Create a new course

Creating a Mastering course provides access to all online resources for the textbook you choose, including all assignable content from the book's Item Library and any additional resources such as presentations, images, guides, eText, and Study Area. You can also assign Adaptive Follow-Ups and Dynamic Study Modules if they are available with the textbook. All Mastering courses have access to Learning Catalytics.

You must have a Pearson Educator account to create a Mastering course.

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Create a new course

Select My Courses , Create Course, Create a New Course, and then select Continue.
For Basic Information, provide the following values, and then select Continue.
- When you select the Textbook, confirm that you see the correct cover image to ensure that you are selecting the right title and edition. After you create the course, you cannot edit the book selection without the help of Pearson Support.
  
  If you select a new edition, you see (if available) highlights in the new edition of the Mastering course. Those same highlights appear on the Course Home page after you create the course.
- Country is required to determine the Time Zone list.
- Time Zone is important because it affects the time when assignments are available to students, when assignments are due, and when student responses to individual items are timestamped.
- For Course End Date (Last Day of Term) you are limited to a date that is 2 years (or less) in the future.
For Student ID Settings, select whether you want students to enter their IDs, and then select Continue.

If you select Yes, be sure to customize the message to students to let them know which ID and the exact ID format they should enter. If you plan to export Mastering grades for subsequent import into a learning management system (LMS), such as Canvas, and your students are not entering Mastering through the LMS, instruct students to enter IDs in the format that the LMS gradebook uses. These IDs will allow you to ensure that the correct Mastering grades are associated with each student.
For Access Settings, do the following, and then select Create Course:
- Accept the supplied Course ID (or enter a unique ID of your choosing) that you will give to students to use when they enroll in the course, and to instructors if they copy this course. After you create the course, you cannot change the course ID.
  Important: You cannot reuse a course ID from another course, even if the other course is inactive, has expired, or been deleted. Each course ID must be unique.
- Select whether students can join the course. Even if you select Open, students can't join the course until you give them the course ID.
- Select whether other instructors can copy this course. Even if you select Available for copying, instructors can't copy the course unless you give them the course ID.
If publisher-provided assignments are available for your textbook, you are asked whether to Add publisher-provided assignments now?

If you select Yes (recommended for new users), you are able to review, edit, or delete the assignments before you give them to your students. You can also add more assignments to your course.
Click Continue to open the new course.

Your course opens to its Course Home page. If you chose to add publisher assignments in the previous step: The course opens instead to the Assignments page, where you can drag assignments onto the calendar to assign them.

The course contains an initial Introduction to Mastering assignment so students can practice answering questions and can read background information on grading. Review this assignment by clicking its title. The dates for this assignment in a new course are automatically set to be available one week after course creation and due one week after that.

To change the dates: Drag the assignment to a different due date on your course's calendar. Or, on the Assignments List View, select Edit and then enter new dates.

Create a new course

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