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Excel Grader Projects
Auto-graded Excel Projects seamlessly integrate Microsoft® Excel® content into your course eliminating the need to manually grade spreadsheets.
Through MyLab IT, students can complete Capstone projects in order to earn industry-recognized Digital Badges issued by Credly.
Excel Simulations
Excel tutorial simulations give your students confidence with foundational Excel skills in a simulated, auto-graded environment.
Data Analytics
Give students the knowledge and skills to turn data into a competitive advantage.
With Data Analytics Exercises, students learn how to analyze and manipulate real company data through software like Excel, Tableau and PowerBI.
Mini Sims
With Pearson's suite of simulations, students act as marketers, managers, economists, and even CEOs as they apply course concepts to realistic business challenges that they’re likely to experience in their future careers.
Case Study Library
The Case Study Library offers over 100 assignable case studies for a variety of Business courses to help students work through real-world business scenarios.
News Assignments
Give students a better understanding of how course content is seen in the world by exposing them to relevant course concepts as they appear in the news.
View the Current News in MyLab Economics video
Visit the Accounting in the Headlines website
Watch the Management & OB in the News demo
Seek, Find, Apply to Jobs refreshed every 8 hours
Students who have earned a Digital Badge can also dive into a wealth of job market insights and current job postings through the Credly platform. Student can look at salary ranges by skills, narrow down to key demographic areas, and also see job market trends throughout the year.
Through key strategic partnerships, the Credly platform recalibrates 6X a day throughout 25,000 job listings, aggregator sites, government sites, actual employer sites and more, to provide timely and accurate employment opportunities. Credly matches required job competencies to the skills earned within each badge, and allows for more accurate job-search filtration.
With regular refreshes throughout the day, the jobs that are accessible within the Credly platform are as current as 8hrs ago. We find these services as a very strong tool for job seekers to be able to leverage and is 100% free with the inclusion of the MyLab text offering the student and school is utilizing.
Helping Students Develop Management Skills (Even When They Don’t Feel Like Managers)
Pearson authors Eric Lamm and Jennifer Tosti-Kharas describe an exciting simulation they use to help teach management skills, which are essential yet complicated in today’s work environment, and which students sometimes struggle to grasp.
Set Up Students for Success: SMARTER Goal Setting for Business Students
Pearson authors Kelly Mollica and Nicole Coomber describe how to use a goal-setting assignment and personal inventory assessments to help students connect the dots between their academic and professional journey and improve their employability skills.
Keeping Current with Excel in Business Schools: Teaching Practices and Techniques
With Microsoft's move to continuously update apps like Excel, it is easy to be overwhelmed with changes and can create dissonance between instructor and student. In this webinar, Your Office Series Editor Amy Kinser and co-author Eric Kinser will discuss teaching practices and techniques for use in business schools using MS Excel.
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