Do Dynamic Study Modules work
Some courses include Dynamic study Modules (DSM), a special application that helps you study and learn efficiently. Your instructor can assign DSM as homework and in some courses you can do DSM work on your own.
You can do DSM work either on a computer or in the DSM app on your iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, or Android phone or tablet.
How DSM works
If your course includes DSM, the material in your textbook is broken down into "modules" that you can practice. For example, chapter 1 of your textbook might include a chapter 1 module that covers this content from your textbook.
Each module contains about 25 - 30 questions for you to practice, but you answer in sets of 8 questions. Depending on how confident you are, you can answer a question, choose two possible answers, or just choose "I don't know." You are not expected to know all the answers. DSM helps you learn what you don't know.
After you do a set of 8 questions, you review the information for the answers you got wrong or didn't know. Then you continue to the next set of 8 questions and you have a chance to try again on the questions you didn't answer correctly the first time.
When you have correctly answered all of the questions in the module, you have mastered all the material.
How to access DSM assignments
If your instructor has assigned DSM modules as homework:
- Click the name of the DSM assignment in your MyLab home page or on your Homework & Tests page.
- On the Homework Overview page, click the DSM assignment name to open the special DSM application.
- Answer questions in the module. See the Dynamic Study Modules help for details on answering questions.
- Click save & return to close the DSM application and return to your MyLab course. You can complete part of the module and then return later to continue.
Your results on the DSM assignment appear on your Results page. After you have mastered all the material in the module, you can click Review to open the DSM module and see your work on the assignment.
How to access DSM for self-study
If you see a Dynamic Study Modules option in the left menu, your course offers DSM for self-study. To use DSM to study on your own:
- Click Dynamic Study Modules in the left menu.
- Click Access Dynamic Study Modules on the Dynamic Study Modules welcome page to open the special DSM application.
- Click the name of your course to open a list of its modules.
- Click learn to begin practicing.
- Answer questions in the module. See the Dynamic Study Modules help for details on answering questions.
- Click save & return to save your work, close the DSM application, and return to your MyLab course. You can complete part of the module and then return later to continue.
Your results on a DSM module appear on your Results page. After you have mastered all the material in the module, you can click Review to open the DSM module and see your work.
How to use the DSM app on your mobile device
If you have an Apple or Android tablet or smartphone, you can install the MyLab & Mastering Dynamic Study Modules mobile app and do DSM work on your device.
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For Apple products, get the app from the iTunes App Store. For Android products, get the app from the Google Play store. |
After you have installed the app:
- Make sure you have accessed Dynamic Study Modules for the course at least once on a computer so that the app can recognize your Pearson student account.
- Sign into the app using the same user name and password you use to access your course.
- After you have signed in, click the course name to begin working on its modules.
- Locate the module you want to practice and click learn to begin or continue to keep working on a module you have already started.
- Answer questions in the module. See the Dynamic Study Modules help for details on answering questions.
Any work you do on your mobile device is synchronized with work you do on a computer.
To sign out of the app, open the settings menu from within the app. Then tap Log Out.
See the Dynamic Study Modules help for details on working with the mobile app.