Quick start: Mastering instructor
(Direct integration)
Updated 13 Feb 2024
Mastering content has been directly integrated into your school’s Learning Management System (LMS), such as D2L Blackboard, Brightspace, Canvas, Moodle, Sakai, or Schoology.
This guide covers the steps for instructors to start using Mastering
- Open Mastering content from your LMS (Direct Integration)
- Get to know your course
- Prepare your assignments
- Report performance and scores
- Move beyond the basics
Open Mastering content from your LMS
Select a Mastering link from your LMS course, like for the Mastering Course Home (anything other than the eTextbook).
- Accept the terms of service and license agreement so you can open that resource and all other Mastering resources, except for the eTextbook which has its own service and license agreement.
- After an instructor has opened at least one Mastering link from the LMS course, students in your LMS course can open Mastering resources the same way.
Get your students started
See Get your students started for tips on how to prepare students for working with Mastering resources.
What about section instructors?
Contact customersuccess@pearson.com to add section instructors for Mastering content in your LMS.
Having an issue accessing Mastering content?
You may need to check your browser settings, especially to enable pop-ups and allow cookies from Pearson websites as trusted sites. Otherwise, contact Pearson support or your school's LMS administrator.
How to directly integrate Mastering content with your LMS —
See Get started with MyLab and Mastering for your LMS.
Get to know your course
Prepare your course
- Assignment time zone, section instructor privileges, and more —
Select Course Settings (Getting Started section) on the Course Home. Edit these course settings - Course appearance and menu items
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Edit course appearance - Share documents —
When available, select Document Sharing to share documents, presentations, and audio/video files with the class. Students can also upload documents.
Use your instructor home page
From the Course Home you can quickly open the Mastering Gradebook and assignments, whether in list view (
All Assignments) or in calendar view (
Calendar).
To open these and other course features from the course menu, select Instructor Tools.
Prepare your assignments
Create assignments
To create a standard Mastering assignment:
- Select Create Assignment from the Assignments area of the Course Home page.
- Confirm that Create a new assignment from scratch is selected and choose Continue.
- Follow steps 1-5 to create the assignment. Details about these steps
Copy assignments
You can copy individual assignments between courses. To copy all assignments from a course, it may be easiest to copy the course.
Adjust assignment settings
Set assignments dates to make them available to students. You can also adjust an assignment for one or more students (exempt; change the due date, score, or time limit; and reset).
- For standard assignments, you can select from the homework, quiz and test categories.
- You can edit grading and presentation rules for assignments, such as to allow students to rework completed items for practice. Apply these settings by assignment or category.
Address student cheating
Mastering can help you to identify and discourage student cheating. For example, you may be able to create question pools and randomize assignment items (sequence or using variables).
Report performance and grades
Use your gradebook
The Mastering Gradebook records student scores on online work and lets you add scores for offline work.
- Drill down to review a student's work
- Manage grades and grading
- How grading works for different kinds of assignments
- Assignment results (includes diagnostic charts for standard assignments)
You may also want to:
- Adjust scores and settings by student, like to grant an exemption or extension.
- Sync or import scores from Mastering into your LMS gradebook
Move beyond the basics
Take advantage of many other powerful features in your course.
Dynamic Study Modules (DSM) — Use Dynamic Study Modules to increase student engagement. DSMs are homework assignments that adjust to each student's needs for independent study.
eTextbook — Students use the eTextbook to listen to the audiobook, search, and use study features (AI, videos, highlights, notes, and flashcards). Open the eTextbook in a browser or in the Pearson+ app. Use the eTextbook to share notes with the class.
Instructor Resources — Powerpoint presentations, media assets, editable/printable quiz or test bank questions, instructor guides, case studies, and more Instructor Resources may be provided for your textbook.
For other Mastering features — See How Do I? videos.
See also: AskPearson