SIMnet will be unavailable during the following times:

• Maintenance Phase 1:

  • Date: Saturday, November 30th

  • Time: 4:00am-6:00am Central

  • Impacted Services: SIMnet Platform

• Maintenance Phase 2:

  • Date: Saturday, December 28th

  • Time: 4:00am-6:00am Central (estimated, further timeline refinement after phase 1 expected)

  • Impacted Services: SIMnet Platform

We are performing routine maintenance to improve performance, reliability and security. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Sincerely,

McGraw Hill Product Team

SIMnet will be unavailable for a period of up to 10-minutes between 6am - 7am Eastern on the following dates:

• Sunday, July 21, 2024

• Saturday July 27, 2024

We are performing routine maintenance to improve performance, reliability and security. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Sincerely,

McGraw Hill Product Team

As May 10th, 2023 the SIMnet team has migrated all US SIMnet schools to a new ecommerce purchase experience powered by McGraw Hill Shop. Students will continue to enjoy the ability to purchase SIMnet directly from their student account and receive online, instant access upon a successful purchase.

For details on the new purchase experience, please visit the Buy Online help topic.

SIMnet will be unavailable on Sunday, June 2nd, from 5:00am – 5:30am US/Central time. We are performing routine maintenance to improve performance, reliability and security. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Sincerely,

McGraw Hill Product Team

SIMnet will be unavailable on Sunday, August 6th, 2023 from 4:30am – 6:00am US/Central time. We are performing routine maintenance to improve performance, reliability and security.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Sincerely,

McGraw Hill Product Team

SIMnet will be unavailable on Sunday, July 23rd, 2023 from 5am – 7am US/Central time. We are performing routine maintenance to improve performance, reliability and security.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Sincerely,

McGraw Hill Product Team

New UI feature warning learners of a potential license issue

The license warning will help learners realize they have a license issue before taking an assignment and receiving the missing module error. The License Issues pill will display when the following is true:

a. Learner is not on a trial

b. Learner already has a license

c. An assignment in the course requires a license module that the student doesn’t have in any of their licenses.

UI Updates

1. In the assignments selection view, there is a new License Issues pill.

1. In the course enrollment view, there is a new License Issue pill.

1. In the course selection view, thers is a new License Issue pill.

1. In the assignment details view, there is ia new License Issue pill.

1. Clicking only the License Issues pill presents a dialog that describes the content type their current license doesn’t contain access to.

Due to newly released browser security features the SIMnet Learner experience will now open in a new browser tab instead of being embedded within the Learning Management System.

The SIMnet experience will open automatically in a new window if pop-ups are allowed by the browser. If the automatic pop-up is blocked click the Open SIMnet button to continue.

Once SIMnet has been launched in a new browser tab Learners will see the SIMnet is launched message embedded within their LMS.

Course Preference: Assign Zero Grade On

The Assign Zero Grade On course preference allows control over when grades are converted from an incomplete (dash) to a zero. By default, SIMnet will convert all grades without submissions to a zero at the due date. The new preference allows additional control over when to assign a zero for incomplete work:

• Do Not Assign Grade: Incomplete assignments will not be converted to a zero grade.

• Assignment Due Date (default): Incomplete assignments will be converted to a zero grade after the Due Date.

• Assignment End Date: Incomplete assignments will be converted to a zero grade after the End Date.

• Course End Date: Incomplete assignments will be converted to a zero grade after the Course End Date.

SIMnet Office 365/2021 Advanced Content is now available in SIMnet. SIMnet Advanced books include the Complete books for

The In Practice, Nordell series

• Access 365/2021 Complete

• Excel 365/2021 Complete

• PowerPoint 365/2021 Complete

• Word 365/2021 Complete

The Skills Approach, Manning series

• Access 365/2021 Complete

• Excel 365/2021 Complete

• PowerPoint 365/2021 Complete

• Word 365/2021 Complete

Each advanced book comes complete with all SIMbook chapters released; all Exam questions available; accompanying Test Bank questions and 2 auto-graded projects available now. An additional graded project for each chapter will be released on a rolling basis througout the Spring semester.

SIMnet will be unavailable on Sunday, January 2nd, 2022 from 4am – 11:59pm US/Central time. We are performing routine maintenance to improve performance, reliability and security.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Sincerely,

McGraw Hill Product Team

Text To Speech

SIMnet now offers a built-in text reader that will read your assignment text without the need to download or install any additional software. The text reader is available in SIMbooks, Lessons, Projects, Exams and the Exam and Lesson portions of SIMpaths.

For SIMbook and Lesson assignments, the text reader will read all SIMbook text or individually selected text as desired. For Project assignments, the text reader will read all instructions. For Exam assignments, the text reader will read all question text.

SIMbooks and Lessons also have the added Translation feature. Selected text can be translated into 22 different languages using Google Translate.

Student Registration

The New User registration has now been streamlined into a single button. Rather than creating an account or purchasing online access or registering for Courtesy Access as separate steps, students can complete these steps in one combined, streamlined effort.

After creating a SIMnet Account students will be lead through Course Enrollment and Licensing to gain full access to their SIMnet materials.

Refreshed Course Manager

The Course Manager refresh is now available for all users. It provides a familiar, modern user experience that includes a number of features and improvements:

• The navigation has been streamlined and condensed, allowing you to see more of your SIMnet content at a glance.

• You can search for students and instructors without leaving the screen you are viewing.

• Starring courses allows you to view and edit your favorite courses without needing to view all courses and refine your search.

• SIMstudent can now be activated by course, so you can navigate to the SIMstudent view that corresponds with your class directly

2021 Content

Administrators can now make new 2021 SIMnet content available to their school. Making 2021 content available will allow your instructors to view and assign the 2021 content that has been published and will continue to be published throughout the fall.

To make 2021 content available, administrators will need to navigate to the Admin Settings section and select Products. In the Available Products section on the left, select SIMnet for Office 2021 and click Add.

To make 2021 textbooks avaiable, administrators will need to navigate to the Admin Settings section and select Textbooks. In the Available Textbooks section on the left, select the desired Office 2021 textbooks and click Add.

The SIMnet Course Manager has been refreshed with a familiar, modern user experience that includes a number of features and improvements. All Administrators and Instructors will be able to opt-in to the new site design by visiting their SIMnet Dashboard and toggling the "Course Manager New Look" to "ON."

The refreshed Course Manage includes many design improvements including: reogranized left navigation, SIMstudent directly into the Library or a Class, starred classes, student search, and much more! View the deisgn update help topic .

SIMnet users can now review Windows, Mac, Chromebook and Mobile shortcuts and commands that are used throughout Microsoft Office products while in SIMbook, Exam, and SIMpath questions. These Device Tips show users how to use their hardware and software setups to answer SIMnet questions correctly.

These Device Tips can be accessed at any time while answering simulation questions in an Exam, SIMpath or SIMbook. In the upper right corner of the question window there is a ? icon. Click the icon to view the Device Tips.

The ? icon in the upper right corner

The Device Tips are automatically set to display the tips for your current operating system. You can view other setups by clicking on their corresponding tab.

Device Tips displayed onscreen

McGraw Hill announced that it has acquired Triad Interactive, Inc., the software developer of the widely-used SIMnet product for undergraduate computer and information technology courses, as well as the affiliated company Deca Software, LLC, which runs the ecommerce site for the sale of SIMnet.

The Acquisition follows 20 Years of partnership between the companies and shows McGraw Hill’s continued investment in Digital Learning tools and content

View Press Release:https://www.mheducation.com/news-media/press-releases/mcgraw-hill-acquires-triad-interactive.html

UPDATE: 3/29/21 The 365/2019 MOS Access Expert book has been released and is now available alongside the other MOS books.

SIMnet is introducing new SIMbooks organized specifically for students to prepare for the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) exams. Microsoft Office Specialist exams are a well-recognized certification. Microsoft offers Associate level exams in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint (but not Access). Microsoft offers Expert level exams in Access, Excel and Word (but not PowerPoint).

SIMnet now offers the 365/2019 MOS Office SIMbook complementary with all 365/2019 Office Level licenses. The 365/2019 MOS Office SIMbook includes content for the three Microsoft Office Specialist Associate level exams (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint) and for the Access Expert level exam.

SIMnet also offers individual SIMbooks for each Office Application that come with each edition of the Complete book series:

• 365/2019 Access comes with the MOS Access Expert SIMbook

• 365/2019 Excel comes with the MOS Excel Associate SIMbook

• 365/2019 PowerPoint comes with the MOS PowerPoint Associate SIMbook

• 365/2019 Word comes with the MOS Word Associate SIMbook

SIMnet 365/2019 – MOS Office Book Chapter List

SIMnet has released its new updates for Office 365/2019 users. These updates match SIMnet content with the current Microsoft Office July 2021 Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel update. Microsoft releases their Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel updates in January and July. SIMnet catalogs the relevant changes, determines which portions of SIMnet must be updated, and completes those updates.

Updates to SIMnet include changes to all Microsoft Applications and include visual updates, new organization, new names, and new features. All Exam, SIMbook and Lesson questions are updated as well as all Projects.

Note: SIMnet does not provide updates to Office 2016 content.

For a comprehensive look at update in the past month view or Current Changelog

To learn more about Microsoft Office Update Channels, visit our blog post on the topic.

SIMnet has released its new updates for Office 365/2019 users. These updates match SIMnet content with the current Microsoft Office January 2021 Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel update. Microsoft releases their Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel updates in January and July. SIMnet then must catalog the relevant changes, determine which portions of SIMnet must be updated, and then complete those updates.

Updates to SIMnet include changes to all Microsoft Applications and include visual updates, new organization, new names, and new features. All Exam, SIMbook and Lesson questions are updated as well as all Projects.

Note: SIMnet does not provide updates to Office 2016 content.

For a comprehensive look at update in the past month view or

To learn more about Microsoft Office Update Channels, visit our .

New Information Screen for Exams and Timed Projects

Students will see a new information window before they take a SIMnet Exam, SIMpath Exam, Test Bank Exam, or Timed Project assignment. The information on the screen includes the Student Name, Student ID, Assignment End Date, the Length of the Assignment and other assignment details as applicable. The details visible to the student and the information within those details vary by assignment type and instructor selection.

For example, if the instructor selects the Allow to Pause Exampreference when creating an exam, the notification for students will say, You may pause or exit this exam and continue at a later time. If the instructor deselects the Allow to Pause Exam preference, the exam notification will say, You must complete this exam attempt in one sitting. If you exit or leave it will automatically be submitted.

For example, if the assignment is organized by dates, the student will see a Complete By line with the End Date. If the assignment is not organized by dates, this line will be absent.

Students will need to check the box to confirm that they have read available student integrity details at their school before they can start their assignment.

Exam Information View

The available details that appear in the exam launcher depend upon the settings for the exam.

For more information on Exam Preferences https://help.simnetonline.com/manager/content/exams/simnet-exam-assignment-prefs

For more information on Timed Projects: https://help.simnetonline.com/manager/content/projects/project-assignment-prefs#2-assignment-preferences and SIMnet Community blog post

New Student Exam Options

The options available to students during an exam have been updated for clarity.

The iExam Info button, or i button, displays the exam details, including the length of the exam, attempts at each question and whether the exam can be paused.

The Submitbutton ends the exam and submits the exam for grading. This button replaces the previous xbutton which had the same function but was not as clear for student users.

If the instructor has selected the Allow to Pause Exam option in the exam preferences, the Pause button will appear. Using this button stops any applicable timers and exits the exam. The exam can then be resumed at a later time by opening the assignment and clicking Take Exam. A paused exam is not submitted until the student submits the exam or the Due Date for the assignment is met.

New Exam Buttons

SIMnet has released an upgraded Help System for both instructors and students. The new help system has more in-depth articles that cover both the How and the Why of using SIMnet features.

In the Instructor help, view the Best Practices section before you set up your course for next semester, or read the topic on the ins and outs of Integrity Violations before you set your Project Assignment preferences.

In the Student Help, share with your students the nuances of using SIMnet outside of Windows and the Common Mistakes that students run into when doing Project Assignments.

