Please note: This feature must be turned on by your TestOut account representative.
Student’s may need temporary access to their LabSim course material. Instructors can share a code with the students to provide this access.
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Steps
- First verify that the correct product is listed by your class because the temporary code corresponds directly to your class’s product.
- If you are using an LMS system, click a link within your LMS to get to any LabSim activity and then click the house icon to go to the LabSim home page.
- If you need to change the product, click the more button (3 dots) across from your class, select Edit Class, change the product if needed and click Save.
- Across from your class click the more button (3 dots).
- Select Temporary Access. (Please note that this option is only available during the first 14 days of your class start.)
- A code is listed for the respective product. Click the copy icon by the code.
- Now you can paste that code into a post or email it to the students.
- Tip: If you need to invite students to your class include the temporary activation code with your invitation to join the class.
- Underneath the code is displayed the valid period.
- Click the X in the upper right to exit the screen. However, you can always return to this page if you need to access the code again.
- After the student logs in they will select the Activation Required link across from the class or click Add by My Products.
- Enter the activation code, copy and paste is the best option.
- Click Activate.
- The product is now listed in the My Products
- During this temporary period students will be reminded once each day they access the product that the code they are using will expire.
- Students should purchase their activation code prior to the free access period ending for uninterrupted usage.
- That purchased code can be entered on the Temporary Access page by clicking Enter an Activation Code or from their home page by clicking Add by My Products.
- The expiration period is automatically updated when their purchased code has been entered.
- Students should purchase their activation code prior to the free access period ending for uninterrupted usage.
- As students begin to use the temporary code you can view who has activated it and when. Across from your class click the more button (3 dots) and select Temporary Access.
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- Under Activations Used a list of the student’s names and date the product was activated will be outlined.
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This code is only temporary. Please encourage students to purchase their activation code prior to the expiration of their temporary code.