News & Events

What's Coming for January 2012?

Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 17:19 | By: mymathtest | Category: features

Rolled-up Item Analysis for Exports
Item Analysis Exports are now available for program groups from both the Quick Exports and Advanced Exports pages. If a coordinator-instructor exports Item Analysis for a program group, he/she can get a summary of student performance across all program sections in the program group, and also student scoring details for each student. Question metrics (difficulty, median time, correct on first try) are also included in Advanced Exports.

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New Features are Live

Thursday, July 28, 2011 - 21:26 | By: mymathtest | Category: new_features

Looking for more information on how to use the new features that were released in MyMathTest over the summer? Check out our tutorial! 

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PERT + Pearson

Tuesday, June 14, 2011 - 22:45 | By: mymathtest | Category: mymathtest

Does your state have standards in place for what students should know at the conclusion of a particular course or sequence of courses? We at Pearson have been working to align a number of our courses and textbooks with the outcomes determined by states for higher education. For example, Florida has developed the Postsecondary Education Readiness Test (PERT) as the primary placement assessment used by The Florida College System. We now have four different MyMathLab courses that include the PERT Standards, for easy instructor assessment of student understanding of the objectives.

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Join Us at ICTCM

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 13:06 | By: mymathtest | Category: ICTCM

We are already looking forward to the 2012 ICTCM--and we want to see you there. The 2012 International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, co-hosted by the University of Central Florida and Valencia Community College, will be March 22-25 in Orlando, Florida at the Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort. We are accepting speaker proposals now and would love to hear from you!

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New Features for Summer 2011

Friday, May 20, 2011 - 09:43 | By: mymathtest | Category: mymathtest

Check out what's planned for our release this summer.

"Show Work” Questions
While creating assignments, instructors can designate questions as requiring students to show work. For those questions, students show their solution steps in a window using math notation templates; they can also add graphs. Instructors decide how much the show work portion of the question is worth and whether they want to grade it manually or have the program automatically award a partial score.

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MyMathTest is a CODiE Finalist

Tuesday, May 17, 2011 - 09:00 | By: mymathtest | Category: CODiE

MyMathTest is a finalist in the prestigious 2011 Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Awards. Pearson’s online testing tool that assesses students’ strengths and knowledge gaps and provides a personalized learning path in response is honored in the Best Mathematics Instructional Solution category.

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New MyMathTest Features for January 2011

Tuesday, January 4, 2011 - 12:04 | By: mymathtest | Category: Product Updates

The MyMathTest New Feature Release was completed on Monday, December 27, 5:00 AM to 11:59 PM EST. (Monday, 27 December, 10:00 to Tuesday, 28 December, 04:59 GMT).

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Compatibility with Microsoft Internet Explorer® 8

Monday, November 29, 2010 - 15:48 | By: mymathtest | Category: Product Updates

On March 19, 2009, Microsoft made Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8) part of its automatic update system. MyMathLab will continue to work normally with IE 8. While Pearson works to make MyMathLab fully compatible, MyMathLab will detect IE 8 and automatically use the Compatibility View option to emulate IE 7.

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Louisiana State University Math Lab Honored for Groundbreaking Work to Increase Student Achievement in Math

Monday, November 29, 2010 - 15:47 | By: mymathtest | Category: Louisiana State University

Baton Rouge, LA May 5, 2009 -- Louisiana State University's groundbreaking work to increase student achievement in introductory math classes using innovative technology has been honored with an award from Pearson, the world's leading education publishing and technology company.

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Compatibility with Microsoft Internet Explorer® 7

Monday, November 29, 2010 - 15:47 | By: mymathtest | Category: Product Updates

On November 2, 2006, Microsoft made Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7) part of its update system. When you upgrade to IE 7, you will also need to install the latest version of the MathXL Player.

To install the latest Player, log in to your course and use the Installation Wizard to guide you through the installation.

For more information, please contact Product Support.

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