Topics on viewing, editing, and assigning Projects.
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How to create a Lesson from a Project's Objectives
You can 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.
Navigate to the desired project in the Projects section on the Left Navigation. In the Actions menu, select the desired option from the drop-down menu.
Enter a unique name.
Click the Next button to save the new content.
Review the content to add or remove individual Student Learning Objectives. Assign the new content to a course or a student.
Note: Creating Lessons, Lesson Templates, SIMnet Exam - Scenario A, SIMnet Exam - Scenario A Templates, SIMnet Exam - Scenario B, or SIMnet Exam - Scenario B Templates from Projects all use the same steps for creation.
How to Edit and Assign Projects
You can edit the rubric of a Project and/or assign the Project to a specific class or student by selecting the Edit/Assign option in the Actions Menu for the Lesson you want to change.
Click the Projects section to navigate to the main page.
Expand the Actions Menu for the Project you want to edit and select Edit/Assign to navigate to the Class Assignments tab.
Select the desired Level 3 Capstone project from Access, Excel, PowerPoint or Word and assign it to either a class and/or a student. In the Project Assignment Details window, check the Credentials box and set the grading threshold (90% or greater) the student must earn in order to achieve the credential.
Setting assignment preferences for Projects
When you click the Add button to assign a project to a class or individual student, the Project Assignment Details window will appear where you can set several preferences for the assignment.
Select the Show Assignment checkbox so the Project appears in the student portal. When unchecked, the Project will not be visible for students regardless of scheduling options.
Select the Enable Schedule by Dates to set a start date, due date, and/or end date for the assignment. By default, the assignment has this option enabled, with the current date and time as the Start Date. You must either set an End Date or disable scheduling to save the assignment. You can type in the Start Date, Due Date or End Date box, or click the Date Picker icon to select a date or time. After setting a Due Date click the Down Arrow to use the same value for the End Date.
If desired, you can set a Delay Results Until date. This will only allow students to see their project results on or after the date and time you specify.
Click the Day of Week Schedule bar to expand the options for restricting the assignment to certain days of the week. You can also click the check box(es) under Specific Time to specify times for each day
Set the number of Attempts a student has to submit the project for grading.
Select Enable Timer to create a timed project. You can select All Attempts which uses 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. Your other option is selecting Each Attempt which allow users a separate block of time for each attempt provided by the instructor. Once the timer on a timed project reaches zero, students will no longer be able to submit their project.
Select the Display Visual Feedback checkbox and set the attempt to display it after submission. If you leave this unchecked, then the visual feedback will not display for the project.
Edit the Display Incorrect Feedback number to delay incorrect feedback data on the left side of the student Project Results page until the number of attempts has been passed.
Select the Allow Student Submissions with Integrity Violation checkbox to permit students to submit files with integrity violations. Files with integrity violations are flagged in the gradebook. If this option is disabled, students will receive a warning message and are unable to submit their file for grading.
Set of Objectives displays the book the project student learning objectives are mapped.
Select the desired Rubric to use with the assignment. The Original rubric is selected by default. You may change the rubric to a custom rubric, if one is created.
Select the Show Column in Gradebook checkbox to include a column for the lesson in the Gradebook and allow SIMnet to automatically record the grade.
In the Late Submission Deduction for each late drop-down box select from Assignment, Day, or Hour to assess a late submission deduction each time that option passes. The late Assignment option is only assessed if the assignment is late at all. The late Day option is assessed for each day the user submits their assignment after the Due Date. The late Hour option is assessed each hour the user submits their assignmetn after the Due Date.
Set a number in the Late Submission Deduction box to determine which percentage of the assignment points will be deducted from the student's score if the assignment is submitted after the due date.
Set the Lowest Possible Grade for Late Submission to set a floor for late submission deductions. Grades below that threshold will not receive additional penalties for being late. Grades above that threshold will receive penalties until they have crossed that threshold. The value of the lowest possible grade must be low enough for at least a single Late Submission Deduction.
Select a Points option to determine how the grade will be recorded in the Gradebook. Select Assignment Default points to show the grade with the default point allowances where each question in the Project will be worth one point. Select Override Points to enter the number of points you would like the Project to be worth. SIMnet will automatically calculate the worth of each question when calculating the grade.
Click the Display Type and/or the Calculation Type menus to select how the grade will display and be calculated in the Gradebook.
Type a password in the Password box to require a password for this assignment only.
Expand the Click to modify IP Filter bar to restrict the project to be available from specific IP addresses only.
Click the Save button to assign the project with specific preferences.
Click the Cancel button to close the dialog without assigning the project.
The Class Assignments tab displays a list of available classes. Click the class you want to assign the project to, and then click the Add button. When the Project Assignment Details window appears, edit assignment preferences such as scheduling, gradebook options, and restrictions. See the Project Assignment Prefs section for more information.
