Marketing
180-day Principles of Marketing Course
Personal Finance
90-day Personal Finance Course
Entrepreneurship
180-day Principles of Entrepreneurship Course
Intro to Business
180-day Introduction to Business Course
Pitch Deck Series
40-day Pitch Deck Series
Accounting I
Coming Q1 2022. 180-day Accounting & Finance Course
Custom Course
Pull in BusinessU content and / or your own content.
Outline
Manage your class & content from one view.
Groups
Easily create & manage groups, track leader efficacy.
Create
Add & place your own content in any class.
Reports
Get actionable insights on student activity & performance.
Vault
Build multiple-choice summative exams in seconds.
Explore
Quickly search the BU content library and use pieces & parts in any class.
Integrate
Sync with your LMS for single sign-on, grade sync, & rostering.
More...
BU is packed with teacher-inspired features. Learn more about all BU can do.
Getting Started
Marketing
180-day Principles of Marketing Course
Personal Finance
90-day Personal Finance Course
Entrepreneurship
180-day Principles of Entrepreneurship Course
Intro to Business
180-day Introduction to Business Course
Pitch Deck Series
40-day Pitch Deck Series
Accounting I
Coming Q1 2022. 180-day Accounting & Finance Course
Custom Course
Pull in BusinessU content and / or your own content.
Outline
Manage your class & content from one view.
Groups
Easily create & manage groups, track leader efficacy.
Create
Add & place your own content in any class.
Reports
Get actionable insights on student activity & performance.
Vault
Build multiple-choice summative exams in seconds.
Explore
Quickly search the BU content library and use pieces & parts in any class.
Integrate
Sync with your LMS for single sign-on, grade sync, & rostering.
More...
BU is packed with teacher-inspired features. Learn more about all BU can do.
Getting Started
We’ve heard you! Because of your feedback, we have dramatically changed the way our grading system works. It should look a lot familiar, and feel much easier to navigate. Check it out today by going to the “Grades” tab inside a class, and click the link above to learn more about what changed and how it works.
This feature includes the following changes:
Only want to assign an assignment or reading to a specific subset of your students? No problem! Simply click on the “Enable for…” option in the settings menu for a piece of content, and select the students you want to be able to see that content.
Content enabled for only some students is shown as blue instead of the traditional green on the enable toggle. If you want to enable for more students, disable the content and then click “Enable for…” again and select some more students. If you want to disable for all students completely, simply click on the enable switch for that piece of content to disable it.
This also applies to the new gradebook! Assignments enabled for only some students will only affect their specific grades.
We now support sending direct messages to students, complete with a flexible rich-text editor and the ability to add multiple students to the same thread. Send a message to your entire class, or to one specific student.
Students also have the ability to send teachers a message individually.
Teachers have access to moderation controls. You can remove any student message, or remove a student from the thread entirely.
The new businessu.org website includes information about our 2021 course catalog, and our new BusinessU explainer video details our standards-aligned, video-based lessons and latest platform enhancements. Please be sure to share it with your fellow Teacher colleagues.
Our team has been hard at work developing all new interactive courses that bridge the business world to your classroom in a more engaging way. The 2021 course catalog includes updates to our Personal Finance, Principles of Entrepreneurship, Principles of Marketing and Intro to Business courses, and includes a new Pitch Deck series. We also announced a new Accounting I course, due in Q1 2022. For more information please browse through our 2021 fully hybrid-enabled course catalog.
Check out the new learn section, complete with our teacher tutorial series, to learn how to make the most out of BusinessU.
Finally, learn about the new features showcased in our new explainer video.
Instead of dredging through your email client in search of an old notification, you can now click on the notification icon at the top-right of the page to view all notifications that have been sent to you.
We also added controls to this popup to quickly mark all notifications as read / unread.
This is the new default view for students.
The outline view for students looks exactly the same as teachers, with the following adjustments:
Use the top navigation bar to find content, create content, or view reports.
