Need Help Grading Homework? Aplia Does It Automatically!

Nearly one in five college seniors and one in four freshmen say they frequently come to class without completing their homework assignments, a national survey reports (USA Today, November 10, 2008). Overburdened business communication instructors often feel that they cannot check to see whether students have completed homework assignments because of the already heavy grading load.

To the rescue comes Aplia! For Guffey books, we have engaged Aplia to develop text-specific materials that ensure students are reading and grasping concepts in their chapter assignments. Aplia provides a Web-based learning solution that enables instructors to easily incorporate two key teaching elements: (1) frequent online homework that is automatically graded and provides instant feedback and (2) relating course work to the real world through current events, experiments, and real scenario-based assignments. The result is better prepared students, more effective use of class time, enhanced discussions, and more in-depth learning.

Elene Kent, Capital University in Ohio, uses Aplia with Business Communication: Process and Product. She says, "Aplia has taken all the drudgery out of reinforcement material for me. I assign students various homework assignments (either for "practice" or for "grading") and the system allows you to set time deadlines, which can be extended for individual students if necessary, and then scores all the homework for you. By requiring students to do Aplia assignments that correlate to the text chapters, I have some assurance they are reading the homework assignments."

Sandy Crews, at the University of Missouri, Columbia, adopted Aplia along with Business Communication: Process and Product.  She reports that "Aplia engages students and requires that they know and be able to apply the chapter content. Moreover, students really control their own Aplia scores, since they may retake sections of the problem sets to improve their problem-set scores."

Every student who purchases Aplia also receives access to an ebook that is embedded in the Aplia product. Some students do not purchase the textbook, preferring the online version for its savings and convenience.

To learn more about Aplia and to see a demonstration of its use with Guffey's Business Communication: Process and Product, click here. Then talk with a Cengage or Aplia sales rep.

Aplia will also be available with Guffey's Essentials of Business Communication, 8e.