New SIMnet Content & Features Upgraded Library View The Library view for students has been updated to show each book in your library more clearly and efficiently. Each book also includes search directly from the library view, without navigating inside of the book itself. New Projects Word 2016 Capstone – Level 1 Formatting a Document … Continue reading
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SIMnet Microsoft Office 2016 Office-level Launch
SIMnet is pleased to announce that Microsoft Office 2016 Office-level content has been released! New lessons, simulated exams, SIMbook chapters, and Projects are available today. The new content is for SIMnet Core Content, the A Skills Approach book series and the In Practice book series. Take a look below to see all of the content … Continue reading
March 25th, 2016 – Release Notes
Bug Fixes and Project Improvements Excel 2013 In Practice – Independent Project 6-5 (Mac Supported) – Added alternate acceptable answers for the nested IF function. In Practice – Independent Project 7-5 – Improved grading to ignore blank spaces after the text in the Data Validation function. Word 2013 O’Leary – Lab 1-2 Promoting Celebrate Bikes … Continue reading
March 21st, 2016 – Release Notes
Custom Rubric Updates Instructors now have the option to make any shared custom rubric the default rubric for a course, even if that custom rubric is owned by someone else. However, the custom rubric is still controlled by the owner. If you use a custom rubric and you are not the owner you will not … Continue reading
November 6th, 2015 – Release Notes
New SIMnet Content & Features New Preferences for Testbank Exams Testbank exams now have two new updated settings. The first option now allows students to Save and Exit their exam without ending the exam. The second option allows instructors to display the correct answer in the results. Mac 2016 Supported Projects Support for Mac 2016 has … Continue reading
October 23rd, 2015 – Release Notes
New SIMnet Content & Features Excel 2013 Capstone Capstone – Level 3 Working With Sales Data Alternate with VLOOKUP (Mac Supported) Mac 2016 Supported Projects Support for Mac 2016 has been added for the following projects: Excel 2013 Capstone Level 1 – Working with Sales Data (Mac Supported) Capstone Level 2 – Working with Sales … Continue reading
October 2nd, 2015 – Release Notes
New SIMnet Content & Features PowerPoint Cheat Detection SIMnet has been rolling out the ability to detect if a student has copied from another student’s file and pasted into theirs throughout the summer. This feature now available for all PowerPoint 2013 projects. This is in addition to detecting if a student submits another student’s file for grading. Details about … Continue reading
September 18th, 2015 – Release Notes – Computer Concepts Introduction To Web Development
New SIMnet Content & Features Computer Concepts Chapter 6 Release Notes We have added a new chapter to the Computer Concepts module titled Introduction to Web Development! The chapter includes these skills: Introduction to Web Development Web Hosting FTP Creating a Web Site Creating HTML Documents Page Layout Elements Working with Graphics and Media Hyperlinks … Continue reading
July 10th, 2015 – Release Notes
New/Improved Grading Features Excel SIMnet can now detect if a student has copied elements from another student’s file. This is in addition to detecting if a student submits another student’s file for grading. Details about copied elements detection is available in the Academic Integrity Violation Report. Project Improvements and Bug Fixes Access The following project … Continue reading
June 19th, 2015 – Release Notes – SIMbook Highlights, Notes & In-Book Search!
Highlights, Notes, and Links in SIMbooks Users can now interact with SIMbooks directly, leaving notes, highlights, and even links to other important content. This will help students to reinforce content and apply that learning more effectively. To highlight content, simply click and drag over the words you would like to highlight. That text will be … Continue reading