Hi Instructor,

Big things are happening with CompTIA + TestOut! As we strive to create a unified product, we are beginning to combine resources and practices to provide you with an improved customer experience. We hope your students are finding success in both their IT studies and their certification efforts. We're thrilled to be a part of that educational journey and we have exciting news to share this month. 

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Exciting New Developments:

LabSim Levels Up

An exciting unified brand and improved user experience within LabSim is coming Oct. 31! New features include:

- Interactive navigation menu

- Improved certification pages

- Improved products pages

We will also be shifting to 12-month market aligned licensing agreements for LabSim. Any license purchases made before Jan. 1, 2024 will honor existing terms of use.

Preview the Changes 📹

A Better Security Pro Course

Starting Nov. 7, we will be integrating CompTIA resources within Security Pro to further unify our platforms. New resources include: 

- Performance Based Questions (PBQs) 

- Embedded videos in text lessons 

- Improved text resources  

- Speechify within labs 

- Return to lab 

- Career professional interview videos

Celebrate Cybersecurity

Please join us Oct. 17 at 2:45 p.m. (Central) for an informative Cyber Awareness Month Meet-Up webinar. Special guests Patrick Lane and Craig Russon will discuss the new correlation between Security+ and Security Pro, while featured speaker and cybersecurity expert Robin Hunt explores the importance of data in the cybersecurity field. Q&A will held throughout the webinar.

Save Your Seat 🛡️

ICYMI (In Case You Missed It):

LabSim Teaching Aids

As the school year rolls along, some of you are probably working with LabSim for the first time. Get help from the LabSim experts with our new Instructor Solutions course! Based on instructor feedback, we've combined all of our answers to frequently asked questions into a single self-paced training resource! This dynamite new course is available right now inside LabSim.

New School Year, New Courses

We spent our summer rolling out new and updated courses to help your students gain valuable IT skills:

Office Pro 8: Get the latest version of the best Microsoft Office Specialist courseware around!

CyberDefense Pro 2: Help your students prepare for CompTIA's CySA+ certification exam.

Hybrid Server Pro: Advanced: Help your students enter the world of Microsoft Azure. (All-new course!)

From the Pages of Certification Magazine:

The Salary Survey Is Happening

Have you ever asked yourself where Certification Magazine gets all of that remarkable data featured in its yearlong Salary Survey coverage? Salary data doesn't grow on trees. The survey is happening right now and is open to any IT professional of any age who has at least one current IT certification.

Survey Says 💰

Next Generation Learning

Digital literacy is vitally important, even for kids who seem to have had smartphones since before they could memorize a phone number. Digital Literacy Pro is an excellent digital literacy teaching solution that just got a big vote of confidence from the International Society for Technology Education (ISTE).

What IT Means To You 💻

We appreciate having the opportunity to work with so many outstanding educators and we appreciate everything you do for your students! Please reach out to us with any questions you might have. We are always here to help.