As happens twice a year, every year, MyLab Math, MyLab Statistics, MathXL, and MyMathTest are getting even better! Learn about our new features below.
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Our newly redesigned MyLab & Mastering My Courses page will offer a better user experience so that students can stay focused on what matters most: learning. The simplified page has a clean, current look and a more intuitive interface.
The new Student My Courses page organizes all of students’ MyLab & Mastering course information into easy-to-scan course tiles, instead of having to drill down into multiple screens. Additionally:
Within each MyLab course, a dropdown option on the Companion Study Plan page will allow students to easily access Study Plan exercises from any chapter, section, or objective. This “Entire Course (Chapter view)” option shows the same contents as “View All Chapters” but is easier to find.
For questions that require a list of solutions, students can benefit from better-targeted answer acceptance for each solution. Instructors will also be able to take advantage of this enhancement for questions they create in the Custom Question Builder.
New My Courses experience
New course menu
Thanks to the mobile-responsive framework, students can use their tablets to learn whenever, wherever, in the same format as the computer browser experience. In the MyLab & Mastering portal, the responsive design lets tablet users swipe to view, access, and navigate between courses.
Instructors and students using mobile devices to work in their course will see a new custom keyboard that includes an easier-to-use math palette with larger buttons. This palette is also available to laptop and desktop users when the book their course is based on begins using the new HTML5 player.
Graphing questions will be enlarged to near full-screen on mobile devices to minimize the need to zoom. A built-in graphing tools palette with “nudging” buttons will smartly reposition itself based on available on-screen space.
The new drag-and-drop question type will allow students to drag items containing math expressions, words, graphs, or images from a starting bin into designated target areas. This interaction type may be used in several ways: separating and categorizing a group of items, placing them into different target areas; selecting and moving a required word or math expression into a statement containing a blank; or ordering several items. NOTE: This exercise type will begin appearing in select © 2017 titles.
When completing exercises that ask students to analyze data, students will be able to launch the in-exercise data sets directly in Microsoft® Excel. (This assumes that Excel is installed on the user’s machine.)
Instructors and administrators will be able to select a portion of the report and see student results that are included in that portion of the report. They will be able to sort results, search for individual students, print or export the detailed results, or email one or more students from within the report.
When instructors import student results from one course to another, those results are copied (and not moved) to the new course so that a record of the student’s results will remain in the first course. This will be true whether results are imported manually or set to auto-import.
A new version of the Pearson LockDown Browser will now support VMWare and other virtual environments or “thin” networks that are installed at many campus computer labs. Because most virtual environments are Windows-based, it is the Windows version of the Pearson LockDown Browser that will be updated.
Instructors will have a new “Manage Course” option to perform a number of actions that were previously done on different pages. “Course Settings” and the “modify lightbox” will be combined into an “Edit Course Menu” page, where instructors can easily reorder menu items and edit URLs of linked content. There will be more theme colors, and course design will be mobile-responsive with a sub-menu approach that minimizes scrolling.
Instructors will be able to give new activities or assignments much longer names&emdash;up to 150 characters from the current 50 characters.
Instructors who are Section Instructors in another instructor's course will no longer have to register and enroll as a student in that course and then be "promoted." Instead, a new Section Instructor access code will allow instructors to use the same username and password for all courses they teach. This improved workflow applies to all Math & Statistics MyLab courses, as well as third-party LMS courses with standard integrations, with the exception of MyLab Plus courses. These access codes will roll out this summer; speak to your Pearson representatives for availability.