In class—both classroom-based and online classes—Learning Catalytics encourages student engagement and provides real-time insight into misconceptions. On your instructor console, you see student responses tabulated or displayed graphically as students submit them, and you can enable an "I don't understand" feature that students can use to let you know whenever they are confused.

Also in class, quizzes and interactive worksheets can be delivered using Learning Catalytics rich question types in Self-Paced or Self-Test modules.

Groups for discussing answers support peer-to-peer learning, where students can articulate their thinking and improve their conceptual understanding. Automatic grouping is available for Instructor-Led Synchronous and Automated Synchronous sessions, and permanent teams or student-formed temporary teams can be used in Team-Based sessions.

Use Learning Catalytics in class (Instructor-Led Synchronous)

Use Learning Catalytics in class (Team-Based)

Use Learning Catalytics groups

Students in completely asynchronous online courses can participate in a Learning Catalytics session simultaneously with other students who are taking the same course.

Assign Automated Synchronous modules

Outside of class, asynchronously assigned questions let students work independently. Students can also return to older sessions to review Learning Catalytics questions.

Assign Learning Catalytics modules for homework or independent study (Self-Paced and Self-Test)

Students bring their own devices (not a separate clicker that limits the nature of question types and interactions), so you are able to deliver a wide variety of question types that students respond to by tapping or clicking a region of an image, dragging a pointer to indicate direction of movement, sketching on their screen, and even uploading an image they have created—in addition to typical multiple choice, numerical, algebraic, textual, matching, and ranking questions.

Explore question types for Learning Catalytics

For the modules you deliver, you can select questions from Pearson and from contributors in the wider academic community. You can also create your own questions and share them with your colleagues. Selection is easy using filters by source, contributor, topic, textbook, and question type.

Add a Learning Catalytics module

Find Learning Catalytics questions

Create a question for Learning Catalytics

Performance measurements are captured at both the class and student levels for you to review at any time. You can automatically transfer scores from the Learning Catalytics Gradebook to the Mastering Gradebook.

Review results for a session

Review a student's performance

Learning Catalytics scoring

View, edit, and transfer Learning Catalytics scores

Important: See notes in the topic linked immediately above about editing Learning Catalytics scores and exempting students from a Learning Catalytics session.

Students do not have access to the Learning Catalytics Gradebook.

1. In the navigation bar near the top of the page, click Training and Support.

   

2. Select Educator.

3. On the Educator Training & Support page, select any of the following options:

   Get Trained gives you access to the Planning Toolkit and Live Online Training.

   Documentation opens the Help file you are reading now.

   Watch How Do I? Videos illustrate several Learning Catalytics features.

   Contact Pearson Support takes you to the Pearson Support home page where you can search for content, select a link for commonly read articles, or directly contact support.

   Get Your Students Started lets you download a 1-page Get Started handout for students who are not enrolled in a Pearson course.

   Instructor Feedback Forum opens the page where you can enter your ideas for improving Learning Catalytics.

The Planning Toolkit helps you plan, implement, and evaluate Learning Catalytics for use with your course.

You'll want to consider connectivity requirements and student-access purchases before deciding to use Learning Catalytics with your course.

Classroom connectivity:

• Capacity for all students to be online simultaneously via Wi-Fi or cell providers (check with your IT department)

Student Web-enabled devices and account access:

• Smartphone, tablet, or laptop for each student (might incur standard data charges if used on a phone)
• Learning Catalytics access, included free with purchase of a Pearson product with eText (both online subscriptions and new book packages) or sold separately online

Note: For students who don’t have a device, you can supply a printed PDF version of the module questions. In the list of modules for a Learning Catalytics course, click in the row for the module, and then select Create PDF.

You can explore features, experiment with setup, and test your delivery before you decide to make Learning Catalytics available to students.

Anything you set up as you explore can be used or discarded. Students don't see anything in Learning Catalytics until you start a session. Before you do that, be sure to alert students to confirm or purchase their access.

To start exploring:

1. Click Learning Catalytics from your Mastering Course Home.
2. In Step 1, click Preview & Set Up.

3. In Learning Catalytics, notice that a course has been created with the same name as your Mastering course title.

   Note: After you have crossed over from Mastering to Learning Catalytics once, you have the option of opening Learning Catalytics directly from learningcatalytics.com. There you can supply your Mastering username and password to access all of your courses, modules, questions, seat maps, and performance measurements. You cannot, however create or copy a course that is associated with a Mastering course.

4. Watch the How Do I? videos linked from the Training page. Further information about features, logistics, and pedagogical issues is available from the Quick Start Guide, also accessed from that page.
5. From the home page you can proceed to do any of the activities listed in the Next steps section (below).

If another instructor has set up a course and sends a copy to you, you can copy modules (including questions) from that course into your own course.

Section instructors with the Learning Catalytics privilege in your Mastering course can help with all the tasks you can complete in Learning Catalytics, including copying modules, creating new questions, editing the student notification message and inviting students, delivering in-class sessions, starting and stopping asynchronous sessions, responding to student questions, working in the Learning Catalytics Gradebook, and so on.

Section instructors who don't have the Learning Catalytics privilege are treated as students and see only the student view of Learning Catalytics in both Mastering and Learning Catalytics.

Distributing the Get Started handout ensures that students have the information they need to access Learning Catalytics before you deliver your first session.

If you decide to use Learning Catalytics with your Mastering course, you enable students to access your associated Learning Catalytics course, and notify students to confirm or purchase access.

Steps to enable and notify students

After you make the In-Class Learning feature available to your students, they must click the Learning Catalytics link to confirm, or be prompted to purchase, access to Learning Catalytics.

For information on the student experience with Learning Catalytics, see the Student Help for Learning Catalytics.