New SIMnet Help System

To access the new SIMnet Student Help, click the SIMnet Instant Help link at the bottom of the sign in page, or click the ? icon when logged in as a student and click either the relevant link that is available or click the All Topics button.

To access the new SIMnet Course Manager Help, log in as an instructor and click the Help buoy icon. Select the context-specific help topic or click the All Topics button.

Instructors can use a new report to view how their students are doing on each Student Learning Objective all on the same screen. This report displays their student’s percent score on each Student Learning Objective (SLO) from each time that objective has been scored in a project across as many projects as the instructor chooses.

For Example, you may want to know how well students did on the SLO IP19-WD-02.1, Format a document by customizing margins, page orientation, paper size, vertical alignment, and page movement across the project assignments in your course. The Project Objective Analysis Report per Student report provides this information.

In the report result, each SLO in each project you select for your report will be displayed in its own column. Each student in each course you select for your report will be displayed in their own row. The percent score represents the total number of times that the student got the question right out of the total number of times that SLO was used in any project that was used to generate the report.

Project Analysis Report per Student result

To create a new Project Objective Analysis Report per Student, navigate to the Reports section of the course manager and select Create on the left navigation. In the Type drop-down menu, select Project Objective Analysis Report per Student. Create your report title. Select the desired Class, Campus, and Project options. Select the Group All Sections of Selected Class Yes radio button if you would like to group the results by class. Selecting this option will display the results of the selected course in all campuses, and will therefore remove the Campus option. Select a specific date range if your course has old sections that you would like to filter out of your results.

Project Objective Analysis per Student report options

Instructors can now set their Project assignments to delay Incorrect Feedback in results provided to students. By default, Incorrect Feedback shows up under each scored step in a project and informs students exactly which steps they got wrong and why they got each step wrong.

Project Assignment Incorrect Feedback

For example, in step 5 above, the student got step 5.b incorrect because they did not appropriately space the noted paragraphs. The student can use this feedback to carefully edit their submission for their next attempt.

Instructors can now decide when to allow students to see Incorrect Feedback. By default, the Delay Incorrect Feedback value is set to after 1 attempt. This means that students will be able to see the Incorrect Feedback immediately after they submit their file for grading. Instructors may change that value to any attempt number, so long as it is within the total number of attempts allowed for the assignment.

Project Assignment Preferences

In the example above, the student will not be able to see any Incorrect Feedback until after their second attempt. Because the assignment is only set to allow for 2 attempts, the student will not be able to use the information in the Incorrect Feedback to edit their attempt.

Project Assignment Incorrect Feedback Delayed

When the Incorrect Feedback option is set to not display for a given attempt, the student receives the message, Feedback is not available for this attempt.

Incorrect Feedback will be displayed for all attempts regardless of the Incorrect Feedback setting after the assignment End Date has passed.

SIMpath Personal Assignment grades can now be automatically transferred into a student’s SIMpath grade in the course gradebook. Previously, Personal Assignment grades had to be manually adjusted by instructors upon completion.

SIMpath Personal Assignment transfer options

To assign a Personal Assignment SIMpath, find the SIMpath in the SIMpath section of the left navigation and select Edit/Assign from the actions menu. Click the Student Assign tab and select the desired student. Fill out the desired preferences. In the Post-Test Gradebook Options section, ensure that the **Transfer student results to:**drop-down list shows the desired course.

Microsoft recently announced changes to the update channels for Office 365 Apps on Windows. A new update channel has been introduced and previous channels have been renamed.

What are Microsoft 365 Apps?

Microsoft 365 Apps is the locally installed version of Office that’s available through many Office 365 plans and includes all of the Office apps. Microsoft 365 Apps is updated regularly. These updates occur at a different pace depending on the update channel you select.

What are update channels?

Update Channels allow users to choose how they want to receive updates to Microsoft Office. Selecting a more active schedule of releases like Current Channel (Preview) gives users the newest updates as they come available. However, those updates may not be fully tested and may not remain in the program for the long term. The Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel gives users the fewest updates after the longest schedule of testing,

Update channels are essentially different versions of Office 365 Apps. Most students will likely have the Current Channel installed by default. However, because SIMnet follows the Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel for releasing new features, this could cause a discrepancy between what a student sees on their own version of Office 365 and what they see in SIMnet. We advise that you avoid any channels named “Preview” as they may contain features that are not supported in Projects.

Update channels are specific to the device being used and is set when Office 365 Apps is installed. For example, lab computers may be set to run on a different channel than a student’s personal computer. Each Office 365 subscription is subscribed to a default update channel but can be changed. Refer to Microsoft for more information.

How does this affect SIMnet?

In SIMnet, the simulation interactivities such as Exam Questions, Show Me, Guide Me, and Let Me Try exercises are updated following the Semi-Annual Enterprise channel releases in January and July. For projects, alternate instructions are added for changes that appear in the current channel but have not yet been released in the Semi-Annual Enterprise channel.

How do I know which version of Microsoft 365 Apps I have?

If you are unsure which version of Office you have, open any Office file (or create a new blank file). Click theFiletab to open Backstage view. ClickAccountorHelpfrom the list at the left of the screen. Your Office installation information will be listed on the next screen. Click the Update Options button to show the available options and select the right choice.

For more information about reviewing your Microsoft Office version, view our help topic https://help.simnetonline.com/students/assignments/projects/your-office-version

Mac Update Channels

Mac users have fewer update channels but they follow the same basic structure as Windows users.

To view your Mac Update Channel, open an application, like Word. Click Help in the top menu. Select Check for Updates and click the Advanced button. Select your channel from the Update Channel drop-down menu.

NEW: Custom Branding Homepage and Credentials; Gradebook Sync Update

NEW: Custom Branding

Administrators will see a new option in the Administration section of the left menu in the Course Manager. The new section is called Branding.

Branding Heading

This section allows for two new custom branding options for your school to add its logo to the SIMnet login page and to all Digital Credentials earned by your students in SIMnet.

Custom Homepage Logo

By editing the Custom Homepage Logo, your school’s logo can appear in the upper right corner of the SIMnet login page. Here, the Custom Logo is displayed next to the school name, “University of Triad.” (Note: to edit your school’s name, please contact your McGraw-Hill representative with the specifics of your desired edits)

SIMnet homepage with custom logo

To add your Custom Homepage Logo to SIMnet, navigate to the Branding section of the Administration Settings section of the Course Manager. Select the Yesradio option for Include Custom Logo. Once the option has been selected, the Upload Custom Logo (.jpeg or .png) button will become available. Click the button to upload your image to the image window.

Custom Homepage Logo options

Your custom logo must be able to fit within one of the pre-defined aspect ratios provided in the Crop Image window. You may crop your image by dragging within the image window or by entering precise height or width values within the Crop Image window. The aspect ratio will automatically keep your height and width pixels the right size to meet your selected aspect ratio. You may click the Link button, next to the Height and Width text boxes to break the locked aspect ratio for your height and width. Doing this will cause the final logo to stretch to meet the requirements of the homepage logo.

Crop Image window

Your custom logo will be resized during saving to the required dimensions to display on the SIMnet Homepage.

Digital Credential Branding

The Digital Credentials earned by your students can now display your school logo, your school name, and the name of the course in which the student earned the credential. To enable custom branding, click the Enable Custom Branding Yes radio button. Clicking the radio button will enable the Include Custom Logo and Include School Name radio buttons. If you elect to include the school name, the Enable Course Name radio button appears.

Digital Credential Branding options

You will need to set up a separate Custom Logo for the digital credential regardless of whether or not you have set up a custom homepage logo.

Below is an example of a Digital Credential Branding for Triad University. The logo is in the lower left corner, accompanied by the School Name, “University of Triad,” and the Course Name, “CIS102 – Introduction to Computer Information Systems.”

Digital Credential Sample with branding

Gradebook Sync Update

For MH Campus Classic integration users (not Deep Integrations) there is a new LMS Sync option in the SIMnet Gradebook. This option allows the instructor to control which category SIMnet sends to the LMS upon assignment sync.

By default SIMnet will use the Group Title the assignment belongs to. The new option, Default Title, will allow instructors to send SIMnet as the category for all assignments, regardless of organizer groups.

Gradebook Sync Options

NEW Office Online Projects

SIMnet is releasing a suite of Microsoft Office Online compatible projects. These projects have been designed and tested using Microsoft Office Online, the free online version of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. These projects can be used by any subscriber to Office 2019/365 in their web browser.

Note: The Office Online Projects use the same base project as the previously available projects that were designed for the fully installed version of Office for Windows and Mac but they are not the same projects. Online Office does not have the full suite of options available with the locally installed version. Therefore the Office Online Projects have fewer points and do not include all of the same steps. You will need to assign Office Online Projects separately. To view the exact changes involved in each project, view the Help Topic.

Assigning an Office Online Project is the same as assigning any other project in SIMnet. However, the Office Online Projects are collected in a separate textbook. Navigate to Projects on the left navigation and select the A Skills Approach – Office Online 365/2019 – Manning Swinsonor In Practice – Office Online 365/2019 – Nordell, Graves, Stewart depending on which book series you are using or would like to assign to your students.

Available Office Online Projects

Word

The following Skills Approach series projects have been adapted to Office Online Projects:

• Challenge Yourself 1.3

• Challenge Yourself 2.3

• Challenge Yourself 3.4

• Challenge Yourself 4.4

• Challenge Yourself 5.3

The following In Practice series projects have been adapted to Office Online Projects:

• Independent Project 1-4

• Independent Project 2-6

• Independent Project 3-6

• Independent Project 4-4

Please review the specific features that are not available in Word Online and which steps have been removed accordingly in the Office Online Projects PDF above.

Excel

The following Skills Approach series projects have been adapted to Office Online Projects:

• Challenge Yourself 1.3

• Challenge Yourself 2.4

• Challenge Yourself 3.3

• Challenge Yourself 4.3

• Challenge Yourself 5.3

The following In Practice series projects have been adapted to Office Online Projects:

• Independent Project 1-6

• Independent Project 2-5

• Independent Project 3-4

• Independent Project 4-5

Please review the specific features that are not available in Excel Online and which steps have been removed accordingly in the Office Online Projects PDF above.

PowerPoint

PowerPoint projects are currently in development. They will be available in time for the Spring 2021 semester.

Access

There is no Office Online version of Microsoft Access.

Restricting Dates when Creating New Classes

SIMnet has improved your control over when your students can enroll for your courses and how and when students can access materials. When creating a class, you can elect to note the dates when the course becomes available and is no longer available. Instructors can then use those dates to restrict enrollment to the course and ensure that no students are viewing materials ahead of time.

Create a new class using the Create option in the Manage section of the left navigation of the Course Manager. Fill in the details of the course. Fill in the Class Available From text box with the desired start date and time for the course. This value defaults to allowing the class to be immediately available. If you select a Class Available From date and time that is in the future, selecting the Restrict enrollment before start date check box will keep students from being able to enroll in the course before the start date. You may alternatively elect to allow students to enroll in the course by leaving the Restrict enrollment before start date check box blank. If you allow students to enroll in the course, you may stop students from viewing assignments before your course begins by selecting the Restrict viewing of class assignments before the start date check box.

The Create Class view

Fill-in the To text box to select an end date and end time for the course. Once you select an end date and time for the course, two additional restriction options become available.

Select the Restrict enrollment after end datecheck box to keep students from inadvertently enrolling in a course that has ended.

Select the Restrict viewing of class assignments after the end date check box to keep students from re-accessing their course materials after the course has ended. Restricting the viewing of class materials will not keep students from being able to review their SIMbooks after the course is complete.

SIMpath Exam Question Analysis Report

There is a new Report available to Instructors to analyze their course materials. This report works like the Exam Question Analysis Report but uses questions from SIMpath Exams.

To create a SIMpath Exam Question Analysis Report, select Reports and Create on the left navigation in the Course Manager. In the Type drop-down menu, select Simpath Exam Question Analysis.

The SIMpath Question Analysis Report view

When creating a new SIMpath Exam Question Analysis Report, you may filter the results by Class, Campus, SIMpath, and a Date Range. You can have results automatically grouped or grouped by sections when applicable.

