Quick start: MyMathTest instructor
Get started with MyMathTest. Assess students’ strengths and knowledge gaps from developmental math through calculus.
- First steps
- Create a program
- Get to know your program
- Get students started
- Prepare your tests
- Report performance and grades
- Move beyond the basics
First steps
Create an instructor account
Register as an instructor to sign in to Pearson products. Use the same account for any Pearson course.
Watch how to create an account
Access your program
To access your program:
- Go to MyMathTest.
- Select Sign in to MyMathTest.
- Enter your credentials.
- Create a new program or select an existing program.
Create a program
To manage your program, use either:
- My Courses - Search the Pearson catalog to find materials and enter course details.
- Program Manager - Use the program manager wizard to find materials and enter course details.
Get to know your program
Prepare your program
To update the administrative details and edit settings, use either:
- Manage Course - Select Edit Course Details to set the course type, institution, course name, description, course dates, enrollment dates, and copy settings. Select Edit Settings to set up the pedagogical parts of your course, such as assignment settings.
- Program Manager - Use Actions > Change Settings to edit the program settings.
Use your instructor home page
Your Instructor Home gives you quick access to the tools you need to conduct your program. As your program progresses, the options available change to reflect your most recently used tasks. Use View Student Home to experience the program as your students will.
Get students started
Enroll students
To enroll in your course, your students need a valid email address and a program ID. It's best practice to give students program-specific registration instructions.
To give students registration instructions, use either:
- My Courses - Find your course card and select Invite students. Select Copy instructions or Export pdf to share the registration instructions with students. Students use the URL to go directly to the registration page for your course.
- Program Manager - In the list of courses, select the Program ID for your program. You get a handout with registration instructions that you can print and give to your students.
Manage the student roster
To manage students in your program, use either:
- My Courses - Find your course card and select Details > Open Roster. Your class roster shows active students, section instructors, and inactive students.
- Gradebook - Select Gradebook in the left menu. Then select More Tools > Edit Roster. Your class roster shows active students, section instructors, and inactive students.
Prepare your tests
Create tests
Use tests to evaluate students' skill levels, provide corequisite learning, or to offer a short refresher course for remediation. You can create:
- Fixed tests where you select questions from the testbank, adapt sample tests, or create and add your own questions. The test is a fixed length and all students complete the same set of items chosen by the instructor.
- Adaptive tests that assess students' prerequisite knowledge for the courses that you associate with the test. The test is a variable length test and students complete different sets of items. Each choice of question is tailored to the student’s current estimated ability to complete questions accurately.
- A grouped series of tests that increase in difficulty, with prerequisites set for all but the first test.
To create a test:
- Open the Test Manager and select Create Test.
- In the menu, select the type of test to create.
- Use the test creation wizard to build a test in three steps: Start, Add/Remove Content, and Choose Settings.
Adjust test settings
You can edit or delete a test as no student has worked on them.
Address student cheating
The Pearson LockDown Browser is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment within a learning system. It prevents students from printing, copying, accessing other applications, opening other browser windows, or searching the internet during an online test or quiz.
You can use question pools in tests to reduce the chances of two students seeing the same question with the same values.
Report performance and grades
Use your gradebook
The Gradebook records student scores for online work, offers links to different views of student results, and lets you manage scores. You can view information for both the whole class and for individual students.
In the gradebook you can:
- Use Manage Incompletes to submit scores for incomplete assignments.
- Use Change Weights to change how overall scores are calculated.
- Use Export Data to generate reports.
- Use More Tools > Set Scoring Options to choose how scores calculate and display.
See student results
View results by assignments, student overview, study plan, or performance by chapter. Select View Results By > Assignments to see your assignments and students in a table format where you can view their scores and open individual results.
In the gradebook you can:
- Use Scores and Item Analysis for All Students to see student results on both assigned tests and sample tests.
- Use Readiness to view adaptive test results.
- Use Study Plan to view students' study plan work.
- Use Alerts to find students who have not submitted any work in the past ten days and work that needs grading.
Move beyond the basics
Take advantage of many other powerful features in your course.
Program groups - Use course groups to manage multiple sections of the same program. A program group contains a coordinator program that serves as a template for the member program. You edit the coordinator program to automatically propagate the change to all the member sections.
Custom Question Builder (CQB) - Use the Custom Question Builder to edit publisher questions or create your own questions to deliver in the student player. This tool lets you create short answer, multiple choice, or true/false questions and choose whether to use algorithmic or static values.
Study Plan - Use the Study Plan to help your students practice and test their mastery. Students see recommendations for the sections or objectives that they need to practice. Study Plan results are reported in your gradebook but do not affect students' overall scores.
Updated 06 Feb 2025