GETTING STARTED GUIDE
Getting Started
Creating Your Course
Navigating Your Course
Today’s
View
Course Content
Assigning Content
Editing Content
Sharing and Copying Content
Gradebook
Gradebook
Views
and Deleting Submissions
Downloading Grades
Viewing
Student View
Student Registration
Training and Support
Notes
www.pearsoned.ca/mybusinesslab
Getting Started
Getting Registered
Go to www.pearsoned.ca/mybusinesslab
• Click on Instructor under the Register
heading OR login as a Returning User with
your login/password provided by your
representative.
• If you have an access code, choose I have
an access code and I am ready to register.
Follow the on-screen instructions to create
your account.
• If you don’t have an access code or a login
and password, contact your Sales
Representative.
Logging In
• Go to
www.pearsoned.ca/mybusinesslab and
enter your login name and password and
click Log In.
Note: Make sure you register as an instructor. If
you need an Instructor Access Code or help getting
registered, please contact your Pearson Sales Rep:
System Requirements
For current System Requirements please go to:
http://www.pearsoned.ca/highered/mybusinesslab/hel
p.html#sysreq
• The My Courses homepage will appear
next. The My Courses homepage allows you
to access your Existing courses or create new
courses.
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Creating Your Course
The first time you log in, you will be taken to
your account homepage, where you can
create and copy your sections.
To create a section
• Click on Browse by Discipline in the
Catalog Search box
• Select Intro Business and click Search
• Select the appropriate MyLab to
accompany your textbook and Select
Course where you will be prompted to give
your course a name
***Note-students will see the name of
your course
To copy or edit a section
• Hover your mouse over the section you
would like to copy and click on the options
arrow to the right
• You will see the option to edit the course or
copy
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Navigating MyBusinessLab
Today’s View
Using the Today’s View page
Today’s View provides information about your
online course. It is also the first page your
students see when they log into their course.
• Your Announcements area is prepopulated
with some tips on navigating MyBusinessLab.
To customize a message to your students,
click on Announcements, then select
Manage.
• MyBusinessLab is a powerful Learning
Management System, as well as an
assessment and resource site for you and
your student. Your To Do list on the left
allows you to manage communication with
your students through MyBusinessLab.
• The Alerts allow you to see who is keeping
up with their work, who is logging into
MyBusinessLab regularly, and who is passing
the assessments. Select Customize in the
top right of the box to change the status of
the alerts.
Need some extra guidance? Select the Course
Assistant in the top right of the page for help within a
particular tab, or select the Help link, which will lead
you to an online, searchable help tool.
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Course Content
Course Content
Course Content is where you assign Pearson’s
pre-created content to your students, create
Quizzes, or upload your own material.
• Course Content-Add Content From
Library allows you to see what is currently
available to your students and what is
available in the Pearson Library for you to
schedule for your students.
• My Course on the right is what is currently
available to your students. You can
show/hide, assign, add and remove content
through the options on the maroon toolbar.
• Instructor Area on the left is the Pearson
Library of available material for you to
schedule for your students. Simply select the
check box beside an item and click ‘Add’ in
the middle of the screen to move the content
over to My Course.
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Course Content
Course Content
MyBusinessLab contains assignable content that is
automatically graded and flows back into your
instructor gradebook, including the Study Plan.
The Study Plan is a powerful tool used to help
students pinpoint the areas in which they are
weak with a pre-test. They can clearly see which
topics they have mastered and which topics
require additional practice. The Study Plan
provides online resources, including eText, audio
chapter summaries, flashcards, and more.
• Course Content-Assign Content allows you
to take the material in My Course and quickly
and easily assign it through the Calendar.
• Find the activity you would like to assign to
your students, then select the box beside it,
select the date you would like it to be due and
then select Add to Selected Day. The activity
will appear on the calendar, as well as to the
bottom right of your screen with the due date
and time.