To manage your classes, click on the Classes link at the top of the page, and you’ll be presented with your list of classes. Click on a class to view the course, manage students, and grade assignments.
Use the new “Explore” tab to find extra content for your class. Browse your library of courses, or search for specific content areas or standards.
Use the search box at the top of the page if you’re looking for something very specific. Once you find something, hover over it and click on the Use in Class button.
When previewing another course, you can click on the Create Class with this Course button to immediately create a new class with that course, or you can click on the folder icon next to each group to add that entire group to your class.
You can now drag and drop any content around inside the Course Outline view, anywhere you would like.
Watch our tutorial video on how to move content inside your outline view.
Drag a piece of content into any other group you would like, or drag an entire group anywhere in the course.
We have also added two shortcuts when dragging content around:
Create a new group or topic by clicking Add Content from the Course Outline view, and then click either Group or Topic. This is especially important for build-your-own courses.
Once you create your new group or topic, drag it wherever you’d like using the new drag and drop functionality in the Course Outline view.
If you’d like to remove it from your class, hover over the group and click on the three dots at the right, and then click Remove from Class.
We have redesigned the custom content (or Add Content) section. You can now access the redesigned custom content section by clicking “My Content” at the top of the page.
Watch our tutorial video on how to create and manage custom content here.
This also includes much simpler interfaces for creating new sections and assignments. We hope you will find the assignment creation process familiar and easier to use.
Preview content by clicking the Preview option in the settings menu for a piece of custom content, or add it to your class by clicking Use in Class.
Teachers can now automatically copy content from one class to another. Either copy an entire class to another, or copy a specific piece of content to another (or all) of your classes.
Watch our tutorial video on how to copy content from one class to another here.
Copying an entire class’ settings to another class is the quickest way to setup different periods for the school year. Setup an entire class exactly how you like it, then go to the Class Settings page and click Copy Settings
You can also copy settings for one specific piece of content from the outline view. To do this, hover over the three dots on the right side of a piece of content, and then click on the Copy to Class options.
BusinessU now supports Microsoft Teams for rostering and assignments. Import students from your Teams, and sync assignment grades back to the MS Teams gradebook.
We have created two tutorial videos on how to use MS Teams in your classroom:
To get started with Microsoft Teams, click on the settings gear from the Manage Classes page, and connect your Team.
You can sync assignments back to MS Teams the same way you do with Google Classroom. Go to the Settings tab when viewing the assignment in the course viewer, and click on the Sync button from that page.
BusinessU is much faster: We’ve gone through and reworked significant portions of the platform with performance in mind. Because of this, reports, grading, and course navigation are all now much faster.
Login with Google: Teachers & students can now login to BusinessU with their district Google accounts. Teachers will be able to use this functionality immediately, but students will not be able to login with their district accounts until their teacher associates their Student ID / Teacher ID with a Google account.
Once you login with Google, you will be prompted to allow access to Google Classroom and your basic profile information.
Google Classroom integration: Teachers can now import students directly from their Google Classroom rosters, and can configure assignments to automatically sync grades back to Google Classroom.
Students can belong to multiple classes: Currently, if one student is in multiple classes, they have to be given a separate Student ID for each class. We understand this is cumbersome, so we’ve fixed it! Teachers can now invite a Teacher ID / Student ID pair to their class, or they can invite a student via Email Address or through their Google account. Students can now use the same account through their entire tenure at your school.
Student ID / Teacher ID deprecation: We no longer recommend creating student accounts with a Student ID & Teacher ID, though we have left the feature available to support existing customers and those who prefer to use Student ID / Teacher ID instead of logging in with a Google account or email address.
Switch to student account: Every teacher is now enrolled as a student in all of their classes and can quickly switch to their student account without having to log out and back in as the student. In the top right corner, teachers are able to toggle between their student account and teacher account all while logged into the same user.
More convenient grading experience: Currently, teachers have to click through each question on a student’s submission individually. We’ve already updated the grading dialog to display all questions in the same view so teachers can tab down the page, and we have more grading enhancements on the way.
