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MyMathLab / MyStatLab Best Practices and Tips

Course Management

1. Click Forgot your username or password? for Login Name and Password

Assistance.

2. Bookmark the instructor help system and student help system in your browser for

quick access to these pages.

3. When creating a course, enter a descriptive name so that you students can easily

identify your course during enrollment.

4. Create an instructor account with Read-Only access to allow other instructors to

review your course assignments, Study Plan, and Gradebook settings.

5. Create a course and designate it For Instructor Use Only. Use this course as a

template and modify it to reflect changes you see needed in the courses that you are

teaching with during the term.

6. Give your coordinator course a name that clearly indicates it is a template course or

master course.

7. The coordinator instructor can grant different levels of access to each member

instructor by editing the roster in the member course Gradebook.

8. Changes made to menu and content pages in the coordinator course are not

inherited by the member courses. Therefore, you should complete all customization

in these areas of the coordinator course before you create the member courses.

9. Copying a coordinator course greatly reduces the time and effort needed to prepare

to teach it again, while preserving the dates and assignments in the original course

group. It is good practice to create a new coordinator course for each term or

academic year.

10. You can collapse the course menu by clicking the icon at the top right of the menu.

Click to expand the course menu. You can also display the content page in fullscreen mode by clicking the icon at the top left of the content page. Click to toggle

out of full-screen mode.

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Announcements

1. Students can download the standalone mobile Dashboard to log in and review

information from the Dashboard of their MyMathLab courses. This free app is

available for Android and iOS mobile devices by searching for "My Dashboard" on the

app store for their device.

2. The Publisher Announcement lists important information for students at the

beginning of the term, with convenient links to the browser check, Pearson Tutor

Services, and so on. Hide the Publisher Announcement after the term has begun to

provide more space in the Announcements panel for your class announcements.

3. To hide the dashboard target line, set the percentage to either 0% or 100%.

4. You can copy and paste messages from another source such as a Word document or

website.

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Assignments

1. Use media assignments to require students to work on the learning resources before

they begin their homework assignments. For example, you could assign an animation

and a video for students to review before a test. Or you could assign a video and

make viewing the video a prerequisite to a homework assignment.

2. Group media files and questions to give students practice after viewing the media

resources.

3. When creating personalized homework assignments, add additional questions from

objectives covered on the companion test to give students more practice on the

objectives. You can also add questions from objectives not covered in the companion

test to ensure that all students must work at least one question in the homework

assignment.

4. Create two or more personalized homework assignments for a companion test to

have homework assignments covering fewer objectives.

5. You have to manually grade each student's work, so be judicious in the number of

questions that require students to show work. A best practice is to limit the number

of Show Work questions to 20% of the total number of questions in the assignment.

6. Here are several scoring scenarios for Show Work questions:

a. 100% automatic scoring for question, 0% automatic score for Show Work

Use this in conjunction with requiring work for every question in the

assignment. If a student does not answer a question correctly, you can

manually check the student's work and award partial credit. If a student

answers a question correctly, there is no need for you to review the student's

work.

b. 0% automatic scoring for question, manual scoring for Show Work

Use this to manually score each question by reviewing the answer and the

student's work.

7. Since the questions on your quiz or test are also algorithmically generated, pooling

greatly reduces the chances of two students seeing the same question with the same

values.

8. Pool questions with the same objective and difficulty level to increase the number of

variations for your quiz.

9. Setting a late submission penalty provides a motivation for students to complete the

assignment on time. You can also set a late submission penalty per day as a further

motivation for students to complete the assignment as soon as possible.

10. To avoid decimal partial credit, you can change the question point value to equal to

the total number of answer parts in the question. In the example above, changing

the point value to 4 would result in partial credit of 3 out of 4 points.

11. Use prerequisites to ensure mastery of prerequisite concepts. A best practice is to

specify 80% mastery on homework assignments and 70% mastery on quizzes or

tests.

