Best AI for Pearson MyLab and Mastering, compared

MyLab can give every student different numbers in the same question. Pearson’s guide for instructors on keeping MyLab work honest describes the feature it calls Algorithmic Variations:

“With Algorithmic Variations, if one student sees the first iteration, the second student attempting the same question or exercise will see a different set of values. For each student and attempt it will generate a new set of variables. One student cannot rely on the answer of another student. This feature can be used for homework assignments, as well as tests.”Pearson MyLab instructor guide (PDF), fetched 19 October 2026

The same guide lists pooling, where each student gets a question drawn at random from a pool, and scrambled question order. So a posted key, or a friend’s answers, is usually for different numbers, a different question or a different order. That is why every tool in the table reads your own question from the screen instead of looking it up. Pearson’s Acceptable Use Policy also says you may not “Share any questions, solutions, or other assessment content made available through the Services.”

How many tries you get and when MyLab gives partial credit is in our guide How many attempts do you get on MyLab Math, and is there partial credit?

MyLab Math, MyLab Statistics and MathXL questions open in the same answer player, where fractions, exponents, radicals and intervals go into Pearson’s own input instead of a plain text box. Pearson’s homework help says a question “is complete when you answer correctly or when you have used the number of tries allowed (usually three) for each step in the question.” A tool that handles plain multiple choice may still trip on that input.

Mastering Chemistry and Physics split a problem into Part A, Part B and so on, each with its own submit, and lean on diagrams and drawn structures. A tool that lists MyLab has not necessarily handled Mastering, and the reverse. Silent Student works both on its general vision agent, but our benchmark has MyLab-style replicas only. Details are on our Pearson MyLab and Mastering page, and sign-in help is in how to use Pearson MyLab.

Pearson’s Terms

Pearson’s website Terms of use say: “Use of robots, bots, spiders, crawlers, scripts, code, software, or any manual or automatic device, program, tool, algorithm, process, or methodology designed to data mine or scrape the material, content, data, or information from the Services, or otherwise use, access, acquire, copy, collect, or monitor the material, content, data, or information from the Services using automated means and without the prior written permission of Pearson is strictly prohibited.” That clause sits under copyright notices and is written mainly about scraping and data mining.

The terms for Pearson’s course products are different and more direct. The Universal Terms of Service and End User License Agreement, last revised 31 July 2026, cover Pearson products accessed “directly from Pearson, through your Institution, or via a third-party service”. By using them you agree to comply with “your Institution’s academic policies”, and you may not “Use robots, bots, spiders, crawlers, scripts, code, software, or any automated device, tool, or process to scrape, mine, access, acquire, copy, collect or monitor any content, data, or information from the Services without Pearson’s prior written permission”. The Acceptable Use Policy it includes, revised the same day, says you must not “Use automated means (including bots, scrapers, spiders, agents, or similar tools) to access or extract any portion of the Services or Materials without permission”, and that Pearson “may suspend or terminate access for violations”.

In our reading, those clauses reach the extensions, scripts and agents on this page, ours included, when they work in MyLab or Mastering without Pearson’s permission. They apply whether or not anything is detected. We are not lawyers. Read the terms yourself before you decide.

Your school

Your school and your instructor set their own academic-integrity rules, which can be stricter than Pearson’s, and an instructor can allow or forbid outside help assignment by assignment. Silent Student’s Terms (section 5) make you responsible for those rules and for the terms of every platform the app works in.

What MyLab records

Pearson’s homework help says: “Your score is automatically updated in your instructor’s Gradebook each time you complete a question,” with a set number of tries per step. Its instructor guide tells teachers to compare performance with the class: “If the median time to complete a quant problem is three minutes, and a student is consistently solving that problem in thirty seconds, for example, then it might indicate they’re not really spending any time solving the problem.” We found no Pearson page that says whether MyLab detects browser extensions or AI help on homework, so we make no claim either way. Silent Student does not hide, disguise or fake any of this activity.

Proctored tests

Pearson’s help on locked-down tests says: “When your instructor locks down a test or quiz, you cannot open other browser windows or use any other application while you are taking the test or quiz,” and that learning aids are not available. SnapGPT’s own MyLab page says “Proctored MyLab tests using LockDown Browser disable all extensions”, FastSolve says it cannot run there, and Apex Vision AI says it does not support proctored work. Silent Student does not take proctored tests; our pricing page says so.