Professor Resources Center

For over 30 years, StockTrak has been part of thousands of college Finance, Business, Economics, and Accounting classes and used by millions of students around the world. We offer the most realistic, comprehensive, educational platform developed specifically for college classes. We provide support during U.S. market hours for both you and your students.

The following resources are designed to help professors get started for the first time, and help experienced professors get the most out of our platform.

If don’t have a professor account yet, it only takes a minute to register for free, and get a practice account so you can test out the trading tools.

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Getting Started

If you’re new to StockTrak, these guides will walk you through everything you need to know from registering your class, to creating assignments, to managing your reports and evaluating your students.

Setting Up Your Class

This guide covers how to register your class and select security types, commission rules, diversification rules, etc. so you can customize your students’ experience to the class that you’re teaching.

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Managing Your Class and Viewing Reports

This guide dives deeper into managing your class, editing your class rules, and accessing the available reports. You’ll also learn how to manage student teams.

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Creating and Managing Assignments

The assignments include both lessons to complete and actions to take on the platform. Student grades, portfolio performance and progress are tracked in your class Report Card to make grading a breeze.

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What’s New at StockTrak

Find out what’s new with StockTrak, with details on all the latest features and enhancements.

Spring 2024

Enhancing the StockTrak Experience

This spring, we’re excited to introduce a major update to the StockTrak platform. Our new enhancements include a faster and more reliable cryptocurrency trading pit, limited to the top 100 cryptocurrencies, improved options trading with updated margin requirements, and a revamped support ticket system for easier student access. We’ve also added fractional trading support for equities, new customization options for our White-Label solution, and the ability to disable class rankings.

Fall 2023

Crypto & Option Spread Updates

Get ready for a new semester with exciting updates to the StockTrak platform! This fall, we’re introducing StockTrak Version 6.0, a major revision to our core trading platform, featuring a more dynamic and flexible design. We’re also launching a distinct crypto trading pit, a unified mobile/desktop experience, and an improved Option Spreads trading pit.

Fall 2022

StockTrak Redesign

This is the biggest redesign in our company history. The new interface includes a more responsive layout, improved trading pits, more dynamic portfolio views, a new mobile app, improved option spreads (multi-legged), real-time forex trading and a new messaging center. We also added a new feature to the Personal Budgeting Game called My Apartment, and added new lesson introductions to our personal finance self-grading lessons.

Summer 2021

Personal Budgeting Game Enhancements

This saw a major improvement in the game graphics, including the summary statements page, the bank and credit card statements and the pop-up cards that appear in the game.

Summer 2021

Advanced Assignment Tracking

Allows professors to get a big picture overview of how their students are doing in their assignments. With this enhancement you can see how long students took to complete a lesson, and which questions they got wrong.

Spring 2021

TA Accounts

Grant restricted admin access to your TA so they can pull reports for you. They can also manage student teams, create or edit assignments, or even reset passwords for students. They cannot edit trading rules, cancel student trades or view reports from other classes.