Mini Sims
Some business and professional courses offer Mini Sims: simulations that help students apply course concepts to real-world business challenges. The simulations branch is based on students' decisions, so they get a different experience depending on their choices. When they finish, students see their overall score and can review their answers and the feedback on each decision.
Mini Sims are pre-built homework that you can assign to individual students to work alone or assign as a team exercise.
Students can do Mini Sims on a smartphone, tablet, or computer.
Watch: Mini Sims (1:40)
How Mini Sims are graded
Students' scores are sent to your gradebook. You can review students' answers and view reports on their work.
As students work, they get points for their answers: 5 points for the best choice, 3 points for a good choice, 1 point for a choice that was not the best, or 0 points for an incorrect choice. The points for each decision indicate the level of correctness and do not add up to a possible total of 100 points for the entire simulation.
Within the simulation, a student’s final score is a percentage determined by how well they achieved the goal of the Mini Sim.
In your gradebook, Mini Sim final scores are not the same as the in-simulation scores. Instead, the in-simulation percentage is applied to the total possible points you assigned to the simulation. For example, if a Mini Sim is worth a maximum of 5 points and the student's in-simulation score was 90%, the score shows as 4.5/5 in your gradebook.
View Mini Sim reports
View reports on student work from a student's Results page:
- Select the Review link for a Mini Sim.
- Choose the Mini Sim you want to view.
A new screen opens with tab pages for each instructor report:
- Overview - shows you students' performance on each decision point in the Mini Sim, including the percentage of students presented with this decision and the number of students who entered a decision. This report does not list individual students.
- Class Report - shows each student and each decision that they answered.
- Student Report - shows each student's path through the simulation and how they answered each decision. You can search this report by student or browse through the full course roster.
- Outcomes - shows the learning objective tied to each decision point and class performance on each learning objective.