Product News
New as of August 2005!
Installing the MyEconLab Player and Plug-ins:
- Simplifying installation: The improved wizard guides students through set-up and installation step-by-step, detecting whether their computer meets the system requirements for their course and providing helpful graphics to simplify the installation process.
- Auto-detecting plug-ins and players: Students who try to do homework or take tests without first installing the MyEconLab Player or TestGen plug-in receive a helpful message with a direct link to the Installation Wizard. The system also proactively checks for pop-up blockers and alerts students who have them installed.
Doing online homework:
- Doing homework over multiple sessions: Questions and values are preserved once a student starts a homework assignment, unless the student tries again with a similar problem or views the guided solution. Students can log out and return to the same homework exercises later.
- Reviewing homework problems and answers: Now that student homework and answers are saved online, students and their instructors can review assignments and see the saved problems and answers. (Same as for tests.)
Linking directly to assignments from the Calendar: Students can click an assignment name in the MyEconLab Calendar to go directly to that homework assignment.
Tracking class performance:
- Viewing an item-by-item analysis: Instructors can use the gradebook to view class performance for each problem in a homework assignment or test. They can see how many students attempted the problem, how many got it right or wrong, and the average amount of time students spent on it.
- Tracking Quiz scores: Instructors can track quiz and practice test scores in a new Quiz category in the gradebook. They can weight quiz scores separately from test and homework scores.
- Adding offline work scores to the gradebook: Instructors can track scores in the gradebook for work students do offline in a new "Other" category. As they can for tests and homework, instructors can weight scores for individual items in the "Other" category and weight the category relative to the Test, Quiz, Homework, and Tutorial categories.
Setting point values: Instructors can set a point value for each item on a test or homework assignment so that items with a higher level of difficulty can carry greater weight.
Printing tests: Instructors can print tests for their own reference from Test Manager. Answers are printed in place, with the questions. This feature is especially useful for previewing test questions. An instructor can create a test with all the questions from a given section or chapter, then print and review it.
Overriding prerequisites: Instructors can allow certain students to bypass a prerequisite assignment. From the gradebook view for tests, quizzes, or homework by student, instructors can remove or reapply a prerequisite requirement for individual students.
A more detailed list of new features is available in the MyEconLab Control Panel under Instructor help.
