New edition course copies

• Account type: You must have a Pearson Educator account, even if you have section instructor access to a course.
• My Courses page: Sign in to this page to view and edit your Modified Mastering courses. For instructions, select the info tip next to “New edition available” or select Help (top right) and search on “new edition.”
• Select new edition: This option appears on the Select Course Materials page only when the publisher has completed content updates for the next edition up from the current course.

How to copy a Modified Mastering course to a new edition (or new version)

When you copy your course to the new edition, all assigned standard Mastering items in the new course are automatically:

• Updated if a new version of the item, or a corresponding substitute item, is available
• Preserved in the assignment in their original form if no update is necessary or if they are custom My Items. (My Items content is preserved, but the status of these are No Chapter Specified.)
• Removed from the assignment if they are inactive or are no longer part of the new textbook content.

Any assigned Dynamic Study Modules are NOT copied into the new edition course. You will need to assign the DSMs associated with the new edition.

See also Characteristics of a copied course and Checklist before you teach with a copied course.

During the copy to new edition process, instructors can specify the dates for the assignments that get copied into the new course. The provided options are:

• Don't copy dates
  
• Copy exact dates (this is the default)
• Adjust dates based on this first assignment due date (due dates match the intervals between assignments in the original course).

  Tip: If the adjusted dates option was chosen, check that due dates in the new edition course don't conflict with any holidays. Note that the due dates (and availability until dates) in the new course will not go beyond the course end date.

Links to the “List of content changes” and Correlation Chart appear on the Course Home of the new edition course. Both of these links lead to the same downloadable .xls file.

After you copy a course to a new edition, use this list as a guide to check which content items may have changed. The list shows whether publisher-provided assignable items in the new edition course are the same as in the previous edition (“Direct Pick-Up” or DPU), changed (“Pick-Up with Minor Changes” or “Pick-Up with Major Changes”), new, or deleted.

Where to find the list of content changes and correlation chart on the Course Home

• The List of content changes link appears at the bottom of the What’s New in [Textbook Title, Edition] area.
• The Correlation Chart link in the Learn More area. (The link name might also be “List of Content Changes”.)

Most common difference between editions

In addition to new items added, it’s most common that End-of-Chapter and Test Bank items are reordered.

Items assigned in the earlier edition course that are not in the new edition course

• Usually these are Test Bank items that have since been dropped by the publisher. The item no longer appears in either the Item Library or in assignments updated to the new edition.
• To identify which assignments in the new edition course no longer contain these deleted items, compare assignment point values between the older course and the new edition course. Then, adjust the point values in the new edition course. Or, consider editing the assignment to add other items to make up the point difference.

Follow these guidelines after you copy your course to a new edition course.

• Course Settings: To edit the Course Name, Description, Allow Copy, Course Dates, and Enrollment Dates settings after you copy your course to the new edition course, see Course details. Important: Enrollment Dates don’t apply to Modified Mastering courses paired with an LMS.
• Additional (Mastering-specific) course settings:
  Settings that ARE copied: The Country, Time Zone, Student ID Setting, and Learning Outcomes additional course settings ARE copied from the earlier edition course.

  Settings that are NOT copied: The Display settings (Display Grades as Points or Percentages, Allow Students to see their Total Score, and Forward Student Comments to Email Address). These appear with their normal Mastering default settings in the new edition course. To edit any of these settings, see Edit additional course settings.

• Section instructor follow-up: Any section instructors for the new course will need to join it and the course creator should follow up with any privilege adjustments. How to add section instructors
• Other custom course content: For instructions about how to update the Modified Mastering course menu and other course items (not Mastering assignment items), see Custom content.