Tag: MyLab Operations Management

MyLab Operations Management Features in the New 15th edition

MyLab Operations Management combines content from our new edition with personalized engagement to help students see real results. With a variety of valuable pre-built learning experiences, instructors can customize their courses with ease.  Here are some Key Features:

OM Sims: These immersive, real-world simulations allow students to apply OM concepts across 5 topic areas: Forecasting (Ch 4), Inventory Management (Ch 12), Quality Management (Ch 6), Supply Chain Management (Ch 11), and Project Management (Ch 3).

Case Studies: More than 100 book-specific brief (1–2 page) text and video case studies require students to apply critical thinking to course concepts. They can be auto- graded or manually graded.

Dynamic Study Modules: These help students stay on track and achieve a higher level of subject-matter mastery. Each module poses a series of questions about a course topic that adapts to each student’s performance and offers personalized, targeted feedback.

Pre-built Courses and Assignments: These ease instructor workloads, save time, and increase efficiency. Each course has a foundation of interactive course-specific content  to tailor and adapt as instructors see fit.

Gap Finder/Filler: These help students identify areas where they may have pre-requisite knowledge or skills gaps and then fill them with additional, personalized practice.

Excel Sims: These give students some scaffolded practice in a safe, simulated Excel environment.

Assignable Media: These 50+ brief videos have embedded assessment to hold students accountable for watching the video.

Classroom Response Tool: This helps to increase student engagement and enhance learning in the classroom. This interactive student response tool allows instructors to deploy book-specific questions and surveys and assess student comprehension.

Pearson+ eTextbook: Pearson+ powers our eTextbook, which can be
accessed directly in your MyLab course. Instructors and students can
dive right into the course eTextbook — take notes, make highlights, and review flashcards — and even listen to the book on the go with the Pearson+
mobile app.

New Interactive Reading Assignments: These are designed to increase engagement by providing a space where students can read, watch, and practice in one seamless intuitive experience. Assignments include eTextbook sections along with multimedia and low- stakes assessment that is graded to incentivize students to read and come to class prepared.

New AI-powered study tool: Our AI-guided practice draws on book content to turn questions during reading and homework mistakes into teachable moments.

New Excel Grader Projects: These live-in-Excel projects are built to match projects in the textbook, are auto-graded, provide immediate feedback to students.

MyOMLab: New Features for Fall, 2024

Here are some new features for MyLab OM that go live this month or in Fall:

    • New Assignment Overview – All standard homework assignments have a new overview page. Students can see their score, the items in the assignment, and the learning outcomes. They can easily navigate through questions and embedded media.
    • AI Instructor Tools v2 (Beta) – An enhanced artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot is available to help find items to add to assignments.  This tool is being released to MyLab OM in fall.
    • Assignment Manager View – The Assignment Manager Redesign (AMR) shows by default when users open the assignment manager. Allows much better filtering and easy assignment management.  Users have the choice to change to the classic view.
    • Secure Testing – LockDown Browser works with Chromebooks (ChromeOS extension delivered by Respondus).
    • LockDown Browser (for secure online testing) – You can download and use the latest LockDown browser software versions for: Windows version 2.1.2.08, dated July 16, 2024. Coming late this month: MasOS version 2.1.2.07.
    • LMS Support – Gradesync optimization and gradebook data enrichment provides more data for 3PL customers, enabling them to view more data in their learning management system gradebook.
    • Data Privacy – Cookie preferences and anonymized Personal Identifiable Information (PII) are enabled.
    • In-product Help – In-product messaging is updated to include instructor onboarding guidance and improved online help.
  • AI-powered Study Tools in the eText (live now, see bullets below for what the AI does—you can play with this in your 14e eText if you want) and the MyLab Homework questions (coming to OM this fall)
    • Summarize
    • Practice
    • Explain
  • New “Classroom to Career” tools
    • Forage Job Sims (debuted earlier this year).  There are currently 5 in MyLab OM:
      • CBRE Project Management
      • Datacom Automation
      • HSBC Digital Business Services
      • PwC Consulting Digital Assurance and Transparency
      • PwC Management Consulting
    • Pearson Job Match

MyLab for OM: Updates for the Fall Semester

The fall semester is almost upon us, and Jay, Chuck, and I wanted to share some of the important new MyLab for OM features:

 