Click the Student Assignments tab to display a list of available students. Click the student you want to assign the project to, and then click the Add button. When the Project Assignment Details window appears, edit assignment preferences such as scheduling, and restrictions. See the Project Assignment Prefs section for more information.
Click the Rubrics tab to display the original rubric for the selected project. When you expand the Rubric menu you are able to assign a rubric to use with the project. See the Rubrics section for more information.
Note: The account administrator must enable Digital Credentials in order for you to assign it to a class or student. View Achievement Credentials in the Digital Credentials section for more details.
Select the Credentials checkbox to enable this feature on select projects. When this is enabled the assignment can be used to earn a credential. You can set the Threshold preference to be between 90% and 100%. See Achievement Credentials in the Credentials section for more information.
How to create and edit project specific reports
You can create a report that queries all of the results for a specific project. This report lists each Student Learning Objective in the project and the objective mastery percentage.
Expand the Actions menu for a Project and select View Report. The project report query is created.
You can add filters to the query to make it more specific. Click the Edit button. The Report Filter Options window opens.
In the Report Filter Options window, you are able to filter by a class, campus, project status, and/or date range. Click the Save button to apply the filters to your query.
You can view how students' have fared on each learning objective within a project by creating a Project Objective Analysis Report.
Expand the Class list to limit the report to results from a specific class. Expand the Campus list to limit the report to results for a specific campus. Expand the Textbook list to limit the report to a specific textbook. Expand the Project list to limit the report to a specific project. Expand the SLO Type list to limit the report to a specific SLO type. Expand the Attempt list to limit the report to a specific attempt.
If you would like to group all sections of a class together into the same report, click the Yes or No radio button by the Group All Sections of Selected Class option. By default the report query will include all results; however, you can also specify a Date Range. Save and view the report by clicking the Next button.
If you did not set any filters when creating the report, you can add them by clicking the Edit button opening the Report Options window.
The Report Options window offers the same options when you first create the report. Click the Save button to save any changes.
When students download a project start file from SIMnet, encrypted codes are inserted into the file. The encrypted codes identify the student, project, and project attempt. The encrypted codes are inserted into multiple places in the file, including a special “global” section and within specific elements of documents, spreadsheets, and presentations such as paragraphs, table cells, presentation slides, and style elements. When a student submits a project for grading, SIMnet reviews the encrypted codes that were found in the file.
A file can be flagged for the following reasons:
If the global encrypted code does not belong to the student who submitted the file, this indicates that the student uploaded a file that began as a start file for another student.
If a student copied and pasted elements from another student’s file into their own start file, and the copied elements contain another student’s encrypted information.
There are several ways to access Academic Integrity Violation Reports, from the Student Report, Project Report or the Gradebook.
You may elect to Suppress an Integrity Violation. Clicking the Suppress button in the Academic Integrity Violation Report causes the Integrity Violation icon in the Submissions section to become gray and the Integrity Violation icon in the gradebook to be removed. Suppressed integrity violations can be flagged again at any time by viewing the violation report and clicking the Flag button.
Once you are done viewing the report, click the Close button to return to the previous report.
Topics on viewing and managing Projects.
Select a textbook from the dropdown to view the list of projects available for grading.
Note: If you don't see your desired book in the list of available SIMbooks, please review the Administration Settings. Textbooks must be assigned to your SIMnet Campus by the SIMnet Administrator to be visible in the SIMbook list. Please visit section for details.
Snapshot shows the class assignments, student assignments, and rubrics associated with a project.
Print Snapshot displays the Snapshot information in a printable format.
View Instructions allows you to view the project instructions. SIMbook project instructions may differ from the project instructions visible to the student.
Start File allows you to download the project start file.
Windows Solution File allows you to download the Windows solution file for the project.
Mac 2016+ Solution File downloads the Mac solution file. This option is only available for Mac enabled projects.
Create Lesson creates a new SIMnet lesson based on the Student Learning Objectives in the project.
Create Lesson Template creates a new SIMnet lesson template based on the Student Learning Objectives in the project. This option is only available if you have the right to create SIMnet lesson templates.
Create Scenario A Exam creates a new SIMnet exam based on the scenario A questions. This option is only available if you have the right to create SIMnet exams. The Exam will contain all questions that cover Student Learning Objectives in your project.
Create Scenario B Exam creates a new SIMnet exam based on the scenario B questions. This option is only available if you have the right to create SIMnet exams. The Exam will contain all questions that cover Student Learning Objectives in your project.
Create Scenario A Exam Template creates a new SIMnet exam template based on the scenario A questions. This option is only available if you have the right to create SIMnet exam templates.
Create Scenario B Exam Template creates a new SIMnet practice exam template based on the scenario B questions. This option is only available if you have the right to create SIMnet exam templates.