LMS Deep Integration – Push vs Pull Re-Linking

The LMS re-linking process automatically pulls assignment details and dates from the LMS into SIMnet. We have added an option to push SIMnet assignment details and dates to the LMS. This feature is available on the class level cover sheet for Canvas and D2L and on the Integrate feature for all Learning Management Systems.

The Deep Integration Relink buttons

The new SIMnet Instant Help site is here! help.simnetonline.com/students/ is now available for SIMnet students to review and get the most up-to-date information they need to successfully complete their SIMnet courses.

New Instant Help view

The new SIMnet Instant Help site is organized by topic area instead of broken by individual help questions. Students will be able to get focused information about each topic in one place. New pullouts and tabs allow students to view potential pitfalls and see information targeted directly to their computer setup.

Help tabs organized by browser

The new SIMnet Instant Help system is being updated in stages. At this time the student help section is live. The Instructor and Administrator help system is being brought online next. The links inside SIMnet to the current SIMnet Instant Help site, activated by clicking the ? icon, are being updated on July 17th.

SIMnet will be unavailable on Sunday, August 2nd, 2020 from 4AM – 8AM US/Central time. We are performing routine maintenance to improve performance, reliability and security.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Sincerely,

McGraw Hill Product Team

The Dashboard view in the Course Manager has been updated to give instructors more information about their students and courses at a glance. Instructors will be able to quickly determine which of their students are earning digital credentials in the Credentials Earned section and which of their students may be in danger of a poor result via the Past Due Assignments,Integrity Violations, andStudent Activitysections.

The default view for instructors is to show all assigned courses. However, instructors can select the desired course from the Classdrop-down menu.

The Past Due Assignments and Integrity Violations sections may both be tailored only to show the desired date range, showing data within a set number of days, weeks, months, or all time. Users can edit that setting by clicking the gear icon in each section. Clicking on existing Past Due Assignments or Integrity Violations notifications will show all current students who have a late assignment or have been flagged for uploading a file that did not include their unique signature in a project.

The Credentials Earned section displays the number and type of credentials earned by students enrolled in the selected courses. Clicking View All brings up a list of all credentials earned by students in that course. Clicking on the legend or corresponding section in the pie chart will display a list of all students who have earned a specific credential type.

The Student Activity section shows the number of students who have accessed SIMnet in the previous week, have been idle for more than 1 week but fewer than 2, have been idle for 2 weeks or more, or who have not logged in at all. Clicking on each text link or on the pie chart in the desired area brings up a separate view showing a list of students who fit that criteria.

The Assignment Schedule section provides a view at the last 10 Past Due assignments, the top 10 Current assignments or the next 10 Upcoming assignments, based upon the selected tab.

SIMnet will be unavailable on Saturday, April 11th, 2020 from 2:30AM – 3:00AM US/Central time. Additionally, LMS integrations will be unavailable on the same day and time until 3:30AM US/Central time. We are performing routine maintenance to improve performance, reliability and security.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Sincerely,

McGraw-Hill Product Team

SIMnet has a new and improved Course Manager Dashboard which makes it easier than ever to know if one of your students has been flagged for an Integrity Violation.

The improved Integrity Violation interface now allows you to receive email notifications regarding new integrity violations at the time(s) of your choice.

By default, you will begin to receive one email per week, at 8:00 AM Monday whenever there have been new integrity violations since your last email. You can edit your preferences to receive more emails, fewer emails, or no emails.

To turn off Integrity Violation Notification emails, click the Gear Icon in the upper right corner of the Integrity Violations section to view the Integrity Violation Preferences window. Click the I want to receive the Integrity Violation Notification email checkbox to deselect it.

To edit the time(s) you receive Integrity Violation Notification emails, click the Gear Icon in the upper right corner of the Integrity Violations section to view the Integrity Violation Preferences window. Click the I want to receive the Integrity Violation Notification email checkbox if it has been deselected. Click the desired days of the week you would like to receive an email when there has been a new violation submission. You may select as many days of the week as you would like. Finally, set the desired time you would like to receive the email. You may only select a single time to receive your email(s).

When there has been an integrity violation, you will receive the following email:

The Chromium Project announced that starting with Chrome 80 they will require specific cookie flags in order for 3rd party cookies to be honored. Chrome 80 is scheduled to release on February 4th, 2020. SIMnet released full support for these changes as of January 24, 2020.

Please note, this change only relates Canvas and D2L users coming from the McGraw-Hill Campus Deep Assignments integration because they load “inside” of the LMS and are considered a 3rd party.

Instructors can now assign Projects that must be completed in a set time. Once the student begins an attempt of their assigned project, a countdown timer will begin. The student must submit that assignment before the timer has run down. This feature is available with all 2016 and 2019/365 projects.

To assign a Timed Project, go to Projects on the Left navigation, select the desired project, and assign it to a class or student. In the Assignment Preferences section of the Project Assignment Details pane, select the Enable Timer check box.

Once the Enable Timer check box has been selected, two new options will appear. The Minutestext box and the Attempt drop-down menu. Set the number of minutes you would like the assignment to last in the Minutes text box. The number of minutes must be a whole number.

In the Attempt drop-down menu there are two options, Each Attempt and All Attempts. Selecting All Attempts creates a single timer that begins to run at the start of the first project attempt and continues to run until all attempts have been used, or the time has run out. If the student uses all of the time in any one attempt, they will not have time available for subsequent attempts. The timer in All Attemptsassignments continues to run from the beginning of the first attempt until there is no time remaining or no attempts remaining. The timer will continue to run even if the student is between attempts or is not logged in to SIMnet.

Selecting Each Attempt means that each single attempt will have the total amount of time in the Minutes text box. If they use all of the time on any one attempt, they will still have all of their minutes available on subsequent attempts.

All ADA multiplier settings are automatically applied to all students who are using timed projects.

When students select a timed assignment, they will receive a prompt to start the project. With an All Attempts timed project they will receive the following prompt:

With an Each Attempt assignment they will receive the following prompt:

Once the student clicks the Start Project button, their project will be automatically downloaded and their project timer will begin. The timer is visible at all times throughout the completion of the project. If the student cannot find their downloaded file, they may download it again by clicking the Start File link on the assignment page. If the project has Resource files, the student will need to click the link to download those files.

As the student reviews the project instructions on all 2019/365 projects, they will be able to see the timer indicating the amount of time remaining in the project.

With Each Attempttimed projects, the student will receive the timer prompt each time they visit the page and have attempts remaining.

With All Attempts timed projects, the timer begins to count down once the student begins their first attempt and will continue to run between attempts until the timer has run out. The timer will continue to run between attempts and students will not receive a new prompt upon starting another attempt.

SIMnet Exams and SIMnet Practice Exams are now SIMnet Exam – Scenario A and SIMnet Exam – Scenario B. Scenario A questions and Scenario B questions cover the same content in the same manner but are distinct from each other and from SIMbook Let Me Try simulation questions. Exam questions may reflect all or part of a Let Me Try. SIMnet Exams are divided into two groups of questions, A and B, so that instructors can design exams, study materials, and SIMpath Pre-test and Post-tests without needing to check if they’ve used a question before.

This change clarifies a misconception among some of our SIMnet users: that the Assessment Exams and Practice Exams were designed with different difficulties or were designed for a different setting. SIMnet Exam questions are alike in difficulty and content across exam scenarios and may be used interchangeably.

All current SIMnet Exams will now be SIMnet Exam – Scenario A.

All current SIMnet Practice Exams will now be SIMnet Exam – Scenario B.

On Friday, November 22, from 2:03 to 2:23 PM Eastern Time, SIMnet users were unable to login to their SIMnet accounts. This issue has been resolved and all users can login at this time.

We appreciate your patience and apologize for the inconvenience. Should you or your students experience any other issues, please contact our Customer Experience Group toll-free at 800-331-5094 (US Only).

Microsoft Office 365/2019 Complete content is being released to SIMnet on a weekly basis. Here is what has been released this week, on Friday November 8th:

• A Skills Approach PowerPoint Chapter 6 SIMbook and exam questions

• A Skills Approach Access Chapter 9 SIMbook and exam questions

• In Practice PowerPoint Chapter 7 SIMbook (All In Practice PowerPoint SIMbooks are now available)

• In Practice PowerPoint Chapter 4 projects

The 2019 content that has been released to date:

• All Office level content for the A Skills Approach and In Practice book series

• Capstones – Level 1, 2 and 3 for Access, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word

• In Practice Integrated Capstone Projects

• Computer Concepts – with all new LMTs, assessment, and practice questions

• Technology at Your Service 3e custom Lesson and Exam mappings for Computer Concepts

• A Skills Approach Excel – Chapters 6 and 7 SIMbook and exam questions

• A Skills Approach Word – Chapter 6, 7 and 8 SIMbook and exam questions

• In Practice Word – All SIMbook Chapters

• In Practice Word – Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 Projects

• In Practice Word Chapters , 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Exam Question and Custom Lesson Mappings

• In Practice Excel – All SIMbook Chapters

• In Practice Excel – Chapters 6, 7, 8, 9 Projects

• In Practice Access – All Chapters Projects

• In Practice Access – Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 SIMbooks

• In Practice PowerPoint Chapter 4, 5 and 6 SIMbook

• The Ribbon, gallery icons, and submenu icons for all SIMbook Interactivities and Exam questions have been updated per the July Office release.

• Computing Essentials custom lesson and exams mappings for Computer Concepts

Some SIMnet users were unable to load Exam assignments that covered 2016 PowerPoint content. This issue is resolved as of 12:00 noon, Eastern time on Monday December 9th.

We appreciate your patience and apologize for the inconvenience. Should you or your students experience any other issues, please contact our Customer Experience Group toll-free at 800-331-5094 (US Only).

UPDATE: 5/18/2020

As of May 18th, 2020 the McGraw-Hill Higher Education Tool for SIMnet Blackboard single-sign-on integration has been fully deprecated and is no longer available.

Original Post:

The McGraw-Hill Higher Education Tool for SIMnet Blackboard single-sign-on integration is being deprecated. In late 2019 the integration will no longer accept new course pairings. Existing user pairings will remain active until the integration has been fully deprecated on May 18th, 2020.

If your school is using the deprecated integration please consider migrating to the Partner Cloud Integration as it offers a full featured integration that includes single-sign-on, grade sync, and deep assignment links.

The deprecated integration is located in Blackboard –> Tools –> Higher Education –> McGraw-Hill SIMnet:

icrosoft Office 365/2019 Complete content is being released to SIMnet on a weekly basis. Here is what has been released this week, on Friday November 1st:

• Skills PowerPoint Chapter 5 SIMbook and questions

• In Practice Access Chapters 9 and 10 SIMbooks

• Skills Word Chapter 9 Projects

• In Practice Integrated Capstone Projects

The 2019 content that has been released to date:

• All Office level content for the A Skills Approach and In Practice book series

• Capstones – Level 1, 2 and 3 for Access, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word

• Computer Concepts – with all new LMTs, assessment, and practice questions

• Technology at Your Service 3e custom Lesson and Exam mappings for Computer Concepts

• A Skills Approach Excel – Chapters 6, 7, 8 and 9 SIMbook and exam questions

• In Practice Excel – Chapter 5, 7, 9 and 10 exam and Custom Lesson Mappings In Practice Access – Chapter 5 Exam Question and Custom Lesson Mappings

• A Skills Approach Word – Chapter 6, 7 and 8 SIMbook and exam questions

• In Practice Word – All SIMbook Chapters

• In Practice Word – Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 Projects

• In Practice Word Chapters 9-12 Exam Question and Custom Lesson Mappings

• In Practice Excel – All SIMbook Chapters

• In Practice Excel – Chapters 6, 7, 8, 9 Projects

• In Practice Access – All Chapters Projects

• In Practice Access – Chapters 5, 6, 7 and 8 SIMbooks

• In Practice PowerPoint Chapter 4, 5 and 6 SIMbook

• The Ribbon, gallery icons, and submenu icons for all SIMbook Interactivities and Exam questions have been updated per the July Office release.

