Macmillan English Campus Brochure 2013

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Equips teachers Encourages students Enhances learning

'The Macmillan English Campus offers an up-to-date learning experience for students. It is easy to use for teachers and requires little effort on their part as teachers are often very busy. Students can have nearly endless possibilities for extra language practice outside the classroom.'

Peter Luntz, International Language School srl, Italy

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A complete English language learning platform

Macmillan English Campus is an English language learning platform that combines a database of over 5,000 resources with flexible tools to manage your courses and classes. The result is a complete solution for blended learning, fully adaptable to the needs of your institution and accessible anytime, anywhere you are.

The team behind the English Campus has been helping institutions implement blended learning for over 10 years. Today, Macmillan English Campus is used by thousands of teachers and students all over the world, and it’s the choice of some of the most prestigious names in ELT. Discover why, and find out what the English Campus can do for you‌

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Encompass

5,000 resources for every teaching need

Choose from our range of pre-built courses, adapt them to suit your students’ needs or create your own tailor-made courses using any of the over 5,000 resources in our library: the English Campus content offers you a wealth of activities covering all competence levels, with the versatility of using them in the way that works for you.

Activities for all skills

Games

Exam practice

Eleven interaction types to practise language, listening, reading, writing, speaking, vocabulary and pronunciation.

Highly interactive and motivating games for students of all ages.

Practice exercises that mirror the real exam structure, covering Cambridge ESOL, IELTS, TOEFL ® and TOEIC ®.

Grammar reference units

Daily Bite

News items

Animations, videos, tips and example sentences to reinforce grammar knowledge and clear common doubts.

A different snippet of English published every day to your English Campus homepage, available at three levels and complete with audio.

Authentic, graded content from the Guardian updated every week, complete with ready-to-use exercises.

Web projects Perfect for exploring authentic English through group work, and designed to reflect your students’ various interests.

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Coursebook accompaniments A wealth of courses to supplement Macmillan coursebooks or to easily adapt to your own syllabus.

English for Academic Purposes Over 150 resources to prepare your students for academic life.

Business English

Audio

Methodology database

Over 500 dedicated activities for practising English in real-life business tasks and situations.

High-quality audio exercises covering all levels, with audioscript and Record and Playback control.

A virtual library of popular methodology titles for teacher support and development.

Video More than 200 videos in a range of contexts and accents, all with accompanying activities.

Enhance

Open a world of learning

Culture World Culture World, a new area integrated within your English Campus, offers you a wealth of rich audiovisual material, with hundreds of videos in a variety of accents and real-life contexts.

Using contemporary British culture as a springboard to explore everyday topics, Culture World blends activities and games to help you teach functional language while encouraging your class to cross cultural barriers.

Sport

Entertainment

People and Society

Lifestyles

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Testing features Mamillan English Campus takes the stress out of testing and puts the teacher in control: discover the Test Compiler.

Progress testing Eleven pre-built tests, easy to assign as they are or adapt to reflect your testing needs, and a library of over 1,000 activities to create your custom-made tests: all you need to do is set up the test, assign it to your students and sit back until they have completed it.

The results will come in as soon as your students have submitted their test, with no need for manual marking.

Placement testing The Test Compiler includes a ready-to-use Placement Test with activities covering grammar, listening and reading comprehension.

The automatically marked results are mapped to CEFR, Cambridge ESOL and ALTE levels, to help you achieve the right placement for your students.

‘ The Test Compiler is great - very clear to use. ’ Rachael Smith, Accademia Britannica, Italy

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Examine

Test your students quickly and easily

Effective Voice record and playback

Dictionary

Course Building

Every listening and pronunciation exercise includes voice record and playback so students can practise and compare themselves to the speaker.

Integrated within your English Campus, the awardwinning Macmillan English Dictionary Online provides over 100,000 definitions to support your students away from the classroom.

The intuitive course-building tool guides you to create courses that are a perfect fit to your syllabus, allowing you to use any of the resources in our database.

Markbook

Messaging

My Files

When a student completes an exercise, the result is immediately recorded in the automatic markbook, saving teacher time and making it easy to monitor progress.

Teachers can message students with links, homework or support. Students can communicate with their teachers, clarify doubts and get feedback on their homework.

