QB in the Classroom update (IEP)
This is a review of the updated teaching manual previously found in the IEP website.
The Intuit guide for teaching QB has been updated for QB 2012. It also was farmed out to The Sleeter Group.
I am documenting my review here, to make it easy for others who might be doing research on what to use in the classroom environment.
The previous versions of the book cost my students $35-45. The new version will run around $95.
The contents of the updated book are the same Sleeter material you could already get from them. It contains about 75% of what Sleeter sells as their Comprehensive book.
As with their other materials, it requires you to restore different data files for nearly every lesson and task.
The old manual used one data file, and you could actually work through the whole thing with the one data file. This allowed the students to become familiar and comfortable as if this is an office environment for the application of exercises to real life experience.
I taught a Computerized Bookkeeping and Accounting course, for certificates of completion, using The Sleeter Group manual. There is nothing wrong with their material, but now I no longer have a different manual to meet the needs of a different target student population group. I teach a QB Fundamentals class, to staff and business people and to CPAs. It is somewhat introductory but also provides a good overview.
In summary: I am dropping this book and no longer recommend it.
FYI, other resources for your consideration might be: Labyrinth and Paradigm.