Faster video experience: We’ve revamped how videos are presented to students in our video-enabled courses. Students are presented with a new, faster video player that allows quick back / forward controls, and playback speed adjustments.
Brand new design. We’ve refined the design for the teacher and student interfaces based on feedback from teachers.
This includes a new outline view, a new course viewer, new ways to switch classes (try pressing the slash key!), and a clearer navigation structure for quick access to our top features.
Check out the list below for all the other goodies this new design includes!
Other features:
Other fixes:
New reporting interface. We released a new reporting interface, re-engineered from the ground up to make sure we’re presenting the most relevant information to teachers.
The old student reporting interface is still available underneath the “Grades & Group Performance” tab when viewing information about a student.
Other features:
Other fixes:
Classroom announcements. Teachers can now create announcements to share with students in their classes using our robust editing interface.
More flexibility when moving content. Teachers are now able to move content into different groups instead of being restricted to re-organizing inside their original groups.
Better support for build-your-own-course. We implemented better support for teachers creating their own courses from scratch. We’ll continue to make improvements to this interface.
Other features:
Other fixes:
We removed active days. The “active day” feature and the “enabled or disabled” features were too similar and accomplished relatively the same purpose, so we’ve simplified the system where each piece of content is now either on or off.
We have re-done the student dashboard. Now, students will see their classes listed across the top of the screen. Inside each class, they have access to their “To-Dos,” view the course, and use the new grades tab.
All segments are disabled by default. Instead of showing students all content up-front, we now let the teacher decide what content to show the students at all times. Whenever you start a class, the content for the first day will be enabled, but nothing else. This allows you to show more content to your students as you move throughout the semester.
Other features:
Other fixes:
Content Manager. The content manager allows you to include content from other courses included in your license into your current class, and allows you to create your own sections (something the students read) and assignments (something the students do). For more information on how to use the content manager, view our support article here.
Student progress indicators for teachers. Inside your schedule view, you can now see a circular progress bar that indicates how many of your students have looked at the content. With this feature, you can get a quick glimpse into the coverage of any piece of content.
Other features:
Other fixes:
Quiz Vault. The Quiz Vault allows you to automatically generate your own custom assignments where specified in the course. You can choose from all questions given to students throughout the semester, and filter based on whether they were covered, or are recommended.
Assignment randomization for students. Under your assignment settings, you’ll notice a new ” Randomize” checkbox. If you select that, the assignment’s questions will be given in random order to all of your students. One more tool to create a unique experience for each student and to combat cheating!
Other features:
Other fixes:
Assignment answers are saved offline. We know internet connections can be a little hit-or-miss sometimes. Now, students can rest easy knowing that if they’re having connection issues, their answers will still be saved locally on their machine. Once their internet has come back, they can submit their assignment normally.
Report Exports. We added an export button to all reports. If you want to export data to generate your own graphs or import that data into another system, you can now click the export button on every report to receive a CSV copy of it.
Other features:
Other fixes:
We’re releasing a speedier interface with this update. We changed some technologies we use under the hood in order to improve our API response time and speed up the communication between our API and your web browser,
Assignment time limits. You can now set a maximum amount of time your students can take to complete an assignment. Once they run out of time, their answers will be submitted and they won’t be able to edit them anymore. Of course, they can retry the assignment if you have multiple attempts enabled.
Other features:
Other fixes:
The course viewer sidebar now shows content broken down by day. You can still access the tree view by using the view selector at the top right of the panel. It also scrolls infinitely, so you’ll have access to all available content in one screen, without any loading times.
We now support multiple attempts on assignments. You can specify the maximum number of attempts in the same place you choose the due date. By default, all assignments are limited to 1 attempt. Multiple attempts only applies on assignments that can be auto-graded (so they are only multiple choice). When a student submits an assignment, they are presented with their grade and given an opportunity to try again if they have not exceeded the maximum number of attempts already.
Other features:
Other fixes:
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