One of the strengths of MyMathLab is its versatility for both instructors and students.

I have used MyMathLab for over 9 years at two institutions. I have used MyMathLab for fully online courses, as a companion to my face-to-face courses, and for hybrid/lab courses. Instructors can customize delivery to include media as prerequisites for homework and mastery of all homework in a unit as prerequisite for a quiz. The gradebook allows all student work to be kept in one place, both online work and paper-and-pencil work. When I worked as the supervisor for a hybrid/lab program, the coordinator/member course structure in MyMathLab allowed me to set up one master course for each day of the week and handle all 45 sections from those five masters, allowing for course consistency and saving vast amounts of time on course management throughout the semester. Students find their way around in MyMathLab very quickly and students enjoy the flexibility of choosing from PowerPoints, podcasts, video lectures or animations to aid their study of the material. One of the main things I have observed with developmental students using MyMathLab is their willingness to keep trying. Students getting instant feedback on their work and having a variety of content delivery modes will persist and stay in the course instead of giving up and dropping out. Another strength of MyMathLab is the fact that it is developed completely within-house at Pearson and instructors can rely on a complete match between MyMathLab and their chosen textbook. And the MyMathLab team is responsive to instructor feedback.

As my institution has grown from 1200 students to 7300 students in five semesters, I don’t know what we would have done without MyMathLab to help us reach the students and train and mentor the new faculty each term!

Susan Knights, College of Western Idaho