Setting up Student Blackboard Integrated

LabSim Accounts
Introduction
To participate in this class students will need a one-time subscription to TestOut's online, simulation-
based training product named TestOut Network Pro, a training resource produced by TestOut
Corporation. The following steps will get students access and set them up to use the product:

Step 1: Purchase TestOut’s Network Pro product

 Network Pro is what we’re using, in the Network class at Ottawa University. Student subscriptions
remains active for 18 months; be sure to take the class while it’s active.

 Have a credit or debit card ready and go to www.testout.com.

 Look to the lower-right quadrant for the “Need to buy a LabSim course?” area.

 Within the Enter Promotion Code field enter promo code 14-232TA to get student pricing.

 Our ISBN is 978-1-935080-43-5.

This will result in students receiving a product activation code. If purchased from www.testout.com,
activation codes will arrive to students via email (be sure to check the spam folder if students don’t see
the code in their Inbox).

Step 2: Creating the LabSim Account

 From a Blackboard student account click the link at Saturday Sessions > 0.0 Introduction > 0.1
Using the Simulator.
  If prompted, enter a LabSim product activation code, then click the “Activate” button to proceed
into the first assignment. Entering an activation code is a one-time incidence. A LabSim account is
automatically created for students in the background.

Step 3: Verify that Assignments are Visible

 Click the Network assignment link. This should launch Network Pro and take students to the
assignment.

 After students are satisfied that they have linked to the assignment/learning resource, they
should stop and proceed to Step 4 below.

How to: Completing Assignments and Submitting Scores to Blackboard

 There are direct links to each LabSim assignment inside the Blackboard course. For scores to be
returned from LabSim to the Blackboard each respective LabSim assignment must be accessed
from the Blackboard course.

 If students do not follow Blackboard links to each assignment, scores cannot be submitted to the
Blackboard gradebook. Students must return to the Blackboard after they complete each LabSim
assignment and link to the next assignment.

o Submitting scores to the Blackboard via the “Submit Scores” button:

To see the “Submit Score” button within LabSim students need to link to each assignment from the
Blackboard course. Students will then see the “Submit Score” button on the title bar of the assignment.

Caution: Navigating within LabSim, from say resource 4.3.5 to 4.7.8, when students have specifically
linked to 4.3.5, would result in a Submit Score button being unavailable for 4.7.8. But when students
return to the Blackboard course and directly link to 4.7.8 they will see the “Submit Score” button.

If students attempt to navigate away from a score-able assignment before submitting their score a
warning dialog is generated which advises the student to submit their score: