Bring a whole new level of engagement and classroom success with StockTrak’s cutting-edge suite of Personal Finance teaching resources for colleges. We have helped over 5 million students over the last 30 years better understand budgeting, insurance, investing, and credit – see how our resources can transform your classroom this semester.
Our budgeting simulation puts your students in the role of a fresh college student who just started their first full-time job. Each participant needs to work through a simulated “year” balancing their work/life balance, striving to reach savings goals and build up their credit score while maintaining a high quality of life.
Our real-time investing simulation challenges your student to build a portfolio of stocks, ETFs, mutual funds, and bonds, and manage it over the course of the semester. StockTrak is packed with research tools, reports, and tutorials to help students get started, with real-time rankings to keep students fully engaged.
Our 150 lesson fully-customizable curriculum library covers everything from credit and debt to insurance and risk. Used by over 20,000 classrooms around the world, our lessons include pop-quiz assessments to be organized as “Assignments” to align with your existing course outline or preferred textbook. If you are teaching for the first time, we also have recommended course outlines, lesson plans, and presentation templates to help quick-start your class.
Your students will be challenged to work through a year of our Budgeting Simulation, with each “month” taking about 20 minutes to complete. As they progress, they will be challenged to:
Your class is entirely customizable. Professors can choose the starting savings/checking balances, the base amounts for all bills (students have some options based on the class settings), the types of “life events” that occur each week of class, and even if students start with a part-time job in college before graduation, or if they are immediately entering the full-time workforce.
Your students are granted $100,000 in cash, which they need to use to build a portfolio of stocks, ETFs, mutual funds, and bonds. Our trading simulation features:
There are over 50 different settings you can control for your class, including how much cash students start with, if they can borrow money (and at what interest rate), diversification enforcement, customizable commission structures, if day trading and short selling is allowed, and much more.
Your completely customizable curriculum library is designed to act as a perfect supplement to any major personal finance textbook, or stand on its own. Our curriculum features:
Our curriculum library has over 60 different Personal Finance lessons with interactive mini-games, calculators, and automated assessments. This is augmented by our “Investing 101” course, a 10-chapter beginner’s investing course designed for students with no background in portfolio management.
As students progress through the budgeting/investing simulations and curriculum library, they will earn “Achievements” and badges they can show off on the rankings page. Their badges “Level Up” as they improve their mastery of each concept, encouraging students to go “above and beyond” core class requirements and rise to the top of the class rankings!
Badges can be disabled per class, depending on how you want to structure your class.
StockTrak’s Personal Finance Service Level starts at $19.95 per student per semester, with site licenses available for bulk discounts. The registration fee can be paid by each student at registration, or the professor can choose to have the University invoiced based on the registrations in each class.
If you would like more information, or would like to schedule a call or demo to discuss how StockTrak’s Personal Finance resources can be used in your class, please fill out the form below: