Tag: MyOMLab upgrades

Here are some of the features we have just added to MyOMLab (click here for details):

A Tool to Deepen Student Learning. With the December 2017 release, you now have an additional way to assess their students by creating short-answer essay questions in homework assignments. These short-answer essay questions allow students to demonstrate their critical thinking, reasoning, and decision making skills. They are flagged for manual grading.

Replace Questions in Assignments with Results. After assignments are given, and students have started working, you may sometimes find the need to edit the assignment. Prior, you have had the ability to remove questions after students have submitted results. With the December release, you now can replace questions after results have been submitted. Simply select the question you wish to remove from the assignment and replace from available questions.

LMS Grade Sync Following Student Results. The new release enables you to change LMS grade sync settings for individual assignments after students have submitted results. This enhancement, being moved to the Change Weights & Grade Sync Settings page, will make it easier for you to manage LMS grade sync settings.

Our eText is now available on Mobile Phones. The update offers enhancements to the eText to provide a more mobile-friendly and accessible experience for students. They can access eText and read how they want: anytime, anywhere, even offline. Students can also ● Track exactly what they need to study by creating notes and highlights ● Learn with interactive images, videos, and animations (available with select titles) ● Search for content.

New “Date Started” Column in Student Results.  Instructors now have insight into when each student began working on assignments.

Here are four more upgrades we have made to MyOMLab for Fall 2017. Click for details

OM Simulations Each of these 4, self-contained simulations help students employ critical thinking and analysis to make OM decisions in realistic business contexts. From inventory management for a new tech product to forecasting fuel consumption, students gain valuable exposure to how OM works in the real world, learning key course concepts as they go. Topics Include: Inventory Management, Quality Management, Project Management and Forecasting. (If you are one of our over 500 adopters who is still not using MyOMLab, this one feature alone makes the learning system worthwhile!)

Automatic Grade Sync for Canvas  MyOMLab instructors who have integrated their courses with Canvas have the option to select automatic grade sync, allowing for a seamless way to sync grade data between MyOMLab and their LMS. Automatic grade sync saves time for instructors by transferring grades completely touch-free, eliminating the need to manually transfer grades. Instructors have the option to select all assignments or specific assignments to automatically sync.

Dynamic Study Modules (DSMs) DSMs provide students personalized assistance by continuously assessing their activity and performance in real time. Summer 2017 updates introduce a student dashboard and expand instructor reporting capabilities, giving faculty easier insight into student, and class, mastery of concepts. Five new DSM reports and dashboard views provide instructors with the following: ● A high-level summary of a class’ aggregate performance ● Information on topics where students tended to answer questions incorrectly, but with a high degree of confidence ● An in-depth view into the activity of students who continue to answer questions incorrectly ● Insight on student progress towards completing assigned DSM activities ● Details on student’s specific performance.

MyOMLab Plus Portal Update The overall look and feel of the MyOMLab Plus Course Portal is being refreshed to give instructors a more modern, clean, and user-friendly experience. Improvements have been made to the MyOMLab Plus Portal to allow for easier course organization and management.

Here are five more upgrades we have made to MyOMLab for Fall 2017. Click for details

My Course Portal Updates Instructor access to information about courses in the My Courses Portal has been improved! Updates include a refreshed forgotten username/password screen and visible listing of third-party LMS partners. Instructors will also now have the ability to create categories for improved organization and a shortcut for easier access to member sections of coordinator courses via the new pin/unpin functionality.

Shortcuts to Nested Courses Instructors will now have the ability to create a shortcut for easier access to member sections of coordinator courses on the My Courses Portal home page via the new pin/unpin functionality. This functionality is available in both the tile and list view.

Assignment Manager Updates The Assignment Manager is now easier to navigate. The ability to filter assignments by type and “Set Prerequisites” have been nested within drop down menus, and “Individual Student Settings” has been moved to the menu bar.

Gradebook Updates Updates to the options available when managing roster, managing incompletes, and the ability to show/hide class metrics allow instructors to easily access and navigate to the student performance data that’s important to them.

Improved Accuracy of Time-Spent Values Homework assignment inactivity alerts have been reduced from 60-minutes to 30-minutes. If the user does not respond to the alert within 5 minutes, the assignment will be saved and closed. In addition, a 30-minute alert has been added to media assignments. Inactivity alerts will reduce large time-spent values and increase the ability for instructors to track time-spent more accurately.

More to come!

The MyOMLab Summer 2017 Release increases levels of customization and flexibility for instructors for in-progress assignments and simplifies the teaching and learning experience with ease of use updates. Here are 4 changes--click for details. More to follow over the next few days!

Improved Organization Both students and instructors can personalize how their MyOMLab courses appear on the main portal page by creating categories to group and sort courses/products. Users can create categories to group courses by semester, discipline, or any other organizing structure: (1) Users can create, remove, rename, or move, categories in the My Courses Portal; (2) Categories can be created on all page views: Active, Inactive, and Nested; and (3) After setting up categories, they will be visible with expand and collapse options.