Upload your own documents, audio files, images and presentations directly to the English Campus; choose to keep them private or share them.

Cutting-edge tools that work for you

Word lists, Web links and Bookmarks Compile, publish and send students extra resources, from vocabulary lists to specific exercises plus links to materials outside the English Campus.

'Ingles 3D chose Macmillan English Campus because it’s the most comprehensive online platform for institutions who are willing to use it with their own courses.'

Anne Montgomery, Ingles 3D, United States

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Explore

Place your institution’s logo here.

Take a closer look at the English Campus

Log in to an area personalized with your name and chosen design theme.

Publish updates for students and teachers as announcements on their home page.

The Macmillan English Campus homepage gives students, teachers and administrators direct and easy access to all the materials they need, plus a wealth of options to personalize their learning experience.

Communicate with students and send bookmarks, web links and word lists.

See assigned courses and tests at a glance.

Easily review marks and check progress.

View weekly news items edited at three levels, all including questions for discussion.

Access a bank of engaging games, consistently popular with students of every age.

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Store word lists, bookmarks, web links and your own external files in a personalized area.

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Discover the benefits for your institution and students

Adopting the Macmillan English Campus brings benefits to you, your students and your institution.

Encourage your students The English Campus offers every student a personalized learning environment, with immediate access to the courses they’re following and the option to add Bookmarks, Word lists or Web links that reflect their specific needs and interests.

With highly interactive and engaging resources, students can practise in class, at home or on the go and always be confident that their progress will be recorded, for them and for their teachers.

Their Markbook provides an easy way to keep track of their progress and maintain their motivation, and thanks to the messaging system they can easily stay in touch with their teacher and ask for support or feedback whenever they need.

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'The great thing about the Campus is that once you log in, you will find it very difficult to log out.'

Christopher Lehr, English is the Key, Italy

Empower teachers

Equip your institution

Automatic marking, intuitive course-building tools and flexible ways to communicate with students mean teachers can free up time and resources, while always being sure that the materials they use in the classroom are of the highest standard.

Implementing the English Campus gives you a unique selling point in promoting your institution and meeting your students’ expectations. With 10 years of expertise in blended learning, Macmillan English Campus offers you a tried and tested solution, with the quality guarantee of Macmillan content.

Keeping track of your classes’ progress has never been easier thanks to the automatic Markbook – and if your students need feedback or extra practice, you have the option of sending Bookmarks, Word lists, Web links or files to your whole class or to a single learner.

Our Methodology database, combined with our Support Centre and the resources in our blog, provide a wealth of opportunities to encourage teacher development, discover new techniques and get inspired.

Our range of pre-built courses, including Business English and English for Academic Purposes as well as General English, make it easier to expand your offering, while online access means you can give your students the freedom of learning anytime, anywhere.

And thanks to automatically updated results and usage statistics, sharing these figures with parents or the companies you work with has never been easier.

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Examples

Hear it from our users CASE STUDY

Italy

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IN COMPANY and PRIVATE LANGUAGE SCHOOL: Single Point, Italy

Mexico

Dott.ssa Anna Ertola, Owner

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UNIVERSITY: Universidad Regiomontana, Mexico

Dra. Magneli Villanueva, Language Centre Director

Universidad Regiomontana is a leading private university located in northern Mexico, founded over 40 years ago. It offers high quality education from high school to Master's degree. It has an excellent Language Center with a committed, professional and enthusiastic team of native language teachers from various countries. Universidad Regiomontana is always looking to adopt the best possible technological tools and teaching techniques for the benefit of its students.

For all our English courses we have been using the Macmillan English Campus platform for about six and a half years. Teachers use it in class and for assignments and homework. They also use it for testing and exam preparation.

It provides an efficient way to present, explain, practise and evaluate the different aspects of the language covered in all the English courses.

Its flexibility allows us to design our online courses to meet the specific requirements of the students and facilitate the administration of distance learning courses.

Although we have labs available for students to practise, normally they use the platform in the classroom, at home, at work, or other places, this being an important feature of Macmillan English Campus.

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Single Point Languages began in 1988, the fruit of its founders’ dream and passion for languages. Companies represent our main target audience. We have always designed training courses for groups and for individual managers, focusing our attention on customisation and on the choice of didactic material. With the same spirit and enthusiasm of those early days, Single Point Languages continues to renew itself, embracing the latest market challenges.

