Create or Customize Communication Resources

Create or customize resources aimed at strengthening your students’ communication and writing skills. Work with our Custom experts to create unique resources, such as video guides or custom writing assignments, or modify an existing Macmillan Learning resource to fit your student’s needs. If you have questions or are ready to get started, contact us below!

Image: An example of a customized resource for Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

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An example of a customized resource for Virginia Tech.

How Will You Customize Your Course?

Customize Macmillan Learning Content

Modify existing Communication resources to better align with your course objectives and students' needs. This option allows you to adapt existing Macmillan Learning content to include references to your own campus resources to personalize the student learning experience.

Create My Own Content

Embrace the flexibility to create and customize resources based on your own authored content or materials for a truly personalized Communication course. This option enables you to craft unique course materials tailored to your specific curriculum needs, ensuring a more targeted approach and learning experience.

Customize Your Communication Class

Macmillan Learning provides endless customization capabilities for both digital and print resources. Below are a few examples of how you can adapt your communication course with us, but our offerings extend beyond what's listed. If you don't find what you're looking for, contact us to learn how we can bring your vision to life.

Create Role-playing Exercise Resources

Create a variety of real-life scenarios that require students to practice their communication skills, such as conflict resolution, negotiation, or public speaking exercises. Our Custom experts can help you create workbooks, guides, and more to help facilitate these exercises.

Develop Interactive Modules

Develop engaging lessons that incorporate videos, quizzes, and interactive activities to help students grasp communication concepts more effectively. This can include images of influential speakers persuading audiences and videos of iconic speeches.

Create Visual Aids, Videos, or Graphics

Our media team can help create illustrations, video content, or any graphic needs for your Communication course. Design visual materials like infographics, flowcharts, or mind maps to summarize key concepts and theories, making complex ideas more accessible and memorable for students.

Modify Achieve Editable E-books

With Achieve Editable e-books, you can author your own content and edit it whenever you need to – even after publishing it to Achieve. Or, modify the e-book to include interactive elements and assessments to emphasize the course content, such as TED Talks or video demonstrations.

Include Your Students’ Videos

Customize video examples within the Achieve platform for more personalized effect where students can peer review one another. Additionally, one could create a speech contest from student videos within Achieve.

Create Role-playing Exercise Resources Develop Interactive Modules Create Visual Aids, Videos, or Graphics Modify Achieve Editable E-books Include Your Students’ Videos

Build Your Own Textbook

For instructors wanting to create their own customizable textbooks or manuscript, our Custom experts are here to help. Building your own textbook allows you to focus on the areas you know are important to your student population and create resources to help them through specific difficulties or strategies unique to their needs. Our collection of existing resources is available for you to modify, or you can use all of your own materials.

Custom Handbooks

Create a comprehensive guide that covers essential communication techniques, such as active listening, nonverbal cues, and effective speaking, tailored for students to carry and reference.

Custom Workbooks or Pocket Guides

Develop workbooks or pocket guides with step-by-step exercises, tips, and checklists to help students develop and refine their communication skills, such as public speaking, conflict resolution, interpersonal communication, and more!

Combine Print Resources

Combine multiple print chapters from different texts into a single package or volume for the most effective and affordable options for your students.

Build Your Own Textbook Create Supplemental Materials Custom Workbooks or Pocket Guides Combine Print Resources

How Fellow Instructors Have Customized Their Communication Courses

Creating engaging, interactive teaching materials doesn’t need to be difficult. See how other instructors and institutions have created and customized their unique teaching tools.

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven customized a printed McCornack’s Choices & Connections, 3e by incorporating original material lifted from their previously customized second edition, and two additional chapters from Real Communication, 4e were added to the back of the book.

Additionally, two chapters from Reach Communications, 4e, and other original materials were added to their custom Launchpad course and access codes were printed on the inside front cover for easy access.

Boston University

This custom textbook, titled COM 101, The World of Communication: The Human Storyteller, includes a 33-page introduction from the school, typeset into one cohesive design. The introduction discusses the field of communication, the COM 101 course, academic conduct expectations, and possible degrees in communication at Boston University. The base book for this custom is News Reporting & Writing 11e, with select chapters from Filmmaking in Action, The Film Experience 5e, Media & Culture 10e, Media in Society, and Telling the Story 5e added. The cover is completely custom, created specifically for Boston University, and includes school information.

Glendale Community College

This custom textbook includes 19 pages of original material, placed after the front matter and entitled "Introduction for Glendale Community College Students." The original material, which is styled to match the design of A Speaker's Guidebook, introduces students to the communication community at Glendale, including former students and current faculty members. The material also covers campus organizations, programs, and activities, as well as a description of the course the text has been customized for, "COM 225: Public Speaking." The TOC was edited to include the original materials. This custom uses the SE cover, with the colors changed and school/course information added.