Work a Mastering item or assignment as a student

Updated 18 May 2023

This topic discusses Mastering items found in the Item Library, and assignments that include those items.

Watch a video: See assignment as instructor or student and print assignment (with/without answers)

  1. Open to the list of assignable items available for your textbook by doing one of the following:
    • Select Instructor Tools then Item Library from the course menu.
    • Create a new assignment, or open an assignment for editing, and then select the 2 Items page.

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  2. Filter the available content by making selections from the drop-down lists and check boxes above the list of items.
  3. Select an item title, and complete the item. The item appears in Standard View, which is how students would see it.
    • For details on how to enter answers and submit items — Refer to the Student Help on Submitting assignment answers.
    • To view the answers with all available hints exposed — Change Standard View to Solution View (top right).

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    • If the item contains hidden parts — Select View all hidden parts. (Students see such hidden parts only after they complete previous parts.)

    • To clear your work to start over — Select Restart Work. (Any originally hidden parts will be hidden again.)
  4. To work the next item in your filtered list, select Next Item (top) or (bottom right).

    If you find an issue with an item — Select the Contact the Publisher (top left) for the item, and provide details.

    The Contact the Publisher link is located near the top of the Item View page with these other controls, from left to right: Item Type, Difficulty, Time, Contact the Publisher link, Manage this Item dropdown menu.

  1. Open the assignment in Student View by doing one of the following:
    • Open the assignment for editing, select the 5 Dates & Follow-Up page, and select the link to preview the assignment in the student view.

      A portion of the Create/Edit Assignment page shows five numbered horizontal tabs with the labels: 1 Start, 2 Select Content, 3 Organize Content, 4 Specify Outcomes, 5 Preview and Assign Dates

    • Select "" All Assignments (Assignments area) from the Course Home, choose the assignment title, and then select Student View from the assignment quick links.

      Quick links that include Student View, Edit Assignment, Adjust Settitngs per Student, Grading and Presentation Settings, Copy Assignmnet to Other Courses, and Add Adaptive Follow-Up

    • Select "" All Assignments (Assignments area) from the Course Home, select the down arrow " " for the assignment then choose either Student View or View assignment.

    Mastering presents any instructor-authored message or instructions added to the assignment above the assigned items. If the assignment is pooled, you see all items in each pool, with a banner at the top reminding you that each student is given only a subset of the items in each pool.

    Pooled assignment. Students receive 14 of 28 items.

    If the assignment has substitute item titles, such as "Item 1" or "Question 1," you can still see the real titles by pointing to each title to reveal the "rollover" text that is visible only to instructors and section instructors.

  2. Select an item title, and complete the item.

    If the item contains hidden parts, which students see only after they have completed previous parts, select View all hidden parts to see all parts without completing any of them.

  3. Continue to work through items.


Change the student experience with the assignment

After you preview or work an assignment, you can make changes to assignment items, how the items are presented or graded, and how the items are organized. Open the assignment for editing and select a page in the Create/Edit Assignment one to five process.

A portion of the Create/Edit Assignment page shows five numbered horizontal tabs with the labels: 1 Start, 2 Select Content, 3 Organize Content, 4 Specify Outcomes, 5 Preview and Assign Dates

For detailed instructions, see below or search this Help.

Customize settings for an assignment | Select content (assign/unassign) | Organize content in an assignment | Create question pools | Add message/instruction to an assignment | Copy and edit an item | Create your own items | Print an assignment with answers