BEFORE BEGINNING, Please Read

9

BEFORE BEGINNING, please read:

-Do not give a students a Pearson course ID. The students may ask you for one, but do not give them one.

- This can not be done on behalf of another instructor. The instructor teaching the course needs to set up.

- If you are using MyLabsPlus, these instructions are not applicable. Contact your Pearson representative.

PART I. To pair your Pearson and Blackboard course:

1.  Log into your Blackboard (BB) account. Click on the BB course you are teaching that will be using Pearson content.

2.  Within the course on left hand side under Course Management, click on “Customization” and then “Tool Availability.”

3.  Scroll down until you see Pearson listed. Check all boxes for both Pearson’s MyLab & Mastering (Content) and Pearson’s MyLab & Mastering (Tools). Scroll down to the bottom of the page after checking the boxes and click SUBMIT.

4.  Under Course Tools on the left hand side, click on Pearson’s MyLab and Mastering.

5.  Click on “Select a MyLab and Mastering product to use with this course.”

6.  The first time going through this process, you will need to accept license agreement. Then you will sign in to your Pearson account.

7.  You will then see this message:

8.  Select the course you want to pair in one of these ways:

a. Make a copy of one of your existing Pearson courses by selecting it from the drop-down menu. The system makes a copy of the course, so that the “original” you are copying stays intact and the duplicate course is paired with BB.
b.Clicking Or copy from another instructor and entering the course ID you want to copy.
c. Creating a new course “from scratch” by searching by Title, Author, ISBN, etc.

9.  Then fill in the following blanks. Always use today’s date. Name your new course with a section-specific name so that you will know which Pearson course is paired with which Blackboard course. So name the course something like “MAC 1105 MW 11:00 am” or “MAC 1105 CRN 12456” so you know which Pearson course is paired with which Blackboard course. Enter course end date and if you want to allow other instructors to copy.
-

10.  You will see this message. Close window.

11.  Back in your Blackboard Course, click Pearson’s MyLab and Mastering under Course Tools to refresh. The links can take up to 5 minutes to populate.

12.  You should now see a list of Pearson links (again, it does take a few minutes for the links to populate).

PART II. To arrange the Links within Blackboard:

1.  Click Plus Sign on top left. Click Content Area. Name the content area (in this example, Pearson MyLab), check box to make it available to users and click Submit.

2.  Click on the content area you just created on the left hand navigation.

3.  Click Tools. Then click Pearson’s MyLab & Mastering (Content).

4.  Check box next to each content link you want from the available Pearson’s MyLab and Mastering Links and click Submit.

5.  You should now see the links you selected in the “module” you just created.

6.  Repeat above steps for each content area you want to create.

PLEASE note that the Blackboard course and Pearson course is a 1:1 relationship. Meaning you can not copy the links to another shell. The links are unique to each Pearson course for each term. The pairing process needs to be done for each course for each semester.

PART III. To set up grade sync between your Pearson course and Blackboard course:

1.  CREATE categories in the Blackboard Grade Center prior to setting up GRADE SYNC.

For instance, if the MyLab/Mastering gradeable items are: homework, quizzes, tests – make sure those categories exist in the Blackboard Grade Center. If they don’t, you can create those categories.

Click on Grade Center, then Full Grade Center, then the “Manage” tab and select Categories. Then click on “Create Category” and type in the category you want to add. In this case, I added Homework and Quiz.

2.  Make sure you have made your gradeable items “available” to the students in your Pearson course. In other words, your Homework, Quizzes, and Tests have future due dates and have been officially assigned to the student. The Grade Sync set up will not work unless the gradeable items have been assigned to the student in the Pearson MyLab/Mastering course (otherwise there is nothing to “sync”).

3.  Now you are ready to set up Grade Sync. Click Pearson’s MyLab and Mastering under Course Tools on left navigation bar.

4.  Scroll down and click Manage Pearson MyLab & Mastering Grades under Support Tools at bottom of page.

5.  Click Set Up Grade Synchronization.

6.  Select a Grade Sync Method. BEST PRACTICE – Select Individual assignments. If you select all assignments, your gradebook will be very large.

7.  Follow prompts to complete sync based on your preferred method and Click Submit. You will then see a message that states Now Add Grade Columns. Click on that Icon.

8.  Select the gradeable items that you want to populate in the BB gradebook. For instance, check the homework assignments and select category Homework from the drop down menu.

9. Repeat steps for each gradeable item that you want to bring over from Pearson MyLab/Mastering (in this case, the next items would be quizzes and tests).
All Pearson grades come over to the BB gradebook as raw scores. Modify the BB gradebook column on the BB side in order to show percentage if you wish to.

For in-depth instructions go to: http://www.pearsonmylabandmastering.com/northamerica/educators/support/blackboard-instructor-training-guide.html