  • 12 new author-created Videos accompany the Creating Your Own Excel Spreadsheets examples in the student edition. These videos illustrate how students can build their own spreadsheets to solve operation management problems.
  • 90+ Problems have been converted from static to algorithmic. Almost all available bookmatch and additional problems in the MyLab are now algorithmic.
  • New Case Study Library assignments are available for select chapters, and include a variety of assessments and teaching notes. These case study library assignments supplement the book-match case assignments already in the MyLab, providing additional opportunities for student to apply their critical-thinking skills to current, real-world business scenarios.
  • 5 OM Simulations and 2 new Mini-Sims give students hands-on experience with real-world business challenges. They also help them develop decision-making skills and apply course concepts.
  • OM in the News assignments have all been updated to reflect current events and trends connected to operations management.
  • More than 180 Concept Questions have been revised and updated in this edition to assess students’ understanding of the material.
  • In addition, for the first time, about 200 multiple-choice questions in the Test Bank are now available as algorithmic questions, with different numerical values and answers for each student.

  • Many of the recent updates to MyLab have been back-end changes that focus on improving stability, accessibility functions, and enabling a better LMS-integration experience. One notable enhancement is in the assignment manager. The user experience has been updated to look more modern, and is easier to navigate and manage assignments throughout the semester with improved functions like updating due dates, unassigning activities, and filtering to specific chapters. Here is a screen shot of what the UI looks like:

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MyLab Operations Management: Some Important Features–Part 2

Today, we would like to tell you about a few more features of MyLab Operations Management that you may not be aware of: (1) the Test Bank; (2) Learning Aids; (3) Learning Catalytics; and (4) the Instructor’s Resource Page.

Test Bank: With about 4,000 questions, ranging from multiple choice to short essays to mathematical problems, out Test Bank allows you to mix and match types of questions, including questions about the video series, OM in the News, etc. Questions can be scrambled so students see differing versions–or you can add your own favorites to the system.

Learning Aids: When students are trying to answer a homework problem and they run into a roadblock, they can turn to “Question Help” once you have activated that MyLab feature. Four help options will be available: (1) E-text will take them to the proper page in the book to review: (2) Videos of similar problems being solved by the authors may be selected; (3) the “Ask my Instructor” button emails you (or your TA)  a screen capture of the problem, with the data the student has entered, along with the student’s comment; and (4) “Help me solve this” provides a similar problem, with step-by-step help as the student walks through the problem.

Learning Catalytics: Do you remember the old system called “clickers” allowing students to buy a clicker for use in answering questions you pose in class? MyLab includes this feature free, where students can use their cell phones or laptops to respond. This is a popular tool that increases active learning. We provide 100’s of pre-written multiple choice questions, or you can create your own.  (You find this feature under “Course Home”‘ the scroll down to “enrich your Course”).

Instructor’s Resource Page: When you click on “Instructor Resources”,  select “What else do you need”, for our invaluable Instructor’s Resource Manual, all the Powerpoints, the Solutions Manual, Test Item files, and 3 Excel-based games for class use.

MyLab Operations Management: Features You Will Want to Explore in Class–Part 1

Jay, Chuck, and I were just talking about how powerful our MyLab learning system has become over the past five years, when we figured out that even we had trouble listing ALL of the newer features! With over half of our OM text’s 500+ adopters now using the platform, its time to layout the options. So here is Part 1 (of 2):

Simulations: We have 5 gaming simulations: supply chain management (Ch.11); inventory management (Ch. 12); quality control (Ch. 6); forecasting (Ch. 4), and project management (shown on left, Ch.3).  They have turned out to be one of the most popular and powerful tools and are fully assignable through MyLab Operations Management. Students can complete them as homework or work on them as an in-class activity, individually or as part of a team. The simulations are real-world and easy to use.

OM in the News Feature: Each chapter has a new OM in the News reading (just like the ones provided in our blog). These short readings have links to the full article (in Businessweek, NYT, WSJ, etc.), along with 4 multiple choice questions you can assign to assure students have read the piece.

Company videos: Perhaps the most widely used feature is the series of forty-one 6-12 minute videos of companies we feature in the text. We created each of the videos to match exactly with chapter topics and feature companies that we hope students can relate to (Hard Rock, an NBA team, Frito-Lay, Alaska Airlines, and so on). You can show the videos in class or assign them, as each has 4 multiple choice questions in MyLab Operations Management.

Solved Problem Videos: Each of the 89 Solved Problems at chapter end has a 3-20 minute video we created to walk your students through the solution, step-by-step. We call them Virtual Office Hours.

Concept questions: To help ensure that students are reading the text material, we have created 4 multiple choice concept questions for each major heading in the book. You can assign a few for the topics you cover and use them to reinforce learning or as a pretest for the chapter.