Add a Mastering section instructor for a course linked to an LMS

If you are teaching a Mastering course that is linked to a learning management system (LMS), you can provide full or partial course access for instructor colleagues and student TAs by designating them as section instructors in Mastering. For each section instructor, you set individual privileges that identify which features of the course that person can work with.

Note: If you are not teaching a course that is linked to an LMS, see Add section instructors (colleagues or TAs).

Preview: What section instructors can do

Section instructors can access a number of Mastering activities even before you grant them specific privileges to perform other tasks. No section instructor can delete your course. A Mastering course can only be deleted by the course creator.

List of activities that section instructors are automatically allowed to access

• From Student IDs & Groups, export and import roster details
• Access and create reports of student progress in the Dynamic Study Modules for your course (if any)
• View, print, and export the Learning Outcomes Summary
• View all items (including correct answers) in the Item Library
• Use the Gradebook to view student grades and link to details of student work

Process overview diagram

Get the big picture from the process overview diagram, and then expand the sections below for details.

You plan for section instructors and create your Mastering courses

1. Obtain access codes

   Ask your Pearson representative to give you a separate Modified Mastering student access code for each colleague or TA who will become a section instructor in one of your Mastering courses.

   Access codes cannot be used more than once. If the same people will be section instructors in more than one of your courses, they will need a separate access code for each course.

2. Create your Mastering course

   If you haven't already done so, create your Mastering courses by using the instructions provided in Linking to MyLab & Mastering.

   You don't need to add any assignments to your course(s) yet.

3. Find the Mastering course ID

   In the Confirmation-Request Received message, note the Pearson course ID that is assigned to each course, or find the course ID after the course is created.

4. Provide information to prospective section instructors

   After you receive confirmation that the Mastering course is created (this can take up to 24 hours), provide each colleague or TA with the following:

   • Course ID of the appropriate Mastering course(s).
   • One or more Modified Mastering student access codes to use during student registration (one per course for each person).

   • A printed or electronic copy of this PDF file: Join a Mastering course to become a section instructor. (You can open this file, save it to your computer, and then attach it to email.)

     Important: They will access Pearson registration and the Mastering course outside of your LMS (from https://register.pearsoncmg.com/register/reg1.jsp), as instructed in the PDF file.

Important: If colleagues or TAs will be section instructors in more than one Mastering course in the same term, it's easiest for them to register in all of the courses before you promote them in any one course. This allows them to use the same Pearson account (username/password) for all their section instructor activity in the term. After an account has been promoted, if the section instructor tries to register for another course, he or she must create a new account. Using separate accounts is inconvenient for section instructors because they must sign in with different Pearson credentials to access each course. See the Workaround below.

Consider discussing this with your prospective section instructors so you and they can communicate about timing and completion of your interdependent steps.

Workaround: If an account has been promoted to section instructor, it can always be changed back to the student role to allow the person to register in one or more additional courses in the same term, and then promoted again. Each instructor who promoted the account will need to make this change.

Your colleagues and TAs register as students in Mastering

1. Using the instructions, course ID(s), and access code(s) you gave them in step 4 above, your colleagues or TAs will register as students with Pearson student accounts and enter the Mastering course(s) at least once.
2. They will notify you that they have completed all registrations and entered all course(s).

You promote them to section instructor

When your colleagues or TAs have registered as students and entered your course(s), open your Mastering course and do the following for each new section instructor:

1. Change the role from student to section instructor.

   Reminder: It is helpful to section instructors if you can wait to promote them until they have registered and entered all courses, if they will be a section instructor in more than one of your courses.

2. Assign section instructor privileges.

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