Part II Step 5: Get into MyMathLab (though Canvas) and Do the Following within Your MyMathLab (MML) Materials

You are now ready for Part II of your orientation.

It is time to get into the online class materials.

• If you would like a video overview before completing the steps below, here is a link that shows, generally, how to do steps 1-3 below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sPttXvkkdU. The video is very general and not tailored to our specific class. However, watching the video before you try to complete steps 1-3 below may be useful.
• If you would like a written overview before completing the steps below, here is a link that describes, generally, how to do steps 1-3 below:
  http://help.pearsoncmg.com/mylabmastering/canvas/student/en/index.html use the menu on the left to navigate through the items. (The item 'Get Started' expands to give you compatible operating systems and browsers.) The instructions are very general and not tailored to our specific class. However, reading the items before you try to complete steps 1-3 below may be useful.
  

Please follow the directions below to enroll in the MyMathLab materials though Canvas now.

You must be actually enrolled in the class in order to have access to the class' Canvas page. The updates to access Canvas are done periodically between 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM, Mondays - Saturdays. Thus, if you add and pay for a class after 7:00 PM, please wait for the next morning to access Canvas. Note: no updates are done on Sundays.

1. Go to MiraCosta's Canvas page: http://miracosta.edu/instruction/distanceeducation/index.html

• Click on the green rectangle labeled "Log in to Canvas".
• Use your SURF username and password to log in.
  If you do not remember your SURF/Canvas username or password, you will need to contact the MiraCosta Student Help Desk : http://www.miracosta.edu/studentservices/studenthelp/index.html . I do not have your username and password. The Help Desk web page gives instructions on how to get or reset your password, how to know what your SURF ID is, etc. So, spending some time readying that web page may solve your inability to log in to Canvas. The Help Desk web page also gives the contact information for the live support (either by phone or via email) as well as the hours for the live support.
  
  
• Find and click on the link in Canvas for this class. Depending on which online class of mine you are taking, the link will look be either "Online Math 115 Fall 2017 (FA17 Math 115 2560)" or "Online Math 126 Fall 2017 (FA17 Math 126 2397)".
  
  
• Click around to see what is available in the Canvas Class Materials. Notice that some of the graded items in the class are located here in Canvas. Other graded items are located in MyMathLab.
  
  NOTE : If there is no Canvas link for this class yet, please try again another day. The Canvas link WILL be active on or before the first day of class. Ideally, I try to have everything ready a week or two before the first day of class so students can get in and get comfortable. So, please check a week or two before the semester begins so you do not have to learn how to navigate the class materials while you are trying to learn the content.
  
  

2. Be ready to pay for the access to MyMathLab

   You will need ONE of the following to register in MyMathLab:

• An Access Code - If you purchase your MML access from the MiraCosta College Bookstore, your access code will come in a cardboard envelope. Please do not purchase a pre-owned/used access code. Once an access code has been redeemed, it can NOT be used again.
• A Credit Card
• A Pay Pal Account
• (If you are retaking this class and used MyMathLab with this exact eBook within the last calendar year, you may not have to pay for access to MML again. If you are in this situation, the instructions below should allow you to get into MML .)

3. Pay for access the MyMathLab online class materials

   You will need ONE of the following to register in MyMathLab:

• While signed in to Canvas and in the Canvas class, click on the Canvas Class Menu link titled, 'MyLab and Mastering'.
• Click on the link titled "MyMathLab with Pearson eText Course Home". (Please do NOT use the other link titled 'MyMathLab all Assignments'. If you use that link, you will only have access to a tiny fraction of the class' content, information, and resources.) Alternately, you can click on the yellow box titled "Open MyLab & Mastering"
• At any time if you click on something and it seems like nothing happened, it could be becuase your computer blocked an important pop-up. So, please, watch your pop-up blocker.
  
• Read and accept the End-User License Agreement and Privacy Policy.
• If you have linked your Canvas and Pearson accounts before, skip down to the next bullet item.
• To link your Canvas and Pearson account do one of the following:
  • If you already have a Pearson Account, just enter your username and password. (To look up your Pearson account if you forgot your username/password, select 'Forgot your username or password?')
  • If you do not have a Pearson account, select 'Create' and follow the prompts to create an account.
    
    
• To get access to the MyMathLab materials, do ONE of the following:
  • Select 'Access Code', enter your access code, and select 'Finish'.
  • Under 'Use a Credit Card or PayPal', select the appropriate choice(s) and enter your payment information.
  • If you are not able to pay today, but you will be able to pay (using an access code or credit card /PayPal before the end of the 14-day temporary access) Click on the link at the bottom titled 'Get temporary access for 14 days without payment'.
    Please note: you must be able to pay for the materials on or before the 14-day temporary access expires. If your temporary access expires and you are not able to work in the class, you will be dropped for non-attendance.
    You will receive email notification when your temporary access is about to expire and again when it has expired. Once the temporary access expires, please just log in to Canvas as usual. When you click on the link to the MyMathLab materials, you will be prompted to use an access code or pay with a credit card / PayPal.
    
    
• When the registration is complete, the 'You're Done' page appears and you get a confirmation email. Please do NOT delete this email.
• Click on the blue rectangle labeled 'Go to Your Course'.
• The MyMathLab materials should open in a new tab. You are now ready to complete the rest of the orientation.

When you finished step 3 above and clicked on 'Go to Your Course', the MyMathLab materials should open in a new window.

(Each time you log into Canvas and click on the link "MyLab and Mastering" then "MyMathLab with Pearson eText Course Home", the MyMathLab online class materials will open in a new window).

Please do the following in MML to complete your orientation:

Begin by expanding the MyMathLab menu link titled *Class Main*. This is done by clicking on the gray arrow next to the words, *Class Main*.

You need to be intimately familiar with where everything in the class is located. Where is the Practice Homework (also called the 'Study Plan')? The graded Homework? Where are the Practice Quizzes? The graded Quizzes? Where are the paper Test Reviews? Where are the required Discussion Boards? The optional Discussion Boards? Where is the eBook, the Lecture Videos, the eBook Solution Manual, the class announcements, the Test Solutions?, etc.?

Are Homework assignments due at the end of each week? Or, does each Homework assignment have a different due date? Where are the due dates for homework located? (Hint: Unlike Test and Quiz deadlines, Homework assignment deadlines are not in the syllabus.)

It may take an hour or two just to poke around and find out where everything is. Now is the time to locate everything. Once we're submitting homework on an almost daily basis, you probably won't have the time to leisurely look around.

Once you have poked around enough and are familiar with where everything is in MyMathLab as well as in Canvas (i.e. you've at least located the link titled 'Orientation Due by___' , found at least one link for each of the following : Homework, Quiz, Discussion Board, eBook, Practice (Study Plan) Homework, paper Test Review, and Lecture Videos) then open up the folder/link labeled 'Orientation Due by ____'.

5. Complete work in MyMathLab

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