MyServSafeLab Implementation Guide

Last updated 3/2/15

Contents Module 1: Before you begin ............................................................................. 4

Consider why you’re using MyServSafeLab ......................................................... 4

Learn from documented success from other users ............................................... 5

Consider how you will measure student success and the effectiveness of

MyServSafeLab ............................................................................................... 7

Module 2: Know the Basics: Create an Account, Create a Course, Check System

Requirements, Contact Tech Support .............................................................. 9

New user? Here’s what you’ll need to get started (if you’ve used MyServSafeLab in

the past, skip ahead!) ...................................................................................... 9

Set Up Your Computer for Optimal Performance ................................................. 11

Create Your MyServSafeLab Course .................................................................. 15

Module 3: Determine Your Role as a MyServSafeLab User:

Coordinator/Member or Standard course? NEW FEATURE! ............................ 20

Create a Standard Course If Your Role Is "Instructor: Single Section" .................... 21

Create a Course Group (Coordinator/Member) If Your Role Is "Coordinator" or

"Instructor: Multiple Sections" ......................................................................... 22

Create a Copy of a Course Designed for You by a Coordinator ............................. 26

Module 4: Tour Your MyServSafeLab Course Menu ........................................ 27

Review the Course Menu Items that Students See .............................................. 27

Review Instructor Tools: Assignment Manager, Gradebook and other Instructor Tools

(NEW FEATURE!) ........................................................................................... 35

Instructor Support ......................................................................................... 42

Module 5: Assign Effective Assignments with the Assignment Manager ......... 43

Review the Prebuilt Assignments in Your Assignment Manager.............................. 43

Recap: How to assign prebuilt assignments to your students ................................ 47

Create Your Own Assignments ......................................................................... 50

Module 6: Manage Assessment Settings and Preferences NEW FEATURE! ...... 52

Customize assignment preferences to match your course objectives ...................... 52

Select How and When Students Can Review Submitted Assignments ..................... 55

Adjust assignments for students with special circumstances ................................. 55

Module 7: Discover Implementation Models to Help You Achieve Course Goals

..................................................................................................................... 61

Common use cases for your MyLab course mode ................................................ 61

Common goals with recommended implementation models .................................. 62

Module 8: Understand Basic Gradebook Functionality and Customization ...... 68

Customize Your Gradebook to show points or percentage, and only the assignments

you want to see. ............................................................................................ 68

Add columns for offline (non-MyServSafeLab) assignments .................................. 70

Add Grade Weighting to Categories and/or Assignments ...................................... 72

Omit scores from Grade Average calculation ...................................................... 76

Module 9: Use the Gradebook to Assess Performance and Manage Grades .... 77

Review class results and performance on assigned content .................................. 77

Other handy Gradebook features ...................................................................... 84

MODULE 10: Understand the Student Experience .......................................... 90

Learn how students register and enroll .............................................................. 90

Top Questions from Students ........................................................................... 92

Connect students with Help & Support .............................................................. 93

Setting student expectations: the importance of conducting a first-day-of-class

discussion ..................................................................................................... 93

Appendix: New features for returning users .................................................. 95

Module 1: Before you begin Hello and welcome! Thank you for choosing MyServSafeLab! Whether you are new to

MyServSafeLab and are seeking guidance for getting started, or have taught with the

program before but want to better understand certain features, you have come to the

right place!

Here’s what you will get from the Implementation Guide:

Assistance with setting up your course

Insightful best practices and strategies for effective implementation

Helpful step-by-step videos and descriptions of the steps you’ll need to follow

At some point during the term you may find you’d like support outside of this

implementation guide. Two important sources of assistance are Customer Technical

Support and the MyServSafeLab product site. Here are some examples of when to

reach out:

Consider why you’re using MyServSafeLab

There are many reasons instructors choose to use a MyServSafeLab course. If you have

decided to adopt MyServSafeLab, you likely have a problem you are trying to solve, a

gain you are looking to achieve, a goal in mind, or all of the above.

It is important to think about WHY you are using the program before you begin, so that

you can develop a course that best matches your syllabus, course needs, student

needs, and will help you reach the outcomes you’re trying to achieve!

Pearson 24/7 Technical Support

• Account creation or sign-in trouble

• Course creation trouble

• MyServSafeLab isn't displaying correctly on my computer

MyServSafeLab's Educator Get Trained Page

• I'd like to sign up for Live, Online Training

• I need a Getting Started presentation and handout for my students

• I'd like to watch some short how-to videos about MyServSafeLab

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Let’s start with the BIG question, “What is the purpose for using MyServSafeLab?”

Here are some common issues, goals, and desired outcomes of those goals

communicated from current users:

Do some of these issues, goals, and outcomes resonate with you? In MODULE 5 of this

guide, we will take a deeper look into the content available within your MyServSafeLab

course, and how implementing specific items and features can help you achieve your

goals.

Learn from documented success from other users

Pearson has over 80,000 users of our digital products every single semester. We have

over 500 documented stories of true results, so why not learn from those best practices

and implementations?

Issues

•Students are not prepared for the ServSafe Certification Exam.

•A large portion of class time is spent lecturing on basic concepts that students should be accountable for learning outside the classroom

•Attendance is poor

•Identifying "at-risk" students is difficult and often occurs too late in the term to remedy

•Drop/Withdrawl/Fail rates are higher than desired

•Student Retention rates are lower than desired

•Overall student success rate is note where you want it

Goals

•Hold students accountable for learning outside the classroom to allow more flexibility with class time

•Use class time to engage students with active learning, peer instruction, and more "hands-on" applications

•Use online high-stakes assessments to test student mastery

Outcomes

•Increased pass rates on the Certification Exam.

•Class time is no longer used for basic lecture and is used to engage students with active learning activities and enriched discussions

•Students are prepared and participate in discussion and in-class/kitchen activities

•Increased class attendance

•Lower D/F/W rates and higher retention rates

•Improved overall student success

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As noted in the complete My Lab & Mastering: 10 Best Practices publication, simply

adding any technology product to your course won’t guarantee instant resolution of

your teaching and learning challenges. However, adopting these best practices has

repeatedly shown to yield positive results.

To learn more about these best practices please see the full report! There are trends

among the schools that follow many of these practices. We see over and over that

they:

Recognize and embrace educational value of technology integration

Require the MyLab for at least 10%-20% of the final course grade

Participate in training and follow recommended best practices

Enable active class discussion by assigning pre-lecture homework

Align formative activities (homework and remediation) and summative

assessments (quizzes, writing assignments, and exams) with Learning Outcomes

Use assessments/ data to measure student gains

Use the experience of other educators to help guide your approach to teaching

with a Pearson MyLab. So what are some of the best practices you might employ

in your own course? As you explore the materials in this guide, you will learn

about many different tools. Take a minute to review this chart, and look for the

“Best Practices” icon throughout the guide.

