Updated August 8, 2024
A number of new features and updates were released for Pearson online MyLab courses. Search online help within your course or go to the product website for more information about the new features.
Back to School Release, August, 2024
New Assignment Overview - All standard homework assignments have a new overview page. Students can see their score, the items in the assignment, and the learning outcomes. They can easily navigate through questions and embedded media. The new Assignment Overview is being released on a rolling basis throughout August.
Interactive Assignments with Embedded Media - More titles offer interactive assignments, a homework assignment that combines student player questions with a variety of media (such as videos, readings, or activities) in a continuous and seamless experience.
AI Instructor Tools v2 (Beta) - An enhanced artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot is available to help find items to add to assignments for Blitzer: College Algebra, 8e in MyLab Math, and Miller-Nobles/Mattison: Horngren's Financial & Managerial Accounting, 8e in MyLab Accounting.
Assignment Manager View - The Assignment Manager Redesign (AMR) shows by default when users open the assignment manager. Users have the choice to change to the classic view.
Mastering platform update - Some Mastering courses are live on the platform update for an improved user experience.
Credly Badges - Some MyLab IT NextGen Office 2021 courses have pre-built assignments that offer Credly badges. Credly badges confirm and recognize a learning achievement. If a student achieves the required score, a badge icon shows on the student Results page. Students receive an email with instructions to accept their badge.
Secure Testing - LockDown Browser works with Chromebooks (ChromeOS extension delivered by Respondus). Lab administrators of managed Chromebook devices can update settings to allow automatic or manual extension downloads.
LockDown Browser - You can download and use the latest LockDown browser software versions for: Windows version 2.1.2.08, dated July 16, 2024. Coming late August 2024: MasOS version 2.1.2.07.
LMS Support - Gradesync optimization and gradebook data enrichment provides more data for 3PL customers, enabling them to view more data in their learning management system gradebook.
Data Privacy - Cookie preferences and anonymized Personal Identifiable Information (PII) are enabled.
In-product Help - In-product messaging is updated to include instructor onboarding guidance and improved online help.
Assignment Manager Classic View - The classic view in the assignment manager is retiring in November 2024.
The assignment manager shows the correct date in the Final Submission field. If you apply individual student settings with a final submission date, but then update the assignment due date, the program updates the Final Submission date in the individual student settings.
The gradebook advanced exports file sorts by last name. If your course includes student IDs, advanced exports always sort by last name.
The Change Settings to Multiple Assignments tool applies changes to all MyLab IT assignments. If you change settings to multiple assignments for Office Simulation or Office Grader assignments, the program updates the settings for all assignments.
The gradebook displays the correct screen when you delete a score. If you delete a score for an offline assignment, the gradebook shows the delete confirmation window.
When using the Lockdown Browser, students can select the menu icon to see an overview and question list. The program does not require students to sign in if they select the menu icon.
In Integrated Assignments, eText might not load depending on the user’s browser security settings. Enable third-party cookies to open eText in Safari or Firefox, or as an alternative, use the Chrome browser.
Individual student assignment results are not excluded from Overall Score calculations. Individual student assignment results are incorrectly included in the overall score when both:
To work around this issue:
Raw points are sent to the LMS gradebook from a member course that uses weighted points. When grade sync is enabled for a member course but not its coordinator course, changes to the number of points in an assignment in the coordinator course override weighted point settings in the member course. To work around this problem, change grade sync settings to raw points in the member course. When the raw points have been updated in your LMS gradebook, switch the member course settings back to weighted points. Your LMS gradebook will then update with the correct scores.
Instructors with results for an assignment cannot delete the assignment if they are included in the Gradebook averages. Assignments can be deleted only when there are no results, so instructors who have worked in an assignment as a student cannot delete the assignment without first deleting their results. As a workaround, instructors can omit themselves from Gradebook averages and then delete the assignment.
Assigned media that is not associated with an objective is included in results for an objective. From the Performance by Chapter Gradebook view, results for assigned media are incorrectly included in results for the objective when the media is associated with a topic or chapter but not with an objective.
Students taking locked-down tests cannot use the JAWS screenreader. To ensure that tests are completely secure, the Pearson LockDown Browser does not work with the JAWS screenreader. To work around this restriction, you can temporarily remove the lock-down restriction from the test and have your visually impaired students take the test before the other students begin. With this approach, the Gradebook entry for the test shows the results for all students. Alternatively, you can copy the test and remove the lock-down restriction for your visually impaired students. Using this approach, you would have to delete the results for the copied test and manually enter them into the Gradebook for the original, locked-down test.
When editing questions, you cannot save alt text that contains incorrect variables. When editing or creating a question using the Custom Question Builder, you cannot save alt text that contains an invalid variable and you do not see an error message.
Guided Solutions do not open in a reviewed homework that has no results. If students save a homework assignment without entering any answers, they cannot open the Guided Solutions while reviewing the homework. This intentional restriction is intended to discourage students from cheating.
Student Home does not show Best Score for quizzes and tests that have multiple attempts and are globally omitted. If a quiz or test is set to multiple attempts and is globally omitted, the first attempt rather than the best score displays on the Student Home.
System requirements vary depending on the product. Use the Browser Check from within your course to verify the system requirements.
For more information, select your product on the System Requirements page.
Notes:
Important! We recommend that you turn off all browser pop-up blockers when using your online course. Pop-up blockers may be included in your browser, firewall program, or as a standalone program.
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