Best practices

You need the right permissions to add the MyLab and Mastering or Access Pearson link. If needed, check with your system administrator.

Your system administrator adds the link for Partner (CPI) or Access Pearson Codeless integrations with Barnes & Noble, Follett-Willo, RedShelf, or VitalSource.

From your LMS course, add or copy a MyLab or Mastering course to your LMS course.

You can't pair MyLab and Mastering courses you created outside your LMS course such as from the MyLab and Mastering website. However, you can pair copies of these existing MyLab and Mastering courses.

Either create a coordinator course directly in MyLab and Mastering or by pairing a MyLab and Mastering course from your LMS course. Then create sections by pairing courses from your LMS.

Before you add assignment, course tool, or eText links, you need to:

• From your LMS, add or copy a MyLab and Mastering course to your LMS course.

• Set up assignments in your MyLab and Mastering course.

For assignment, course tool, or eText links to work in a new LMS course paired with a new MyLab and Mastering course, you must copy the same MyLab and Mastering course you paired with the original LMS course. Links are automatically available to students unless you change their publish status in your LMS course. You might need to sync grades for links to show up.

Links for offline assignments or activities aren't supported.

To sync grades for the same assignments from the original course, pair a new course with a copy of your previously used MyLab or Mastering course or the same coordinator course.

For assignment, course tool, and eText links from the original MyLab and Mastering course to work in the copied LMS course, pair it with the same MyLab and Mastering course. In MyLab IT and World Languages courses, unassign the assignments. In MyLab courses, clear the Send to LMS check boxes.

Canvas: We recommend not to import a course because assignment and most course tool links won't function in the imported course. You'll need to delete the links and manually add them back.

Transitioning your course from the MyLab and Mastering integration (LTI 1.1) to the Access Pearson integration (LTI 1.3)?

In most cases, assignment links will automatically be available in the copied LMS course after pairing. You'll have the option to see a status or list of links. Instructor course tool links aren't supported by the Access Pearson integration and aren't copied. You need to manually delete any instructor course tool links from your course. See Transition your course for details.

From your LMS course, open your MyLab and Mastering course to prepare for grade sync. Then return to your LMS course and select grade sync settings from the Pearson home page.

From your LMS course, sync grades from the Pearson home page in your MyLab and Mastering or Access Pearson integration.

Avoid making manual edits to MyLab or Mastering assignment names, grades, points possible, or due dates in your LMS gradebook. Manual and automatic grade sync overwrites these edits in the LMS gradebook. If this happens, make your changes to the MyLab and Mastering gradebook and then manually sync grades. We recommend changing due dates from within your MyLab and Mastering course. Have students check the course home page or calendar in their MyLab and Mastering course if due dates don't sync to the LMS calendar for your integration. Learn how grade sync works.

Some MyLab and Mastering courses don't sync categories or category customizations, such as weighted or totaled columns. You can add these in the LMS gradebook. To create a weighted score in a MyLab course, change the question values within the assignment to appropriately weight the assignment. Weighted scores from the Mastering gradebook don’t sync.

Export grades or scores from your LMS gradebook if you don't want to use grade sync to populate your LMS gradebook.

Use your LMS for most communications.

See announcements from both your LMS and MyLab and Mastering courses.

Share files with others from your LMS course.

Depending on your integration, your LMS calendar might not sync with your MyLab and Mastering calendar. If so, work with the calendar mainly from your LMS course or update it in both the MyLab and Mastering and LMS courses.

Manage the student roster from your LMS course.