We have been using Macmillan English Campus since March 2012 as a tool for blended learning classes, whether for groups or for individuals, for adults in-company or for young students in our summer campuses: after a short time, we’ve reached the milestone of over 800 active Campus users.

The Campus helped all of us by giving us a new tool to cope with class absences and respond to the always-on-the-move life of managers and entrepreneurs, an innovative instrument to improve English language practice according to students’ own time and needs, a very complete bank of resources available to students who really want to improve their English, a large and user-friendly database answering any kind of curiosity and lack of knowledge about grammar, vocabulary, idioms and phrasal verbs: all of this in one. It gave teachers the great opportunity to make their job easier and professionally innovative.

Our favourite content on the Campus are the News Items. They allow teachers and students to read fresh news and have them already didactically tailored for the customers’ level of English.

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Chile

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PRIVATE LANGUAGE SCHOOL: Fluency Formation, France

Kate Roussel, Founder and Manager

France

Fluency Formation is located in a small town in Picardy, and we dispense our training in and around the town of Beauvais, as well as in Paris. We offer business and general English courses in continuing education programmes, working closely with companies to develop the English levels of their workforce and equip our students with tools to carry out the tasks they need to in English.

We’ve been using Macmillan English Campus for two years now. Our teachers use it regularly as a classroom tool, as the listening and video content is relevant to our student’s needs and lends itself nicely to communicative activities. Our students use it in two ways, either to complete exercises set by the teacher to reinforce points covered in class, or to focus on areas they feel they need to work on in their own time.

The exercises are relatively short, so we try to encourage them to apply the “little and often” principle.

LANGUAGE INSITUTE: Instituto-Chileno-Británico de Cultura, Chile Paul Marshall, Director Departamento de Tecnologìa Educativa

As one of the largest language institutes in Chile we offer a wide range of language courses in a variety of contexts, and our learners demand a dynamic and interactive online component, either to complement face-to-face classes or in blended and distance courses.

We have been using Macmillan English Campus since 2006.

In most cases the platform allows us to provide extra or supplementary activities. The huge bank of resources that it provides allows us to tailor-make online courses to suit all our students, giving graded practice in reading and listening as well as multimedia grammar and language activities. Currently, the Campus is predominantly used as a parallel (standalone) component, but we are looking to increase the number of opportunities to integrate the platform more deeply into course curricula.

Teachers and learners receive instant recorded feedback, and the range of reports and logs of student activity available helps to enrich our evaluative processes. The activities collected together for each course can be tailored to the level of the student, but access to the platform also provides teachers and students with access to the full extent of the resource bank, premium dictionary and grammar resources.

The activity bank is continually being refreshed and augmented, and Macmillan are very responsive and are quick to act on requests for extra material, training or technical support.

English Campus has become an invaluable tool and an integral part of our institute’s educational services.

We pride ourselves on providing tailor-made courses and the wealth of resources on Macmillan English Campus means that there really is something for everyone.

The Markbook is great for giving students an overview of their own progress and help them to develop their self-analysis. It also means we can keep an eye on who’s doing their homework!

We deal with busy people who don’t have as much time as they’d like to devote to their English training. Macmillan English Campus is easily accessible and user-friendly.

People can log in for as short a time as they like and still complete some exercises, read an article, play some games or dip into Culture World. www.macmillanenglishcampus.com

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Support Centre | Face-to-face training | Online training Open House events with experts | Downloadable video guides | Worksheets, lesson plans and webinars | Email and telephone support | Blog Our training and support team is committed to ensure that you always make the most of your English Campus.

From webinars to downloadable lesson plans, and from online training to face-to-face sessions, you will always have access to a wide range of support materials, constantly enriched and updated. Visit our Support Centre at www.macmillanenglishcampus. com to find out more.

“We are here to help you implement the English Campus, and to make sure you receive all the support you need to make the most of it from your very first class. Come and meet us at one of our open online sessions!”

Sarah Milligan, Training Manager

‘I thoroughly enjoyed the training session … I’m attaching the questionnaire - I’m afraid I haven’t been very helpful regarding suggestions as I honestly found your training really well structured, delivered and easy to follow, so thanks! ’ Kate Roussel, Fluency Formation, France

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