• Computing Essentials custom lesson and exams mappings for Computer Concepts

Microsoft Office 365/2019 Complete content is being released to SIMnet on a weekly basis. Here is what has been released this week, on Friday October 25th:

• A Skills Approach Excel – Chapter 8 SIMbook and questions

• A Skills Approach Excel – Chapter 9 SIMbook and questions

• In Practice Excel – Chapter 5, 7, 9 and 10 exam and Custom Lesson Mappings

• In Practice Access – Chapter 5 Exam Question and Custom Lesson Mappings

• Access Level 1 and Level 2 capstones

• PowerPoint Level 1 and Level 2 capstones

The 2019 content that has been released to date:

• All Office level content for the A Skills Approach and In Practice book series

• Capstones – Level 3 for Access, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word

• Capstones – Level 1 and 2 for Excel and Word

• Computer Concepts – with all new LMTs, assessment, and practice questions

• Technology at Your Service 3e custom Lesson and Exam mappings for Computer Concepts

• A Skills Approach Excel – Chapters 6 and 7 SIMbook and exam questions

• A Skills Approach Word – Chapter 6, 7 and 8 SIMbook and exam questions

• In Practice Word – All SIMbook Chapters

• In Practice Word – Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 Projects

• In Practice Word Chapters 9-12 Exam Question and Custom Lesson Mappings

• In Practice Excel – All SIMbook Chapters

• In Practice Excel – Chapters 6, 7, 8, 9 Projects

• In Practice Access – All Chapters Projects

• In Practice Access – Chapters 5, 6, 7 and 8 SIMbooks

• In Practice PowerPoint Chapter 4, 5 and 6 SIMbook

• The Ribbon, gallery icons, and submenu icons for all SIMbook Interactivities and Exam questions have been updated per the July Office release.

• Computing Essentials custom lesson and exams mappings for Computer Concepts

Microsoft Office 365/2019 Complete content is being released to SIMnet on a weekly basis. Here is what has been released this week, on Friday October 4th:

• In Practice Word – Chapters 11 and 12 SIMbook (All SIMbook chapters for In Practice Word are available)

• In Practice Word – Chapters 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Exam Question and Custom Lesson Mappings(All Mappings for In Practice Word are available)

• A Skills Approach Word – Chapter 9 SIMbook and exam questions

• A Skills Approach Word – Chapters 7 and 8 Projects

The 2019 content that has been released to date:

• All Office level content for the A Skills Approach and In Practice book series

• Capstones – Level 3 for Access, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word

• Computer Concepts – with all new LMTs, assessment, and practice questions

• Technology at Your Service 3e custom Lesson and Exam mappings for Computer Concepts

• A Skills Approach Excel – Chapters 6 and 7 SIMbook and exam questions

• A Skills Approach Word – Chapter 6, 7 and 8 SIMbook and exam questions

• In Practice Word – All SIMbook Chapters

• In Practice Word – Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 Projects

• In Practice Excel – All SIMbook Chapters

• In Practice Excel – Chapters 6, 7, 8, 9 Projects

• In Practice Access – All Chapters Projects

• In Practice Access – Chapters 5 and 6 SIMbook

• The Ribbon, gallery icons, and submenu icons for all SIMbook Interactivities and Exam questions have been updated per the July Office release.

• Computing Essentials custom lesson and exams mappings for Computer Concepts

SIMnet will be unavailable on Sunday, January 5th, 2020 from 4AM – 6AM US/Central time. We are performing routine maintenance to improve performance, reliability and security.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Sincerely,

McGraw-Hill Product Team

Update, February 5th, 2020

SIMnet continues to keep our instructors and students prepared for the end of browser support for Flash Player in the coming months. As SIMnet Administrators and Instructors open SIMnet, they will see the following warning regarding Office 2007 – 2013 content:

Lessons, Exams, SIMpaths, and Projects that use 2007-2013 content will have a warning icon before their title. As of May 31st, 2020, no new class assignments will be allowed for Office 2007-2013 content. This content should be replaced with Office 2016 or Office 2019/365 content and then archived.

Schools or courses that are using 2007-2013 content may need to update their ISBN orders and should contact their local McGraw-Hill representative for help selecting a new ISBN.

Original Post, October 1st, 2019

SIMnet has come a long way since 2007 when the simulated content for Exams, Lessons, and SIMbooks was first built with Flash Player. It took several Office versions for HTML, JavaScript, and CSS to finally eclipse the capabilities of Flash when we rebuilt the simulated content with HTML5 for Office 2016.

SIMnet 2007 Lesson

In 2017, Adobe announced that the official end-of-life for Flash Player will be in late 2020. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have all released similar timelines to no longer support Flash Player in their browsers as well.

As Flash Player nears its end-of-life, so does SIMnet for Office 2007, 2010, and 2013. All SIMnet for Office 2007-2013 textbooks and assignments will no longer be available after August 5th, 2020.

If your school or class is using content from any of these SIMnet versions, now is the time to begin planning your move to SIMnet for Office 365/2019. The latest SIMnet version has never been more SIMple, responsive, or accessible than it is today.

The timeline and how this may affect your class

Here are the key dates as we prepare to sunset SIMnet 2007-2013:

• January 1st, 2020: SIMnet for Office 2007-2013 will no longer appear in the Available Products section for Admin Settings. If these products are already enabled, they will remain enabled until August 1st, 2020

• May 31st, 2020: No new class assignments will be allowed for Office 2007-2013 content.

• August 5th, 2020: Office 2007-2013 products will be disabled, and all class and student assignments will be removed. At this point, no students or instructor will be able to assign or take any content related to a sunset version.

Sincerely,

McGraw-Hill Product Team

Instructors can now set an assignment in the SIMnet Gradebook to be graded on a Pass/Fail criterion. The Pass/Fail option can be set for Exams, Lessons, Projects and SIMbooks. It cannot be used on other assignment types, such as SIMpaths and cannot be used on calculated columns.

To set a Pass/Fail grade type the instructor should select the Pass/fail Calculation method in the gradebook or from the Calculation Type drop-down menu when assigning the object to a class. When selecting a Pass/Fail criteria, instructors must then set a Pass/Fail Threshold. The default setting is 90%.

Students who achieve the threshold will receive full credit for the assignment, to be displayed as the instructor desires. Users who do not achieve the threshold will not receive any credit for the assignment.

For the example below, the user achieved 4/8 points for their Exam. Since the threshold was set to 49%, the user achieved the criterion. Therefore, the user receives 8/8 points for the assignment. Since the instructor set the Display as setting to Percent the user has a 100%.

When the instructor changes the settings for the Pass/fail threshold (%) to 51, the student, having achieved a 50% does not get credit for their assignment. They receive 0 points.

The first time students open an Office 2019/365 project assignment, they will automatically be shown the SIMnet Project Best Practices guide. The guide contains instructions for how to complete project assignments in SIMnet, and how to use the features that are available to help students complete a project successfully.

Before students can attempt their 2019/365 project assignment they must review the SIMnet Project Best Practices guide and then click the I acknowledge that I have read the Best Practices guide. button.

Users can view the Best Practices guide at any time by clicking the Best Practices tab when in a 2019 project assignment.

To print the Best Practices guide, click the Printbutton in the upper right corner of the Best Practices guide. The 2019/365 guide will no longer be offered as a PDF. However, it can be saved as a PDF by clicking the Printbutton and selecting Save as PDF.

Microsoft Office 365/2019 Complete content is being released to SIMnet on a weekly basis. Here is what has been released this week, on Friday September 13th:

• In Practice Access – Chapter 5 SIMbook

• In Practice Word – Chapter 8 SIMbook

• In Practice Word – Chapter 8 Projects

• A Skills Approach Excel – Chapter 7 Exam questions

The 2019 content that has been released to date:

• All Office level content for the A Skills Approach and In Practice book series

• Capstones – Level 3 for Access, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word

• Computer Concepts – with all new LMTs, assessment, and practice questions

• Technology at Your Service 3e custom Lesson and Exam mappings for Computer Concepts

• A Skills Approach Excel – Chapter 6 SIMbook and exam questions

• A Skills Approach Word – Chapter 7 SIMbook and exam questions

• In Practice Word – Chapters 5, 6, and 7 SIMbooks

• In Practice Word – Chapters 5, 6, and 7 Projects

• In Practice Word – Chapter 5 Lesson and Exam mappings

• In Practice Excel – Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 SIMbooks

• In Practice Excel – Chapters 6, 7, 8, 9 Projects

• In Practice Access – All Chapters Projects

• The Ribbon, gallery icons, and submenu icons for all SIMbook Interactivities and Exam questions have been updated per the July Office release.

• Computing Essentials custom lesson and exams mappings for Computer Concepts

Microsoft Office 365/2019 Complete content is being released to SIMnet on a weekly basis. Here is what has been released this week, on Friday August 30th:

• Excel 2019 In Practice – Chapter 8 and 9 Projects

• Word 2019 In Practice – Chapter 6 Projects

• Excel 2019 In Practice – Chapter 10 SIMbook

• A Skills Approach Excel 2019 Chapter 6 SIMbook and exam questions

• A Skills Approach Word 2019 Chapter 7 SIMbook and exam questions

• In Practice Office Book – end of chapter interactive exercises

The 2019 content that has been released to date:

• All Office level content (including the Word Mail Merge addendum chapter) for the A Skills Approach and In Practice book series

• Capstones – Level 3 for Access, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word

• NEW Computer Concepts – with all new LMTs, assessment, and practice questions (80 skills, over 125 assessment questions, and over 125 practice questions)

• In Practice Word Chapter 5 and 6 SIMbook and autograded projects

• In Practice Excel Chapter 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 11 SIMbooks

• In Practice Excel Projects chapters 6 and 7

• In Practice Access Projects

• In Practice Word 5 custom lesson and exam mappings

• The Ribbon interface for all SIMbook Interactivities and Exam Assessment and Practice questions has been updated to the new fluent UI that was part of Microsoft’s July 9th semi-annual release

• Technology at Your Service 3e custom Lesson and Exam mappings for Computer Concepts 2019

• Skills Approach Office level Test Bank questions

• Fluent UI Update — Phase 1 of gallery and submenu icons

• Computing Essentials 2019 custom lesson and exams mappings for new Computer Concepts 2019 content

Microsoft Office 365/2019 Complete content is being released to SIMnet on a weekly basis. Here is what has been released this week, on Friday September 6th:

• Word 2019 In Practice – Chapter 7 Projects

• Word 2019 In Practice – Chapter 7 SIMbook

The 2019 content that has been released to date:

• All Office level content for the A Skills Approach and In Practice book series

• Capstones – Level 3 for Access, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word

• Computer Concepts – with all new LMTs, assessment, and practice questions

• Technology at Your Service 3e custom Lesson and Exam mappings for Computer Concepts 2019

• A Skills Approach Excel 2019 Chapter 6 SIMbook and exam questions

• A Skills Approach Word 2019 Chapter 7 SIMbook and exam questionsIn Practice Word Chapter 5 and 6 SIMbook and autograded projects

• In Practice Word 5 custom lesson and exam mappings

• In Practice Excel Chapter 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 SIMbooks

• In Practice Excel Projects chapters 6, 7, 8, 9

• In Practice Access Projects

• The Ribbon for all SIMbook Interactivities and Exam questions has been updated to the UI from Microsoft’s July 9th semi-annual release. Additional gallery icons and submenu icons are updated.