Topic Sample ideas

Course

Management Bookmark instructor & student help files for FAQ purposes

identify the problems you want

to solve

Choose the learning technology, text,

and method of delivery that best fit

your goals.

build an assessment plan

Get everyone—and keep everyone— up to speed and on the

same page

start smallposition students for

successconnect and engage

with students

employ personalized and adaptive

learning

conduct frequent assessments.

track learning gains

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Create a course for instructor use only. You can use this to

make changes as you teach during the term, or try out new

resources or ideas you’ve gained from attending a seminar.

Consider using coordinator/member courses if you teach

multiple sections of the same course, or if you create

courses for others in your department.

Announcements Remind students of important course dates, class events, or

communicate changes in course information.

Students can download the mobile app “My Dashboard” to

log in and review material from their MyServSafeLab

course.

You can copy/paste messages from another source such as

a Word document or website.

Gradebook &

Roster Use Item Analysis to check student understanding of questions and/or objectives.

Email students by criteria such as assignment performance

using the Search/email by criteria option in the Gradebook

tools.

Change a student’s status to inactive if he withdraws from

the course, so that your roster remains current.

At the end of a semester, export your gradebook data and

save it for record-keeping purposes.

Course Design Add menu items to your left navigation as content pages

that contain your syllabus, projects, or other instructor-

made materials.

Modify your course menu to move frequently used tools to

the top. Remove or hide unused items to streamline your

course menu.

Add discussion threads by chapter or topic to focus on

strategic points.

Consider how you will measure student success and the

effectiveness of MyServSafeLab

As the last step of your planning process, we encourage you to think through how you

might measure the success of your intended outcomes for using the MyLab.

Will you be able to gauge with a gut check? Class evaluations? Or will you

need to pull some data to substantiate results?

If you plan to analyze data, what will you use to compare and contrast? Results from sections taught in previous terms or results from another

section not using MyServSafeLab?

Answering these questions now will help you determine if there are specific items you

might need to implement or specific features you will need to understand in order to

obtain the information you seek after your course ends.

Need something more concrete?

At Pearson, we are committed to illustrating ways in which our MyLabs are impacting

students and instructors. One way we highlight our MyLabs in action is through case

studies: documents which contain both qualitative and quantitative information that

explains the effectiveness of a MyLab.

These “Efficacy Studies” help show the value and benefits of using a learning

technology to other instructors, and can benefit you as well, given that more than ever,

instructors are being asked to provide data and reports to illustrate the performance of

the resources they choose for their students.

If desired, our efficacy team will partner with you to review the case study structure,

assess your data and complete the analysis and statistical correlations necessary to

create an efficacy report around your implementation and usage of MyServSafeLab.

If you are not familiar with the case studies that Pearson has published, take a look at

our Results Library. Choose EXPLORE RESULTS in the green box at the bottom left to

search the site by discipline, product, course format, etc. If you are interested in

participating in an Efficacy Study of your own, talk to your Pearson rep about how you

can partner with us to share your implementation and results. We'd love to hear from

you!

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Module 2: Know the Basics: Create an Account, Create

a Course, Check System Requirements, Contact Tech

Support

It’s very easy to get started using MyServSafeLab: make sure you have an educator

account, make sure your computer has a supported browser and necessary plug-ins,

and know how to reach Tech Support if you get stuck.

New user? Here’s what you’ll need to get started (if you’ve used

MyServSafeLab in the past, skip ahead!)

o Create your Pearson Educator Account

Your Pearson sales rep may have created an account for you, and provided you with a

login and password. If not, it’s very simple to create your account yourself!

NOTE: If you already have a Pearson Account from another product (e.g. MyCulinaryLab),

or if you already have access to the Pearson Instructor Resource Center (IRC) for

supplements, you do not need to create a new account! Simply sign in at

www.myservsafelab.com instead of registering.

You will need an instructor access code to get started, which you can request online.

Click here for the MyServSafeLab home page, then click Educator under Register.

Click No, I would like to request access, then select your location, and provide the

information requested. We’ll verify your request and email your single-use access code

within four business days of request approval. Or, you can contact your sales

representative to obtain an access code.

Once you have your educator access code, you can create your login and password.

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Step by Step:

1) On the MyLab & Mastering home page, click Educator under Register.

2) On the Educator screen, click the Register button.

3) Read the license agreement and click I Accept to continue.

4) Sign in or create an account:

5) Click Yes under Do You Have a Pearson Education Account to sign in with your existing Pearson account login name and password.

Click No to create a Pearson account. Enter a login name and password. Click

Check Availability to verify the new login name is available for use.

Click Not Sure to search for your account.

6) Enter your access code in the boxes provided or click Switch to a single box to

paste in the access code.

7) Enter or verify your contact information.

8) From the Confirmation page, click Login to go to the MyLab & Mastering home

page.

o Explore the MyLab & Mastering Account Home Page

After you log in, you will come to your MyLab & Mastering Courses page. This page is

the central location for all of your MyLab & Mastering courses and Pearson resources.

You will create your MyServSafeLab courses here.

There are four areas on this page:

MyLab & Mastering - Lists all the MyLab & Mastering courses you are teaching, and

where you will create your courses.

Courses & Products - Provides access to additional products and subscriptions.

Announcements - Displays general announcements from Pearson Education and

provides timely information about each of your courses.

Need Help? - Provides links to resources to help you Get Started, Access Support and

Access Pearson Resources.

The top right corner of the MyLab & Mastering Courses page provides links to:

Account - Enables you to manage your Pearson account by editing your

personal information.

Help & Support - Opens a page with links to online Instructor or Student Help and MyLab & Mastering support resources.

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Sign Out - Ends your session.

TIP: Logging out prevents the next user of the computer from accessing your MyLab &

Mastering instructor resources, such as the Gradebook. This is especially important if you

are using a public computer, such as in a computer lab or shared office environment.

Set Up Your Computer for Optimal Performance

o Check the System Requirements to ensure your machine meets

the minimum requirements

Now that you have defined your goals of using MyServSafeLab, you should prepare

your machine for optimal performance.

Before you set up your course, check the system requirements to be sure your

computer meets the needed requirements. This will outline requirements for Operating

Systems and Browsers, Internet Connection, Screen Resolution, and Players & Plug-ins.

Step by Step:

1) Go to MyServSafeLab.com.

2) Click on Support under the Educators area.

3) Click on System Requirements.

o Run the Browser Check to

ensure your machine has all plug-ins and recent versions of needed

software

After making sure your machine meets the System Requirements, we highly

recommend running the Browser Check to ensure courses will run at optimal

performance. (Make sure to run the Browser Check on every machine that you work

on).

Please note that most users have the BEST EXPERIENCE using Google Chrome.

Although other browsers can be used, it is important to run the browser check and use

only a browser that is fully supported.

Step by Step:

1) From the System Requirements page, scroll down to the Browser Check and click

the Run the Browser Check button.

2) Review the list of players and plug-ins that are not installed or need updating and download all of the latest versions.

3) Once installations are complete, close the Browser Check, restart your computer, and return to MyServSafeLab.

4) MyServSafeLab does require pop-up screens for all assignments. Please make sure

you and your students have allowed pop-ups from the site.

o Learn how to obtain technical help when needed

Pearson offers technical support to you and students 24/7. You can connect with

Customer Technical Support for assistance with registration, signing in, browser

settings, plug-ins, other system requirements, and general technical issues with your

course or account. Bookmark this site for easy and quick reference.

