McGraw Hill Connect in Liberty University business courses

Connect is linked from inside Canvas, and grades from it flow back into the Canvas gradebook. Students register once per course, usually in Module/Week 1, using an access code that comes with the textbook or the course materials fee.

Homework sets follow each chapter. They are auto-graded, often allow several attempts at each question, and sometimes give partial credit.

LearnSmart is an adaptive reading tool. It asks questions as you read and sends you back to the passages you miss, so the time it takes depends on how well you know the chapter.

Quizzes and exams can also run inside Connect, often timed and sometimes with a browser lock or proctoring.

Some courses use Connect's textbook assignments or projects, such as an Excel-based problem that is uploaded or completed in the platform.

Because everything is auto-graded and tied to your login, Connect work is always the student's own.

Deadlines in Connect are as firm as in Canvas, and some homework closes at the deadline without a late window.

Instructors can see Connect activity reports, including time spent and attempts, which is one more reason the platform work has to be done personally.

Accounting courses are the heaviest users. ACCT 211, for example, is built almost entirely on Connect homework, exams and a learning project completed in the platform, which is why it has no pages on this site.

Several finance courses in the MBA put most of their points into Connect homework and exams. BUSI 530, 683 and 685, for instance, carry about 700 of their 1,010 points there.

Bachelor's business courses often use Connect or LearnSmart alongside forums and papers. BUSI 302 in healthcare administration pairs eight Connect homework sets with three forums and a research paper.

Courses such as BUSI 310 and BUSI 320 use LearnSmart chapter modules beside tests and textbook assignments.

Other publishers appear too. Some courses use Cengage MindTap instead, which works in much the same way.

Reading the course guide's schedule shows how many points sit in Connect. When it is more than half the course, the written work is a minor part of the grade.

That number is worth checking before choosing which two courses to take together.

Connect is time-hungry in a way that is easy to underestimate. A LearnSmart module for a long chapter can take as long as drafting a forum thread.

Because Connect deadlines are usually weekly, they compete directly with forum threads and replies due in the same Module/Week.

Students who leave Connect to the last night often run out of attempts or time, and the auto-grader does not grant extensions.

The better rhythm is to do LearnSmart early in the week, as part of the reading, and the homework set midweek once the chapter is fresh.

Written items then fill the second half of the week, when the reading is done.

Exams in Connect need study time blocked separately, especially in accounting and finance where problems take longer than multiple choice.

When a course pairs heavy Connect with a staged project, start the project's first part in its opening week so it does not collide with an exam week.

The first is registration. A wrong access code or a link opened outside Canvas can leave the gradebook empty; always register from the course link.

The second is browser trouble. Timed quizzes can fail in an outdated browser, so test the platform before the first quiz.

The third is attempts. Some homework allows unlimited attempts and some only a few, and the setting is easy to miss.

The fourth is rounding and formatting. Accounting answers often need exact decimals or signs, and a correct method with a formatting slip can score zero.

The fifth is time zones. Connect deadlines follow the course's settings, which may not match your local time.

The sixth is assuming that LearnSmart is optional. In many courses it is graded, and the points add up across eight weeks.

If something goes wrong, contact McGraw Hill support and your instructor the same day, with screenshots.

The seventh is the access code itself. Some courses bundle it with an inclusive access fee and others require a separate purchase, so confirm which applies before the first homework is due.

Because Connect is auto-graded and tied to your account, it is yours to complete, and so are its quizzes and exams.

That changes how help works in these courses. The written items, such as forums, research papers, case analyses, Excel projects that are uploaded rather than taken in Connect, and faith integration essays, are where outside support can lighten a week.

In a course where written work is a small share of the grade, the best help is often a plan: which weeks hold exams, which hold papers, and how to fit the reading around both.

On this site, written items in Connect-based courses can be drafted for you to read and submit, while every Connect homework set, LearnSmart module, quiz and exam stays with you.

Courses where Connect carries almost all of the grade are left out of this site's course pages altogether, because there is too little written work to help with.

The Online Writing Center and instructor office hours remain good free resources for the written side of these courses too.

Checking the guide before registration is the simplest way to avoid two Connect-heavy courses in one sub-term.