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12. Limit the number of attempts per question to discourage students from "gaming" the

system by generating multiple versions of a question in an effort to get the correct

answer without doing any mathematical work.

13. Use a password when the quiz is taken in a proctored setting to ensure that students

cannot open the quiz outside of the proctored setting, or if you want to control

access to an un-proctored quiz.

14. Use prerequisites for quiz attempts to require students to review and remediate in

between attempts. In addition, limit the number of quiz attempts to motivate

students to prepare adequately before attempting the quiz.

15. Use Restricted Access or Blocked Access if you want to control student access to an

interrupted quiz.

16. Change the Learning Aids display to show all learning aids and check the Show in

Review mode only box. When students are taking the quiz, they will not have access

to any of the learning aids. After they submit the quiz, they can access the learning

aids as they review the quiz in their Gradebook.

17. Hide the question results for high-stakes assessments or assessments with static

questions so that students can see their score on the assessment but are not able to

view the questions or their answers.

18. When creating multiple assignments from scratch, save time by not entering the

available and due dates for the individual assignment. Finish creating all of the

assignments and then enter all of the assignment dates on the Change Due Dates &

Assign Status page.

19. When creating multiple assignments from scratch, save time by not customizing the

settings on Step 3 for the individual assignments. Finish creating all of the

assignments and then customize all of the assignment settings at once on the

Change Settings for Multiple Assignments page.

20. If you want to create your assignments ahead of time but not have the assignments

show up on your students' assignment list, save the assignments but do not assign

them. When you are ready to make the assignments available to students, go to the

Change Dates & Assign Status page to quickly change the assignment status to

Assigned.

21. Use Individual Student Settings to change the settings for one assignment for

several students or for several assignments for one student. For example, if you

have students who require test accommodations, you could remove or change the

time limit on their quizzes or tests, or you may need to extend the deadline for

several assignments for one student

22. You can use the Individual Student Settings page to make an assignment available

to a subset of students in the class. Create your assignment and save it but do not

assign it to the class. On the Individual Student Settings page, select the students

and change the assignment status to Assigned for these students.

23. Set prerequisites for separate quiz or test attempts to ensure that students

remediate in between quiz/test attempts.

24. Sort the assignments in the order students are to complete them.

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Gradebook

1. Click the navigation buttons above or below the spreadsheet to move through the list

of assignments. Use the Go to button to quickly jump to an assignment.

2. Use Item Analysis for homework assignments to check your students' understanding

of the questions and objectives. Use this information to focus your homework review

with the class.

3. When you open the Item Analysis page for an assignment, click Export student

details. This report shows you the score for each question for each student in the

class. For homework assignments, you can also see how many attempts each

student did on each question; this is useful for identifying which students are

attempting to game the system.

4. You can also email a student regarding a specific assignment by selecting Email

Student from the Actions dropdown list for that assignment.

5. Use the Search/Email by Criteria wizard for early intervention, such as identifying

students who have not submitted any assignments within a certain period, or

identifying students with low overall scores at midterm.

6. Hide assignments that you create for student practice only or that are used as

templates for other assignments to minimize the number of assignments displayed in

the Gradebook and to enable quicker access to relevant student results.

7. If you teach more than one section of a course and each section has identical

assignments and settings, you can create one MyMathLab course and have students

from each section enroll in the same course. Enter the section number (or any

unique ID) as the Student ID for students in that section. For example, you could

enter "1" as the Student ID for students in the first section, and enter "2" as the

Student ID for students in the second section. This allows you to quickly sort your

Gradebook by section.

8. Change a student's status to Inactive when the student withdraws from the class.

9. If you are not recording all grades in the Gradebook, the overall score displayed will

not reflect the students' course average. You may wish to hide the overall score from

your students' results pages to avoid misunderstandings about their course average.

In the Gradebook, select Set Scoring Options from the More Gradebook Tools

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