There are four ways to contact Pearson Customer Technical Support:

Find Answers 24/7 (Search FAQs) in the Knowledge Base

24/7 Chat

24/7 Email

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24/7 Phone:

Educator- 888-433-8435

Student- 800-677-6337

The Knowledge Base is a section of our 24/7 Support site that collects the most

common questions and answers, and catalogs them in a searchable way. The FAQ

listing changes daily depending on the volume of questions coming in at that time. The

search field is linked to an extensive knowledge base of questions and answers

which is an excellent place to start if you have an “error code” or “error message,” as it

will retrieve the reason for the error as well as the steps to resolve the issue. This can

save you and/or your students a great deal of time and effort.

Anytime you OR your students reach out to Technical Support via phone, email OR chat

an incident number is generated. This is the “tracking” for the incident reported.

Best Practice: Require students to provide a Pearson Incident Number to

you before bringing any technical issue or error directly to you. We are

unable to troubleshoot technical issues without an incident report with all

necessary details. You can in turn pass this incident number to your Pearson

representative in the event it needs escalated. Students will receive an incident number

using any method to contact our technical support teams.

These are the most common “Technical Support” issues at the beginning of the term.

Providing this list of “common errors” as well as links to the cure may prove to be very

helpful to your students.

Forgot Login/Password - go directly to this link where students can enter their email address or login name to retrieve their information:

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Missing Courses:

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You can also refer students to the Top Questions provided on the Support link under

the Students area of MyServSafeLab for easy access to answers of frequently asked

questions.

o Sign up for system status updates to stay informed of planned

downtimes and unplanned system events

Although we never anticipate any unexpected system outage or downtime, we

recommend that you subscribe to “System Health Notifications” so that you are alerted

via email if one should occur. To do so, click here and sign up for a Pearson 24/7

account.

Once you do so, receive system updates by clicking SUBSCRIBE then NOTIFY ME at the

bottom of these pages:

Sign In and Registration Status MyLab/Mastering New Design Status

XLMyLabs Status

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Create Your MyServSafeLab Course

NOTE: If you are integrating your MyServSafeLab course with your school’s

Learning Management System (e.g. Blackboard, Canvas, D2L, Moodle) for

“single sign on”, you will not create your course in this manner. You will

create your course through the Pearson MyLab & Mastering Building Block inside your

LMS course. Please click here for assistance with creating an integrated course for

single-sign on and grade transfer with your LMS.

Now that your computer is ready, and you are familiar with Tech Support, it’s time to

create your MyServSafeLab course or courses.

Sign into your educator account at www.MyServSafeLab.com then follow these steps.

Step by Step:

1) Click Create your New Course or Create/Copy Course located in the MyLab &

Mastering area. (You’ll only see Create your New Course if this is the very first course you’ve ever created with MyLab and Mastering.)

2) On the Create or Copy a Course page, search for course materials:

Select Search Course Materials. Enter the textbook Author, Title or ISBN

OR

Select Browse by Discipline. Click the dropdown menu to locate your discipline.

You can leave All Publishers selected or narrow you search by selecting a specific imprint.

3) Click Go. Review the list of titles.

4) Click Select Course Materials, after carefully selecting your MyServSafeLab course (pay attention to details like the book cover, author, edition, etc.)

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Now enter the

Course

Information.

5) Enter the Course Name.

6) (Optional) Enter a course Description to help distinguish this course from another course, for example, the course number and section, or when the course meets.

7) Select a course type:

For standard courses, in most cases you will select For Student Enrollment.

Select For Instructor Use

Only if you do not intend to enroll students in the course.

This type of course can be a

“play course”, or modified and copied to create other courses. (If you are creating a For

Instructor Use Only course, the Course Enrollment Dates section is grayed out. Skip to

step 9.)

8) Select Course Enrollment Dates:

For Enrollment Start Date,

click the calendar icon to select the month, day, and year when you want students to start

enrolling in your course. The default is the current date.

For Enrollment End Date, click the calendar to select the month, day, and year

when you want students to stop enrolling in your course.

Best Practice: Set the enrollment end date to align with your school's drop/add period, or other class start period. The enrollment end date can be revised for late

student enrollment, if necessary. Communicating to your students that enrollment in your MyServSafeLab course will close on a certain date can also motivate them to register in a timely manner!

9) Select Course Duration Dates:

For Course Start Date, use the calendar to select the month, day, and year when you plan to begin teaching the course. The default is the current date. Your Student

Enrollment date cannot be earlier than the Course Start date.

For Course End Date, use the calendar to select the month, day, and year when you want student access to your course to close. The longest your course can last is

2 years, but most instructors close their course at the end of the term. After your course closes, students will no longer be able to access it. As an instructor, however, you will have access to the course until it is deleted.

When the course reaches its Course End date, it enters a 12-month course retirement phase. At the end of this phase, email alerts remind you that your course is flagged for deletion, and provide information on how to make a copy of your

course for reuse after the original course is deleted.

Best Practice: Leave the course start date default for the current date and

set the course end date a month or so after the last day of classes to allow students time to complete makeup work, or to allow you time to copy course materials you plan to use again.

10) Under Make Available For Other Instructors To Copy, select:

Available For Copy to allow other instructors to copy your course. Instructors will only be able to copy your course if you share your Course ID with them!

Unavailable For Copy if you do not want other instructors to be able to copy your course.

11) Click Create Course Now

A “Confirmation - Request Received”

page will provide you with your

unique Course ID, usually consisting

of your last name and five numbers

(for ex: smith12345). Course IDs also

appear below each course name in

the MyLab & Mastering courses list on

the courses page. You can print this

page for your records. At the bottom

of the page, click Back to your

Courses page.

On your MyLab & Mastering Courses

page the clock icon indicates that your course is being prepared. When your course is

ready you will receive an email. The course is created in as little as an hour or up to

one day, depending on the size of the course materials you selected and the number of

course creation requests in the queue. You do not need to stay signed in or be

connected to the Internet while your course is

created.

You will receive an email when you course is

ready. Included in this email is a student

registration handout populated with your

course information including the Course ID

that you can email or give to your students.

You can also access this handout by clicking the

Details link next to your course name on the

courses list on your account home page.

After your course is created, you can

communicate the course ID and student

registration handout to students so they can

enroll in your course (for courses set for

Student Enrollment). Do not send the course ID

to students if course creation fails.

o Make changes to your course name,

end date, etc.

After you have created a course, you might find that you need to edit some aspect of

your course later in the term. You can easily do things such as:

Rename your course

Add/delete/or edit the course description

Change the course type (For Student Enrollment or Instructor Use Only)

Edit the course enrollment start and/or end dates

Edit the course start and/or end dates

Change the copy settings (available or unavailable to copy)

Step by Step:

1) From the MyLab & Mastering courses list, click the Details link next to the

right of the course name.

2) On the Course Details page, click Edit Course.

3) Make any edits and click Save.

Module 3: Determine Your Role as a MyServSafeLab

User: Coordinator/Member or Standard course?

