MHConnect and SmartBook

To do the MHConnect LearnSmart assignments and to use your online text, the Smartbook, you will need a McGraw-Hilll Connect account. When you buy your textbook an MHConnect Access code may be bundled with it. This is one of the best ways to buy or rent it. However, you do not need the account to get started since you can start a 2 week free access period.

Creating Your MHConnect Account

Go to the Blackboard page for our class, https://learn.uark.edu/. Choose Lessons from the left-hand menu. Click on the Chapter 1: The Study of Life folder. Click on Chapter 1. The Study of Life. Follow the steps to register your MHConnect account. If you do not have an access code then choose Start Free Trial. Unless you already have an MHConnect account, use your university email address.

Doing the SmartBook Assignments

Go back to the assignment in Blackboard and click on it again. All SmartBook assignments will be found in the corresponding chapter folder in the Assignments area of Blackboard. Read the text in your hard copy of the textbook or online in Smartbook. Then click on Practice at the lower left. You will accumulate points by answering the questions correctly.

Reason for SmartBook

SmartBook assignments are intended to introduce you to the information in the textbook and prepare you for lecture. The most effective and efficient way to do the assignments is to read a section first and then answer questions about that section. Then you can go back and read another section. Some students even read the entire chapter and take notes on it before answering the questions. This generally makes the question answering part go faster. Each SmartBook assignment this semester is worth 10 points. SmartBook is adaptive, so if you miss a question then it will as you to answer other questions about the same topic, until you have answered some correctly. Then it moves on to another topic. See this video for a demonstration of SmartBook.

LearnSmart and Academic Integrity

You are to do the LearnSmart assignments using only your textbook as a resource. You may not get answers from another person or by searching online. These are not difficult assignments, they just require you to do some reading.

Troubleshooting MHConnect

If you are having issues with connect loading promptly and working properly on your computer then you might first go to https://connect.mheducation.com/connect/troubleshoot.do. This will give you information on whether your operating system and browser are compatible with and properly configured for MHConnect. MHConnect should work quickly and efficiently and it is the job of McGraw Hill to make it so.