SIMnet will be unavailable on Friday, July 20, 2018 from 11:45PM – July 21, 2018, 8AM Eastern time. Rackspace, SIMnet’s hosting provider, is migrating customers to a new datacenter that opened in 2014. Our current datacenter was opened in 2006 and is scheduled to fully close later this year. Sincerely, McGraw-Hill Product Team Continue reading
Category Archives: Instructors
Release Notes for April 20, 2018
Access Microsoft Office 365 released an update with changes to Importing files into Access. The following projects have updated instructions based on the changes: Access 2016 In Practice – Ch 1 Guided Project 1-2 Original text: 6 a. Click the Excel button [ External Data tab, Import & Link group] to launch the Get External … Continue reading
New Feature: Shift Schedule When Copying a Course
When you are copying a class you can now shift each individual learning object by a specified number of days instead of updating each assignment type by a single specific date. This feature allows you to copy a class using the same schedule and order of assignments. To shift the dates in a copied class, … Continue reading
New Feature! Gradebook Bulk Grade Change and Calculated Column Interface
Bulk Updates to Assignment Grades Instructors can now update all grades within a class for a single assignment at once. Instructors can Add as many points as they like, with or without a point cutoff. Instructors can Subtract as points up to a zero result. Instructors can change grades to be Set to a specified … Continue reading
RESOLVED: Office 365 Update – Mac Word – Project Grading Issue
Update: As of February 1, 2018, this issue has been fully resolved. On January 18, 2018, Microsoft began rolling out the latest update for Mac Office 365 subscribers. This update may take as long as a week before it’s fully available to all subscribers. Unfortunately, with this update, Mac Word no longer includes information in … Continue reading
Release Notes January 18, 2018
SIMnet has been updated to reflect Microsoft’s January 9 Office 365 Semi-Annual channel update. For more information on the update, visit our previous blog post. Microsoft updated the following features slightly with updated color or style names. Where appropriate, SIMbook learning content, simulated exam question hints, and autograded Project instructions been updated to reflect the … Continue reading
New Feature! Limit Ecommerce Offers by Class
Schools based in the U.S. have the ability to control the ecommerce products students are allowed to purchase directly from the SIMnet homepage or the SIMnet Student Profile. SIMnet Administrators can control the availability of direct ecommerce products by visiting the Administrative Settings –> eCommerce page within the Course Manager. SIMnet now supports the ability … Continue reading
Microsoft Office 365 Update in SIMnet
Update, January 11: The release of SIMnet materials for the Office 365 Semi-Annual update will occur next week. Today, Microsoft Office 365 subscribers received the first Semi-Annual update for Office 365. The Semi-Annual change updates all Office 365 subscribers who had not previously updated their systems. What is Microsoft Office 365 Office 365 is a … Continue reading
New Resources Features: Integrity Violation and Bulk Download
SIMnet now supports the same style of Academic Integrity Detection for Resource files as Project assignments. Academic Integrity Detection is available for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access files from Microsoft Office 2013 or newer. With this feature instructors can determine if students are submitting their own file or another student’s; or if students have inserted … Continue reading
SIMnet Maintenance Notice – 12/26/2017-1/1/2017
SIMnet will be unavailable each morning from 3:30-6:30AM Central time on December 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 and January 1st. This maintenance has been spread across multiple days to avoid a longer, single day maintenance window. We are performing routine maintenance to improve performance, reliability and security. Sincerely, McGraw-Hill Product Team Continue reading