NEW FEATURE! Creating a course is straight-forward, but setting up and designing a course requires

some planning. Before you continue through this module, you should decide if you are

creating a course that only you will use, one that you will copy for your own multiple

sections, one that you will be creating for OTHER instructors to copy, or one that you

are copying from another instructor.

Previous versions of this MyLab didn’t allow for easy creation of multiple

courses at once, that could be modified by a Coordinator after the sections

had already been created. The Coordinator/Member Course Group feature

allows for that!

Instructor: Single Section- You have one course per term. You have to create a

course from scratch, but you probably don’t need to make any copies of it, as you only

teach one section. You are a Standard User.

Instructor: Multiple Sections- You belong to a department, and there is no master

course you must follow. You are “allowed” to make your own course, and you teach

multiple sections. Therefore you want to make one master MyLab course that you

then copy to satisfy the need to have multiple courses that are similar. You want each

section of students to enroll in their respective MyLab course section and for each

section to have its own MyLab gradebook. If this is you, you are also a Coordinator and

should read the Coordinator Set-up and Design section.

What are some advantages to setting up a Coordinator structure in your MyLab?

You can establish consistency of use across sections.

You can pull data across all sections with just a few clicks.

You can see what is going on in other sections.

You can modify one course, and those modifications will flow to the other sections.

You can enforce requirements across sections.

Coordinator- You are a coordinator for a program, and you must set up a master

course that many people will copy. You are responsible for the policies of the course,

and you provide leadership and guidance for usage of the MyLab. If this is you, you are

a Coordinator and should read the Coordinator Set-up and Design section.

Member/Section Instructor- You have no desire to design a course, or your

Coordinator has designed a course for you. You just want to know how to navigate the

course, how the MyLab “works” and maybe a few things about the Gradebook. You may

have more than one section, but, you still may only have to copy some courses. You

are not creating from scratch. If this is you, you can completely skip the Coordinator

Set-up and Design section. You are Member user.

Create a Standard Course If Your Role Is "Instructor: Single Section"

As a standard user, you simply need to create your first course as described in the

previous module. You will be able to make copies of your course in subsequent terms.

If you are creating a course to share with other instructors, you will want to create your

entire MyLab course and then ensure that you have it set to allow for copy. When you

share a course, you are essentially “gifting” it to someone. Once they copy the course,

their course is no longer tied to yours in any way. It is its own standard course. You are

just allowing the person copying the course, and have a copy of your assignments!

Step by Step:

To make a course available for copy:

1) Go to your Courses Home page and click on the DETAILS button beside the course in question.

2) Then click on Edit Course.

3) Mark the course as available for

copy.

This course ID can now be used to

create a COPY of your course. If you

want to share it with other instructors to

make their OWN section off of your

copy, you can do so by providing them

with this course ID.

Create a Course Group (Coordinator/Member) If Your Role Is

"Coordinator" or "Instructor: Multiple Sections"

If you are acting as the coordinator/course administrator for other instructors (A) or

coordinating a course for your own use- Instructor: Multiple Sections

(B), this lesson is for you. The first step is to create your template or

master course.

When creating your course:

Name your coordinator course something that is relevant

to the time period or overall course, not the section.

Do not allow for student enrollment in your Coordinator course. Students should always enroll in a Member section.

Make the end date as far in the future as you can possibly make it. Be sure to mark the course as available for copy.

Make your Member courses after you have designed your master course.

Step by Step:

Log in to your MyLab course and click Course SettingsEdit Settings above

Course Home. Click EDIT in the General Settings section.

Change the course type from Standard to Coordinator and click SAVE.

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Note: Be sure that you have made the Coordinator Course available for

copying. Once changed to Coordinator, your course will start with “Coord” in

your course list to help differentiate it in the list.

o A: Coordinator: creating a master course which will be copied and

used to manage other instructors’ courses

If you are coordinating a course and there are other instructors who are going to COPY

your Coordinator Course to create their OWN member courses, you will follow this

process:

Once the coordinator course is ready for copying, provide the Course ID of the

coordinator course to each member instructor. The member instructors will log in to

MyServSafeLab with their own login and password, and copy your coordinator course.

Tip: Changes made to menu structure and content pages in the coordinator course are not inherited by the member courses later on during the

term. Therefore, you should complete all customization in these areas

of the coordinator course before you create the member courses.

Each copied course will automatically become a member of your course group, and will

be listed on the Group Admin step of the Settings page of your Coordinator course. As a

reminder, the information that will flow from your Coordinator course to your Member

course(s) includes:

Assignments created in the Assignment Manager

Study plan Manager Settings

Gradebook Settings

Announcements made through the Course Home Manager

Things that will NOT flow to the member sections during the term include:

Document Uploads

Changes made to the course navigation/customization to the left navigation

Note: Courses that have student enrollment cannot be converted to a

coordinator course

When logged in to the Gradebook or Assignment Manager as the Coordinator, you

will see all Member courses listed in a drop-down and can toggle between them, and

view their contents. See sample images below.

o B: Instructor: Multiple Sections: using Coordinator Courses to

manage multiple sections you will teach yourself

You can either create a new course that will function as a coordinator course, or convert

an existing course to a coordinator course. You will want to do this AFTER you have

created your assignments, announcements, etc.

The information that will flow from your coordinator course to your member

courses during the term includes:

Assignments created in the Assignment Manager

Study Plan Manager Settings

Gradebook Settings

Announcements made through the Course Home Manager

Things that will NOT be changed in the member courses during the term are:

Document Uploads

Changes made to the course menu (added menu buttons, rearranging of menu items)

Note: Courses that have student enrollment cannot be converted to

coordinator courses but can be copied to create a new coordinator course.

If you are teaching multiple sections of the course yourself, you will want to follow this

process:

Go back to your Courses home page and create your own section courses. Click

Create/Copy a Course, select Make Multiple Copies or Sections of a Course and find

the Coordinator course you created in this drop down list and then click Go.

Enter the number of member sections you need to create and click Update. Enter all

required information giving each section a unique name. Remember to set your start

and end dates according to your term length, and use a 17-21 day window for the

enrollment period. Click Create Courses Now.

You will receive a confirmation screen that provides you with the course ID for each

member section. Print this page. You will also receive an email with this information.

You will want students to enroll in the member sections ONLY, not the Coordinator

section, so these course IDs will need to be distributed to your students accordingly.

Click Back to your Courses page. You can also find the student registration handout

by clicking on the details button.

When you’re teaching your own sections using your Coordinator course as a

master template, you can also share your Coordinator course ID so that your

colleagues can have member courses as well. That’s how you AND others will

participate in a course group.

Create a Copy of a Course Designed for You by a Coordinator

If you are a Section Instructor and need to be a Member of a course group, you should

have been given a course ID to create a member course.

Step by Step:

Log into Pearson MyLab & Mastering with your Educator credentials.

Click Create or Copy Course and select Copy a Course and then Copy

Another Instructor’s Course.

Enter the course ID that was given to you and click GO.