Increased Customization of Assignments MyOMLab instructors will now have even more flexibility to edit homework assignments. Instructors are able to modify in-progress homework assignments and remove questions even after students have already completed and submitted the assignment. You simply select the “Remove Questions” option within the “Actions” drop down menu. Questions removed from an assignment will become unavailable for students to access. All students, regardless if they have submitted results or not, will automatically receive full credit on removed questions. After the question is removed, it will remain visible but appear struck-through within the assignment manager.

Late Submissions and Penalties for Quizzes and Tests Updates to assignment settings allow for instructors to have even greater control and flexibility when creating quizzes and tests. Instructors may configure quizzes and tests to allow for student submissions past the due date and set a late submission penalty. Within quiz and test settings, instructors may allow students to work and submit after the due date. Instructors have the option to deduct points from a student’s score for late submissions. If a student begins a quiz or test after the due date, the student will be notified of the penalty for the late submission prior to beginning the assignment.

Assignment Manager Updates  The Assignment Manager is now easier to navigate. The ability to filter assignments by type and “Set Prerequisites” have been nested within drop down menus, and “Individual Student Settings” has been moved to the menu bar.

LMS INTEGRATION UPDATES: Our Learning Management System (LMS) integration services give you easy access to the MyOMLab from your existing LMS. Access to change weight and other grade sync settings are now more easily accessible for instructors using third-party LMS integrated courses. On the Gradebook Landing Page toolbar, third-party LMS Integration courses will see “Change Weights & Grade Sync Settings” rather than “Change Weights” as in standard MyOMLab courses. This menu option will allow instructors to select grade sync settings for both overall scores and specific assignment scores.

MY COURSES PORTAL UPDATES:
Updates have been made to steer instructors quickly to the correct course with a more streamlined process for copied courses and coordinator/member courses.

• The My Courses Homepage provides a better user experience for instructors. The clickable area to access a course has been expanded, the interface streamlined, and  the course ID is now able to be copied from Title and Course views.

• Accessing and managing Coordinator and Member courses is now even easier. Instructors with Coordinator and Member courses can now directly access their Coordinator Courses on the Portal Homepage by clicking on the course title for the course. To access Member courses associated with a Coordinator course, instructors can click on the Active Member section links.
• The copy a course process has been streamlined to better delineate Instructor Courses from Coordinator Courses. Additional informational text has been added to differentiate course characteristics between Instructor Courses and Member Courses.

We are pleased to announce that, over the winter break the MyOMLab Gradebook has improved navigation among frequently-used Gradebook features, making student performance insights more readily-accessible and providing even more flexibility in grading and assignment settings.

 The Landing Page: This has moved offline items to the main toolbar⁽¹⁾ and now offers a direct link to the Reporting Dashboard, improving the visibility of advanced reporting capabilities.⁽²⁾ The landing page also includes a performance graph⁽¹⁾ that highlights student and class performance. A new dynamic search box⁽²⁾ allows instructors to easily find a specific student’s results. The new landing page enables instructors to quickly see class performance by grade categories. The landing page also includes the most recent student login information⁽³⁾.

Contacting Students with Specific Criteria:  Searching for and emailing students based on specific criteria has been streamlined with “Email Selected” and “Export Selected” buttons now on the search results page. Search results can also be accessed from the Gradebook landing page by clicking the bar in the chart that represents the score range of interest–e.g., 40-50%.

Filtering of Change Weights: The change weights page includes new filtering functionality by assignments and chapters makes selecting individual assignments or chapters easier.

Add/Edit Student ID: The menu item for Add/Edit Student ID was removed from the toolbar header and added as an option in the “More Tools” dropdown menu. Also, the new Edit Roster menu has been updated to present Add/Edit and Upload Student IDs.

UPDATED PORTAL HOMEPAGE: The MyCourses portal is the page you see after logging in and before you enter your MyOMLab course. New updates to the MyCourses portal and course creation process will streamline the interface and provide more personalization for instructors.

1. A streamlined course listing interface offers increased insight into course types, course details, and the ability to re-order courses.
2. The simplified, guided course creation process allows instructors to see new and current editions of each product and allows the creation of roles such as coordinator courses or member sections.
3. An improved catalog search with sorting and filtering helps instructors more easily find correct course materials.
4. Enhanced third-party LMS integration resources and functionality now provide student registration handouts specific to the LMS in use and offer longer access to integrated courses.
5. Improved functionality for managing section instructor access allows section instructor to enroll as a section instructor after logging in to MyLab/Mastering account. In addition instructors now have the ability to hide section instructors and teaching assistants from student course details.
6. Course dates and subscription access lengths have been updated to remove the 90-day restriction between course creation date and course start date and now allows visibility into students’ subscription end dates in the course roster.

STUDENT REVIEW: Default MyOMLab setting for student review will now enable students to see any available answer feedback when they review their performance on tests, quizzes, and homework. The default setting will also allow feedback for all parts of homework questions to be accessible to students at all times so they can see at what point their errors occurred.

More upgrades for MyOMlab for Fall. A new, simplified interface provides students with easy access to important course announcements, assigned activities, and grades. Students using MyOMLab this Fall will see a fresh new Course Home page, which features:

1. Improved visibility of important instructor announcements
2. Clear views into upcoming due dates, as well as completed assignments
3. Easy-to-read visuals of student grades on completed activities, as well as the percentage of completion of activities by assignment type