Part II Step 5: Do the Following within Your MyMathLab Materials

You are now ready for Part II of your orientation.

To complete this step, you will need to be logged in to your MyMathLab materials. You log in by following the directions below.

  • Go to the Course Compass web site. It should open in a new window so you can read the directions here while you perform the steps in the new window.
  • Bookmark that page on your computer (or make a desktop shortcut)
  • Under 'Students', click on the 'Log In' button
  • Enter your Login Name and Password you chose then hit the 'Enter' key on your keyboard or click on the 'Log In' button
  • Notice the Publisher's Announcements on the right/center of the page. When MML/CC is going to be unavailable (and it's a planned outage), they will post an announcement here. Use those announcements to plan your times when you will work in the class materials.
  • Now, click on the class link to access the class materials. The class link will look something like: "Math 820 Spring 2011 - Apalatea"
    or "Online Math 115 #1234 Spring 2011 "
  • The class materials also contain class announcements posted by me. Read these (and the publisher's announcements) every day.

Once you have entered the class materials, please do the following:

  1. Click on each link in the class menu (on the left)

You need to be intimately familiar with where everything in the class is located (Where are your Homework, Quizzes, Discussion Board, eBook, Practice (Tracked Tutorial) Exercises, Lecture Videos, eBook Solution Manuals, etc.?).

It may take an hour or more just to poke around and find out where everything is.

Once you have poked around enough and are familiar with where everything is (i.e. you've at least located the Second Half of your Orientation, Homework, Quizzes, Discussion Boards, eBook for each section/objective, Practice (Tracked Tutorial) Exercises, and Lecture Videos go to the second half of the orientation.


  1. Do ALL of the activities listed in the second half of the Orientation

After you satisfactorily complete all of the activities in the second half of the orientation, you are done with your online orientation and are ready to begin working on class material. Your last orientation item listed in the second half of the orientation is completing a Syllabus Quiz. Once you do that with a minimum score of 80%, your first homework will open and you can begin working in the class. Please feel free to begin working right away. You do not have to wait until the semester begins to complete homework assignments and other assessments which don't require you to be on-campus. You may begin taking your on-site assessments the first day of the semester (see Syllabus).

There is no limit to how quickly you can move through this class (see Syllabus). Just don't go slower than the deadlines!

Welcome to the class. I look forward to a wonderful semester with you!

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