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Webinars

26 January 2012

Navigating LabSim 4.0

Watch this webinar on using the added functionality of LabSim 4.0 to increase your teaching success.  - 31 min 29 sec.

Join TestOut Academic Marketing Manager, Peggy Hayes as she highlights new TestOut products and tools prominently featured in the new interface, including the TestOut Pro Certification exams and the Exam Builder tool (both available only in the browser version of LabSim). In this session, you will learn how to:

  • How to access TestOut Pro Certification exams and exam reports
  • TestOut PC Pro Certification
  • TestOut Network Pro Certification
  • The benefits of using TestOut’s improved Exam Builder tool
  • How the streamlined workflow helps you easily customize reports
  • How to quickly associate students and classes to increase reporting efficiency
10 November 2011

Introducing the TestOut PC Pro Certification Exam

Watch this webinar to learn more about how TestOut's new certification removes the barriers that prevent students from getting certified. - 23 min 07 sec.

Join TestOut Academic Marketing Manager, Peggy Hayes and TestOut Psychometrician, Isaac Tateishi, Ph.D. as they demonstrate  how the TestOut PC Pro Certification exam benefits educators and students. In this session, you will learn how to:

  • Use the TestOut PC Pro Certification exam to measure what students can do, not just what they've memorized
  • Deliver the exam online in class or in your own testing center
  • Provide a personalized industry credential to students who pass the exam
  • Schedule students to take the exam
  • Instantly access students' exam scores
20 January 2011

Making LabSim Work for You

Watch this webinar to learn how to make LabSim work for you by using LabSim's built-in instructor resources and real-time reporting module - 34 min 56 sec.
Join TestOut Academic Account Manager, Craig Russon, as he demonstrates Making LabSim Work for You, including:

  • Setting up instructors, students and classes in LabSim
  • Using LabSim’s reporting module to track student progress, scores and results
  • Options for exporting class and student reports
  • Accessing additional online Instructor Tools, including course outlines and lesson plans
18 January 2011

Introduction to LabSim

We want to help you make the most of your Free Instructor Evaluation of LabSim. Join us for a 30 minute webinar and we’ll show you how easy using LabSim can be - 29 min 45 sec.

This webinar helps you to:

  • Learn how to use the 4 most valuable areas of LabSim
  • Become familiar with the course interface
  • See how to track student progress
  • Find out “Best Practices” from other instructors
  • Ask questions of the TestOut team
Once you've seen how simple using LabSim can be, you can explore the different facets of LabSim on your own and evaluate how beneficial it can be for your students.
13 January 2011

New LabSim Linux+

New LabSim Linux+ Powered by LPI course includes more than 80 hands-on labs to provide practical experience in managing Linux systems - 49 min 24 sec.

Join TestOut Senior Instructional Designer Greg Shaffer as he presents an overview of the new browser-based LabSim Linux+ Powered by LPI, including:

  • The relationship between CompTIA and the Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's leading Linux certification organization
  • The purpose of the LPI Level 1 certification
  • Details about CompTIA's Linux+ Exams, LX0-101 and LX0-102
  • Obtaining the "2-for-1" certification deal – CompTIA Linux+ and LPIC-1 certification
  • Hands-on lab demos from LabSim Linux+ Powered by LPI
With all new labs and content, LabSim Linux+ Powered by LPI is a single LabSim course that prepares students to pass both of the new CompTIA Linux+ exams, LX0-101 and LX0-102, and become Linux+ certified.
22 September 2010

Seeing is Believing – Student Results at Your Fingertips

Learn how to effectively implement LabSim and use student reporting and curriculum resources featured in every LabSim course - 37 min 43 sec.
This webinar includes demonstrations on the following topics:

  • Creating Reports of Student Results
  • Administrative Tools
  • LabSim Best Practices
  • Curriculum Development Tools
  • Courseware Textbook Mapping
  • Frequent Instructor Updates
  • LabSim Support
20 April 2010

Active Learning in Online Computer Courses

Learn how active learning benefits students enrolled in online computer courses. Knowledge retention is significantly increased when students engage in active learning. See how one of the nation's largest post-secondary academic organizations, DeVry University, is using active learning in its online entry-level computer maintenance courses to improve student success - 43 min 05 sec.
Watch a demonstration of the new LabSim A+ Practical Application, which integrates hardware and software in groundbreaking lab exercises to provide students with real-life, hands-on virtual labs.

  • Active Learning Overview
  • Components of Active Learning
  • Case Study – DeVry University
  • Demo - Active Learning with LabSim A+ Practical Application
  • Q&A
27 January 2010

Improve Student Learning with Virtual IT Labs

The growth in distance education has been amazing. With technologies now available it is possible to offer your students a fully robust learning experience. Work on computers requires that we fully understand both the hardware and the software components as well as the interactions between them. The new LabSim A+ Essentials course includes completely integrated lab simulations – a groundbreaking move to provide a total blended learning experience to your students - 46 min 07 sec.
Topics covered:

  • Growth in Distance Education
  • Current IT Training
  • Case Studies
  • Demo A+ Online Labs
  • Questions and Answers

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