Enter and edit student IDs

• Up to 32 characters.
• Characters A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and any standard keyboard characters, such as period (.), @, _, or -.
• A single space between characters, but not a series of spaces.

You can either:

• Choose to have students enter their unique student IDs when they sign in. Make this selection in Course Settings. There you can customize the prompt that asks students to enter their student ID and lets them know what kind of format to use (for example, university ID). (You can also set up this prompt as you are creating or copying a course.)

  Students who enter a student ID need to do it only once. After a student enters the ID, he or she is not prompted to enter it again.

• Add or edit student ID information yourself by following the steps in the last section, below (or, for courses with large enrollment, by editing an exported spreadsheet). Section instructors with the Roster privilege can also edit student IDs.

For a student who entered a student ID for another Mastering course, the earlier student ID automatically appears on the student’s User Settings page if you require students to enter their IDs. Students can edit this from their User Settings page, accessed by selecting their name in the upper right.

Previously entered student IDs also appear in the instructor’s Roster page for the new course. If the older IDs don’t pertain to your course, you and section instructors with the Roster privilege can edit student IDs, as described below.

1. Select Roster from the course menu.
2. Enter or edit the student ID information for the appropriate students.
3. Select Save.
   

When you export Mastering Gradebook scores from a course as a spreadsheet (.csv file), you can use the student ID column to help combine Mastering grades with grades from other sources.