Continue the process of naming your course, setting enrollment start and end dates, etc. This will create your OWN unique course ID which you will

then give to YOUR students. The course is now yours to “own” and “edit”, but can be modified by the Coordinator who manages the course group.

Module 4: Tour Your MyServSafeLab Course Menu Once you’ve created your course, click the name of it in your course list to open it, and

explore what’s there.

Your MyServSafeLab course is a robust learning management system that can provide

measureable gains in student learning outcomes. It has been thoughtfully designed

with a range of discipline-specific features that have been created to maximize

engagement and relevance.

If you’ve used a prior version of this program you’ll see some things look the same, and

others are very different. This module will explain what’s here, and how to use it to

reach the goals you have for your course.

Review the Course Menu Items that Students See

The first thing you may notice about your course menu (the left navigation bar in your

course) are the items that have a “hidden” icon next to them. These items, as well

as the modify buttons above the menu and content pane, and the course settings

button, are the only items in your course that you see but your students do not. This

allows you to see everything as a student would see it, and to complete assignments as

students would, and obtain results like students do. You will even see your name

(grayed out) in the gradebook. In prior versions of this course, there was not a built-in

“student-view” of the course, but now there is!

o Course Home

When you and your students click into the course, it defaults to the Course Home,

where students can view:

The week’s calendar

An area for upcoming assignments

Announcements

My Results area, highlighting the student’s overall grade in the course, and progress through the number of assignments you’ve assigned.

NOTE: Assignments and their due dates are created through the

Assignment Manager found in Instructor Tools, but if you’d like to add

Announcements or modify the My Results area, it’s easy to do so.

Announcements will show both publisher announcements (such as how to enter

answers, how to perform a browser check, scheduled down time) as well as any

personal announcements you add. Regularly communicating with students about your

course assignments, expectations and due dates is vital in any class. Your MyLab

course offers several options to make student communication both fast and easy.

Announcements can easily be communicated on the dashboard and/or sent via email to

students. The email will go to the email address the student used to register for the

MyLab. Many instructors find announcements on the dashboard a great way to

communicate with students with the old adage “tell them something 3 times”: class,

announcements, email.

Step by Step:

1) Go to the right modify button above the content pane and click manage.

2) On the Home Page Manager click Create an Announcement

3) Compose and format your announcement and determine if you simply want to post it (Save) OR if you want to post it and email it (Save and Email). You can add a

post date and a remove date if you desire.

Results will show an “at a glance” view of how the student is performing in the course

on the graded MyLab assignments. The “target line” is set at 80% by default, but you

can modify this percentage, as well as hide any area of the dashboard.

Step by Step

Click on MODIFY above the content pane, and then Manage.

On the next screen click on Home Page Settings.

Feel free to hide anything you do not want students to see on the home page here.

You can also change the default target from 80% to something else, if desired.

You can also edit the Course Home page by clicking into the Instructor

Tools menu item and selecting Course Home Manager.

The Course Home menu item has a few other items nested inside it. Clicking on it will

show:

A Syllabus page – click modify above the content pane then Manage to

upload your syllabus as a Word document into the course.

Calendar – see a month view of the assignments due in your course.

Communication Tools - Communication Tools houses items that allow for extra communication with your students outside of the classroom, and are

especially handy in an online course. But even traditional courses with an online component (hybrid courses) can benefit from these tools.

For example, you can continue an in-class discussion that you didn’t finish

before class ended on a Discussion Board. Discussion Boards are also a nice

way for shyer students to participate in a debate. You can also ask your

students to write responses to a question you pose in class, then have them

upload their responses in Document Sharing and share with entire class, so

students can read each other’s responses.

Email

Educators can email students, students can email each other. Email will be delivered to

the account specified upon registration.

Document Sharing

Share documents with instructors only or with the whole class. You

can organize the documents you and your students share by setting

up categories to store the uploaded documents.

Make sure that you create categories before uploading documents as

you will not be able to transfer documents from one category to

another after the upload is complete.

Chat

Initiate a web-based chat session with another online participant in the course.

Discussion Board

Discussions allow your students to share ideas with you and each

other. You can create your own discussion topics, or set up folders to

group chapter discussions together. Your students can respond to the

topic as well as each other’s posts from within each discussion topic.

Discussions can also be referred to as threaded discussions since your

students’ lively responses form an intertwined thread.

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You have the ability to hide topics from students at any time and can choose to hide all

responses from students until they post their own response (i.e. students can’t see

others work until posting).

o Chapter Assignments

Clicking on Assignments in your menu will show you and your students any of the

homeworks, quizzes and tests you have assigned in your course. It will also open the

list of chapters in your text, so a student could go directly to the Assignments for a

specific chapter without having to use the Chapter filter on the main Assignments page.

Students can start to work on your assignments from either the Course Home (week or

month calendar or Upcoming Assignments) or an Assignments page.

IMPORTANT: Unlike prior versions of MyServSafeLab, when you create your course there

are no gradable assignments available to your students. You have complete control

over what your students work on, when they work on it, making the course easy to navigate

and understand! To easily assign items in your course, you’ll use the Assignment

Manager inside the Instructor Tools menu item, which is discussed later in this module.

o Dynamic Study Modules

Dynamic Study Modules help students check and improve their knowledge of material

they must master to do well in the course. Each module adapts to focus on the

questions that students cannot confidently and correctly answer.

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As a student progresses through sets of questions, these modules provide practice and

feedback in areas where the student needs more review.

The scientists and software engineers that built the amplifire application behind the

Dynamic Study Modules have pulled together more than 10,000 papers, studies and

articles on the topic of learning and memory. They have applied 25 key learning

techniques throughout the software.

Go to http://www.knowledgefactor.com/science to learn more about the science and

research behind the application integrated within Mastering.

To explore the study modules as your students might experience them, click “Access

Dynamic Study Modules” from the menu item’s content pane. There you will see the list

of chapter modules, and will be able to work through them.

Dynamic Study Modules, or DSMs, leverage research from the field of cognitive

psychology, neurobiology and gaming to deliver a uniquely effective, learning system.

The DSMs continuously asses students’ performance and provide additional practice in

the areas where they struggle the most. Dynamic Study Modules can be access by a

computer, a smart phone or other mobile device.

As the instructor you can run reports on your students’ progress through the modules

using the Dynamic Study Modules Reporting feature in Instructor Tools.

o Exam Preparation

In order to prepare your students for the ServSafe Certification Exam, Pearson has

created a special “chapter” of exam prep assignments. Once you assign them, they will

be accessible for your students from this Exam Preparation menu item. You must

assign them from the Assignment Manager in Instructor Tools in order for students to

access them.

There are two Learning Modules explaining the NRA organization and test taking

strategies and tips for success.

