Frequently Asked Questions

With MyMathLab and MyStatLab, your students can:

• Work, practice, and learn mathematics and statistics when and where they want, and at their own pace
• Work through unlimited tutorial exercises correlated to the exercises in their textbook and get immediate feedback on their answers.
• Receive a personalized study plan to diagnose areas they need to practice.
• Access a multimedia textbook with links to learning aids, such as animations and videos.
• Use online tools, such as a discussion board or virtual classroom, to communicate with you and other students to understand the material.
• Feel as if they have their own personal tutor, always available, and dedicated to their success

You can use MyMathLab and MyStatLab to:

• Deliver all or a portion of your course online, whether your course is based in a lab, in a traditional classroom, or taught in a hybrid format.
• Create and assign online homework and tests that are automatically graded and tightly correlated to your textbook.
• Manage your students' results in a powerful online gradebook designed specifically for Mathematics and Statistics.
• Customize your course as much or as little as you like, depending on your syllabus and your students' needs.
• Use a variety of communication tools to create a supportive online community for your students.

MyMathLab and MyStatLab automatically grade online homework assignments and track all student results, so you can spend less time grading and more time teaching. By using MyMathLab to monitor your students' results, you can quickly assess how individual students -- or the class as a whole -- are progressing with specific topics. You can then use this information to adjust your lectures or syllabus, or intervene as soon as you see a student start to struggle.

In addition to supporting Internet Explorer, the Flash-based MathXL Player v2 supports Firefox on Windows (XP and Vista) and Safari and Firefox on the Macintosh as well as the PC.

There are several training resources available to help you get started with MyMathLab or MyStatLab, including videos, online training, and in-person training. Visit Training & Support to see what is available.

Not at all. Most students are very used to working online, and MyMathLab and MyStatLab are very intuitive. In addition, most newer courses include an Orientation assignment that helps students get started and become familiar with how to enter answers in the Player, use the palette, and work with the Grapher.

Students can access the course for as long as you make it available. You specify a Course End Date when you create the course (and can modify it later).

As long as the course is based on the same edition of the same textbook, students can re-enroll in the second semester without a new access code at no additional cost.

Yes. When you create your course, you will select enrollment and course duration dates, which control when students can access your course. After you create your course, you need to give students your course ID (generated by CourseCompass), which they’ll use to enroll in your MyMathLab or MyStatLab course. Once they are in the course, students can use the program for self-study if they wish, but most instructors feel that students get more out of the program when they are required to use it.

Students can log into MyMathLab or MyStatLab from a school computer in a lab or library, print out their online homework assignment, and work through the assignment on paper. They can then enter the answers in MyMathLab or MyStatLab when they are next on campus. Make sure the computers in any labs where your students will be using MyMathLab or MyStatLab have been set up with the appropriate plug-ins and players.

You can easily hide or remove chapters, sections, and other resources you don't plan to use from your MyMathLab or MyStatLab course.

Yes, media learning aids such as videos, animations, or ebook pages are assignable as homework, quizzes, or tests in MyMathLab and MyStatLab. And these media assignments can be selected as prerequisites to other assignments.

Yes, you can make course content invisible to your students by using the Control Panel to change visibility.

In most courses, faculty resources are located in the Instructor Resources area of the Control Panel.

Yes, you can use the MathXL Exercise Builder available in most MyMathLab and MyStatLab courses to create your own custom algorithmic exercises, and you can include these exercises on homework assignments, quizzes, and tests.

Available from the Homework Manager, the "Ask the Publisher" button lets you send comments, questions, or requests about the content of questions directly to Pearson. If you would like to change or remove some parts of an exercise, you can do this by editing our exercises using the MathXL Exercise Builder.