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 (1:48)

Pair your courses

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

  1. To create or copy a MyLab or Mastering course, choose an option. Depending on your setup, you'll see different options.
  2. Complete the course details.

    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