Experience Music offers a listening experience-first hearing, featured listening, and finale-along with Spotify playlists and interactive listening guides to motivate and engage students. With McGraw Hill's Connect (R) students can come to class confident and prepared, as they develop the active listening skills they need for success in the course and a lifetime of more meaningful musical experiences. McGraw Hill's Connect (R) offers a learning environment for students to actively engage in listening to music and build their vocabulary in this course area. Students connect to music through interactive assignments such as listening experience activities and hearing the difference comparison questions. Students can access and stream music through the interactive listening guides or through embedded audio players in eBooks. Instructors can assess the development of students' listening skills-online and at any time-so that they don't have to wait for a midterm for an update on their progress.