As happens twice a year, every year, MyLab Math, MyLab Statistics, MathXL, and MyMathTest are getting even better! Learn about our new features below. There will be no downtime when these enhancements are released.
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In June, approximately 80 MyLab Math and MyLab Statistics courses were moved from a Flash Player to the updated and streamlined HTML5 Player for delivering exercises on all devices. We will continue to transition courses to this new player in late December 2015 and throughout the Spring of 2016. The switch from Flash to HTML5 will make working in the MyLab better for instructors and students.
Students who show no activity for 60 minutes when working in a homework assignment will be prompted to continue. If no response is given, the assignment session will end in 5 minutes. "Activity" is defined as any keystrokes or mouse clicks within the question or assignment, and any work completed prior to the session ending is saved. This gives instructors a more accurate view of time spent.
When answering certain questions, such as those that involve factoring or the quadratic formula, students will now have access to a +/- button in the accompanying math palette in the new HTML5 Player. This button will simplify the answer–input process for students.
When creating tests or quizzes, instructors will now see the "Pool" and "Unpool" buttons—in other words, pooling has been enabled by default, thereby saving instructors a few clicks and some precious time.
Instructors will be able to easily and automatically import student results from courses between different editions of a book and/or a national to custom version of a course. Instructors can import results even for assignments that differ in the number and type of questions by manually mapping the assignments. Study Plan mastery results are also transferrable to the new course, should instructors choose to do so.
When instructors go to the "Manage Incompletes" page for in-progress tests or quizzes, they can now just accept the default setting for submitting current score instead of submitting zeros, which was the previous default.
In June, we released updated functionality for Section Instructor access. With December's update, the primary course owner will now receive an email notification whenever a new instructor enrolls into a course section.