On Monday August 28th from 2:03 to 2:34 PM, EDT SIMnet was unavailable or experienced longer than normal load times in some North American regions. Users who were effected by this outage would have experienced long load times or been unable to load SIMnet. This outage occurred due to technical issues experienced by our Content … Continue reading
Category Archives: Announcements
Final Transition to New Gradebook, Friday July 28th
SIMnet will complete its transition to the new gradebook on Friday, July 28th. After the 28th the old gradebook view will no longer be available to any users. The Results section on the left-hand menu will no longer display the Gradebook and Gradebook (new) options. The only option will be Gradebook which will navigate to the improved gradebook. Our post on May 18 covers … Continue reading
SIMnet Maintenance Notice – August 6th from 4-8 AM Central
SIMnet will be unavailable Sunday, August 6th, 2017 from 4:00AM – 8:00AM Central. We are performing routine maintenance to improve performance, reliability and security. Sincerely, McGraw-Hill Product Team Continue reading
NEW! SIMnet Gradebook Friday, May 19th
The new gradebook and current gradebook will be available together between May 19th and July 28th. After July 28th the current gradebook will be removed from SIMnet. On Friday, May 19th SIMnet will be rolling out a new and improved Gradebook to all schools. This new gradebook features quicker loading times and an enhanced feature … Continue reading
Announcements / Help / Instructors / Students
Missing Cursor in 2007-2013 SIMulation – Flash Player Hardware Acceleration Bug
A Flash Player bug has begun to cause issues for some students accessing Microsoft Office 2013, 2010, or 2007 content. When using Exams, SIMpaths, Lessons, or the Let Me Try portion of SIMbooks, the cursor may become invisible, making the content difficult or impossible to complete. This error is caused by the Hardware Acceleration setting … Continue reading
SIMnet Status Update – RESOLVED
Update December 21, 3:30 pm EST: As of 12:00 noon, December 15th the intermittent outage to SIMnet was fully resolved. We have been continuously monitoring the web site and there are no ongoing issues related to this problem. Original Post: SIMnet is fully operational, however, there continues to be intermittent slowness and the possibility for a short outage remains. … Continue reading
SIMnet Blog Redirect Issue – RESOLVED
The SIMnetcommunity.com blog was briefly forwarding users to another web site. Many WordPress.com powered sites experienced this issue. We have increased the site’s security to prevent this from occurring in the future. We do not anticipate that this had any effect on user’s computers however, a up-to-date antivirus program should reliably catch any resulting issues. Continue reading
SIMnet Loading Issues – RESOLVED
Update Dec 15, 3:30 pm EST:We have switched to updating http://www.simnetcommunity.com/2016/12/simnet-status-update/ for the latest information on this issue. While students and instructors should be able to access their content as desired going forward, please check the new post for the latest information. Update Dec 14, 12:00 noon EST: The SIMnet system is up and running. It … Continue reading
Unexpected Save Answer Issue – 12/1/16 – Resolved
Beginning at approximately 12:30 P.M. ET on 12/1/16 students would have experienced an issue saving answers in SIMnet exams. The symptoms of this issue would cause the exam to not advance to the next question and the exam timer would freeze. This issue was fully resolved as of 5:15 P.M. ET 12/1/16. If a SIMnet … Continue reading
September 26th, 2016 Release Notes – Test Banks in Computer Concepts SIMnet Exam
Test Bank questions can now be assigned to SIMnet exams for the Computer Concepts module. Instructors can now create a single exam that incorporates both Test Bank questions and SIMnet Exam questions at the same time. To add Computer Concepts Test Bank questions to a SIMnet Exam: Create a new exam using the 2016 content (or … Continue reading