Getting Started: Creating & Previewing Courses

MyMathLab provides complete online courses for Pearson Education textbooks in Mathematics and Statistics. Once you have registered in CourseCompass, you can create MyMathLab courses for as many textbooks as you like, and you can choose whether or not to make each course available to your students.

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Creating a MyMathLab Course

Creating a MyMathLab course is easy -- all you need to do is select your textbook from the CourseCompass catalog and click a button to start the course creation process. In just a few hours, you will receive an e-mail letting you know your online course is ready!

To create a MyMathLab course:

• Log in to CourseCompass.
• From the My CourseCompass page, click the Create a Course button.
• Search for your textbook by author or title, or browse the Mathematics or Statistics discipline to see all available MyMathLab courses.
• Once you have selected your textbook, click the Select Course Materials button.
• Enter a course name, optional description, and course end date and click the Submit button. You will receive an e-mail when your course is ready. (Typically, it takes CourseCompass between 20 minutes and one business day to create your course.)
• Your confirmation e-mail will include a unique Course ID, which you need to distribute to your students so they can enroll in your MyMathLab course.

You can also create courses by copying an existing course, copying another instructor's course if he or she allows, or copying what's known as a "coordinator" course to create a linked "member" course, where assignments from the coordinator course populate all member courses automatically. See the MyMathLab online help system inside your course for more details.

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Previewing a MyMathLab Course

When the system has created your course, the course will appear in Preview mode, meaning that your students cannot yet enroll in it. You can spend as much time as you wish viewing and customizing a course before making it available to your students.

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Giving Your Students Access to Your MyMathLab Course

When you are ready to give your students access to your course:

• Click the Adopt button. Any changes you made to the course in Preview mode will be preserved.
• Distribute the Course ID to your students, which they will need to enroll in your MyMathLab course. (You can always find your Course ID by logging into CourseCompass and clicking the Courses tab.)

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For more detailed instructions on how to create, preview, and adopt MyMathLab courses:

• Log into your MyMathLab course and click the Control Panel button from the left navigation bar. From the MyMathLab area of the Control Panel, click the link to Instructor Help.

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• Go to www.coursecompass.com, click the Support tab, and view or print the CourseCompass Instructor Quickstart Guide. You can also access CourseCompass online help by clicking the Help button along the top of the screen.