• Computing Essentials 2019 custom lesson and exams mappings for new Computer Concepts 2019 content

Microsoft Office 365/2019 Complete content is being released to SIMnet on a weekly basis. Here is what has been released this week, on Friday August 23rd:

• In Practice Excel SIMbook chapter 6

• In Practice Word SIMbook chapter 6

• In Practice Excel Projects chapters 6 and 7

• In Practice Access Projects chapters 7, 8, and 9 (all In Practice Access projects are now available)

The 2019 content that has been released to date:

• All Office level content (including the Word Mail Merge addendum chapter) for the A Skills Approach and In Practice book series

• Capstones – Level 3 for Access, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word

• NEW Computer Concepts – with all new LMTs, assessment, and practice questions (80 skills, over 125 assessment questions, and over 125 practice questions)

• In Practice Word Chapter 5 SIMbook and autograded projects

• In Practice Excel Chapter 5, 7, 8, 9 and 11 SIMbooks

• In Practice Access 5 and 6 Projects

• In Practice Word 5 custom lesson and exam mappings

• The Ribbon interface for all SIMbook Interactivities and Exam Assessment and Practice questions has been updated to the new fluent UI that was part of Microsoft’s July 9th semi-annual release

• Technology at Your Service 3e custom Lesson and Exam mappings for Computer Concepts 2019

• Skills Approach Office level Test Bank questions

• Fluent UI Update — Phase 1 of gallery and submenu icons

• Computing Essentials 2019 custom lesson and exams mappings for new Computer Concepts 2019 content

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 Bookmark the current page.

The right side of the bar has the option to Search the SIMbook, change the Font size, Line height, and enable or disable High Contrast via Accessibility Options, Print the current page, or Exit the SIMbook.

The Forwardand Backwardbuttons now show the page title for the next and previous pages before you click them.

Microsoft Office 365/2019 Complete content is being released to SIMnet on a weekly basis. Here is what has been released this week, on Friday August 16th:

• In Practice Excel SIMbook chapters 9 and 11

• Access Level 3 Capstone Project – Yellow Belt Credential

• In Practice Excel 5 Project

• In Practice Access 5 and 6 Projects

• In Practice Word 5 custom lesson and exam mappings

• Computing Essentials 2019 custom lesson and exams mappings for new Computer Concepts 2019 content

• Fluent UI Update — Phase 1 of gallery and submenu icons

• Skills Approach Office level Test Bank questions

The 2019 content that has been released to date:

• All Office level content (including the Word Mail Merge addendum chapter) for the A Skills Approach and In Practice book series

• Capstones – Word Level 3, PowerPoint Level 3, and Excel Level 3

• In Practice Word Chapter 5 SIMbook and autograded projects

• In Practice Excel Chapter 5, 7 and 8 SIMbooks

• NEW Computer Concepts – with all new LMTs, assessment, and practice questions (80 skills, over 125 assessment questions, and over 125 practice questions)

• The Ribbon interface for all SIMbook Interactivities and Exam Assessment and Practice questions has been updated to the new fluent UI that was part of Microsoft’s July 9th semi-annual release

• Technology at Your Service 3e custom Lesson and Exam mappings for Computer Concepts 2019

Microsoft Office 2019 Complete content is being released to SIMnet on a weekly basis. Here is what has been released this week, on Friday August 9th:

• In Practice Excel Chapter 7 SIMbook

• In Practice Excel Chapter 8 SIMbook

• The Ribbon interface for all SIMbook Interactivities and Exam Assessment and Practice questions has been updated to the new fluent UI that was part of Microsoft’s July 9th semi-annual release

• Technology at Your Service 3e custom Lesson and Exam mappings for Computer Concepts 2019

The 2019 content that has been released to date:

• All Office level content (including the Word Mail Merge addendum chapter) for the A Skills Approach and In Practice book series

• Capstones – Word Level 3, PowerPoint Level 3, and Excel Level 3

• In Practice Word Chapter 5 SIMbook and autograded projects

• In Practice Excel Chapter 5 SIMbook

• NEW Computer Concepts – with all new LMTs, assessment, and practice questions (80 skills, over 125 assessment questions, and over 125 practice questions)

The 2019 Project Assignment view has been updated to make completing Project assignments simpler. This update includes five improvements that streamline submitting your project for grading smoother and require less navigating from one page to another.

Instructions are now all on the same page as the project assignment. The instructions do not need to be downloaded and viewed in a separate window. Switching between Windows and Mac instructions is as simple as the click of a button.

As you complete each step in the Project process, that step is highlighted. As you move from Step 1, Download, to Step 2, Upload, that step becomes highlighted in yellow.

As you make the changes to your file in each instruction, you can check off that instruction as complete. The next unfinished instruction is highlighted in yellow to make it easier to find. Once you have reached the bottom of the instructions, a handy button allows you to scroll Back to top. If you would like to start your project again, click the Reset Progress button to clear all check marks.

Once you have completed your project you can use the Upload my file button as before, or you can simply drag and drop your file to upload it.

You can also view your previous attempts at a project from this same page by clicking the Previous Attempts button.

Instructors can now select and move multiple assignments at once in the Class Organizer view. This update assists instructors in quickly organizing their courses.

To use this new feature, navigate to the Organizesection of the Classesmenu on the left navigation of the Course Manager. Select all desired assignments or groups individually or select all assignments in a single group by selecting the group check box.

Click and drag the assignments to the desired location. All of the assignments will be moved at the same time.

Note: Each Group has unique Sorting settings. If you are moving multiple items and would like to see them in the order you placed them, be sure to select the Custom Order selection in the Sort by drop-down menu.

We have fully restored all services as of 6:15PM Central time.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Sincerely, McGraw-Hill Product Team

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.

To control the eCommerce options available to your students, go toAdministrative****Settings, clickeCommerce and then add or remove products as appropriate. The products available for eCommerce are controlled by theProductssettings. If your school is moving to SIMnet for Office 2019be sure to switch the ecommerce offers to the new version or request any custom offers from your McGraw-Hill local representative.

In the U.S., eCommerce settings can be further controlled at the class level.The eCommerce options that are available to the campus can further be reduced for each class.

In the Course Manager, go toSettings, clickProducts, and then add or add or remove products, likeSIMnet for Office 2016 or SIMnet for Office 2019, as needed.

To manage the textbook filters available to instructors when creating lessons and exams, go toSettings, clickTextbooks, and then add or remove textbooks as needed. If you use campuses, be sure to select the correct campus from the drop-down list at the top of the page.

If your school has inclusive access, please review the number of available codes at your school to ensure that there will be enough for the semester. To review the number of available codes go toAdministrative****Settings and clickDetails.

The SIMnet Black Belt Credential is now available for Office 2016 applications. Black Belt exams targeting Office 2019 applications are forthcoming.

Black Belt credentials are available for each of the 4 main applications in SIMnet: Access, Excel, PowerPoint and Word. The Black Belt Credential is earned by completing the corresponding Black Belt Exam. Black Belt Exams test students’ mastery of each application. Each Black Belt Exam contains a random set of 60 questions that must be completed within 90 minutes with a score of 90% or higher to earn the Black Belt credential.

The content for each Black Belt exam has already been curated across SIMnet to ensure that the Black Belt credential represents the mastery of a complete application. Instructors have a limited ability to make changes to exam preferences – the number of allowed attempts and whether or not the Exam Timer is visible. As with other Credentials, individual Course or Personal assignments can have a custom threshold between a 90% and a 100% score.

The 2019 Black Belt exam will be available once all Advanced level content for each application has been released.

Learn more about Achievement Credentials here.

Learn more about Completion Credentials here.

All McGraw-Hill Campus (MH Campus) integrations now use a SIMplified, streamlined account creation workflow. Depending on the information shared from the Learning Management System (LMS) with SIMnet instructor and students may be required to input fewer details to complete the pairing process.

For many schools the new user pairing process consists of a single step where clicking the Create Account button results in SIMnet automatically creating their account based on the data shared from the LMS.

In cases where the LMS doesn’t share enough details, SIMnet will prompt the user to input the information.. Users continue to have the ability to pair with an existing SIMnet account by selecting the “Yes, sign in now” option:

Instructors can now view each of the Credentials earned in a particular class or by a particular student in the Course Manager.

To view all of the credentials that students have achieved in your course, select the course in the Classessection on the left navigation. In the actions menu select either Class Report or Snapshot. On the top of the page, select the Credentials tab. Each credential will be listed in alphabetical order by student. You can filter the credentials by student. Click on the Credential in the Credentialcolumn to view the credential with Accredible. Click the student’s name to view the student snapshot with the Credentialstab open. If the credential is an Achievement Credential earned from a project submission, you can click the link in the Issued From column to view the particular submission that earned the credential.

To see the credentials that a student has earned, either select the desired student from the Last Name, First Name column in the Course Snapshot; or select the student from the Students section on the left navigation and select the Credentials tab.

Clicking on the Credential brings the user to the Accredible page bearing the credential. Clicking on a Project submission in the Issued From column views the submission that earned the credential.

Learn more about Achievement Credentials here.

Learn more about Completion Credentials here.

Instructors can now review exams to determine how well students did on each question in two new report types.

The SLO Report by Objective report shows each Student Learning Objective (SLO) in an exam and calculates the Number Correct, Total Attempts and Percent Correct for each question. The SLO Report by Objective displays information about how well students have learned each learning objective.

The SLO Report by Question report breaks out each student learning objective into its individual questions. This provides more granular detail about how well students are answering each question in an exam. While some SLO may have only a single associated question, others have many. This view provides detail about where within an SLO students are being confused.

When setting up the SLO Report, instructors determine the desired campus and classes that should appear in the report. In the example below, the user wanted information about the 2016 Access 1 Exam for all classes at all campuses. Instructors can select the SLO Type to show: 2016 or 2019 Skills Approach, In Practice or Microsoft Office Specialist. Exam Status options allow results to show for Completed Exams, Saved Exams, In Progress Exams, or All. Selecting the Enable Date Range allows instructors to narrow the time frame for results.

Each of these options can be changed after running the report by clicking the Edit button in the upper right corner of the Report.

Auto, copy, and pair (ACP) is a learning management system (LMS) integration technology to create and integrate SIMnet classes based on a pre-configured master class.

By creating a single master class in SIMnet you can create all of your sections and integrate them at the same time.

ACP is available for all Canvas, Desire2Learn, and Blackboard assignment level integrations through McGraw-Hill Campus. At this time, Blackboard integrations do not automatically deploy assignment links into Blackboard. This feature is forthcoming.

To see more about how to create a master class and use ACP, click here.

SIMnet will be unavailable Sunday, June 9th, 2019 from 3AM-9AM Central time and Sunday, August 4th from 3AM-9AM Central time. We are performing routine maintenance to improve performance, reliability and security.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Sincerely,

SIMnet Product Team

Completion Credentials are now available for all users in SIMnet. Completion credentials are badges based on completing each Let Me Try interactivity in a SIMbook. Like our newly introduced competency credentials, completion credentials are a digital certificate that students can use in their social media websites or on their resumes to demonstrate proficiency in Microsoft Office products.

Students can now earn the White Belt credential for completing all of the Let Me Try questions for the introductory chapters, available in the Office level books. The Purple Belt credential is available for students who complete the advanced chapters of each application. For example, students can earn a White Belt for completing Skills Approach Word 2016 Chapters 1 through 5 and a Purple Belt for completing Chapters 6 through 9. These belts are in addition to the Yellow Belts that can be earned for achieving high marks on Project assignments associated with each chapter.

Students can earn progress toward a credential by completing assignments that require a Let Me Try interactivity, including Lessons, SIMpaths, and assigned SIMbooks as well as opening a book directly in the library.

Books that have the credential blue ribbon icon can be completed for a credential.

Completing all Let Me Try interactivities in the Office level of the SIMbook unlocks the White Belt credential.

Completing all Let Me Try interactivities in the advanced chapters of the SIMbook unlocks the Purple Belt credential.

Students can complete either credential without the other.

Students earned credentials are available in the SIMbook or in the Credentialssection of the Student Profile.

Earning a new credential allows users to claim it. Claiming a credential issues the credential so that users can share it on social media, make it searchable at the site, or post it to their online resume.

After claiming the credential, students can click the 4 icons available with each credential to do the following:

• View the credential details online with Accredible at credential.net

• Set the credential to public or private

• Update their credential

• Remove their credential from Accredible

The completion credential is set to require the Let Me Try by default. For students who do not use the Let Me Try, or may require other course adaptations, can complete the Show Me or Guide Me interactivities instead. Instructors can change this setting by editing a student’s information and changing the Library Credential Requirement.

To enable Completion credentials in SIMnet, your administrator should navigate to the Optionsmenu under Settingsand select the Enable Credentials On radio button.

