What Is MyMusicLab?
MyMusicLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program that truly engages students in learning. It helps students better prepare for class, quizzes, and exams—resulting in better performance in the course. It provides educators a dynamic set of tools for gauging individual and class performance. And, MyMusicLab comes from Pearson—your partner in providing the best digital learning experiences.
MyMusicLab is available for Music Appreciation and Introduction to Jazz.
Features
MyMusicLab Overview Back to top
MyMusicLab engages students through personalized learning and helps instructors with course preparation, content delivery, and assessment.
Active Listening Guides Back to top
These guides help students build listening skills by partnering the streaming audio and the listening guides from the printed text.
Needle-drop Listening Activities Back to top
These activities help students identify key musical styles and composers. Instant feedback directs students to resources to build listening skills.
Performance Videos Back to top
These videos enhance students’ understanding of these musical forms, while documentary videos offer brief overviews of the cultural background of different styles of music, helping students understand historical context.
Elements of Music Tutorials Back to top
These tutorials help students explore the nature and function of each element to learn how they work together to create the music we hear. Available with Music Appreciation Books.
Inside the Orchestra Back to top
This exploratory feature allows students to encounter the instruments of the standard orchestra, learn how the parts of the orchestra fit together, and study an orchestra as it performs five representative works from multiple musical eras. Available with Music Appreciation Books.
Musical Examples Back to top
Students are able to hear musical examples straight from the interactive etext.
Pearson eText and Chapter Audio Back to top
Like the printed text, students can highlight relevant passages and add notes. The Pearson eText can be accessed through laptops, iPads, and tablets. Download the free Pearson eText app to use on tablets. Students can also listen to their text with the Audio eText.
Assignment Calendar Back to top
The intuitive assignment calendar lets instructors drag and drop assignments to the desired date and gives students an excellent course organizer.
Assessment and Gradebook Back to top
Homework and exam assessment help both instructors and students to track progress and get immediate feedback. Automatically graded assessment flows into the gradebook, which can be used in the MyLab or exported.
Personalized Study Plan Back to top
Students’ personalized plans promote better critical thinking skills. The study plan organizes students’ study needs into sections, such as Remembering, Understanding, Applying, and Analyzing.
Flashcards Back to top
Students can study key terms and concepts with their own personal set of flashcards. Spanish Flashcards also available for select courses.
Class Preparation Tool Back to top
Class Preparation Tool collects the very best class presentation resources in one convenient online destination, so instructors can keep students engaged throughout every class.
Launch Tutorial ›Fully Customizable Back to top
MyMusicLab is customizable. Instructors choose what students’ course looks like. Homework, applications, and more can easily be turned off and off.
Writing Space Back to top
Writing Space is the best way to develop and assess concept mastery and critical thinking through writing. Writing Space provides a single place within MyLab to create, track, and grade writing assignments, access writing resources, and exchange meaningful, personalized feedback quickly and easily to improve results. Writing Space can also check for plagiarism by comparing it against the world's most accurate text comparison database available from Turnitin.
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