Features Released July 2007

The updated MyAccountingLab™ Player was released successfully 7/9 at 4am. Highlights of the release included:

• New MyAccountingLab Player – This new XL-powered player was released with the following important feature updates:
  
• Guided Solutions ("Help Me Solve This") that open in a separate window and allow students to keep their current homework answers when reviewing.
   
• On-screen display of the exact question number that your student is working.
   
• Updates to the existing player that include increased flexibility in answering, support for International currency, and better tabbing through questions and keyboard use of the calculator.
   
• Question Pooling – When creating tests or quizzes, instructors can create a "pool" of exercises from which one question is drawn. For example, you could select 10 exercises to use for each of 10 questions on a test. Each student answering question 1 will see one of the five pooled exercises, randomly chosen. Because the values in most questions are also regenerated each time an exercise is viewed, question pools significantly reduce the likelihood that two students will see the same question and values.
   
• Upload Student IDs to Gradebook – Instructors can upload student IDs or another identifier unique to their institutions to their gradebook via the Edit Roster page. Once uploaded, the student IDs will appear in the gradebook as well as in exports of student results, thereby ensuring an exact match with the institution's learning management system.
   
• Item Analysis for Individual Students –Instructors can see at a glance how a student performed on an individual assignment by clicking that assignment's score in the gradebook or choosing Item Analysis from the Action drop-down menu on a student's results page. Student-level item analysis now includes the number of attempts a student made on each question (for homework) as well as the question order (for tests or quizzes). This data can be easily exported.
   
• Change Scores –From the gradebook, instructors can modify individual or whole class student scores based on assignment due dates. They can either add or subtract points or increase or decrease the score by a percentage.
   
• Drop Lowest Scores – Instructors can choose to drop up to the five lowest scores in each assignment category (homework, tests, quizzes, other). These dropped scores appear grayed out with the label "low score" in the instructor's gradebook and the student's results page.
   
• Advanced Gradebook Exports – Instructors have many new options when exporting student data from the gradebook. These options include exporting results from all categories at once and exporting scores as points rather than percentages. Instructors can also export Study Plan results, time spent (for individual assignments as well as a total for all assignments), date worked, last login date, and weighted average of selected assignments. Because advanced exports may take time to generate, these exports are prepared in the order submitted, and instructors will receive email notification when the exports can be retrieved.