This Online Learning Center (OLC) was designed specifically for use with the Rentz text. The website provides students with basic information and study resources to accompany the material in their text.

• The Student Edition includes self-grading quizzes, student PowerPoint slides, an extensive collection of Business Communication Web resources organized by topic.

• The Instructor Edition includes:

• Instructor’s Manual: Downloadable that shows how to present the book’s contents step by step. After an orienting introduction, each IM chapter walks the instructor through the corresponding book chapter, syncing the discussion with the chapter’s PowerPoint slides. The IM also provides tips for teaching the first day of class, sample syllabi for the quarter and semester systems, sample answers and talking points for the Critical Thinking Questions and Skills Building Exercises, and sample solutions for the problem-solving cases. The book’s website supplements the IM with teaching notes for the video cases, a wide range of Web-based resources, and a weekly blog post by the authors. Even a new instructor can get up to speed quickly while having many helpful options to choose from.

• Test Bank: Includes more than 1,000 multiple-choice, true/false, and short answer questions. Each question identifies the answer, difficulty level, and Bloom’s Taxonomy level of coding. Each test question is also tagged to the Learning Objective it covers in the chapter and the AACSB Learning Standard it falls under.

• PowerPoint Slides: Clear, visually appealing PowerPoint slides support every chapter. In addition to reinforcing the book’s key points, the slides provide additional cases to discuss and other forms of interactivity (e.g., questions to answer or blanks to fill in). The instructors’ version of the slides also contains brief notes to help the teacher emphasize the key points and explain their importance. Instructors can easily add or revise the slides to adapt them to a particular approach.

• BComm Teacher Xchange – Access the latest bcom news, trends, tips, and tools by following the authors’ Bcom Teacher Xchange blog at www.bcommteacherxchange.wordpress.com. The articles are searchable by subject, and a new one is posted almost every week.

Tegrity Campus is a service that makes class time available all the time by automatically capturing every lecture in a searchable format for students to review when they study and complete assignments. With a simple one-click start and stop process, you capture all computer screens and corresponding audio. Students can replay any part of any class with easy-to-use browser-based viewing on a PC or Mac. Tegrity Campus is available stand-alone or within Connect.

Assurance of Learning Ready

Many educational institutions today are focused on the notion of assurance of learning, an important element of some accreditation standards. Lesikar’s Business Communication: Connecting in a Digital World is designed specifically to support your assurance of learning initiatives with a simple, yet powerful solution. Each test bank question for Lesikar’s Business Communication: Connecting in a Digital World maps to a specific chapter learning outcome/objective listed in the text. You can use our test bank software, EZ Test and EZ Test Online or in Connect. Lesikar’s Business Communication: Connecting in a Digital World to easily query for learning outcomes/objectives that directly relate to the learning objectives for your course. You can then use the reporting features of EZ Test to aggregate student results in similar fashion, making the collection and presentation of assurance of learning data simple and easy.

AACSB Statement

The McGraw-Hill Companies is a proud corporate member of AACSB International. Understanding the importance and value of AACSB accreditation, this text recognizes the curricula guidelines detailed in the AACSB standards for business accreditation by connecting selected questions in the test bank to the six general knowledge and skill guidelines in the AACSB standards.

The statements contained in this text are provided only as a guide for the users of this textbook. The AACSB leaves content coverage and assessment within the purview of individual schools, the mission of the school, and the faculty. While Lesikar’s Business Communication: Connecting in a Digital World, and the teaching package make no claim of any specific AACSB qualification or evaluation, we have within Lesikar’s Business Communication: Connecting in a Digital World, labeled selected questions according to the six general knowledge and skills areas.