What's New In CourseCompass?

CourseCompass Summer Release

CourseCompass will be unavailable on July 25 for enhancements and maintenance. Please check the CourseCompass General Announcements for details about this and other summer upgrade events.

Coming Soon!

• New Home Page
  CourseCompass users will have a new home page experience this summer. Users can access their Pearson product subscriptions directly from the CourseCompass home page via the relocated MyPlaces.

What's New In MyLabs?

All of our products are updated on a regular basis. Here are the latest features for MyLab courses that use the XL Player:

New Features For Instructors

• Assignable Media Learning Aids
  Media learning aids such as videos, animations, or ebook pages will be assignable as homework, quizzes, or tests. These media assignments can be selected as prerequisites to other assignments.
• Editable Publisher-provided Questions
  Using the MathXL Exercise Builder, instructors will be able to edit, add, or remove text in publisher-provided questions. They can also remove parts of a multi-part question and modify some of a question's algorithms. As with other instructor-created questions, edited publisher questions will not be supported by learning aids such as Help Me Solve This, View an Example, video, ebook pages, or animations.
  NOTE: This feature is not available in MyAccountingLab or MyFinanceLab at this time.
• Customizable Study Plan
  Instructors can customize the Study Plan by specifying the objectives and questions that will appear for students to work on. They also can set the definition for mastery (percentage level). Students who successfully complete "Needs Study" questions will see a new icon that reminds them to retest to prove their mastery.
• Ability to Rename the "Other" Category
  Instructors can now change the name of the "Other" category in the Gradebook to anything they wish.
• Enhanced Security for Tests and Homework
  While a high-stakes test ("blocked access") is in progress, all other instances of the MathXL Player (Homework, Study Plan, or review of previous work) will be disallowed. Similarly, while doing their homework, students will not be able to launch another player instance.
• Answer Tolerance Setting for Numeric Answers
  For statistics and finance titles, instructors will be able to view the publisher-defined tolerance for numeric answers. They can then set their own tolerance level on a question-by-question basis or for an entire assignment using either a percentage or a preset decimal value. The instructor-defined tolerance will override the publisher-defined tolerance if it is more lenient.
• Partial Credit for Unsimplified Algebraic and Numeric Answers
  For Math courses, instructors can now choose to award credit for unsimplified answers on a question-by-question basis for tests, quizzes, and homework. While creating an assignment, instructors can choose to retain the default "no credit for unsimplified answers" scoring, or they can enter their own partial credit scoring percentage for each question. Should the student enter an answer that is equivalent to the correct answer but not in the specified form, the student will receive the partial credit percentage specified by the instructor.

Coming in August

• Instructions for Individual Questions
  While creating assignments, instructors will have the option of adding instructions to individual questions, giving students tips or reminders on how to work a particular question.
• More Granular Advanced Exports
  Student performance on assignments and the Study Plan down to the objective level will be available for export. Instructors who select this new Advanced Export type can choose from a myriad of parameters, including new options such as median score, total time spent per student, and median time spent per chapter. (Median time spent, as well as average time spent will also be available on Item Analysis pages and exports.)

Note: For more details, see the MyMathLab, MyEconLab, and MyAccountingLab websites.

Your Pearson products and Internet Explorer 8

In our testing, we have found almost all Pearson products to be fully functional in IE 8, either natively or using the IE 8 “Compatibility View” option. All CourseCompass courses, for example, will work without any modification to the browser settings. If you are using an XL-powered CourseCompass course, however, such as MyMathLab or MyAccountingLab, IE 8 will automatically render certain pages in Compatibility View mode, which replicates the IE 7 browser within IE 8. In rare cases, with other Pearson online products, you will be asked to use an alternate browser, such as IE 7 or Firefox, both of which are fully supported.

Starting on or about the third week of April, Microsoft will begin a gradual roll-out of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8). This roll-out will eventually expand to include all Windows users still running IE6 or IE7.

IE8 will not automatically install on your computer. Users will receive a notification through Windows Automatic Update about IE8.

You do not need to take any action to use your Pearson products with IE 8. For the latest information on Pearson’s support of IE 8, please read the current 24/7 Support article on IE 8. Click the Notify Me by Email if this Answer is Updated button in the article to get updates on Pearson's progress toward supporting this important release.