The way users navigate SIMbooks has been updated to provide more information, options, and flexibility to all users. The SIMbook Navigation and Control bar includes new options to improve the SIMbook viewing experience. The left side of the Navigation and Control bar has the option to view the Table of Contents, peruse the Glossary, or … Continue reading
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 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
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
Due to recent changes to the Chrome browser, students are having issues with accessing the Teach Me portion of 2007- and 2010-based lessons. The Chrome browser has slowly made changes to the way it displays Flash content. The Chrome browser will no longer allow off-screen Flash content to load without an explicit exception from the … Continue reading
As you you may have seen, Microsoft has released Office 2016 for Mac users. This is the first update to Office for Mac since 2011. Now you’ll have the latest upgrades to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (also Outlook and OneNote). We’re excited about these new versions – they’re slick, smooth and powerful. So SIMnet has … Continue reading
A recent update to Mac’s Safari browser has caused some users difficulty when loading Let Me Try simulations. Simply changing one setting in Safari will have your browser functioning normally again. Just follow these steps. With Safari open click the application menu, labelled Safari. Select Preferences in the drop down menu. With the Preferences dialog … Continue reading
Microsoft recently removed Office.com clip art from Word, Excel and Powerpoint. Instead, all online image searches will use Bing while PowerPoint will add videos from YouTube. We are updating SIMnet to reflect the way your students interact with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The changes Microsoft made to inserting images, audio, and video are as follows: … Continue reading
Over the past week and a half, we have received limited reports of users seeing a black screen when loading the Access 2013 simulation. We have found that zooming the browser to a value other than 100% was causing a problem in rendering the simulation that caused the Access 2013 module to load incorrectly. The … Continue reading
Let Me Try files in SIMbooks were unavailable briefly this morning when a file did not get cleared in the Content Development Network. This caused the expected API to be incorrect. The script that clears the Content Development Network was updated to clear the file in question. The problem existed from 3:00 AM to 12:00 … Continue reading