SIMnet for Office 365 (2019 Edition) is nearing its full release date. SIMnet is prepared to make this transition smooth for you and your students. Starting today, instructors can preview our Office 2019 content, live, alongside all your other SIMnet content.

The live preview includes introductory Office level content for Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint, including SIMbooks, graded Projects, and simulated exam questions. Throughout the coming weeks, you will see additional content added to the live preview, chapter-by-chapter.

Improved Accessibility and New Features

• Project instructions are now provided in HTML5 instead of a PDF download. These instructions are shared directly with the SIMbook to ensure consistency. Users will no longer be able to lose points on their submission by following the wrong set of instructions.

• The relevant instructions, either for Mac or Windows, is automatically selected based on the user’s computer. Each project’s instructions includes the ability to switch between the two versions at any time.

• SIMnet for Office 2019 introduces improved Show Me and Guide Me interactivities whichintegrate more closely with the full Office simulation used in the Let Me Try. This ensures consistency across interactivities when implementing changes to support Microsoft Office 365 updates and improve the accessibility of Show Me and Guide Me interactivities.

Badging & Digital Credentials

Credentials are a digital certificate of achievement that students can post through social media or add to their resumes to display their mastery of Microsoft Office applications to future employers.These credentials can be used to display general mastery in an application, like Excel, or specific mastery through a Learning Object, like PivotTables.

Please review our competency-based digital credentials here.

In the coming weeks, stay tuned for more details on our achievement-driven badging enhancements.

To activate SIMnet for Office 2019 content to begin your instructor review, your site administrator needs to add SIMnet for Office 2019 to the Assigned Products window in the Products section of the Administration Settings on the left hand navigation in the course manager.

SIMnet will be unavailable Saturday, January 12th, 2019 from 3AM-9AM Central time. Due to an unexpected issue during the previous maintenance window we need to finalize the maintenance plan to ensure performance, reliability and security.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Sincerely,

SIMnet Product Team

New SIMnet Logo

SIMnet is proud to debut a new look to highlight its identity as a part of McGraw-Hill Education. This new look is available throughout SIMnet, including new sign in pages and loading screens.

New Student Profile Pages

In part of the SIMnet effort to roll out digital credentials, the student profile page became more difficult for users to successfully navigate. In order to make it easier for students to view their login information, the products they’ve purchased, the courses they are enrolled in and the credentials they’ve earned, each of these sections have been given their own tab.

The Profile tab shows the student name, email, username, user ID, and Student ID. On this page students can change their password or enable a high-contrast theme to make SIMnet easier to view for some users.

The Products tab shows each user the products that they are currently licensed to use. They can use this section to buy additional licenses online or register with a product they’ve purchased separately.

The Courses tab allows students to see which courses they are registered for. Depending on the campus settings users can add a course or remove themselves from a course.

The Credentials tab displays the credentials that students have earned. By viewing the student credit wallet, students can elect to display the credentials they have earned in various social media settings, even adding their earned credentials to their resume via LinkedIn.

SIMnet will be unavailable Sunday, December 30th, 2018 from 3AM-9AM Central time. We are performing routine maintenance to improve performance, reliability and security.

Sincerely,

SIMnet Product Team

2016 Level 3 Capstone Projects can now be set by instructors to earn Digital Credentials.

Credentials are a digital certificate of achievement that students can post through social media or add to their resumes to display their mastery of Microsoft Office applications to future employers.These credentials can be used to display general mastery in an application, like Excel, or specific mastery through a Learning Object, like PivotTables.

To enable Digital Credentials in SIMnet, a school administrator should navigate to theSettingssection underAdministrationon the Left Navigation. On the settings page they should select theEnable Credentials Onradio button and click theSavebutton.

Once an administrator enables Digital Credentials for their school’s SIMnet URL, instructors may elect to set a threshold for achieving a Credential between 90% and 100%. If a student achieves the required score, they may then display that information publicly through their Profile page for their classmates or future employers. When they opt-in to sharing that information, the credential earned, and the performance on the individual skills earned may be viewed by the public. Students may also elect to opt-out at any time by Deleting their Credential.

These capstone projects can earn users a Yellow Belt in each Office application, Access, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. We will be releasing additional credentials for students to earn, from additional assignment types. Students will be able to earn and share White Belts, Purple Belts, and Black Belts in coming months.

To view the current list of credentials in SIMnet, go tohttps://certificates.simnetonline.com/

New Details in Student View

TheStudentsview in the Course Manager has been updated to include more data at a glance. New columns include:

• Paired, which denotes whether or not a student has been paired to your school’s LMS

• Type,to easily note the type of access each student has, includingFull,Courtesy,Single Module, Proficiency, andUnregistered.

• *Last Name, First Name,*this column is a consolidation of theLast NameandFirst Name columns, which were previously separated.

• Missing Licenses, this column requires clicking theShow Missing Licenses Columnat the top of theStudentssection. If a student is missing licenses, the column will display a link,Details, that will bring you to a page with more specific information. If the column is blank, the student is not missing any information.

• On the Actions menu, you can now quickly break Blackboard or MH Campus pairings.

The Drop-down filter menus for each column type have also been improved to include selections in the PairedandTypefilter menus for an easier exact match.

Streamlined Navigation

The Left-hand navigation has been enhanced to streamline navigation within the Course Manager. The Right Arrows on the edge of the Left-hand navigation allow you to expand the submenu and navigate directly to the desired location.

Previously, to view the Class Organizer, users would need to load theManagesection and then load theOrganizeselection once the Manage selection had loaded. Now, clicking theManage right arrowexpands the selection and allows users to click directly on theOrganizeselection.

Flagging Late Resource Submissions

Users can now tell at a glance if a Resource submission is late with the newSubmitted Latecolumn. Resource files that have been submitted late have a clock icon in theSubmitted Latecolumn.

This issue was resolved as of 1:00PM Central time.

As of 10:50AM Central time on 10/25/2018 students began receiving a timeout error when trying to upload project and resource submissions. This issue is ongoing and we are working with our hosting partner to resolve this issue ASAP. We do not have an estimated time to resolution available at this time.

We appreciate your patience and apologize for the inconvenience. Should you or your students experience any other issues, please contact our Customer Experience Group toll-free at 800-331-5094 (US Only).

Sincerely, SIMnet Product Team

Instructors can now review, grade, provide feedback for, and upload a response file to a student submission in a single step.

To review resource submissions, navigate to theSubmissionssection of theResourcesmenu option on the left hand navigation. Submissions are organized by course and section. They can then be filtered by assignment using theItem drop-down menu and by feedback status in theFeedback Provideddrop-down menu.

To grade a student submission and provide feedback, click theActionsdrop-down menu for the desired student submission and clickGrade Submissionto bring up theGrade Submission and Provide Feedbackwindow.

From this screen instructors can download the desired file by clicking theSubmissionlink; grade the file by filling in theGradebook Gradeblank; provide feedback in theFeedback Commentblank; and upload a feedback file usingChoose Filebutton in theFeedback Filesection. ClickSave All Changesto complete the window.

Submission grades automatically apply to all attempts made by a student for that assignment.

On September 24th, Microsoft announced that it is making Office 2019 available to a limited set of customers today, and to all customers in the coming weeks. Office 2019 will be available to Mac and Windows users simultaneously.

Office 2019 is Microsoft’s newly available “on premises” version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, and other applications. This means that Office 2019 does not include access to any cloud-based applications or storage. Office 2019 is a one-time purchase that will not receive any updates outside of security patches. The new features available in Office 2019 that were not included in Office 2016 are updates that are already available to Office 365 subscribers.

The “on premises” label contrasts with Microsoft’s primary Office version, Office 365. Office 365 is a subscription service that receives regular feature upgrades and new functionality. Office 365 offers cloud based services to edit and save Office files from multiple locations. Users pay monthly or annual fees to access Microsoft’s products and receive ongoing support and investment.

SIMnet will continue to support both the on-premises offerings from Microsoft and Office 365.

To learn more application-level specifics from Microsoft, please visit their announcement athttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2018/09/24/office-2019-is-now-available-for-windows-and-mac/

An unexpected issue occurred with the content origin that supplies SIMbook and Lesson content. This issue occurred from 7:50 AM – 9:10AM Central, Wednesday, September 5th. Students may have received a blue screen or a 404 not found message.

We appreciate your patience and apologize for the inconvenience. Should you or your students experience any other issues, please contact our Customer Experience Group toll-free at 800-331-5094 (US Only).

Sincerely, SIMnet Product Team

RESOLVED. The Buy Online option in SIMnet regained full functionality around 6:15PM Eastern on September 4th. Currently, Microsoft Azure is still reporting there is a potential for service disruption, but our monitors indicate all services remain online and available.

A weather related event caused an issue with the hosting provider that powers the Buy Online option in SIMnet. This issue will prevent students from buying access for their accounts until services have been restored. All courtesy access students have received a 2-day extension if their courtesy access expired after August 30th.

Please monitor the Microsoft Azure Status page for the US South Central Region for status updates:https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/

We appreciate your patience and apologize for the inconvenience. Should you or your students experience any other issues, please contact our Customer Experience Group toll-free at 800-331-5094 (US Only).

Sincerely, SIMnet Product Team

Due to an unexpected issue some students may have incorrectly received a “missing modules” error from on Tuesday, September 4th, 2018 from 4:30PM – 5:10PM Eastern time. This issue would have prevented students from completing SIMnet 2016 assignments during this timeframe. Students may need to logout of SIMnet prior to attempting another assignment.

We appreciate your patience and apologize for the inconvenience. Should you or your students experience any other issues, please contact our Customer Experience Group toll-free at 800-331-5094 (US Only).

Sincerely, SIMnet Product Team

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 toSettings, clickProducts, and then add or remove products, likeSIMnet for Office 2016, as needed.

To manage the textbook filters available to instructors when creating lessons and exams, go toSettings, clickTextbooks, and then add or remove textbooks as needed. If you use campuses, be sure to select the correct campus from the drop-down list at the top of the page.

To control the eCommerce options available to your students, go toAdministrative Settings, clickeCommerceand then add or remove products as appropriate. The products available for eCommerce are controlled by theProductssettings.

In the U.S., eCommerce settings can be further controlled at the class level.The eCommerce options that are available to the campus can further be reduced for each class.

If your school has inclusive access, please review the number of available codes at your school to ensure that there will be enough for the semester. To review the number of available codes go toAdministrative Settingsand clickDetails.

The SIMnet sign in page has been updated to make signing into- and signing up for- SIMnet simple. New students will be able to gain access to SIMnet and all users will access SIMnet Support more easily.

The new design divides the sign in page into three main areas. TheExisting Userssection, on the left, is for standard sign in for users who are registered and have the codes that they need.

TheNew Userssection has been created to make it clearer to new users how to get access to SIMnet. This section allows users to buy codes online, register using a code purchased previously, or temporarily register using courtesy access as best fits the needs of the new user.

TheHelp & Supportsection brings the links included in theSupportarea below the main window and makes them more accessible to all users. This section helps new and returning users determine if their computer meets SIMnet requirements with theSystem Requirementslink. TheTechnical Supportoption links SIMnet users with support personnel while theSIMnet Instant Helpoption allows users to search through an array of SIMnet topics.

Skill Set Navigation allows students to move directly from one interactivity to the next in SIMbooks, Lessons and SIMpaths. Once the student has opened a new Show Me, Guide Me, or Let Me Try interactivity in a SIMbook, Lesson, or SIMpath, the Skill Set Navigation feature will be displayed in the upper right corner of the window.

Students can move directly from one interactivity to the next without returning to the previous window. Selecting the Show Me, Guide Me, or Let Me Try link will bring the student to that location. Upon completing the Show Me, Guide Me, or Let Me Try, the new interactivity will be displayed with a check mark.

The Left and Right arrows next to the Show Me, Guide Me, and Let Me Try links move the student forward or backward in the assignment. The student can complete the assignment directly from this window.

Skill Set Navigation is available by default. To turn off Skill Set Navigation edit the assignment preferences either from the assignment itself or from the Organizer. Uncheck theEnable skill set navigationcheck mark to disable the feature.

