What's New?
What's New In CourseCompass?
Available Now!
- Redesigned coursecompass.com site
Welcome to the redesigned CourseCompass website, featuring streamlined organization and easy access to important and regularly updated content. We hope you will come back often to read about What's New with CourseCompass products. - Educators: You can manage your course lists and announcements
You now have complete control over the courses displayed in your Courses list. Using the Settings button at the top of the list, you can choose only those courses you need to display and use a quick, simple drag-and-drop interface to reorder them.
Similarly, you can choose whether or not to show the course announcements list on the My CourseCompass page. By default, course announcements are hidden to save space, but you can use the Settings button to redisplay them if you prefer. Either way, students will always be able to access your course announcements. - One-click access to all your Pearson products
The MyPlaces area on the MyPearson tab lets you view and link to all your Pearson products from one, easy-to-navigate location. From here, you can create a personal list of favorites for one-click access to the products you use most. - Students: Simplified registration
All CourseCompass student registration and enrollment activities now start at a single entry point and prompt you for the course ID first. CourseCompass uses the course ID to determine the appropriate registration options for you, significantly simplifying registration and enrollment. - Online Help improvements
Online Help has an updated user interface with improved search capabilities. Macintosh users can now access all the Help system's features, including the index and search functionality.
Important news about course duration:
In order to ensure the best possible performance for your courses, Pearson has established a maximum course duration of 15 months, starting from the date of course creation. When you create a new course, you will need to set an end date that is no longer than 15 months from the date on which you create the course. Any existing courses with end dates beyond October, 2009 (15 months from the establishment of this policy) will be adjusted to end at that time.When a course reaches its end date, the system schedules it for automatic deletion. Educators will receive three email reminders before the course, its assignments, and the student results are removed. To preserve course content, educators will be given opportunities to copy the course and then export the gradebook and other course results before the course is removed.
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:- Platform- and browser-independent player!
The wait is over! In addition to Internet Explorer, the new Flash-based Player supports Firefox on Windows (XP and Vista) and Safari and Firefox on the Macintosh. (Available for MyAccountingLab courses in January 2009.) - Simplified browser check
In courses using the new Player, the Installation Wizard is replaced by a simple browser check that makes sure a user's computer has the latest version of Flash. In addition, you can click a new Browser Check link to see a one-page summary of any other components you may need (for example, QuickTime) as well as what's already on your computer. (Available for MyAccountingLab courses in January 2009.) - Educators: Show/hide learning aids
Educators can show or hide individual learning aids for the entire course or for individual tests, quizzes, and homework assignments. Educators can also choose to show learning aids during review only. - Educators: Add comments during review
When reviewing a student's test or homework assignment, an educator can add question-specific comments for the student. - Expandable content area
By clicking the icon in the upper-right corner of the Player window, students and educators can expand the question area to see more of the question, if needed.
In addition, all MyMathLab, MyEconLab, and MyAccountingLab courses now have these features:
- Educators: Enhanced email functionality
Educators have three new email options: (1) email a course Announcement to all active students in the roster; (2) email a student using the easy-to-find, non-assignment-specific link at the top of all student Results pages; and (3) email one or more students based on specific criteria, such as a certain score for a specific assignment, non-completion of one or more assignments within a given time frame, last login date, category average, or overall score. - Educators: Share custom questions easily
Custom questions created by one educator can be easily copied and edited by other educators, as long as they know the question author's login name and the author has allowed others to copy the question. (Not available for MyAccountingLab courses.) - Educators: Streamlined process for importing assignments
Educators can import homework, tests, and quizzes at the same time, instead of as separate procedures. - Educators: Enhanced options for Section Instructors
Educators can allow Section Instructors to access and edit the class roster and can display their names in the Gradebook as inactive students so their work is available for review. - "Smarter" import of previous results
Educators who need to import student results from previous courses will have the choice of importing "All results" or "All results except instructor-submitted zeros," which will exclude any zeros submitted by the instructor via Manage Incomplete in the previous course(s).