• Add Content allows you to create folders,
quizzes, Study Plans, Discussion Topics, and to
upload files, pages, and add links.
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Course Content
• To make more detailed changes
to scheduling or to Edit the
question within the activity,
hover your mouse over the name of
the assignment from the My Course
box, or the title of the activity in the
calendar and click the Option arrow,
where you will be presented with
several options, including Preview,
Edit, Properties (more scheduling
options) and Print.
• Select Properties-Availability to set
a specific start and end time or to
add a password to an activity. You
may also extend a due date for
selected students.
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Course Content
• To edit a Study Plan, hover your
mouse over the name of the study plan
and select Edit.
• You will be presented with the Pre-Test,
Post-Test and remediation material. Select
the grey Options arrow beside the test
you would like to modify and select Edit.
• Click the Questions tab to view the
current questions in the test. To preview
questions, choose Show Question
Preview on the right. To delete, click the
box beside the question and select Delete
from the top.
• To add new questions, select Add
Questions from the top left. You can
choose to add questions from our bank, or
create your own custom questions.
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Course Content
• To copy or share content between
Sections, select Course Content-Add
Content from Library and then select
‘Change Content Source’ located in the
middle of the screen.
• Now you should see a list of all of the
courses in your account. Click the section
where you have created the activity that
you would like to copy over. The Content
Library on the left of your screen should
now reflect the Course Content of the
section from which you would like to copy.
• Choose your activity from the left side
(which is now the content from your other
section) and ‘Add’ to the right side.
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Gradebook
The Gradebook displays student results on
assignments and Study Plan work.
View results for the entire class or for
individual students.
• The activities and grades are
found in Gradebook-Grades. The
activities in MyBusinessLab are filed
within the same folders in which you
see them displayed in My Course.
Select your folder from the left to see
the grades for activities within than
folder
• Custom View allows you to save
activities into one view to quickly and
easily export and view student
performance on assigned activities.
Select the Options arrow at the top of
the activity and select Save to
Custom View.
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Gradebook
Viewing and Deleting Student
Submissions is done through the
Gradebook.
• Find the activity, select the
Options arrow, and View All
Submissions.
• Select the + sign beside a
particular student’s name to
see the detailed summary
of the activity. Select Delete
Submission in the top right
to delete that instance of the
submission. Select Delete All
Submissions to delete all
attempts at the particular
activity.
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Gradebook
Downloading grades and running
reports is simple from the Gradebook
tab.
• Select Gradebook-Grades (or
Custom View) to run a simple
report that exports into .csv
format for manipulation in Excel
and upload into your Learning
Management System.
• Gradebook-Reports will allow
you to run results by Student
Activity and Study Plan. Question
Analysis will provide an overview
of which questions were
answered correctly and
incorrectly, allowing you to
quickly see which concepts the
class as a whole are struggling
with.
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Student View
Student View allows you to
view and try activities exactly
as a student would see them.
Your results go back to the
Gradebook located in the Roster
as ‘Student_Student’.
• Click on Student View in the
top right corner of your screen.
You will be presented with the
view that your students will see.
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Student Registration
Students can register at
www.pearsoned.ca/mybusinesslab
Students require:
1. An access code, found packaged with
their text.
2. A valid email address.
3. Your Course ID, found on your course
homepage when you log in (if you want
student grades to populate in your
gradebook).
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MyBusinessLab Training and
Support
For Support information, please
visit www.pearsoned.ca/mybusinesslab.
Students having a problem?
Please send them to our 24/7
support via
www.pearsoned.ca/mybusinesslab.
Students will receive an incident number when
they contact support. Best Practice: The
student’s first contact should be to Tech Support
if they need help accessing their mylab.
Encourage students to go to support first and, if
they need more support, to contact you with an
incident number. This incident number can be
shared with your Pearson Representative for
follow up to ensure the issue is resolved.
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Notes
www.pearsoned.ca/mybusinesslab
Login:
___________________
Password: ___________________
Course ID: ___________________
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