Pair your courses

Pair your MyLab or Mastering and LMS courses and set up assignments. For how to pair courses, select your LMS below and see the Pair your courses section. Or read the summary below.

Summary: How to pair your courses

Prerequisites: From your LMS course, add or select the Access Pearson link and then link your Pearson and LMS accounts using the instructions for your LMS above.

Pair your LMS course with a new, copied, or existing MyLab or Mastering course.

Watch how to link accounts and pair courses (5:10)

Pair your courses

Start from your LMS course to pair it with a new, copied, or existing MyLab or Mastering course.

Transitioning your course to Access Pearson and pairing it with a new edition? Most assignment and course tool links automatically migrate to the course paired using Access Pearson. To ensure this works when pairing a new edition of a Mastering platform update course, copy your previous paired course. Go to Diagnostics for your previous course and note the course ID. When you pair the new LMS course, enter the course ID you noted under Copy an existing course. Links to eText sections, Scheduled Reading, and Adaptive Followups in a new edition aren't included in the course copy or the link migration. You'll need to manually add these links to your LMS course.

  1. To create or copy a MyLab or Mastering course, choose an option. Depending on your setup, you'll see different options.
    1. If available, search the catalog for new course materials. Select a discipline and enter a title, author, ISBN, or keyword. Depending on your course setup, the options will look different.

      Select the Create a new course from the catalog option. Enter your criteria and select Search.

      Create a new course

      or

      Under Choose from catalog, enter your search criteria. Enter your criteria and select Search.

      Choose from catalog

    2. Select the course materials you want.

      Select course

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    1. Copy a previous course you’ve taught with. Select from a list of courses you used in the past. (Learn what's included in the copy.) Depending on your course setup, the options will look different.

      Choose Select an existing course to copy.

      or

      Choose Select from my existing course list.

      Copy a previous course

    2. Select the course materials you want.

      Create a copy of a course

      or

      Screenshot of the Select Course Materials page

    You might be offered the option to copy a paired course. Select Yes, copy this course to copy the course and its assignment or course tool links.

    If you select Yes, copy this course, you can't rename the MyLab or Mastering course or change due dates for assignments from the Enter Course Details page that appears later (see steps 4 and 5 below). Instead, after you finish pairing your courses, go to https://mlm.pearson.com/ to edit the course name and dates. See My Courses Help for instructions. If you select No, create another course, use the same course ID as the original to copy the assignment or course tool links and avoid duplicate grades.

    Mastering platform update: If you're transitioning to Access Pearson and copying a new edition with the Mastering platform update, select No, create another course. To ensure assignment and course tool links automatically migrate to LTI 1.3, go to Diagnostics for your previous course and copy the course ID. When you pair your new course, enter the course ID under Copy an existing course.

    Screenshot of the "Your course is a copy" page

    1. Enter a course ID to copy another instructor's course. For a member section in a course group, enter the course ID of the MyLab coordinator course. Depending on your course setup, the options will look

      Create a copy of a course

      or

      Enter a course ID

    2. Then select the course materials you want.

      Create a copy of a course

      or

      Screenshot of the Select Course Materials page

    Need to find the course ID? Sign in to mlm.pearson.com. Locate your existing course and note the course ID, which is your last name plus 5 digits. Ensure the course has been set to allow copies.

    1. Enter a course ID to copy another instructor's course or select an existing course you used in the past. For a member section in a course group, enter the course ID of the MyLab coordinator course.

      Pair an existing course

    2. Select your course materials.

      Select course materials

    Select the course materials provided to you such as from the bookstore. Depending on your course setup, the create a course options will look different.

    Pair the course materials provided to you

    or

    Select or copy a course page

    For Access Pearson Codeless or Pearson Seamless, select the suggested course or enter a course ID to copy an existing course. You can't pair a new course or a course you created outside the LMS such as from the MyLab and Mastering website. However, you can make a copy.

  2. Complete the course details.

    Choose any available course type.

    • Student-use: To enable students to enroll in the course, select Student-use Course.
    • Instructor-use: If you don't intend students to enroll in the course, select Instructor-use Course. For managing multiple sections for a MyLab course, consider using a MyLab coordinator course in a course group. For MyLab IT courses paired with your LMS, you must copy an existing coordinator course.

    Course Type

    Enter the course name and description. Use something specific for the name like your term and class section. This helps you quickly identify the course later.

    Course Name and Course Description

    Select the course start and end dates. Course Dates default to those selected when the course was originally created.

    Course dates

    • Course2 error: Students who try to register before the start date get a course2 error.
    • Course end dates: Students can no longer open the Pearson course on the course end date (Eastern Time, US). Set a date after the last re-take opportunity for the final exam.

    Select whether to allow other instructors to copy your course using your course ID. You can change this setting later.

    Allow Copy

    Screenshot of the course details page

  3. Select Pair course or Create course. You'll see a confirmation message.

    Screenshot of confirmation with course details

  4. Wait for an email confirming your course has been created. This might take up to 3 hours.
  5. Close the browser tab, and return to your LMS course

Next, set up assignments.

Set up assignments

You need to create assignments and add due dates before you can add assignment links and set up grade sync.

  1. From your LMS course, select the MyLab and Mastering or Access Pearson link. Don't see the link?
  2. Select Open MyLab & Mastering.

    Screenshot of the Open MyLab & Mastering button

  3. Make sure assignments are set up in your MyLab or Mastering course. Assign due dates in your Mastering course. Manage due dates only from your MyLab or Mastering course, not your LMS course.

    To successfully sync grades and open assignments, make sure assignment names are fewer than 128 characters. Avoid UTF-8 or these characters \ / " * < > + = | , % ! &

    Using the Mastering platform update?Learn about differences in how assignments are handled.

  4. Return to your LMS course.

 

Updated 28 Feb 2025