Set up course groups

Course groups are available for MyLab courses. In a course group, member sections are linked copies of a coordinator course. Updates to the coordinator course are inherited by the member sections. For example, if you add an assignment to the coordinator course, it automatically appears in all the member sections.

To use a course group in your LMS, MyLab member sections are paired with LMS sections. The MyLab coordinator course is usually paired with an LMS master course. How course groups are implemented depends on your MyLab product and instructor roles.

Roles in MyLab course groups

Your LMS and Pearson roles might differ, so it's important to understand Pearson roles and when to use them.

• Course group owner: The instructor who creates the MyLab coordinator course retains ownership of the course group and determines how much control section instructors have over member courses.

• Coordinating instructor: The instructor or administrator who creates and manages the course group. The coordinating instructor has full instructor privileges and can create, pair, teach, and manage a coordinator course and its member sections.
• Instructor of a member section: An instructor with full instructor privileges who can create, pair, teach, and manage a member section.
• Section instructor: An instructor (colleague or co-teacher) with partial instructor privileges who teaches a section. Section instructors manage some content but usually cannot create a course, access all course resources, or change any resources inherited from the coordinator course. Section instructors might see student grades. There is no way to completely hide grades and protect the privacy of student education records from section instructors. For details, see Help for your Pearson product. You can use the same Pearson instructor account if you are an instructor and section instructor in different MyLab or Mastering courses.
• Teaching assistant (TA): A student who is promoted to teaching assistant by the course owner and has limited ability to manage course content. For example, a teaching assistant cannot create courses or sync grades. However, TAs might see student grades. There is no way to completely hide grades and protect the privacy of student education records from TAs. For details, see Help for your Pearson product. You can use the same Pearson student account if you are a student and teaching assistant in different MyLab or Mastering courses.

See MyLab Help for how to set access privileges for section instructors and TAs.

If applicable, provide registration instructions to section instructors or TAs.

See Set up course groups for how to create a course group in your LMS.

Using Mastering? Sorry, Mastering doesn't offer course groups. A Mastering course can only be a student or instructor course. For student enrollment, pair your LMS course with a copy of a Mastering student course. Because student courses aren't member courses, they don’t inherit updates made after the course copy.

1. From your LMS, pair the LMS master course with the MyLab course that will coordinate the course group.

   Select Instructor-use only when creating the MyLab course.

   The instructor who creates the MyLab coordinator course retains ownership of the course group.

2. Note the course ID of the MyLab coordinator course.
3. Open the MyLab course and edit the settings to change it to a coordinator course. (See MyLab Help for instructions.)
4. Return to your LMS and copy the LMS master course to create the sections.
5. To pair the LMS sections, copy the MyLab coordinator course by entering its course ID. This creates the MyLab member sections.

1. Go to https://mlm.pearson.com/ and sign in using your Pearson instructor account.
2. Create a coordinator course and copy it to make the member courses. Note the course IDs.

   Don't enroll students in the coordinator course.

3. In your LMS, create the sections and pair them with the MyLab sections using the course IDs.

   Pairing the sections can be done by the coordinating instructor or by the member section instructors.

4. (optional) Pair an LMS master course with the MyLab coordinator course.