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SimVenture Validate: Staff Guides

SimVenture Validate is an online ideation and Business model Canvas platform. Your students can use it to ideate, map, test, and share their business ideas individually or in teams as well as think through the validity of their ideas resulting in an interactive Business Model Canvas which will be presented and can be used to start their own business.

Please note: SimVenture Validate is in pilot across the University with licences available until June 2024. It does not currently have an integration with Minerva, staff manage their classes via the SimVenture Educator Dashboard and share them through the use of links.

Getting access to SimVenture Validate: Request an Educator licence

The first step to getting access is to request an Educator licence.

User Guidance

The SimVenture Validate website has resources to help users get started and make the most out of Validate. This link will take you to their website.

Features

  • Users start and grow a company for 10 simulated years
  • Users play individually or in teams
  • Users and teachers access Evolution in class or remotely
  • Users manage all aspects of their virtual business
  • Simulation offers real time feedback after each quarterly turn
  • Evolution generates extensive financial data which can be exported
  • Control Tower offers tutors comprehensive administrator functionality
  • Extensive help support in the form of videos and documents
  • Rewind feature allows users to learn quickly from mistakes
  • Explanatory text and hot buttons support users throughout the sim

Benefits

  • Experience business by making decisions & handling consequences
  • Discover first-hand how all issues in business interact
  • Learn authentically and develop vital employability skills
  • Engage users and allow them to experience true business uncertainty
  • Learn from mistakes and understand how business really works
  • Allow learners to manage all business areas including sustainability
  • Setup and run engaging competitions and events easily and quickly
  • Save assessment time as the platform captures/analyses user data
  • Bring fun and excitement into the classroom
  • Use the simulation to engage & involve employers & stakeholders

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