Last night I put the finishing touches on some of the assignments for my intermediate algebra course, and I wanted to write a little bit about media assignments. In the assignments I created I added some short conceptual and example videos from the textbook. (The goal was to provide some direct instruction and review into the assignment.) I was able to do this by creating a media assignment in MyLab.

Creating a media assignment is just like creating a standard homework assignment. As you add exercises, you can click on the media tab and have access to any video (or other media tool) provided with the textbook. For example, I added a conceptual video about absolute value equations and a few example videos to the standard homework problems. By the way, you can also add in videos from web sites like YouTube or links to other web sites.

When working with the assignment’s settings you can set it up so students have to watch all media before working on exercises, but I like my students to be able to try a problem right after the related video.

Have any questions on media assignments? Post them in the comment section. Would you like a video on how to create a media assignment? Let me know.

George