New Content Released in March 2014

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New Content Released in March 2014

It has been a busy spring here at Triad! Here’s what we’ve added to SIMnet during the month of March:

New SIMbook chapters

• A Skills Approach, Access Complete

  • Chapter 8 – Exploring Advanced Queries and Macros (The Skills Access Complete chapters will be released out of order.)

• In Practice (Nordell), Access Complete

  • Chapter 7 – Creating Advanced Forms

  • Chapter 8 – Designing and Managing Databases

  • Chapter 9 – Integrating Applications

SIMnet Tasks and Questions

Updated SIMnet lesson, exam, and SIMpath content for the followingIn Practice(Nordell) Access chapters:

• Chapter 3 – Creating and Using Queries

  • Totals

• Chapter 5 – Templates, Advanced Relationships, and Macros

• Chapter 6 – Creating Advanced Queries and Reports and Using SQL

Projects

New Projects

• Skills Approach Word – Ch 7 Skill Review 7-2

• Skills Approach Word – Ch 7 Challenge Yourself 7-3

• Skills Approach Word – Ch 8 Skill Review 8.1

• Skills Approach Word – Ch 8 Challenge Yourself 8.4

• In Practice Access – Ch 7 Independent Project 7-4

• In Practice Access – Ch 7 Independent Project 7-3a and 7-3b

New/Improved Grading Features

Word

Pagination

• Determine if pagination settings have been applied to a paragraph such as widow and orphan control and keeping paragraphs together.

Cross-references

• Check for the existence of cross-references.

Table of Contents

• Determine if the table of contents uses a built-in formatting style.

Charts

• Check if the chart has specific chart elements such as a title, legend, or data labels.

• Check if a quick layout has been applied to a chart.

Pictures

• Determine if picture has been adjusted with a color.

• Determine if pictures have been grouped.

• Check the alignment of pictures or picture groups.

Smart Art

• Added checks for additional styles and color sets.

Shapes

• Revised grading for shape formatting to work regardless of the shape type.

Tables

• Determine if the repeat header row feature has been applied to a table header.

• Revised grading for several table features to work when there are multiple tables in a document.

Excel

Formulas

• Revised grading to ignore unnecessary outside parenthesis surrounding formulas.

Bug Fixes

• In Practice Excel Ch 3 Independent Project 3-6 – Added feedback to identify when multiple trendlines exist for a data series.

• In Practice Excel Ch 4 Independent Project 4-4 – PivotTables will not be graded correctly if the source data reference a table name or a cell range.

• In Practice Excel Ch 6 Independent Project 6-5 – Corrected project instructions and revised grading related to nesting Index and Match functions and corresponding values for instructions #6 – 8.