Mastering assignment content

Mastering is a web-based tutoring and learning system. Mastering guides students through homework tutorials and exercises by providing on-demand Hints and feedback for wrong answers. Assignment items can incorporate a variety of answer types, including multiple choice, symbolic math, chemical expressions, ranking, and others. See Answer types overview for a list of standard types.

Instructors can include assignment items in their courses in several ways:

• Choose publisher provided assignments when you create a Mastering course (Easiest, good for beginners): If publisher-provided assignments are available for the textbook associated with the course, you are asked whether to "Add publisher-provided assignments now?" during the course creation process. If you select "Yes", you can edit standard assignment items later using either the Simple Editor or the Advanced Editor .

• Create assignments by choosing from publisher content (Select the content you want): As instructors create assignments, they can choose items. For instructions on how to find different kinds of items, see Searching for items. Sample filtering options are provided below. (Filter options can vary, depending on the resource specified—like a textbook chapter or other.) Later, you can edit standard assignment items using either the Simple Editor or the Advanced Editor .
  
  

• Create your own assignable items (Take control for custom content): You can use the Simple Editor or the Advanced Editor to create your own questions in assignable items. To add questions in an item, you add a part.
  
  At a minimum, an item must include a title and a part question with its correct answer. For the part, see information about adding a title, description, and goal, hints, wrong answer feedback, and follow-up text for correct answers. For the item, you can also add more part questions, transitions (between part questions), set the layout to one or two columns, and set the access to part questions (require students to answer a part question before they can view the next one).