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Customizing a Course

Here are just a few of the ways you can customize your MyEconLab course to fit your individual needs or the needs of your department:

• Adding, modifying, and removing course materials: With the click of a button, you can move, modify, or remove book-specific content provided by Pearson Education Canada. You can also easily integrate your own course materials, such as syllabi, announcements, lecture notes, PowerPoint© slides, digital images, and links to other websites.
• Creating online homework and tests: You can use MyEconLab's Homework and Test Managers to create online assignments for your students. MyEconLab provides a database of free-response online exercises–correlated to the section exercises in your textbook–that you can choose from to create homework and tests for specific chapters or sections.
• Setting test options: MyEconLab's Test Manager offers a wide range of options for creating and assigning online tests. Instructors can:
• determine how long a test will be available to students
• decide how many times students can take a test
• set a time limit for a test
• create a password for a proctored test
• select options that determine whether students can re-take an incomplete test
• Managing grades: MyEconLab automatically tracks and stores all student results. The MyEconLab Gradebook gives you tremendous flexibility in managing your students' scores on homework, tests, and tutorials. Options include:
• weighting individual assignments
• setting relative weights for homework, tests, and tutorials in calculating overall scores
• selecting which test attempts to include in calculating average scores
• omitting or deleting results for individual assignments
• Copying your course: If you have spent time customizing your MyEconLab course and wish to use the same course next semester, you can copy your existing course. The new copy preserves all your customizations while giving you a clean gradebook for the new semester.
• Sharing your course with other instructors: You can allow other instructors to copy your MyEconLab course, which is ideal for instructors within a department teaching multiple sections of the same course. You can also let other instructors help you manage your MyEconLab course by assigning them a teaching assistant role. This feature enables them to access the MyEconLab Gradebook, Homework Manager, Test Manager, and Results Manager for your course.