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The MyLab provides a rich assortment of tools and features for teaching and learning. You may want to use just a couple of them or all of them. The choice is yours. But if you're not sure where to start, the more popular ways instructors use the MyLab are one or more of the following:

Have students use Resources for self study. Resources is a collection of topics and exercises that students work through on their own to increase their skill levels. Resources has grammar and research self-assessment diagnostics that evaluate a student's skill level across a wide range of topics. When students take the self-assessment diagnostics, the MyLab automatically scores them and creates a customized study plan for each student. Based on the diagnostic results, the study plan lists Resource topics and exercises that students can work on in self-study mode. The MyLab also records exercise scores in the gradebook.
Supplement students' self-study with Resources you want all students to take. In addition to students taking the self-assessment diagnostics, you can require specific Resource topics, and the MyLab will add them to all students' study plans. You may also want to create skill-building assignments. These are similar to diagnostics except they focus on a narrower range of topics. The MyLab records the assignment scores in the gradebook so you can quickly see if students need more work on these topics.
Focus on writing assignments and an exchange of drafts with your students. For the most part, the MyLab assignments are writing assignments: composition, collaboration, and peer review. These assignments are an exchange of information between you and an individual student or groups of students. You use the MyLab to create writing assignments, and the students submit their assignments to you via the MyLab. You can then review, comment on, and grade the student submissions in the MyLab. It saves your comments in draft histories, accessible to you and your students, and records your grade in the gradebook.
Combine assignments and Resources: Along with the Resources students are working in on their own, you can create an assignment that has links to Resources. When reviewing a student submission, you can add Common Errors or My Comments—with links to Resources—into a student's writing. The MyLab will add these Resources to the student's study plan. With the emphasis on directing a student to the Resources topics that can increase her or his skill level, the more errors a student makes, the greater the student's opportunity to learn.

The MyLab provides an array of tools to fit how you like to teach and how students learn. You choose which tools to use, individually or together.