A Pearson English MyLab. Learn more
A Pearson English MyLab. Learn more
As is the case with any good technology, MyReadingLab is improving every day. The Pearson Media Team is committed to providing high quality features and content to help instructors teach and students learn. The changes listed below are the result of the feedback we've received from our users—instructors and students alike. Thank you for being part of our team!
Your feedback is valuable to us! Please feel free to send your comments and suggestions to EnglishLabs@pearson.com.
eBooks. Electronic, interactive versions of Pearson’s most popular reading textbooks are now integrated with MyReadingLab. Your students’ personal study plans will now link them directly to the appropriate section in their textbook giving them the information they need when they need it most. Our new eBook platform, the most powerful in the industry, allows you to highlight, take and share notes, search, and much more!
Integrated “help tips.” Tips for using MyReadingLab have been integrated throughout making it easy for users to get help with the most commonly used features.
More research support. Pearson's MySearchLab™ has replaced Research Navigator™. Complete with extensive help on the research process and four databases of credible and reliable source material, MySearchLab ™ helps students quickly and efficiently make the most of their research time. Students now have access to a writing space (“Greenbook”), a bibliography builder, various tutorials and videos on writing, research, and avoiding plagiarism, a comprehensive grammar guide and an online handbook.
New Reading Level (Lexile) readings. Thirty new Lexile reading passages with diagnostics and combined-skills quizzes have been added.
Reading Level (Lexile) practice. Once a student reaches the highest Lexile level all of the readings at the highest level are made available to them for practice so they can continue to develop their reading skills.
Narrated Overview and Model content. Audio narrations of the Overview and Model content is now available for all topics and levels.
Additional Practice and Test content. Additional assessment content is available for the Inference topic. The assessment content has been augmented for the Main Idea and Supporting Details topic.
Comprehensive content review. We’ve continued with our annual content review in an ongoing effort to make sure our content is error-free and effective.
Emailing students. Instructors now have the ability to email all students in their roster at one time in addition to emailing students individually.
Upload and attach documents. Instructors can upload and attach documents. There is a new section on the instructor Home to post documents, such as a syllabus.
Number or attempts recorded in gradebook. The gradebook now reports the number of sets attempted by a student on the student detail page. This information is provided in parentheses next to the score.
Number of Lexile readings attempted recorded in gradebook. The Reading Level gradebook now shows the number of readings attempted in addition to the student’s current and initial Lexile Levels.
Streamlined Overview and Model content. MyReadingLab’s instructional content and design has been carefully reviewed and edited for clarity and usefulness.
Narrated Overview and Model content. Students can now click on an audio icon to listen to this instructional content.
New Reading Animations: New interactive Flash animations illustrate key topics, and each includes a short self-quiz at the end.
Longer calendar notes. The character limit on calendar notes has been increased by 400%.
Comprehensive content review. We’ve launched a comprehensive content review/edit in an ongoing effort to make sure our content is error-free and effective.
New Reading Level (Lexile) readings. Thirty new readings and exercise sets have been added to the Reading Level readings.
New audio-visual animations. Fifteen new audio-video animations have been added for select Reading Skills topics.
Status of readings. The status (“Not started,” “In Progress” or “Completed”) of Reading Level readings will be indicated to the student.
Streamlined and easier registration. Steps have been eliminated from the registration pages, the required steps have been updated to be easier-to-use for students, the text has been evaluated for readability and help documents and videos have been added to assist students.
Control over mastery settings. Instructors now have a control in their Settings that allows them to choose whether mastery is based on highest score or most recent score. The Gradebook will default to whichever setting is chosen.
Selective release of content. Instructors have a new control that allows them to selectively release Test content to a student after the student completes a certain number of practice sets.
Easier process for resetting alerts. The application now includes a more direct way to reset exercises when the instructor receives an alert.
Content preview from Study Plan. Instructors now have the ability to preview content via the Study Plan without needing to complete the exercises in the Student View.
Information provided on the number of exercise sets. The Instructor View of the Study Plan now displays the number of exercise sets available for each topic.
