2016 Level 3 Capstone Projects can now be set by instructors to earn Digital Credentials. Credentials are a digital certificate of achievement that students can post through social media or add to their resumes to display their mastery of Microsoft Office applications to future employers.These credentials can be used to display general mastery in an … Continue reading
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NEW Enhanced Student Section; Left Navigation; Resource Submission
New Details in Student View The Students view in the Course Manager has been updated to include more data at a glance. New columns include: Paired, which denotes whether or not a student has been paired to your school’s LMS Type, to easily note the type of access each student has, including Full, Courtesy, Single … Continue reading
Streamlined Resource Review
Instructors can now review, grade, provide feedback for, and upload a response file to a student submission in a single step. To review resource submissions, navigate to the Submissions section of the Resources menu option on the left hand navigation. Submissions are organized by course and section. They can then be filtered by assignment using … Continue reading
Microsoft Announces release of Office 2019 for Windows and Mac
On September 24th, Microsoft announced that it is making Office 2019 available to a limited set of customers today, and to all customers in the coming weeks. Office 2019 will be available to Mac and Windows users simultaneously. Office 2019 is Microsoft’s newly available “on premises” version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, and other … Continue reading
SIMnet Back-To-School Prep
Making sure all of your school’s settings are up-to-date and don’t include any unused content smooths the transition to a new school year. Fewer available options ensures that instructors and students alike do not provide the wrong materials or buy the wrong registration codes. In the Course Manager, go to Settings, click Products, and then … Continue reading
SIMnet Sign In Page Redesign
The SIMnet sign in page has been updated to make signing into- and signing up for- SIMnet simple. New students will be able to gain access to SIMnet and all users will access SIMnet Support more easily. The new design divides the sign in page into three main areas. The Existing Users section, on the … Continue reading
NEW Features: Time on Task and Create Lessons or Exams from Projects
Time On Task Report You can now access data on the cumulative time students have spent on task categories. This information gives instructors a simple snapshot of how much time the student has spent in SIMnet. This information can be cumulative for all courses that a student has taken in SIMnet or it can be … Continue reading
New Feature: Skill Set Navigation
Skill Set Navigation allows students to move directly from one interactivity to the next in SIMbooks, Lessons and SIMpaths. Once the student has opened a new Show Me, Guide Me, or Let Me Try interactivity in a SIMbook, Lesson, or SIMpath, the Skill Set Navigation feature will be displayed in the upper right corner of … Continue reading
New Feature: Project Student Learning Objective Identification
Instructors can now view the learning objective associated with each scored step in a student’s submitted project. Each scored step will show the student learning object above the step. For example, the following project shows that each scored portion of step 4 in project 1.1 comes from learning object 1.02. The learning objectives can be … Continue reading
New Feature: OLC Download from Course Manager
Instructors can now directly download Online Learning Center (OLC) files from the Course Manager without needing to view the SIMbook via SIMstudent. To download OLC content directly from the Course Manager, open the desired SIMbook by selecting SIMbooks on the left navigation and selecting the desired SIMbook. Click the Actions drop-down menu for the desired … Continue reading