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The capstone of the course is an 80-question Practice Exam, and is an excellent way

for students to get comfortable with length of test, and the types of questions they’ll

encounter of the certification exam. By default students are able to take this exam an

unlimited number of times, and the questions will scramble for each student, each time

it is retaken. It focuses on the five different domains (content areas) of the actual

certification exam:

Implement Food Safety Standard Operating Procedures

Ensure Employee Hygiene and Health

Ensure Safe Receipt, Storage, Transportation and Disposal of Food

Ensure Safe Preparation, Display and Service of Food

Ensure Compliance with Regulatory Requirements for Facility

o Multimedia Library

Searchable by chapter, the Multimedia Library allows you and your students to quickly

access Animations, Videos, PowerPoints, Flashcards, and Summaries. The content here

is not gradable, however you can create media assignments in the Assignment Manager

using these media files if you like. Go to Module 5 to learn how to create a gradable

Media assignment.

Pearson has done this with the Learning Modules – they have actually been

“pre-built” as an assignment that you can assign from the Assignment

Manager. When students complete the assigned Learning Module,

MyServSafeLab will give them a point (a “completion score”), and will keep

track of how long they viewed the asset. Only when viewed as an Assignment will

MyServSafeLab know if the students have accessed the Learning Module. Items

accessed from the Multimedia Library cannot be tracked.

o Pearson eText

The eText is always available to you as an instructor, and to your students

in MyServSafeLab.

Not only is the eText a wonderful tool to be able to pull up in class, but

using the highlighting and shared-notes features allow you to integrate tips,

comments, and important information to your students, thereby encouraging them to

read the required pages.

o Results

Students see their grade results on assignments on the Results page. From the list of

assignments, they can also review their work. You can complete work in your course

just like students do on items you’ve assigned via the Assignment Manager, by clicking

in Assignments or on the Calendar, and your scores will record in Results like a

student’s.

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Students’ overall score in the course so far is displayed as a percentage if they click the

Overall Score button at the top of the page.

Students can also specify the time period, assignment type, or individual chapter

results by using the buttons and drop-down list.

o Student Support

Clicking Student Support in the menu will open up the Help & Support page that is also

located in the MyLab Banner at the top of the course. The searchable Help files for

students are invaluable. Your students will also find the icon on certain content

pages which opens corresponding help for the assignment type.

Review Instructor Tools: Assignment Manager, Gradebook and other

Instructor Tools (NEW FEATURE!)

If you used a previous version of MyServSafeLab the Instructor Tools area is new to

you. This area of the course menu is a critical space where you will manage your

course. Most importantly, the Assignment Manager and Gradebook are found here, and

will be where you conduct the majority of your course management.

o Course Home Manager

As described earlier in the Lesson, there are 2 ways to change the appearance of the

Course Home and to add Announcements to your course:

clicking modify Manage above the content pane while on Course Home

clicking Instructor Tools Course Home Manager

Both methods work the same way, but some instructors prefer to do ALL of their course

management from within Instructor Tools, making the Course Home Manager tool a

popular menu item.

o Assignment Manager

The Assignment Manager is the tool you will use to assign Homework,

Quizzes, and Tests to your students. Pearson has prebuilt a number of

assignments for you, and you can create additional assignments like multi-

chapter tests using the built-in testbank.

You can also create media assignments for your students either from files housed in the

non-graded Multimedia Library, or from media you add to your course.

IMPORTANT: Unlike previous versions of MyServSafeLab where all chapter material was

available to students when you created your course, now there are no gradable assignments

available to your students, until you assign them using the Assignment Manager. This gives

you complete control over what your students work on, when they work on it, and makes

the course easy to navigate and understand!

In the next Module we will discuss how to implement the different prebuilt assignments

into your course. When you’ve decided which pieces work best for you and your

students, here’s how you’ll assign them!

Step by Step:

Go to Instructor ToolsAssignment Manager.

Sort assignments by chapter using the Chapter filter button and chapter drop-down list.

To see what the assignment is, and how it will look to your students, click Preview in the Actions drop-down list.

To assign without a due date (think of this as recommended but not required),

one item at a time, you can use the Actions drop-down list next to the assignment to select Assign -> then Go.

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To assign with a due date one item at a time, select Settings for Class from the Actions drop-down list and enter the due date in the Availability Options area of the page. You can also select a start date if you don’t want students to access

the item until a future date. Click Save and Assign at the bottom of the page.

OR

Click Change Due Dates & Assign Status to assign multiple

assignments at once, and/or assign start and end dates for multiple

items on one page. Filter by chapter using the Chapter button and

drop-down list.

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Update and add dates to each applicable item.

Click Update all settings or Update changes only when finished.

Update all settings - Applies all the settings on this page to the course. If the

course is a coordinator course, your new settings plus any existing settings (for

example, due dates) will be applied to all member courses and override any

settings individual member instructors have specified in their courses.

Update changes only - Applies only the settings you have just made. If the

course is a coordinator course, only your new settings are applied to all member

courses.

Working with the Assignment Manager gives you flexibility to add assignments to your

course as the term progresses, or assigning everything ahead of time before your

students join. Module 5 will cover the available prebuilt assignments and when and how

you might use them in your course.

o Gradebook

Your Gradebook is where you will view student results on your assignments. You can

view results for the whole class and for individual students.

Also sortable by assignment type (homework, quiz or test) and chapter, you can filter

down to the assignments you want to see and view your students’ percentage (by

default) or raw scores (by adjusting Scoring Options in More Gradebook Tools) on

those assignments.

Module 7 will provide best practices and thorough feature overview of this robust

Instructor Tool.

o Dynamic Study Modules Results

MyServSafeLab automatically tracks your students' results on Dynamic Study

Modules through Dynamic Study Modules Results reports. View class summaries

and individual student results through a variety of reports that can be exported into to

a spreadsheet program, such as Microsoft Excel. To learn more about the reporting

capabilities, click HERE.

o Roster/Course Details

The course roster allows you to see a list of all of the students that have registered and

enrolled in your course. It displays the student’s name, email address, current role,

status, and temporary access status (if applicable). The roster is where you control if a

student is Active or Inactive (prohibit for signing in and remove name from gradebook).

The course roster also allows you to upgrade a student to Teaching

Assistant/Section Instructor access.

When a student successfully registers and enrolls in your MyLab course, they are active.

During the “add/drop” period, you might have students that drop the course or move to

another section at the start of a term and need to be removed from your MyLab course.

Removing a student from your MyLab course is handled by changing the student

Status to Inactive in the course roster. This will remove the student from your

gradebook and any class averages.

If transferred students have any grades stored from completed assignments,

those grades are not lost. The student will appear “greyed out” in the

gradebook, and once they enroll in a new section their grades can be

imported by that instructor.

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If you have a Teaching Assistant who will help you manage any

aspect of your course, you can identify them in your course roster and

determine their level of access. Likewise, if you have a co-instructor

who needs to access the course, you will go through the same process

outlined below.

The first step is to get a student access code for your course from your Pearson

representative. The TA or Section instructor will need to use this code to register for

your course as a student. Just like your students, they will need both the access code

(which you can obtain from your Pearson Representative) and your course ID (which

was generated when you created your course). If you have multiple TAs you will need

an access code for each. (3 TAs=3 access codes)

You may also access the roster by clicking the number of students in the course on your

MyLab & Mastering course list after signing in.

o Course Settings

From the Course Settings Summary page you can modify things such as the course

type (Standard vs. Coordinator), your Time Zone, Section Instructor access privileges,

and the coverage of your course if you do not cover every chapter of the textbook.

