17 Instructor FAQs
Changing company configurations requires restarting the Industry. If companies have uploaded decisions for Round 1, or if the simulation has progressed to Round 2 or beyond, all decisions will be lost..
To restart the Industry, go to Manage Industry and select Manual Restart (Restart Industries in Footrace). Step 2, Configure Simulation, will allow you to change companies to participant, computer or inactive.
Adjusting modules requires restarting the Industry. To restart the Industry, go to Manage Industry and select Manual Restart (Restart Industries | Schedule Restart in Footrace). Step 2, Configure Simulation, will allow you to activate or deactivate modules, or change the round in which they are to start, or with Labor Negotiations (Capstone only), the round in which they are to occur.
The Industry Roster area displays participant names alphabetically and by company. Clicking a participant's name opens a form that will allow you to change the company assignment. If you have more than one industry you can also change the participant's Industry ID.
Be sure to click the Update button to complete the change.
For Footrace industries, click any name in the alphabetical list to change that participant from his or her sub-industry back to the Footrace root (that is, back to the _000 suffix). That participant can then join or form a company.
The Team Assignment area is useful if you wish to assign several participants to companies across different industries. This area requires:
If you wish to move a participant to an Industry ID assigned to a different professor, please use the Capsim Support system under the Help heading and tell us who needs to be moved, or please call 877-477-8787 in the U.S.; all others please call 1-847-501-2888.
If you wish to move a participant to a different Industry ID assigned to you, go to Industry Roster, select the alphabetical list and click on the participant's name. When the form opens, click the down arrow in the Industry ID combo box and choose another industry.
Go to Industry Results|Reports|Student Database. Select the options for the desired information then click Build.
Capsim recommends 4-6 participants per team.
Go to Manage Industry | Schedule Rounds. This page will let you schedule Practice and Competition rounds. In the Time column, you can select the auto process option, which will advance the round automatically at the selected time.
Go to Manage Industry | Schedule Rounds. The Date and Time for each round can be updated in this section.
For Tournament Competitions
Go to Manage Course | Schedule Restart. This area schedules a restart time for all the industries associated with your course, which allows you to change the industries from Practice to Competition mode. This feature also allows you to remove, add or change the start rounds of Advanced Modules for all Industries within your course. You will not be able change team configurations via a Schedule Restart; or
Go to Manage Industry | Manual Restart. This area allows you to restart an individual industry within a course. Manual Restart will allow also you to change Team Configurations (that is, change a company from Computer to Participant, etc.).
For Footrace Users
Go to Manage Industry | Restart Industries. This area will allow you to manually restart selected industries or all industries and change industries from Practice to Competition mode. It also allows you to schedule a restart time for all the industries. When you schedule a restart, you can change the industries from Practice to Competition mode. Scheduled Restarts also allow you to remove, add or change the start rounds for Advanced Modules associated with your Footrace.
Yes. Go to Manage Industry and click Undo Round.
Participants can get the Capstone Courier/Foundation FastTrack on the website from the Reports menu heading. They can also get the Courier/FastTrack from the Capstone or Foundation Spreadsheets.
As they upload decisions, participants have an opportunity to notify instructors that their decisions are final. This can facilitate simulation progress if the rounds are not scheduled. Uploaded means at least one set of decisions has been sent, but it is not necessarily the final set of decisions. If a round is processed, either automatically or manually, Uploaded decisions will be used even if they are not marked final. If teams have not uploaded (shown as Waiting), the simulation will process the last set of decisions from the previous round.
Under Homework, click Success Measure Weights. This area will let you select the methods and determine by which round participants must enter their weight percentages. If you prefer, you can enter them by clicking the Weights link. The Overview section offers additional information.
Success results can be found under Industry Scoring | Success Measures. There are two evaluation methods, Weighted Ranking and Weighted Relative. Please see each of these areas for discussions of the calculation methods.
The Balanced Scorecard Top Ten recognizes those teams whose results are in the top ten percent. Listings of this top decile recognize professor, school and team for each individual round as well as total performance through each round (overall round-to-date). Because certain configurations of the simulation create more opportunities for profits than others, equitable comparison for Top Ten evaluation requires a level-playing-field. Instructors are free to configure their simulations in any way which does not garner an undo advantage to their teams, relative to other simulations.
Qualifiers:
Disqualifiers:
Every participant plays the Andrews company as they go through the Rehearsal Tutorial.
Go to Industry Results | Reports and click on Rehearsal Completion.
For Tournament Competitions
From the Instructor Welcome page, click the Log Into Team link and select a company. When the new page opens, expand the Decisions menu item and select Rehearsal.
For Footrace Users
From the Capsim Homepage, www.capsim.com, register into your industry by following the participant registration steps. Stop at the pavement page and call tech support at 877-477-8787 and ask Support will mark your account as "Paid." Next, follow the steps for creating a company. You will now be able to go through the participant environment. To access the Rehearsal, go to the Decisions menu and click Rehearsal.
Go to Homework | Peer Evaluations and click on Schedule. The Overview offers additional information.
No. Your participants are welcome to run their companies with a strategy of their choosing. There is no obligation to follow the strategies employed by the computer generated companies.
When you are ready to return to the Professor pages after logging into a team or company environment, click Return to Professor Course in left hand menu. This will immediately return you to the Professor environment.
PowerPoint presentations are available from the Online Professor Guide.