Assign Microsoft Office simulations

Updated 19 Feb 2024

With MyLab IT simulations, you can train and assess your students on Microsoft® Office 2013, 2016, and 2019 products using content that matches your textbook.

Simulations can be either:

  • Skills-based: Lets students complete questions in any order and move from one question to another and back, provided they have question attempts remaining.
  • Project-based: Requires students to complete questions in a specific order that mirrors the steps required to create a document or project. The outcome of one question forms the starting point for the next.

You can assign three types of simulation activities:

  • Training: This activity matches the student textbook and offers tutorial help to the students.
  • Study plan: Students take two or three of the following: a pre-test, training based on the questions they answered incorrectly on the pre-test, and a post-test for final evaluation.
  • Exam: There are two scenarios available for each exam to allow for multiple assessment options.

MyLab IT automatically grades the student’s simulations and records the results in the gradebook.

Click your textbook's title to see what types of simulations are available for it:

  • Project A and B trainings, study plan, and exams
  • Chapter-level trainings, study plans, and exams
  • Application-level trainings, study plan, and exams

The first time you teach with MyLab IT, use the chapter project A & B trainings and the chapter-level skill-based exam. From the Chapter Resources folder in the Course Materials Library, you can also add the chapter videos for projects A & B.

  • Hands-on exercise trainings, study plan, and exams
  • Chapter-level trainings, study plans, and exams
  • Application-level trainings, study plan, and exams

The first time you teach with MyLab IT, use the chapter hands-on trainings and the chapter-level skill-based exam. From the Chapter Resources folder in the Course Materials Library, you can also add the audio PowerPoint files and the chapter set-up videos.

  • Chapter-level trainings, study plans, and exams
  • Application-level trainings, study plan, and exams

The first time you teach with MyLab IT, use the chapter-level skill-based trainings and exams. From the Chapter Resources folder in the Course Materials Library, you can also add the chapter videos.

  • Workshop-level trainings, study plans, and exams
  • Application-level trainings, study plan, and exams

With Office 2019, you can also view playback of student interactions on training and exams. Refer to Getting Started with Student Action Visualization for more information.