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Instructor Support

At the bottom of the course menu are links to support for you and your students. These

pages give you and your students quick-access to the built-in Help index for

MyServSafeLab. Completely searchable, the Help index provides you with step-by-step

instruction on course management, and gives the students information on how to work

through the assignments and features of your course.

Module 5: Assign Effective Assignments with the

Assignment Manager This module will describe the prebuilt assignments Pearson has provided you in your

MyServSafeLab course, to help you create thoughtful coursework to meet your

implementation goals.

We want to help your students learn the material in your course. For online educational

resources to be effective, research has shown they should be Interactive, Memorable,

Flexible, Helpful and Accessible. MyServSafeLab is all these things.

Review the Prebuilt Assignments in Your Assignment Manager

Your MyServSafeLab course provides you with a myriad of prebuilt chapter assignments

to assign students which are categorized as Homework (H), Quizzes (Q) and Tests (T). While the steps to assign these items are the same, there are distinctions in the default

settings that differentiate the way you might use them in your course.

Homework

• Chapter Review

• Learning Modules

Quiz

• Chapter Quiz

Test

• Chapter Test

• Chapter Testbank

• Practice Exam

o Homework

Chapter Review is a homework assignment that helps students review what they’ve read in the chapter. It can also be used to help prepare students for

lecture, so that they are familiar with the concepts covered in the chapter.

Students answer a series of multiple choice and true/false questions, by clicking in the question bubbles at the top of the Homework window. By

default they can answer each question an unlimited number of times, receiving immediate feedback as to whether their answer is correct or not.

Students can complete the Chapter Review an unlimited number of times until the due date. After the due date it will only be available for review on the students’ Results page, and their score on the assignment cannot be

changed.

By default your gradebook will register the students best score on the assignments.

Learning Modules Learning Modules present the chapter information in a

visually interesting, interactive presentation. Slides feature audio overview, and bulleted highlights from important chapter concepts, linked glossary terms, and pertinent videos. Do you have students who struggle to read the

chapter, or understand basic chapter concepts? You may wish to assign the chapter Learning Modules.

Students advance through the slides by clicking the Learning Objectives in

the left menu or advancing the arrow at the bottom of the window. Subtopics

of the Learning Objectives are opened by clicking the topic headings on the

slide.

The Learning Modules contain a Knowledge Check at the end of the module.

Students can review and by default, complete the Knowledge Check

questions an unlimited number of times until the due date. The score that is

recorded in the gradebook is the student’s best attempt, and the time spent

is the total of all attempts. Students advance through the questions by

choosing their answers, then clicking Submit after each question. When all

questions have been answered, they are presented with their score.

From your gradebook, you can open and review a student’s work, and see

how many attempts the student took, and how long a student spent looking

over these Learning Module slides.

o Quiz

Chapter Quizzes are Case Study questions which require students use more critical

thinking, and respond with essay-style answers. In order for students to receive a

score, you need to grade the answers. The default setting is that students can take the

quiz an unlimited number of times. In your Gradebook you will receive an alert if there

is a Quiz awaiting your review.

o Test

Chapter Test is a comprehensive, multiple choice, True/False question exam, which is automatically graded by MyServSafeLab. The test features 2

questions for each chapter Learning Objective.

By default students get one attempt on this test, however you can adjust this setting on a test by test basis, or globally for all tests in your MyServSafeLab course. (See Module 6 for more information)

Chapter Testbank exists as another prebuilt testing opportunity you can

assign to students. It features different questions for each Learning Objective than those on the Chapter Test, and most Chapter Testbanks contain essay

questions as well, which require instructor grading. If you’d like to challenge your students with a mixture of multiple-choice, true/false, and open-ended questions, you might prefer using the Chapter Testbank assignment over the

Chapter Test, or in addition to it.

Practice Exam can be found in the last “chapter” of assignments in the Assignment Manager. This 80-question test covers all five content areas students will be tested on during the ServSafe certification exam, making it

an ideal way to practice for the exam. By default students get an unlimited number of attempts on this tests, and the questions will scramble every time

it’s retaken. The 80 questions are pooled from over 200 questions, so that different questions appear for each student and each attempts as well.

Best Practice: Although there are many different prebuilt assignments to

choose from, it is strongly recommended that you choose only a few favorites

for each chapter. The variety of assignments is available to cater to your

course needs and desired learning outcomes, and could be overwhelming if

all available assignments were assigned for every chapter.

Recap: How to assign prebuilt assignments to your students

Step by Step:

Go to Instructor ToolsAssignment Manager.

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Sort assignments by chapter using the Chapter filter button and chapter drop-down list.

To see what the assignment is, and how it will look to your students, click Preview in the drop-down Actions list.

To assign without a due date (think of this as recommended but not required),

one item at a time, you can use the drop-down Actions list next to the assignment to select Assign -> then Go.

To assign with a due date one item at a time, select Settings for Class from the

Actions drop-down list and enter the due date in the Availability Options area of the page. You can also select a start date if you don’t want students to access the item until a future date. Click Save and Assign at the bottom of the page.

OR

Click Change Due Dates & Assign Status to assign multiple

assignments at once, or assign with start and end dates. Filter by

chapter using the Chapter button and drop-down list.

Update and add dates to each applicable item.

Click Update all settings or Update changes only when finished.

Update all settings - Applies all the settings on this page to the course. If the

course is a coordinator course, your new settings plus any existing settings (for

example, due dates) will be applied to all member courses and override any

settings individual member instructors have specified in their courses.

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Update changes only - Applies only the settings you have just made. If the

course is a coordinator course, only your new settings are applied to all member

courses.

Working with the Assignment Manager gives you flexibility to add assignments to your

course as the term progresses, or assign everything ahead of time before your students

join.

Once assigned, your students will find their assignments in the Chapter Assignments

area of their course, as well as the Calendar (month and week views).

Create Your Own Assignments

In addition to using our prebuilt assignments, you can also create your own, by building

them in the Assignment Manager. Perhaps you’d like to build a multi-chapter Midterm

test, or maybe you’d like to actually assign the NRA video for to your students. You can

build your own Homework, Quiz or Test from the question bank, or a Media Assignment

using any of the non-gradable files in the Multimedia Library.

o Build a homework, quiz or test with question bank

Step by Step

1) Go to Instructor ToolsAssignment ManagerCreate AssignmentCreate Homework or Quiz or Test

2) Name the assignment and click NEXT.

3) Use the chapter drop down menu to narrow your pool of questions and media.

4) Click the boxes to the left of the question title and click the ADD button to add them

to the homework question listing to the right.

5) To build a multi-chapter assignment, use the chapter filter to select the next chapter question pool.

6) When you are finished adding questions to the assignment click NEXT and adjust your assignment settings.

7) Next, click Save and Assign.

Note: You can only include essay-style questions for a Quiz or Test; Homework

questions can be multiple choice or True/False.

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o Build a Media Assignment as a Homework

Step by Step

1) Go to Instructor ToolsAssignment ManagerCreate AssignmentCreate

Homework

2) Name the assignment and click NEXT.