Password protected diagnostics. Instructors now have controls that allow them to assign a unique password to each diagnostic. This will allow instructors to control when students can take their diagnostics.
Notification if students moving between courses. When a student moves between two courses for the same product (or from standalone into a course), the instructor will be notified via a pop up
Integrated help. Help documentation for key features is now available to students and instructors on specific pages of the application.
Comprehensive content review. We’ve launched a comprehensive content review/edit in an ongoing effort to make sure our content is error-free and effective.
User Guides and Help. Instructors and students will find comprehensive User Guides and Registration Guides available at www.myreadinglab.com/help.html. Additionally, the Help link within MyReadingLab has been populated with easy-to-navigate and effective content to help users find answers to their questions when they need them. The Help link can be found in the top right of the screen when logged into MyReadingLab.
Access to more Reading Level readings. Students now have access to all readings and levels from the Reading Level side of the application.
Improved instructor alert. Instructors are now notified when a student is down to two readings for a particular level on the Reading Level side. This allows the instructor to work with that student if necessary. Additionally, students are given the ability to move to previous or next level.
Alert and mastery icons/text. The icons and text associated with alerts and mastery have been revised to be more clear and encouraging to the student.
Ability to reset exercises. Instructors now have the ability to reset exercises from the Alerts page. Additionally, the “Clear” button has been changed to “Archive” to be more consistent with the actual functionality.
Improved navigation. The “Return” button at the bottom of the class roster page now directs the user to the page they last came from instead of always returning them to the settings page.
History of all exercises in student gradebook. Students can now view and print a history of all their exercises.
More details included in gradebook export. Course name, course section and instructor's name are now included in the gradebook export.
Access to Pearson's 24/7 Technical Support (http://247pearsoned.custhelp.com) from every screen.
More usable interface for Pearson's 24/7 Technical Support (http://247pearsoned.custhelp.com).
Ability to turn Reading Level on or off. Instructors have the ability to in the course settings to enable or disable their students' access to Reading Level content.
Increased usability through improved display of content. The display of readings and review materials is more narrow and consistent with common usability standards specifically developed for low literacy users.
The font size of readings and review materials can be adjusted up or down. This feature is particularly valuable for the visually impaired.
A Print view for all readings and review materials has been added so users can see an entire piece of text in one view.
“Student View” for instructors. "Student View" and "Teacher View" links have been added to the header of every page allowing instructors to see what their students see.
Easier-to-use instructor Study Plan page. The initial page for the instructor Study Plan has a more accessible interface and better explains all options available to the instructor.
Easier-to-use course builder. The course builder "Choose a Course" page now allows instructors to view all book specific courses or all generic courses.
More flexible diagnostics. Instructors now have the option to choose the topics they want included in the diagnostics and the pre-tests they want to require.
Improved navigation within diagnostics. A "Next" button has been added to the end of each required diagnostic. Using this button returns students to the "Diagnostics Required" Page, where they can select another required diagnostic.
Exercise resetting. Instructors receive an alert when a student exhausts all of the exercises for a particular topic without achieving mastery. The instructor now has the ability to reset the exercises so the student can take them again and continue to work on mastering the topic. Resetting an exercise clears any associated alerts.
Most recent, highest and average scores in gradebook. Users can now choose to view scores on their most recently attempted set, their highest scoring set, or an average of all attempted sets.
New export option in gradebook. Instructors can now export their gradebook reports in CSV format.
Increased number of Write exercise drafts. The number of Write Exercise drafts a user can submit has been increased from 2 to 10.
New question types. A new Flash API allows for a greater variety of activities and exercises. Additionally, new short answer, write, fill-in-the-blank, and multiple choice questions types have been added.
Make a suggestion. A "Make a Suggestion" link has been added to the footer of the instructor interface. The link leads to a form that instructors can use to make comments or suggestions directly to the English Media Team.
Back button. The browser Back button has been enabled throughout the application so users will not lose their place in the application and can use it to navigate to the previous page.
Your feedback is valuable to us! Please feel free to send us your comments and suggestions by emails us at EnglishLabs@pearson.com.