Instructors can now directly download Online Learning Center (OLC) files from the Course Manager without needing to view the SIMbook via SIMstudent.

To download OLC content directly from the Course Manager, open the desired SIMbook by selectingSIMbookson the left navigation and selecting the desired SIMbook. Click theActionsdrop-down menu for the desired SIMbook chapter and selectDownload OLC Content.

You may select individual content types like the Instructor Manual or Let Me Try Data Files or all OLC content by checking the desired box or theSelect Allbox. Once you have selected the desired content, click theDownload Selected Filesbutton.

Instructors can select between downloading the files Nested or Flat. Nested files will have sub-folders for each content type. Flat downloads will have files in a single folder. When you have selected the type of files you would like to download, click theDownload OLC filesbutton.

Due to an unexpected issue relating to a new feature release, SIMnet was unavailable on Wednesday May 30th from 5:45 AM to 6:30 AM Central time. Also, some students may have received an error message when loading Lessons or SIMbooks until 7:15 AM Central.

We appreciate your patience and apologize for the inconvenience. Should you or your students experience any other issues, please contact our Customer Experience Group toll-free at 800-331-5094 (US Only).

Sincerely, SIMnet Product Team

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 viewed from a student’s project submission by selecting the desired student and viewing their submission through the student report or by selecting the desired project and selecting the desired student.

Instructors can view how a student fared on each learning objective within a project by selecting theObjectives Reportlink to view the Student Objectives report. The report lists each Student Learning Objective in the project and scores the student on each objective.

Projects from the Skills Approach series show the Skills Approach learning objects, marked SA. Projects from the In Practice series show the In Practice learning objects, marked IP. Capstones and Integrated projects show both In Practice and Skills Approach learning objects. Capstone projects also can display MOS certification learning objects. To switch between objectives, select theSet of Objectivesdrop-down menu and select the desired learning objects to display.

Instructors may elect to turn off the SLO view by clicking theSet of Objectivesdrop-down menu and selectDo Not Display.

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

Time On Task Report

You can now access data on the cumulative time students have spent on task categories. This information gives instructors a simple snapshot of how much time the student has spent in SIMnet.

This information can be cumulative for all courses that a student has taken in SIMnet or it can be divided by Course and by Group within a course.

There are multiple ways to view the Time on Task data.

• On the Left Navigation, selectStudents. Locate the desired student and, in the actions menu, selectSnapshot,Print Snapshot,Edit/AssignorStudent Report. Select theTime on Tasktab to view the report.

• On the Left Navigation selectReports. Either select a previously createdStudent Overviewreport type from theFilter by Report Typedrop-down menu or selectCreatefrom the Left Navigation and create a new Student Overview report.

You can export this data from the Student Overview Report to Excel. View the Student Overview Report and, in theActionsdrop-down menu, selectExport Time On Task.

Note: Time spent on Projects and Resources calculates the time spent between downloading the project and uploading the completed file. This data is an accurate accounting of time spent by students who complete their project or resource in a single sitting. However it will show a large total number if the student completes their project or resource over multiple days which is less likely to accurately reflect time actually spent working on the file.

Create Lessons or Exams from Project Student Learning Objective

Instructors can now create new Lessons, Lesson Templates, Exams, Exam Templates, Practice Exams, and Practice Exam Templates directly from individual projects. Content created using this method contains all of the required skills to complete the project and only that material.

To create content from the Student Learning Objectives within a particular project, navigate to the desired project in theProjectssection on the Left Navigation. In theActionsmenu, select the desired option from the drop-down menu.

Once you have selected the desired content, you will be prompted to save the content under a unique name. After saving the content you can review the content to add or remove individual Student Learning Objectives before assigning the content to courses or individual students.

This feature is available with all projects that havestudent learning objectives identification.

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, selectManagein the left-hand navigation. Locate the class to be copied and in theActionsmenu selectCopy to Class.

In theSchedulingsection, deselect theEnable Schedule by Datescheck box and select theShift Schedule by Number of Daysbox. Select the number of days to shift the course by in theNumber of days to update dates for learning objectsbox. You shift the dates of the copied course forward or backward by 730 days, equivalent to 2 years.

Bulk Updates to Assignment Grades

Instructors can now update all grades within a class for a single assignment at once. Instructors canAddas many points as they like, with or without a point cutoff. Instructors canSubtractas points up to a zero result. Instructors can change grades to beSet toa specified amount. All selected grades can automatically be set toMaxorZeropoints as well.

In addition, all grades that have had changes applied to them can beResetto unlock the grades or reset all grades to adash. These two options will not automatically apply to all selected students but only students who meet the criteria of having a grade changed and locked or having an automatic process reset the grades from dash to zero. Resetting the dash back to a zero is especially useful if an instructor needs to change the due date of an assignment that has already passed its original due date.

To apply bulk updates, select theGradebookfrom the left navigation and select the desired class. From the loaded gradebook select the desired column and click theView Detailsbutton on the right pane.

Once the button is selected each of the students in the class will be listed vertically.

Select the desired students individually, or all students in the class by clicking theNamecheckbox. Once names are selected, theAdjust Selected Gradesbutton will become available to select.

Click theAdjust Selected Gradesbutton to bring up theAdjustmentwindow.

Select the desired change and clickApply.

Once you selectApplya message will ask you to confirm adjustment and then inform you as to how many of the selected grades will be changed. All grades will be changed except for the last two selections which are context dependent.

Calculated Columns

Selecting the columns involved in a column calculation has been improved. You can now select columns from a list and more easily see which ones have been added.

To view which columns are involved in a calculation, from the gradebook, click theGradebook Actions & Settingsbutton to view theColumnsin the gradebook. Select a calculated column or click theCreatebutton and selectCalculated.

To view the new options click theView/Editbutton in the lower right corner of theEdit Columnssection.

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 Data – Excel Spreadsheet dialog box.

Updated text: 6a. Click the New Data Source button [ External Data tab, Import & Link group] select From File and then select Excel to launch the Get External Data – Excel Spreadsheet dialog box.

Access 2016 In Practice – Ch 8 Guided Project 8-1

Original text: 5a. Click the Excel button [ External Data tab, Import & Link group]. The Get External Data – Excel Spreadsheet dialog box launches.

Updated text: 5.a. Click the New Data Source button [ External Data tab, Import & Link group] select From File and then select Excel to launch the Get External Data – Excel Spreadsheet dialog box.

Original text: 8. a. Click the Text File button [ External Data tab, Import & Link group]. The Get External Data – Text File dialog box launches.

Updated text: 8.a. Click the New Data Source button [ External Data tab, Import & Link group] select From File and then select Text File to launch the Get External Data – Text File dialog box.

Access 2016 In Practice – Ch 8 Independent Project 8-4

Original text: 4.a. Click the XML File button to import a file.

Updated text: 4.a. Click the New Data Source button [ External Data tab, Import & Link group] select From File and then select XML File to launch the Get External Data – XML File dialog box.

Original text: 7.a. Click the XML File button to import a file.

Updated text: 7.a. Click the New Data Source button [ External Data tab, Import & Link group] select From File and then select XML File to launch the Get External Data – XML File dialog box.

Access 2016 In Practice – Ch 8 Independent Project 8-6

Original text: 5.a. Click the Text File button to import a file.

Updated text: 5.a. Click the New Data Source button [ External Data tab, Import & Link group] select From File and then select Text File to launch the Get External Data – Text File dialog box.

Access 2016 Skills Approach – Ch 4 Skill Review 4.2

*Original Text:*12 a. On the External Data tab, in the Import & Link group, click the Text File button.

*Updated Text:*12a. (Alternate image) On the External Data tab, in the Import & Link group, click the New Data Source button, point to From File and select Text File.

Excel

Excel 2016 In Practice – Ch 2 Guided Project 2-3 – The instruction text for step 6a is corrected.

Original text: Click cell B13. The beginning balance is the total cost of the loan.

Corrected text: Click cell B13. The beginning balance is the loan amount.

Excel 2016 In Practice – Ch 4 Guided Project 4-3 – Alternate instructions have been added to the instructions for using the Advanced Filter option.

[ Alt Icon ] In some versions of Office, the above instructions to create an Advanced Filter may not work. If you experience this issue, complete instructions 6. a-e as listed below, then continue with instruction 6.f-l above.

1. Create an Advanced Filter.

2. Click the Criteria sheet tab.

3. Type >Dec 2016 in cell A3 to find records after 2016.

4. Type mri in cell B3.

5. Type >Dec 2014 in cell A4 to find records after 2014.

6. Type ct scan in cell B4. This criteria will find records dated 2017 or later for MRIs and records for CT scans after 2014.

Excel 2016 In Practice – Ch 6 Independent Project 6-5 – An alternate answer string for the Comma style with zero decimals is added to the grading.

PowerPoint

PowerPoint 2016 Capstone – Level 3 Creating a Company’s Presentation – Due to a recent update for the Mac version, the Retrospect theme is no longer available with variants. The project has been updated to use the Badge theme.

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 the document to differentiate which platform (Mac or Windows) was used to edit it. This causes a grading issue for a subset of graded Word Projects for Office 2013 and 2016 because SIMnet does not know which grading instructions to use (Mac or Windows).

The SIMnet Projects team is hard at work developing a solution to differentiate between Mac and Windows for these graded projects. We are targeting February 9 as the release date for the resolution of this issue.

Until the fix is available, all projects submitted with the latest version of Mac Word will have theApplication Usedlisted as Microsoft Windows Word instead of Microsoft Macintosh Word. Furthermore, students using Mac Word may not receive appropriate credit on some instructions in the affected projects.

The following projects may experience inconsistent grading when submitted with the latest version of Mac Word:

2016 Projects: Word 2016 Skills Approach – Ch 3 Skill Review 3.2 Word 2016 Skills Approach – Ch 3 Challenge Yourself 3.4 Word 2016 Skills Approach – Ch 3 Challenge Yourself 3.4 ALT Word 2016 Skills Approach – Ch 3 Fix It 3.6 Word 2016 Skills Approach – Ch 5 Skill Review 5.1 Word 2016 Skills Approach – Ch 5 Challenge Yourself 5.3 Word 2016 Skills Approach – Ch 5 Challenge Yourself 5.3 ALT Word 2016 Skills Approach – Ch 5 Fix it 5.6 Word 2016 Skills Approach – Ch 7 Skill Review 7.1 Word 2016 Skills Approach – Ch 7 Challenge Yourself 7.4 Word 2016 Skills Approach – Ch 9 Skill Review 9.1 Word 2016 Skills Approach – Ch 9 Challenge Yourself 9.4 Word 2016 In Practice – Ch 2 Guided Project 2-1 Word 2016 In Practice – Ch 2 Independent Project 2-4 Word 2016 In Practice – Ch 3 Guided Project 3-1 Word 2016 In Practice – Ch 3 Independent Project 3-5 Word 2016 In Practice – Ch 3 Independent Project 3-5 ALT Word 2016 In Practice – Ch 3 Independent Project 3-6 Word 2016 In Practice – Ch 5 Guided Project 5-3 Word 2016 In Practice – Ch 8 Independent Project 8-4 Word 2016 In Practice – Ch 9 Independent Project 9-4 Word 2016 In Practice – Ch 10 Independent Project 10-4 Word 2016 In Practice – Ch 10 Independent Project 10-6 Word 2016 Project Learn – Ch 2 Review Project 2.3 Word 2016 Capstone – Level 1 Formatting a Document Word 2016 Capstone – Level 2 Writing a Research Paper Word 2016 Capstone – Level 3 Writing a Research Paper

2013 Projects Word 2013 Skills Approach – Ch 3 Skill Review 3.1 Word 2013 Skills Approach – Ch 3 Challenge Yourself 3.4 Word 2013 Skills Approach – Ch 5 Fix it 5.6 Word 2013 Skills Approach – Ch 7 Challenge Yourself 7.3 Word 2013 Skills Approach – Ch 9 Skill Review 9.1 Word 2013 Skills Approach – Ch 9 Challenge Yourself 9.4 Word 2013 In Practice – Ch 2 Independent Project 2-4 Word 2013 In Practice – Ch 3 Improve It Project 3-7 Word 2013 In Practice – Ch 8 Guided Project 8-1 Word 2013 In Practice – Ch 8 Independent Project 8-4 Word 2013 In Practice – Ch 9 Independent Project 9-4 Word 2013 In Practice – Ch 10 Independent Project 10-4 Word 2013 In Practice – Ch 10 Independent Project 10-6 O’Leary Word 2013 – Lab 2-1 Creating a Handout O’Leary Word 2013 – Lab 2-2 Dog Park Rules O’Leary Word 2013 – Lab 3-1 Improving a Report Word 2013 Capstone – Level 1 Formatting a Document Word 2013 Capstone – Level 2 Writing a Research Paper Word 2013 Capstone – Level 3 Writing a Research Paper

Sincerely, SIMnet Product Team

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 for Administrators and Full Instructors to limit the availability of ecommerce products based on content required for their course. Follow these steps to limit the direct ecommerce offers in your course:

• Login to the Course Manager

• Click Classes, Manage

• Find your class, click Edit/Assign from the Actions Menu

• Click the eCommerce button at the top of the page

• To limit the list of products, place one or more check marks next to each product you would like available to your course. If the product required for your course isn’t listed please contact the SIMnet Administrator.

