Course types
Updated 16 Sep 2025
Your MyLab Foundational Skills course might be offered via Pearson's MyLab and Mastering, MyLabsPlus, or via another learning management system (LMS), such as Blackboard, Canvas, or D2L Brightspace, Moodle, Sakai, or Schoology. You and your students also can use it as a standalone product.
- To create your course in MyLab and Mastering see My Courses help.
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Using an LMS? Start your course from your learning management system if you work in Blackboard, Canvas, D2L Brightspace, Moodle, Sakai, or Schoology. - See Create or copy a standalone course to create a course outside an LMS.
See Work in your LMS for information on automatically sending MyLab results to your LMS gradebook.
Course groups
You can set up a course group to manage several sections of the same course. In a course group, you:
- Set up a coordinator course with all the assignments and customizations you need, but with no student enrollment.
- Copy the coordinator course to create member sections of the course group.
- Make any needed changes to the coordinator course to apply the changes to all members of the course group.
See Manage course sections for details on working with course groups.
Institutional courses
Institutional courses are coordinator courses that must be created by a Pearson sales rep. To handle a very large number of students, an institutional course automatically generates additional sections of the course to form a course group.
An institutional course group is limited to 200 member sections. The number of students in a member section is limited to 200.
In institutional course groups:
- You must set up all assignments in the institutional course before enrolling students. After students are enrolled, you can't change assignments.
- You cannot access member sections individually, so each member section has the same assignments and settings as the institutional course.
- From your MyLab gradebook, you can only export data and change how scores are calculated and displayed.
- Students appear only in the roster of the institutional course.