Start and review a homework activity

Homework activities can include multimedia presentations, such as videos or animations that help you learn new skills, and questions that help you practice what you have learned. You can choose an activity to work on from the Course Home, the Assignments Due page, or from one of your Learning Paths.

The instructor may set up some activities so that you can complete them and later rework them. To rework an activity, select its name on the Assignments Due page or on the Activities page. If the activity opens in the MyLab player, your previous answers do not appear. However, your previous score remains in your instructor's Gradebook until you complete this new attempt.

After you finish an activity, you can review your answers by selecting the Review link on the Assignments Due page, the Activities page, or the Results page.

If you use the JAWS screen reader, see Set up the player for JAWS.

The Do Homework and Review Homework pages are similar in appearance. When you work on a homework activity, you first see the Do Homework page. After you complete a homework activity and select its Review link on the Topic Activities or Results page, the Review Homework page is displayed.

Do Homework page

When you select the name of an activity on the Activities page or the Course Home, the Do Homework page opens.

In a MyLab Nursing course, a lesson's Remember activities and Apply assessments are categorized as Homework. This means that they are also listed as Homework activities in the Gradebook. See Remember and Apply activities for more information.

To work a homework question or run a media, select its link on the Do Homework page. You must complete all questions and run all media in order to receive credit for the activity.

If the activity has only questions, you don't have to do the questions in order.

If your instructor wants you to answer questions about the media, the name of the media and the associated questions are in the same row of the table. You may need to view or work on the media before you can answer the questions.

The Do Homework page also displays a message letting you know when Skill Builder adaptive practice is available with an assignment.

For details on completing homework in the player, see Do and review homework in the player. For other types of homework, see Work a Writing Skills or Writing Practice essay activity, and Work a Writing Space assignment.

Review Homework page

The Review Homework page opens when you select the Review link next to a completed activity on the Topic Activities or Results page.

If you open a question from the Review Homework page and make changes to your answer, it does not change your score. To improve your score, you must open the question from the Do Homework page.

Activity information

For each activity, the Do Homework and Review Homework pages display:

• The name of the activity.
• The date when you last worked the activity.
• The score you received when you last worked the activity.
• For Reading and Writing activities, Current Attempt displays the number of times you have attempted the activity out of the total number of attempts available. This number does not reflect the number of times you can select Check Answer.
• For Math activities, the Number of times you can complete each question is the number of times you can select Try Again or Similar Exercise. This number does not reflect the number of times you can select Check Answer.
• The score required for mastery (if the activity requires a minimum score).

If this assignment is a prerequisite for another assignment, you see the Prerequisite icon with a message saying something like "You must submit this assignment before you can begin the other assignment."

Question information and icons

Information about the questions is displayed in a table. The first row provides the following information:

• Questions: The number of questions in the assignment.
• Ungraded: The number of questions that your instructor needs to grade manually. For example, if you had to write a short essay or show your work, your instructor needs to review your answer before you get a complete grade.
• Scored: The number of questions that have been scored.
• Correct: The number of questions you answered correctly.
• Partial Credit: The number of questions for which you received partial credit. Some courses do not give partial credit. (See the description for the partial credit icon in the table below for details.)
• Incorrect: The number of questions you answered incorrectly.

The table then lists all questions in the activity. An icon next to questions that you have completed provides information about your answer.

Question icons in completed homework

Icon	Meaning
	You answered the question, but your instructor has not yet graded it.
	You answered the question correctly.
	You answered the question incorrectly.
	You answered part of the question correctly, and received partial credit. When the question is a Show Work Question, this icon is displayed for one of the following reasons: You answered the question incorrectly but got credit for your work. You answered the question correctly but did not show your work. You answered the question correctly but your instructor has not yet graded your work. In this case, the number of ungraded questions should be 1 or greater. If you review the question in the MyLab player, you will also see "not yet graded" after the Question Score. For a drag-and-drop or fill-in-the-blank question where you are allowed partial credit, each target is scored separately. This icon means that the question has multiple targets, and at least one target is correct and at least one is incorrect.
	The question is incorrect because you did not answer it.
	The Essay icon flags an essay question or a multipart question that includes an essay.
	For this question, you have to show the work you did to arrive at the answer.
	Your instructor added a comment to this question.

You may see additional icons showing whether question help tools are available for a question.

Media icons

For activities with media, an icon tells you the media type.

Media icons in homework assignments

Icon	Media type
	Animation
	Video
	Audio
	Image
	HTML document
	PDF file
	PowerPoint file
	Web site
	Other media

See also:

Answer questions in the player

Student Videos showing how to work through different types of assignments