Publisher's Synopsis
MyHistoryLab
Basic Description
MyHistoryLab is a learning and assessment tool that allows instructors to assess student performance and adapt course content without investing a lot of additional time or resources. Students can test themselves on key content, track their progress, and utilize individually tailored study plan activities, including an e-book, simulations, podcasts, newsfeeds, and application exercises.
Features
E-Book
Students can save time and improve results by having access to their book online. Just like the printed text, they can highlight particular passages and take important notes in the margins.
Gradebook
Students can monitor their progress and instructors can monitor the progress of their entire class. Automated grading of quizzes and assignments helps both instructors and students save time and monitor their results throughout the course.
History Bookshelf
Read, download, or print 100of the most commonly assigned history works like Thomas Paine's Common Sense, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, or Machiavelli's The Prince.
Research Tools
Complete with extensive help on the research process and credible databases of reliable source material, such as the EBSCO Academic Journal, helps students quickly and efficiently make the most of their research time.
Primary Sources
MyHistoryLab contains many Primary Source documents and images for students to analyze and interpret. These sources have introductions and many have accompanying review questions. Those documents with the Grade Tracker logo next to the title will report to Grade Tracker, allowing the student and instructor to assess proficiency.
Interactive Maps
With MyHistoryLab, interactive maps help students understand the geography. Many have accompanying review questions to test students' understanding of the map.
Study Plan
A customized study plan helps students save time and improve results by focusing on what they don't know to help them understand the material in the course.
Pre-Test and Post-Test
Two quizzes per chapter allow students to review their knowledge of the material and concepts. Chapter feedback provides links that take students directly to the relevant section of the E-Book . These Pre- and Post-Test results generate a customized study plan for the student.
Chapter Exam
Each chapter has a chapter exam, the results of which report to an online Gradebook.
History Toolkit
The History Toolkit gives students an edge in taking their history course with its guided tutorials that explain the difference between primary and secondary sources and help students learn to analyze several types of sources. Also included are a history course survival guide called Everything You Need to Know About Your History Course, Tutorial: How to Analyze Primary Sources, and links to select websites.
Flashcards
With MyHistoryLab, students save time by using ready-made flashcards to help them study for their exams.
Multimedia Library
One click away, students and instructors can save time and see all of the different resources available to them in one place. Resources include documents, images, maps, audio, videos, and more, many of which have review questions that report to Gradetracker.
Interview/Tabbing Guide
1.) How do your students get a grade?
They Say: Quizzes, Mid-Term, Final Exam
You Show:
Automatic Grading - The grading of homework and assignments is automated in MyHistoryLab via the Gradebook tool, allowing students and instructors to monitor progress quickly, easily, and more frequently throughout the course. Automated grading of quizzes and assignments helps both instructors and students save time and monitor their results throughout the course.
They Say: Writing assignments or research paper
You Show:
Writing about History - Find resources to help improve[u1] your history writing in one easy-to-use place. Select from the links below for information about typical classroom assignments and research. You can also get writing support, style guidelines, a tutorial for how to avoid plagiarism, and more.
Research Tools - Research Navigator - Complete with extensive help on the research process and credible databases of reliable source material, such as the EBSCO Academic Journal, helps students quickly and efficiently make the most of their research time.
2.) Are your students reading the book?
They say: It is on my syllabus, don't really know, don't think so, etc.
You Show:
eBook - Students can save time and improve results by having access to their book online. Just like the printed text, they can highlight particular passages and take important notes in the margins.
Pre & Post Tests with Individualized Study Plans - After completing a Pre or Post Test students are provided individualized study plan to helps students save time and improve results by focusing on what they don't know to help them understand the material in the course.
Chapter Exams - Every chapter concludes with a chapter exam. These exams can be used as homework, as quizzes, or as the end of chapter exams. They are graded automatically, providing immediate results.
Flashcards - With MyHistoryLab, students save time by using ready-made flashcards to help them study for their exams.
3.) Do you want your students to use primary and secondary sources or do you ever assign a novel?
They say: Yes, they have a hard time with them, I have to collect them, etc.
You Show:
History Bookshelf - Read, download, or print 100 of the most commonly assigned history works like Thomas Paine's Common Sense, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, or Machiavelli's The Prince.
Primary Sources - MyHistoryLab contains many Primary Source documents and images for students to analyze and interpret. These sources have introductions and many have accompanying review questions. Those documents with the Grade Tracker logo next to the title will report to students' answer directly to the Grade Tracker, allowing the student and instructor to assess proficiency.
Tech Tips
Website: www.myhistorylab.com
Tour: http://www.myhistorylab.com/tour.html
Instructor Access: Set up adopter accounts using your personal, re-usable code OR send a digital access code to instructors with emails in Socrates
Demo Information:
1. Go to www.myhistorylab.com
2. Click Log In
3. Enter our shared, demo account for pearsonsoftside (password: 4learning (updated 7/09) changes each semester)
Rep Copy
I. Student Quotes:
II. GENERAL ORDER / ACCESS INFO:
III. STUDENT ACCESS VALUEPACK CARDS
IV. INSTRUCTOR ACCESS:
I. Student Quotes:
"MyHistoryLab helped me visualize history as if I had been there.
The most helpful part of the software was the practice tutorials.
They challenged my knowledge so that I was better prepared for the in-class exams!"
- Student, Texas Tech University
"The primary documents within MyHistoryLab were very helpful."
- Student, Angelo State University
"MyHistoryLab is a great support vehicle for a great textbook.
Used in conjunction with the text, it supports a
comprehensive teaching of the material and is time-saving."
- Instructor, Temple College
II. GENERAL ORDER / ACCESS INFO:
- Platforms: MyHistoryLab (non-course management), MyHistoryLab CourseCompass, and MHL Pegasus. Resources for Blackboard, WebCT and other learning management systems now go through Custom.
- Generic Versions (without E-books): There are no generic versions of MyHistoryLab.
- Book-Specific Versions (with E-books): The MHLwebsites all contain E-books.
Go to the "Books Available"portal page to see available titles, ISBNS, and availability of STANDALONE access cards (select titles only)!
III. STUDENT ACCESS VALUEPACK CARDS (Standalones are book-specific)
MyHistoryLab
VP 0-136-06022-6 (US)
VP 0-136-03471-3 (World / Western)
MyHistoryLab Course Compass
VP CC 0-136-03984-7 (US)
VP CC 0-136-03376-8 (World / Western)
MyHistoryLab Pegasus
VP Pegasus 0-131-74200-0 (all titles)
IV. INSTRUCTOR ACCESS:
Use your personal, re-usable "registerNOW" code to create instructor accounts OR send a digital instructor code online!
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