How to create, assign, edit and delete a rubric
Navigate to the Projects section. In the Search for Projects section, expand the Series menu to select a textbook series.
Click on the Actions drop-down menu for the project you want to add to your class and select Edit/Assign.
Click the Rubrics tab to view the rubric assigned to the project.
Expand the Rubric menu and select Create New Rubric.
Select the Make Default checkbox to set the new rubric as the default.
Any new rubric that is set as default will automatically be assigned to the selected project. If no rubric is assigned as the default, the original rubric will be assigned automatically. Only one default rubric can exist per project.
Select the Share checkbox to make the new rubric available to other instructors.
Enter a name for the new rubric in the Rubric Name box.
Click the Save All Changes link to save create the new rubric. You now are able to make changes to points and instructions.
In the Instruction Group section, select a checkbox in the Disable column to the left of the instruction to disable it. You can increase and decrease points in the Points column.
Note: When you disable an instruction, it will not be included in the grading. The instructions will still display in the Gradebook but will have a value of 0.
Click the Save All Changes link to save the rubric changes.
After a rubric has been created for the selected project, it can be assigned through the Class Assignments or the Student Assignments link. You can assign different rubrics for the same project if the projects are assigned to different classes or different students.
Expand the Actions menu for a Project and select Edit/Assign.
Click a class in the list in the Available Classes list.
Click the Add button. The Project Assignment Details window appears.
Expand the Rubric menu and select the rubric to assign to the project.
Click the Save button to save the assignment.
Select the Student Assignments tab.
Select the student in the Available Students list
Click the Add button. The Project Assignment Details window appears.
Expand the Rubric menu and select the rubric to assign to the project.
Note: If a project is already assigned to a class, the rubric is set to the one for the class and you are unable to change it. You can change the rubric for a student not assigned to the class or for a project unassigned to any class.
Click the Save button to save the assignment.
Once a rubric has been created and assigned to a project, the instructor can change the rubric. This can be done through the Class Assignments or the Student Assignments link.
Warning: If you change a rubric to a project already graded and you want the results in the gradebook to reflect the new rubric, the project must be re-graded.
Expand the Actions menu for a Project and select Edit/Assign.
Click the Rubrics tab to view the rubric assigned to the project.
Make your changes to the rubric. The same options available for creating a new rubric are also available for editing a rubric.
Click the Save All Changes link to save the edited rubric.
Navigate to the Rubrics section. Expand the Actions menu for a Project and select Edit/Assign. The Edit Rubric window appears.
Make your changes to the rubric. The same options that are available for creating a new rubric are also available for editing a rubric.
Click the Save button to save the edited rubric.
You can create a new rubric using an existing custom rubric as a template.
Navigate to the Rubrics section. Expand the Actions menu for a Project and select Copy to Rubric. The Copy Rubric window appears.
The default Rubric Name “Copy of [Rubric Name]” appears in the textbox. The default name can be used, or a new name can be entered.
Make your changes to the rubric. The same options available for creating a new rubric, are also available for copying a rubric.
Click the Save button to save the new rubric.
The Delete option enables the instructor to delete an existing rubric.
Note: Rubrics that are not assigned to a class or a student, are not set as the default, and do not have any student results associated with them, can be deleted.
Note: The Original rubric can never be deleted.
Expand the Actions menu and choose Delete. The Delete Confirmation window appears.
Click the Delete button to permanently delete the rubric.
Warning: Once you delete a rubric, you cannot undo the action. It is permanently deleted.
Enter a Title for your report, then expand the Type list, and select the type of report you want. For more information on the different types of reports, view the Report Types page.
Integrity Violations are indicated with the icon. Click on the icon to view the report.
Note: You can navigate to a class, select the Overview report, click the Projects tab, and you will see in the Status column the message Graded with Mismatch. This designates an integrity violation on the student file. Click the project link under the Title column for the student to view the details. You will see the icon and Academic Integrity Violation link. Click the link to view the Academic Integrity Violation Report.
Edit/Assign allows you to edit the rubric of the project or make an assignment. Only the SIMbook “owner” or the account Administrator can edit the project rubric. View the section for more information.
View Report allows you to view the latest project results for your entire class. To modify the report settings, click the Edit button at the top of the screen (to the left of the Bookmark button and Actions Menu. Expand the lists to select a specific Class or Campus and click the Enable Date Range checkbox to specify a date range. Click Save to save changes. View the section for more information.
Note: View the section for more details on creating an Exam or Exam Template from the Student Learning Objectives in the project.
Success: Creating an Exam or Exam Template from a project will pre-populate the Exam with all the Student Learning Objectives covered in your project. You may want to remove some of the questions depending on the objective mastery which you may view in the Objectives report. View the section for more details.
Note: You can set several preferences for the assignment in the Project Assignment Details window. See