3) Use the chapter drop down menu to narrow your pool of media.

4) Click Media to produce a list of media files for the chapter

5) Click the boxes to the left of the media file (s), and click the ADD button to it to the Question/Media listing to the right.

6) To build a multi-chapter assignment, use the chapter filter to select the next chapter

question pool.

7) When you are finished adding questions to the assignment click NEXT and adjust your assignment settings.

8) This homework will record a completion score for viewing the media, and show the time on task in the Gradebook, and student Results tab.

Module 6: Manage Assessment Settings and

Preferences NEW FEATURE! As you build your perfect course, you’ll be asking yourself questions like, “How many

times do I want my students to be able to take this before the due date?” or “How can I

make sure that students take the chapter 1 homework before taking the chapter 1

quiz?” This module will walk you through those settings, so that your students’ results

capture exactly what you were looking to capture.

Customize assignment preferences to match your course objectives

Customizing your assignment settings and preferences allows you to dictate how you

want the assignments delivered and how students will interact with them. If you wish to

customize these settings, there are two ways to do this: Individually by assignment or

globally by assignment category or manually selected groups of assignments.

If you will have consistent settings for multiple assignments, use the Change

Settings for Multiple Assignments to save time by completing this more

globally. This allows you to input all the settings for your assignment type

only once.

Step by Step:

Set individual assignment settings for class:

1) Locate the assignment in the Assignment Manager under Instructor Tools.

2) Choose Settings for Class from the Actions Drop Down.

Set global multiple assignment settings for class:

1) From the Assignment Manager, use the More Assignment Tools drop down menu

to choose Change Settings for Multiple Assignments.

2) Choose the Assignment type (category).

3) Choose either ALL assignments in that category or Specific Assignments to

manually choose a select group of assignments.

For example, in Homework, there are several different assets. If you want

the Class Prep to have one set of preferences and the Quiz Prep to have a

different set of preferences, use the Specific Assignments option.

There are a few key differences between a homework assignment and quiz settings

available in your MyLab course. Some differences include:

By default, students are given one attempt to answer the question in a quiz or test, not unlimited like in homework.

None of the sidebar Learning Aids are available when students complete a quiz/test.

You have the ability to set a time limit for students to complete the test or quiz.

Students are not able to “save and exit” a quiz/test; they must complete it in

one sitting.

Students are not given the “check answer” button when completing a quiz/test—only a SUBMIT button to click when complete.

To learn more about the various assignment settings for both Homework and Tests and

Quizzes and the implications of each setting, click on the in-product help links below.

In Product Help: Settings for Homework

In Product Help: Settings for Tests and Quizzes

o Apply your late submissions policy for an assignment

If you set a due date for your assignment, you will be able to specify the late

submission policy and penalty if desired in the Scoring Options section.

o Specify the number of attempts students can submit a quiz or test

before the due date

This option is only available for Quizzes and Tests. You can limit the number of

attempts a student can submit the assignment before the due date. If you do not

specify the number of attempts, students can take the Chapter Quiz and Chapter Test

once before the due date.

You can also choose the how a student’s score is recorded in the gradebook

for multiple attempt assignments in your Gradebook > More Gradebook Tools > Set Scoring Options, i.e. best score, most recent score, average score, or all scores.

o Specify the number of attempts students can work each question

This option is only available for Homework assignments. You can limit the number of

attempts a student can attempt each individual question in the Homework assignment.

If you do not specify the number of attempts, students can work each question

unlimited times up until the due date/time. For Learning Modules, this will control how

many times a student can submit the simulation as a whole.

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o Add a prerequisite to an assignment

You can select any assignment to be a prerequisite for another. This

feature can ensure that student complete work in a certain order.

Use prerequisites for quiz attempts to require students to review

and remediate between attempts. In addition, limit the number of

quiz attempts to motivate students to prepare adequately before attempting the

quiz.

o Apply settings for incomplete or interrupted attempts

This option is only available for Quizzes and Tests. You can specify how students can

resume an interrupted quiz. A quiz could be interrupted, for example, by a technical

difficulty with the student's computer or by a mistaken exit. You can allow students to

resume the quiz without instructor permission, or you can require students to get your

permission to resume the quiz.

To further control access to the quiz, select the Save for Later option for the

Incomplete Attempt. Students will see one question at a time in numerical order, and

will not be allowed to return to a previously accessed question. If the student saves the

quiz and returns later, they will be presented with the next unanswered question on the

quiz.

Use Restricted Access or Blocked Access if you want to control student access

to an interrupted quiz.

To learn more about incomplete attempts, click on the in-product help links below.

In Product Help for Access Options for Incomplete Tests and Quizzes

o Set a time limit

If you want to set a limit on the number of minutes students are allotted to complete a

quiz or test, click the Quiz time allowed (minutes) box. A countdown timer will be

displayed on the quiz page. A warning box will pop up when the time limit is

approaching, and the quiz will be submitted automatically when the time limit is

reached. There is NOT a way to pause the timer so be sure to let your students know

that they cannot stop the clock.

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Select How and When Students Can Review Submitted Assignments

In this section of the lesson, you will learn how to specify the information displayed to

students after they submit the quiz/test for grading, as well as to choose when students

can review their quiz results.

o Choose how the results are displayed (what the student can see)

You can specify what results, if any, are displayed after the student submits the quiz or

test for grading. The following options are available:

Quiz/Test Summary shows test score and question results - After students submit a test, the Test Summary page shows the score, displays what questions were answered correctly or incorrectly, and lets students

review their work.

Quiz/Test Summary shows test score only - After students submit a test, the Test Summary page shows only the score.

Hide score and question results - After students submit a test, they go directly to their Results page. The page does not show score or results, and students cannot review their work.

Hide the question results for high-stakes assessments so that students can

see their score on the assessment but are not able to view the questions or

their answers.

o Choose when the students can review the results you selected

You can also choose when students can review their quiz results. The available options

are:

Student can review quiz/test any time after submitting lets students review the test any time after they take it.

Student can review quiz/test only immediately after submitting lets

students review the test immediately after taking it. Students cannot review the test again at a later time.

Student can review submitted quiz/test any time after due date lets

students review the test after it is no longer available for them to take.

Student can never review submitted quiz/test prevents students from reviewing the test at any time.

The most common (and most secure) option is to allow review after the due

date. Some instructors choose to never allow review of the questions and to

show results only to keep quiz questions from circulating.

Adjust assignments for students with special circumstances

It may be necessary to extend a due date for a particular student or group of students

OR to give an extended amount of time. You can easily modify assignment criteria for

a student or group of students on an assignment by assignment level or for the entire

term for all assignments in a particular category.

Modify Assignment Settings for a Student or Group of Students

o Extend time limits for students requiring additional time on

assignments

Step by Step

1) Go to Instructor Tools > Assignment Manager > More Assignment Tools > Individual Student Settings

2) Use the Change hyperlink to find the student who is to receive the individual setting. Highlight the student(s) and then click Add. On the next screen click Go.

3) Add the assignments that need an exception by clicking Add/Remove Assignments.

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