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MindTap Networking, 2 terms (12 months) Instant Access for Simpson/Novak's Hands-On Virtual Computing, 2nd Edition
Overview
MindTap Networking for Simpson's Hands-On Virtual Computing, 2nd edition is the digital learning solution that helps instructors engage and transform today's students into critical thinkers. Through paths of dynamic assignments and applications that you can personalize, real-time course analytics, and an accessible reader, MindTap helps you turn cookie-cutter into cutting-edge, apathy into engagement, and memorizers into higher-level thinkers.
MindTap Networking for Simpson's Hands-On Virtual Computing, 2nd edition is a personalized digital learning solution that guides students to analyze, apply, and improve thinking, allowing you to measure skills and outcomes with ease. Coverage of the latest virtualization software products from both VMware and Microsoft are brought to life in hands-on activities with the support of virtual machine labs, media, and critical thinking activities. Analytics and reports provide a snapshot of class progress, time in course, engagement, and completion rates. Personalized teaching becomes yours through a Learning Path built with key student objectives and your syllabus in mind. Control what students see and when they see it.
- MindTap helps streamline your workflow with carefully curated content and a unique set of tools saving you valuable time in your course preparations. In addition, automatically grades assignments and quizzes while also providing students with instant feedback on their work.
- Provide students with organizational and study tools designed to better manage their limited time, allowing them to complete assignments whenever and wherever they are ready to learn.
- Save students money in their course materials with a single destination that reflects exactly what’s important to you, the instructor.
- Track students in real time with the Progress app adjust the course as needed based analytics of interactivity in the course.
- With the MindTap Mobile App, you can keep your students informed of assignments, course due dates, or any changes to your course while also arming them with on-the-go study tools like flashcards and quizzing.
- Build and personalize your course by integrating your own content into the MindTap Reader using your own documents or pull from sources like RSS feeds, YouTube videos, websites, Google Docs and more. Control what content students see and when they see it with a learning path that can be used as-is or matched to your syllabus exactly.
- Empower students with the information to know where they stand at all times—both individually and compared to the highest performers in class within the student view of the Progress App.
- Engage students with course material specially customized for them by you streamlined in one proven, easy-to-use interface.
- StudyHub is one-stop-studying tool that allows you to deliver important information and empowers your students to personalize their experience. Share content from the MindTap Reader and create notes and study guides to help students focus and succeed.
- The Message Center app helps you to quickly and easily contact students directly from the MindTap platform. Any message posted in the Message Center is communicated directly to each student enrolled in the course via the communication medium designated by the student.
- Virtual machine labs help students to gain hands-on experience with virtualization technology.
Getting Started with MindTap. Students can watch a brief video that will show them how to use MindTap and make the most of their course.
Chapter Learning Objectives. These Learning Objectives are linked to the key points of the chapter to keep students focused on the important takeaways.
eBook for Hands-On Virtual Computing, 2e. The acclaimed MindTap Reader boasts a multimedia rich experience with tagged note-taking, highlighting and bookmarking for easy study guide creation.
Study. Students can review what they’ve learned in the chapter with study tools such as lecture slices, flashcards, and games.
Apply. Test student comprehension with matching exercises, short answer questions, and essay submissions.
Virtual machine labs. Students gain hands-on experience by completing activities within a virtual machine lab environment.
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This Cengage solution can be seamlessly integrated into most Learning Management Systems (Blackboard, Brightspace by D2L, Canvas, Moodle, and more) but does require a different ISBN for access codes. Please work with your Cengage Learning Consultant to ensure the proper course set up and ordering information. For additional information, please visit the LMS Integration site.
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- ISBN-10: 1337781258
- ISBN-13: 9781337781251
- RETAIL $79.95
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Hands-On Virtual Computing
ISBN: 9781337101936
Equip both traditional students and practicing IT professionals with the strong background in virtualization technology they need to advance in today's rapidly changing IT workplace. HANDS-ON VIRTUAL COMPUTING, 2E overviews the latest virtualization technology with chapters dedicated to Oracle VirtualBox, VMware Workstation, Microsoft Hyper-V, and VMware vSphere. Additional chapters focus on virtualization in software-defined data centers and address building virtual networks, implementing high-availability clusters, enhancing performance and security, and managing the virtual data center. Students learn to implement virtual desktop infrastructures using both VMware Horizon and Microsoft VDI and are exposed to cloud computing environments with VMware vCloud and Microsoft Azure. The book highlights real scenarios with hands-on activities that help students build the skills needed in a computer industry that is increasingly focused on virtualization.