Use the Mastering Course Home

• The Learn more about Mastering area shows the textbook or other resource upon which your course is based, some course information (course name, course ID, course duration, and time zone), some handy links for instructor Help, and a What's New section that may list new resources in the course.
• Select Gradebook Settings for display preferences; assignment categories and weighting; offline activities; and to import or export Gradebook data.
• Select Course settings to set the time zone for assignments, whether students can see their total score, and other settings.
• Create, review, or schedule assignments
• Get tips to get your students started.

Options can vary slightly, depending on whether the course is new or a copied course.

• Shows average score and student completion data for up to 5 most recently due assignments and up to 5 due next, based on the assignment creation date.
• From here you can also open course assignments in list view ( All Assignments), in calendar view ( Calendar), or create an assignment.

• Shows the Mastering Average Score % for the course at a glance.
• Search by student name to see see an individual student’s scores for the course. This is quicker then opening the Gradebook, which calculates all assignment grades for all students before opening.
• Provides links to the Gradebook, Gradebook Settings and a set of Quick Links to different areas of the Gradebook, including to Early Alerts (when this feature is available in your course).

If your course provides Dynamic Study Modules, select Dynamic Study Modules to preview and optionally step through these learning modules. To assign modules, select assignments.

Provides links for Learning Catalytics ("In-class Learning"), Announcements, Learn More (opens the Learn More about Mastering page, described in the next section), and Getting Started (adds this area to the top of the page if you closed it earlier).

To open the Learn More about Mastering page: Either select this option from the Getting Started area (top) or select Learn More from the Enrich Your Course area (bottom) of the Course Home.

• Lists the textbook upon which the course is based and provides course information, help resources, and lists new content in the course.
• When applicable, it also includes a link to a document about new content compared with the earlier edition textbook (“List of content changes”).

Choose (top left) to either show more on a content page or to recall the menu. When you narrow the browser window to a minimal width, Mastering content goes gray to remind you to hide the course menu.

• Menu items can differ slightly.
  For example, the course menu can be edited by the course owner to hide or add menu items.
• A symbol on the instructor menu indicates options hidden from students.
• Select Instructor Tools to see the Assignments, Gradebook, Student ID & Groups, and Item Library options.

Newer courses show these kinds of menus.

Older courses show these kinds of menus.

• You may not see all of the options if the course creator chose to hide one or more menu options or if the course was copied from one with an edited course menu.
• To bring back hidden menu options, see How to redesign the course menu.

• My Courses — Access courses associated with your Pearson account, including across Mastering disciplines and any MyLab courses.
• Manage Course — From here you can edit the course menu, theme, and other aspects of the course. Select Additional Course Settings to edit some course settings specific to Mastering courses. Select Roles and Enrollment Status to change student enrollment status to active or inactive.
• Course Home — Details provided in this Help topic.
• Scores — Shows scores for any assignments you may complete (similar to the Scores page that students see). To open the Gradebook, first select Instructor Tools.
• eTextbook— Leads to the eTextbook (formerly known as eText) associated with your Mastering course.
• Study Area — Includes Dynamic Study Modules, when these are available for your course.
• Document Sharing
• User Settings — For your Pearson account
• Instructor Resources
• Instructor Tools — Leads to Assignments, Gradebook, Student IDs & Groups, and Item Library.