Skill-building assignments
When you open a skill-building assignment, the Review Assignment Details window displays the assignment's and the percentage each exercise contributes to the final score.
Note: The exercises your instructor includes in a skill-building assignment are unique; they are not available in your Resource topics.
Most skill-building questions are multiple choice, and you select an answer. Other questions require that you write a response. For a multiple-choice question, the MyLab lets you know as soon as you submit an answer whether it is correct or incorrect. When you complete the exercise, the MyLab grades your work and displays the results. The MyLab, however, cannot grade a written response and submits the assignment to your instructor for grading.
The following two procedures explain how to work through a question-and-answer exercise and a written-response exercise. Click a procedure's link to display its steps.
- Open the assignment and click the exercise you want to work on in the Review Assignment Details window.
The first question is displayed.
- Select an answer and click the Submit button.
The MyLab gives you immediate feedback, letting you know whether the answer is correct or incorrect. A red X flags an incorrect answer, and the MyLab displays the answer you selected in red and the correct answer in bold green. A correct answer is marked with a green check mark 
and the correct answer is displayed in bold green.
- Click the Next Question button to go on to the next question.
- Repeat steps 2 and 3 to complete the exercise.
- Click the Show Results button after submitting the last answer.
The MyLab displays the results of the exercise, showing which questions you answered correctly and incorrectly, the questions, and your answers.
Because this is an assignment, your score is displayed in the gradebook's Student Results Summary and on the To Do page.
- (Optional) Click the Print button to print the results.
- Click the Return to To Do button to go to the To Do page.
- Open the assignment and click the exercise you want to work on in the Review Assignment Details window.
The first question is displayed. (Some writing exercises have only one question.)
- Read through the instructions.
- Enter your response in the text box.
- (Optional) Click the Save button as you work on your response.
- Click the Submit button when you are finished.
The MyLab submits the assignment to your instructor for grading.
See also:
Assignments overview | Display your assignment scores
To work through a skill-building question-and-answer exercise