What’s New for Educators

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Enhanced course settings menu

Streamlines access to your course settings and roster with faster loading times.

MyLab / Mastering Mobile Dashboard¹

This new student-only app allows you to send real-time updates from your computer, including announcements, grades and assignment due dates to students on their mobile devices.

Code Validator

Checks your html coding when creating custom content for course menu items.

Math Editor

Students can now respond to discussion topics using the Math Editor.

Link to URL content¹

You can now add links in the course content menu to external current events or other content for more robust, relevant topic coverage.

Assignment Calendar¹

Set, change, and remove due dates for any item in the menu structure and view course start/end date as a reference for scheduling items.

Gradebook Updates³

The gradebook has a new look and feel and added functionality to select all students for grade sharing. In addition, the ability to export a course’s gradebook into an Excel (csv) file and for Blackboard courses has been added.

Social course home

Displays information in a feed, enabling enables students and instructors to interact with each other through:

• Announcements

  Post announcements to the class.

• Course introductions

  Create introductions to welcome students to class.

• Remarks

  Share quick remarks, status updates, or questions for the class.

• Activity

  View class remarks and discussions in this area. Students can also see submissions activity and their grades, if they are shared with the student.

• People

  View the students who have enrolled in a course, their online status and user profile.

• Articles

  Share current event web articles through RSS feed with your classes.

• For review

  Receive notifications of students’ new submissions.

• Upcoming

  Displays entries from the course scheduler, including upcoming submissions, assessments and/or weekly Class Live sessions scheduled for the next seven days.

Modify course menu redesign

The newly released modify course menu features more intuitive and quick arranging of the course menu for your courses. New streamlined steps let you arrange, add and remove menu items, hide content from your students, or remove and archive content for later use in your course. To differentiate course sections, you can customize the style of each section, selecting different colors for the course menu and banner.

Assessment Enhancements²

Assessments can now be previewed and on a student-by-student basis, reset or extended to grant additional time for completion. Resetting a student’s assessment completely clears a student’s previously completed answers and grades; granting additional time only allows a student to continue from the last question they had successfully completed to the end of the assessment.

Multiple file upload for submissions

The ability to attach multiple files to a submission is now supported. Notifications for submissions appear only one per student submission, rather than once per attached file.

Auto-populated student Getting Started handout

A PDF handout is automatically created along with your course which includes the course name, course ID and series logo. The handout shows student registration and sign in steps for your course and can be accessed on your course listings page under Details; it is also included in your confirmation email.

• ¹ May not be available for all courses
• ² Only available for native, new design assessment tool. It is unrelated to assessment tools from XL, Pegasus, Epic, or Mastering.
• ³ Available only for courses using the native gradebook.

For more information, including how to’s, see Instructor Help or Help & Support on the top-right your course’s homepage.