New edition course copies

• Account type — You must have a Pearson Educator account, even if you have section instructor access to a course.
• My Courses page — Sign in to this page to view and edit your Mastering courses. For instructions, select the info tip next to “New edition available” or select Help (top right) and search on “new edition.”
• Select new edition — This option appears on the Select Course Materials page only when the publisher has completed content updates for the next edition up from the current course.

How to copy a Mastering course to a new edition (or new version)

Follow these guidelines after you copy your course to a new edition course.

• Course Settings

  To edit the Course Name, Description, Allow Copy, Course Dates, and Enrollment Dates settings after you copy your course to the new edition course, see Course details.

  Important: Enrollment Dates do NOT apply to Mastering courses paired with an LMS. Instructor Help for using Mastering courses with an LMS

• Additional (Mastering-specific) course settings
  • Settings that ARE copied —
    The Country, Time Zone, Student ID Setting, and Learning Outcomes additional course settings ARE copied from the earlier edition course.
  • Settings that are NOT copied —
    The Display settings (Allow Students to see their Total Score and Forward Student Comments to Email Address). These appear with their normal Mastering default settings in the new edition course. To edit any of these settings, see Edit additional course settings.
• Section instructor follow-up
  Any section instructors for the new course will need to join it and the course creator should follow up with any privilege adjustments. How to add section instructors
• Edit any eTextbook links in assignment instructions
  eTextbook links instructors may add into assignments do not automatically update to reflect possibly different pages in the newer edition textbook. You can edit these manually. (The Pearson eText is now known as eTextbook.)
• Other custom course content
  See Custom content for instructions to keep custom content from an earlier edition course when you copy to a new edition. Applies to any supplemental content you may have developed and added to your course, not Mastering assignment items.

When you copy your course to the new edition, all assigned Mastering publisher-provided items in the new course are automatically:

• Updated if a new version of the item, or a corresponding substitute item, is available
• Preserved in the assignment in their original form if no update is necessary or if they are custom My Items. (My Items content is preserved, but the status of these are No Chapter Specified.)
• Removed from the assignment if they are inactive or are no longer part of the new textbook content.

  How to identify assignments that have had an item removed or updated

  Add points and/or items to match the assignment points in the original course

Any assigned Dynamic Study Modules are removed.
You'll need to assign the DSMs associated with the new edition.

Any Scheduled Reading assignments are removed.
You'll need to create and assign any new Scheduled Reading assignments based on the new edition content.

Next steps
See also Characteristics of a copied course and Checklist before you teach with a copied course.

During the copy to new edition process, instructors can specify the dates for the assignments that get copied into the new course. The provided options are:

• Don't copy dates
  
• Copy exact dates (this is the default)
• Adjust dates based on this first assignment due date (due dates match the intervals between assignments in the original course).

  Tip: If the adjusted dates option was chosen, check that due dates in the new edition course don't conflict with any holidays. Note that the due dates (and availability until dates) in the new course will not go beyond the course end date.

When available, the list of content changes helps you to check which content items may have changed. This file becomes available when the Item Library for the new edition is complete.

Download the list of content changes from the Course Home

1. From the Course Home, select Learn more about Mastering from the Getting Started area (top).
2. Select List of content changes from the What's New area (bottom right).

   

   The correlation chart is downloaded as a .xlsx spreadsheet file.

Terms used in the list of content changes

The list shows whether publisher-provided assignable items in the new edition course are:

• The same as in the previous edition (“Direct Pick-Up” or DPU)
• Changed (“Pick-Up with Minor Changes” or “Pick-Up with Major Changes”)
• New
• Deleted

Use the list of content changes to maintain the latest content

Depending on whether and how content was copied into the new course, you can use this file as follows.

If this course was created by	Use the list of content changes to
Copying a course based on the most recent edition of the textbook, and the list of content changes was available at the time	See which items were automatically updated when this course was created
Copying to a new edition, and the list of content changes were not available at the time Creating a new course and copying earlier assignments into the course	Help you manually replace older items in assignments with new items

Most common difference between editions

In addition to new items added, it’s most common that End-of-Chapter and Test Bank items are reordered.