GradeMax for Bcomm. The premium content can be accessed with a student access code or online as premium content. It content was developed to help you get your course up and running with much less time and effort. The content, enhanced with more assignments and more study materials than just the standard cartridge, is pre-populated into appropriate chapters and content categories. BusinessWeek Edition. Your students can subscribe to 15 weeks of Business Week for a specially priced rate of $8.25 in addition to the price of the text. Students will receive a pass code card shrink-wrapped with their new text. The card directs students to a Website where they enter the code and then gain access to BusinessWeek’s registration page to enter address info and set up their print and online subscription as well. Passcode ISBN 007-251530-9. McGraw-Hill e-Book Options:
EBooks are an innovative way for students to save money and to “go-green”. McGraw-Hill textbooks are typically 55% of the list (bookstore) price. McGraw-Hill currently offers CourseSmart (online e-book) Options are as follows:Online e-book via CourseSmart:
CourseSmart is the online option for e-books. Through CourseSmart, students can access their e-book from any computer that has internet service without plug-ins or special software. Access to the CourseSmart e-book is 1 year.
Features: CourseSmart e-books allow students to highlight, take notes, organize notes, and share the notes with other CourseSmart users. Students can also search terms across all e-books in their purchased CourseSmart library. CourseSmart e-books can be printed (5 pages at a time). CourseSmart purchasing and sampling information:
Students can purchase a CourseSmart e-book at
www.coursesmart.com.
CourseSmart allows students to try 1 chapter of the e-book, free charge, before purchase.
Sales reps can demo at www.coursesmart.com.br />
Sampling is done through MESA (Instructors get access to the full e-book for one year).Downloadable e-book via VitalSource:
VitalSource is the downloadable option for e-books. Through VitalSource, a student downloads the “Bookshelf” application (free at
www.textbooks.vitalsource.com.
to their personal computer to access to their e-book. Once a student purchases a VitalSource e-book, it is theirs to keep (permanently or until they delete from their computer).
VitalSource e-books can be downloaded to 2 computers only. Features: VitalSource e-books allow students to copy and paste e-book text into other documents (includes the citation information), students can highlight (with multiple colors), take notes, organize notes, and share notes with other VitalSource users. Pages are “reflowable”, meaning students can customize views, fonts, etc. VitalSource includes a search feature that allows students to search across all VitalSource eBooks within their purchased library. VitalSource eBooks can be printed (2 pages at a time).VitalSource purchasing and sampling information:
Students can purchase a VitalSource e-book at www.textbooks.vitalsource.com.
VitalSource allows students to download the entire book free for a 7 day trial before purchasing.
Sales reps need to download the “Bookshelf” application and ebook via www.textbooks.vitalsource.com before demonstrating on their laptop.
To sample, direct instructors’ to free trial at www.textbooks.vitalsource.com.
Note: To obtain permanent access for instructors, contact Victor Chiu:
victor_chiu@mcgraw-hill.com
|
2009 McGraw-Hill Higher Education