Creating your MyMathLab Courses for Spring 2016 – Revised 1/6/16
Step #1
Step #2
140 [Arch Custom Combo Lecture] Course ID: elliott35205 [no significant change]
140 [Arch Custom Combo LAB] Course ID: elliott11733
030 [Arch Custom Combo Lecture] Course ID: elliott34803 [no significant change]
030 [Arch Custom Combo Lab]: John will create these courses and give you your Course ID by email.
020 [Arch Custom Combo Lecture] Course ID: elliott83594 [no significant change]
020 [Arch Custom Combo Lab]: John will create these courses and give you your Course ID by email.
Then click on “Go”
Step #3: Type in a “Course Name” (this name will be seen by the students when they log in)
Note: Course Dates are now required to be entered. I would set the enrollment start date and the course start date the same as the date you are creating the course. I strongly recommend setting the enrollment end date and the course end date for 1 year after their start dates.
Then click on “Create Course Now”
Help Resources:
John Elliott J Office: (314) 984-7468 Email: I am always glad to help faculty with any questions about MyMathLab. Pearson is no longer providing MyMathLab code folders to me, so I can do little to help students that need to return their books.
Eric Olson Cell: (913) 523-6290 Email: Our MML Pearson Representative
Instructor Tech Support: (888) 695-6577 24 hours a day/7 days a week
MML Student Tech Support: (800) 677-6337 24 hours a day/7 days a week
Note: Pearson has a ton of other tech support numbers that still work, but many seem to take you to a more generic Pearson help-line.
Training Resources & How-to-Videos from Pearson
Many questions that you have about how to do things in MyMathLab can probably be answered by watching one of the how-to videos at www.mymathlab.com/training-resources There are also links to free online, live, web-ex training sessions.
Check MML status. You can check this website to see if MyMathLab is currently down, or was down in the last few weeks.
https://status.pearson.com
Go to the Meramec Math Web Page where I have handouts in digital format under “Links”
http://tinyurl.com/meramecmath
For Spring 2016 Updates go to:
http://www.pearsonmylabandmastering.com/northamerica/mymathlab/educators/new-features-spring-2016/index.html
[No big changes. They added a +/- button, but I can only find it on their HTML 5 player for mobile devices.]
Non-Laptop Update (From fall 2015)
Pearson basically says that they don’t fully support any tablet or phone, but the experience has been improved with the
summer update. I plan on telling my students that if they have a fairly new tablet it will probably work with a little tweaking, but plan on saving it for emergencies.
General Non-Laptop (from Pearson) – “To work successfully with MyMathLab, your computer must match one of the supported browser and operating system (OS) configurations. MyMathLab may also run on newer versions of these browsers, but a version is not considered fully supported until it is specified.
Most MyMathLab courses support either Windows® or Macintosh® operating systems and a supported version of Microsoft Internet Explorer®, Firefox®, or Safari®. Other requirements vary, depending on the textbook in use for the course. Note that these requirements are only for MyMathLab itself. Players or plug-ins may have their own system requirements.”
General Non-Laptop (from John) – Most any modern tablet or phone will be able to access portions of MyMathLab, but it won’t be as good as from a laptop.
iPad (from Pearson) – MyMathLab is compatible with iOS 7 and iOS 8 using Safari on an iPad.
iPad (from John) – I got it to work by accepting cookies http://tinyurl.com/ipadcookies1 and clearing caches http://tinyurl.com/ipadcookies2 . I was able to work problems, and watch videos in the browser. I could view the e-Text with a free app. Entering answers was a little easier with the summer 2015 update.
Other (from Pearson) – MyMathLab is compatible with Android 4.2 through 5.1 using Chrome.
Other (from John) – I was able to work problems and watch videos with my Kindle Fire and my Android phone.