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Give Students the Right Skills at the Right Time with Custom SIMnet Lessons

Erin Swartz, SIMnet Specialist, demonstrates how to create custom SIMnet lessons that give students targeted practice and refreshers before assignments, projects, or more advanced course content.


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  • Digital Skills Digest

Sometimes students don’t need an entire chapter. They just need focused practice on the right skills before they’re expected to apply them.

With custom lessons in SIMnet, you can select the exact skills students need and build a lesson that fits where it makes the most sense in your course. Whether students need to strengthen specific Excel skills before an upcoming assignment, refresh their knowledge before moving into more advanced content, or practice the skills they’ll use in a project, custom lessons let you provide more targeted preparation.

In this quick walkthrough, SIMnet Specialist Erin Swartz demonstrates how to search for specific skills, add them to a custom lesson, organize the content, and place that lesson in the course when students need it most. She also shows how lessons can be aligned with project skills so students can practice before applying what they know.

The result: a more flexible way to meet students where they are and help them build the skills they need for what comes next.

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