• Click Save.

Note, the direct ecommerce feature is only available for schools located in the US.

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 subscription service from Microsoft that gives you the most up-to-date versions of the Office applications. Office 365 is not limited to the free Office Online apps. You use your Office 365 subscription to download and install the full versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and, depending on your subscription, Access. There are Office 365 plans available for home and personal use as well as school and business. Depending on the type of Office 365 subscription you have, you will receive feature updates monthly or twice a year.

Microsoft also sells Office 2016 as a one-time purchase that allows you to install Office on a single computer. If you purchase Office 2016 this way, you will not receive feature updates.

If you are unsure which version of Office you have, open any Office file (or create a new blank file). Click the File tab to open Backstage view. Click Account or Help from the list at the left of the screen. Your Office installation information will be listed on the next screen.Refer to Microsoft formore information.

What Features have been updated?

The updates to Microsoft Office 365 include:

Triad will be updating the relevant SIMnet content on Friday, January 12th. The two day interval allows us to review the Microsoft Office update to ensure that stated changes have successfully been incorporated for all Office 365 users. When SIMnet users come across a SIMbook page that contains content from the Office 365 update, the following icon will be displayed at the top of the page:

This icon indicates that there are changes to the content of the SIMbook page and to the affiliated interactive parts on that page including the Show Me, Guide Me, and Let Me Try questions. SIMpath and Exam questions that cover this content are updated as well.

For users who are using the non-Office 365 version of Microsoft Office 2016, Project instructions will contain alternate instructions that those users should follow. Each step that has an alternate instruction contains the following logo and the alternate instruction directly below the primary instruction.

Further Reading

To read more about the Semi-Annual and other update channels, refer to Microsoft formore information. For SIMnet users, we recommend using the Semi-Annual update channel.

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 new names.

• SmartArt colors

• WordArt names

In general, SIMnet’s Office simulation was updated to match the following changes to the Office interface. Where appropriate, SIMbook learning content, simulated exam question hints, and autograded Project instructions were updated as well.

• Insert tab, Illustrations group > Icons button (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

• References tab, Research group (new group) (Word)

• View tab, Page Movement group(new group) (Word)

• Spelling task pane >Ignorebutton changed toIgnore Once(Word)

• Grammar task pane >Ignorebutton changed toIgnore Once(Word)

• Insert tab, Charts group > Maps button (Excel)

• Data tab, Get & Transform Data group (new group) (Excel)

• Data tab, Queries & Connections group (new group) (Excel)

• Home tab, Font group > Text Highlighting button (PowerPoint)

• Insert tab, Links group > Summary Zoom button (PowerPoint)

The following feature updates have been made to SIMbook learning materials (including Show Me, Guide Me, and Let Me Try exercises), simulated exam questions, and autograded Projects.

Feature Change: New Help Task Pane

SIMbook Page

• Overview 2016 In Practice – Guided Project Intro-2

• Overview 2016 A Skills Approach – Skill 1.7 Using Help

Project Assignment

• No Changes Required

Feature Change: Smart LookUp Moved toReferencesTab

SIMbook Page

• Overview 2016 A Skills Approach – Skill 1.8 Using Smart Lookup

• Word 2016 In Practice, Chapter 1 – 1-7 Using Smart Lookup and Proofreading Tools

• Word 2016 In Practice, Chapter 1 – Pause & Practice: Word 1-3

• Word 2016 In Practice, Chapter 1 – Guided Project 1-1

• Word 2016 In Practice, Chapter 1 – Independent Project 1-4

• Word 2016 In Practice, Chapter 1 – Independent Project 1-6

Project Assignment

• Word 2016 In Practice, Chapter 1 – Independent Project 1-4

Feature Change: Hyperlinks changed to Links

SIMbook Page

• Word 2016 In Practice, Chapter 2 – 2-9 Using Borders, Shading, and Hyperlinks

• Word 2016 In Practice, Chapter 2 – Pause & Practice: Word 2-4

• Word 2016 In Practice, Chapter 2 – Guided Project 2-3

• Word 2016 A Skills Approach, Chapter 3 – Skill 3.13 Inserting Hyperlinks

• Word 2016 A Skills Approach, Chapter 3 – Skill Review 3.2

• Excel 2016 In Practice, Chapter 5 – 5-7 Inserting Hyperlinks in a Worksheet

• Excel 2016 In Practice, Chapter 5 – Chapter Summary 5-7

• Excel 2016 In Practice, Chapter 5 – Pause & Practice: Excel 5-3

• Excel 2016 In Practice, Chapter 5 – Guided Project 5-1

• Excel 2016 In Practice, Chapter 5 – Guided Project 5-2

• Excel 2016 A Skills Approach, Chapter 9 – Skill 9.11 Inserting Hyperlinks

• PowerPoint 2016 In Practice, Chapter 5 – 5.2 Adding Hyperlinks and Action Buttons

• PowerPoint 2016 A Skills Approach, Chapter 5 – Skill 4.5 Adding Hyperlinks to Slides

• PowerPoint 2016 A Skills Approach, Chapter 5 – Skill Review 4.1

• PowerPoint 2016 A Skills Approach, Chapter 5 – Skill 5.5 Adding Hyperlinks to a Web Site

• PowerPoint 2016 A Skills Approach, Chapter 5 – Skill Review 5.2

• PowerPoint 2016 ProjectLearn, Chapter 3 – Objective 3 Apply Hyperlinks

Project Assignment

• Excel 2016 Skills Approach, Chapter 9 – Skill Review 9.2

Feature Change: Modified Online Pictures

SIMbook Page

• Word 2016 In Practice, Chapter 4 – 4.5 Working with Graphics

• Word 2016 A Skills Approach, Chapter 4 – Skill 4.3 Inserting Online Pictures

• Word 2016 A Skills Approach, Chapter 4 – Concept Review question #8

• Word 2016 A Skills Approach, Chapter 4 – Skill Review 4.1

• Word 2016 A Skills Approach, Chapter 4 – Skill Review 4.2

• Word 2016 A Skills Approach, Chapter 4 – Challenge Yourself 4.3

• Word 2016 A Skills Approach, Chapter 4 – On Your Own 4.5

• PowerPoint 2016 In Practice, Chapter 2- 2.3 How To: Search for and Insert a Picture or Illustration

• PowerPoint 2016 In Practice, Chapter 2 – Pause & Practice: PowerPoint 2-1

• PowerPoint 2016 In Practice, Chapter 2 – Chapter Summary 2.3

• PowerPoint 2016 In Practice, Chapter 2 – Guided Project 2-2

• PowerPoint 2016 A Skills Approach, Chapter 2 – Skill 2.14 Adding Online Pictures

• PowerPoint 2016 A Skills Approach, Chapter 2 – Skill Review 2.2

Project Assignment

• No Changes Required

Feature Change: Change Picture Command New Dialog

SIMbook Page

• Word 2016 In Practice, Chapter 7 – 7-4 Working with Pictures

• Word 2016 A Skills Approach, Chapter 8 – Skill 8.17 Changing Pictures

• PowerPoint 2016 In Practice, Chapter 4 – 4-5 How To: Change a Picture

• PowerPoint 2016 In Practice, Chapter 4 – Independent Project 4-5

Project Assignment

• No Changes Required

Feature Change: Import Wizards Removed; New Process to Import Data into Excel

SIMbook Page

• Excel 2016 In Practice, Chapter 4 – SLO 4-6 Importing Data

• Excel 2016 In Practice, Chapter 4 – Chapter Summary 4-6

• Excel 2016 In Practice, Chapter 4 – Pause & Practice: Excel 4-3

• Excel 2016 In Practice, Chapter 4 – Guided Project 4-1

• Excel 2016 In Practice, Chapter 4 – Guided Project 4-2

• Excel 2016 In Practice, Chapter 4 – Guided Project 4-3

• Excel 2016 In Practice, Chapter 4 – Independent Project 4-4

• Excel 2016 Skills Approach, Chapter 9 – Skill 9.1 Importing Data from Access

• Excel 2016 Skills Approach, Chapter 9 – Skill 9.2 Importing Data from a Text File

• Excel 2016 Skills Approach, Chapter 9 – Skill Review 9.1

• Excel 2016 Skills Approach, Chapter 9 – Skill Review 9.2

Project Assignment

• Excel 2016 In Practice, Chapter 4 – Guided Project 4-3

• Excel 2016 Skills Approach, Chapter 9 – Skill Review 9.2

SIMnet now supports the same style ofAcademic Integrity DetectionforResourcefiles 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 portions of another student’s work into their own file.

To use the SIMnet Academic Integrity Detection for resource files, first upload your resource file to SIMnet from theCreateoption in theResourcessection. Academic integrity detection is only available forFiles, notLinks. When assigning the resource to a course there is a new section in theAssignment Detailspane for resources:

In theAssignment Preferences section, select theEnable Student Submissionscheck box to enable the Academic Integrity Detection options further down in the same section. Select theEnable Integrity Detection for the Start Fileto enable Academic Integrity Detection in your Resource file. If you would like to block students from uploading a file if they are submitting another student’s file or a file containing portions of another student’s work, leave theAllow Student Submissions with Integrity Violationcheck box blank. If you would like to allow students to submit a file with work that is not their own, check theAllow Student Submissions with Integrity Violationcheck box.

To view Resource submissions, click onResourceson the left menu and selectSubmissions. In theClassdrop-down menu select your class. You can view all submissions from this view or further filter by the individual resourceItemor by theFeedback Provided. This view now includes an additional column,Integrity Violation Status:

Files that only include the submitting students data are markedOK. Files that include data that does not belong to the student are marked with the Integrity Violation shield icon. Click on that icon to view theAcademic Integrity Violation Report. This report details where the data that does not belong to the submitting student originated.

Instructors may elect toSuppressan Integrity Violation. Clicking theSuppressbutton in theAcademic Integrity Violation Reportcauses the Integrity Violation icon in the Submissions section to become gray and theIntegrity Violationicon in the gradebook to be removed. Suppressed integrity violations can be flagged again at any time by viewing the violation report and clicking theFlagbutton.

Instructors can nowDownload All Submissionsfor resource files with the click of a button. In theSubmissionsview of theResourcessection, select the desired class. In the top right corner of theResultssection click theDownload All Submissionsbutton to download all of the submissions in the current view, including any appliedItemorFeedbackfilters.

TheBulk Download window guides instructors through downloading currently submitted resource files. To view each file organized in subfolders according to assignment and then student, select theNested (with folders)radio button and clickDownload Submissions. Files downloaded in this manner are named according to their attempt number, student ID, student name, and submission name.

To view each file all in a single folder, select theFlat (no folders)radio button and clickDownload Submissions. Files downloaded in this manner are named according to the item name, student name, student ID, attempt number and submission name.