Designed to accommodate diverse learning styles and environments, Medical Coding Online is an online course supplement that works in conjunction with the textbook to provide students with a wide range of visual, auditory, and interactive learning materials. It amplifies course content, synthesizes concepts, reinforces learning, and demonstrates practical applications in a dynamic and exciting new way. Plus, with Medical Coding Online, instructors can monitor students" progress with as much or as little interaction as is desired.Course management tools offer a variety of student and instructor communications options and instructor administrative tools - including real-time chat, class calendar, e-mail connections, bulletin board, digital dropbox, discussion boards, instructor syllabus, gradebook, and more.Interactive exercises, questions, and activities allow students to check their comprehension and learn from immediate feedback.Chapter exams are automatically scored and reported to the instructor in their gradebook.Approximately 18 Slide Shows - a series of photos with audio narration - explain clinical procedures and provide a demonstration.Hypertext links incorporated into the lesson lectures open pop-up boxes with further explanations and/or definitions of concepts and terms.Links to relevant websites provide additional resources to enhance learning.An extensive glossary of approximately 650 terms provides correct definitions for key terms throughout the course.All content has been updated to current industry standards; for use with Step-by-Step Medical Coding, 2005 Edition ensuring that students learn from the most up-to-date material available.More than 100 full-color illustrations clarify concepts and familiarize students with the clinical procedures they are learning to code.