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
Category Archives: Tips & Tricks
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
Use the Course Manager to View Your Student’s Licenses
Use the Course Manager to View Your Student’s Licenses The beginning of the semester a hectic time for SIMnet instructors. This is especially true when a new version of Microsoft Office has been released. With the release of the SIMnet Microsoft Office 2016 product, there are more options for instructors and students than ever – … Continue reading
Summer Housekeeping Tips
SIMnet Administrators … Did you know you can manage the SIMnet content that appears in your account? In the Course Manager, go to Settings, click Products, and then add or remove products (SIMnet for Office 2013, SIMnet for Office 2016, etc.) as needed. To control the eCommerce options available to your students, go to Settings, … Continue reading
2016 Resource Files
SIMnet now hosts Resource files for 2016 content directly in the Library. Instructors have access to Instructor-only files, like the Instructor Manual, as well as the student files, like project data files. To access resource files for 2016 content, instructors should view the library by clicking on the SIMstudent link on the top bar of the Course Manager … Continue reading
New SIMbook Features Fall 2015
Whether you’re new to SIMnet or have been around for a while, take a moment to familiarize yourself with our new features. You can now create notes, highlights, and links directly in your SIMbook; navigate between SIMbooks without going back to the library; and directly search the contents of your SIMbook. All of these updates … Continue reading
Cheat Detection In Projects
Did you know about SIMnet’s built in fraud detection? SIMnet projects have the technology to determine when one student passes off another’s work as their own! When a student downloads a project start file, that file includes the student’s name and data within the file make it unique. If 13th century English monarch and mother … Continue reading
SIMnet On Your Mobile Device
We all have spare moments where we’d like to be a bit more productive. A SIMnet user recently told us about her experience using SIMnet on the train: I used my LG G2 Android phone to study for the Microsoft Office Specialist Access certification exam while on the 45-minute train ride to work. I was … Continue reading
ProjectLearn for Mac and Office 2010
Do you use ProjectLearn? Do you have students who use Mac 2011 or Office 2010? As newer versions of Office are created, the applications are changed by modifying the existing or adding new features. For example, color palettes, themes, and styles have been modified in the different versions of Office (2010, Mac 2011, or 2013). … Continue reading
Decoding Project Names
The projects at the end of each SIMbook chapter are crafted carefully. They present a series of increasing challenges, that, together, help students move from acquiring new skills to perfecting them. Both A Skills Approach and the In Practice series have three levels of projects in SIMnet. Each of these types of projects have their … Continue reading