Academic Application: Stukent

Overview

What is it?

Stukent is an educational courseware publisher specializing in digital marketing, social media, business, and related disciplines. Stukent's products fall into two categories:

Simternships®: Career-relevant, work-integrated simulations in which students take on a professional role — digital marketing specialist, social media manager, PR officer, entrepreneur, accountant, and more — and complete realistic tasks within a simulated business environment. Simternship rounds are structured to mirror industry workflows, building students' practical skills and professional confidence. Key simulations include the Digital Marketing Simternship® (search, display, and shopping ad management), Mimic Pro (PPC advertising), Mimic Social (social media management), and others.

Courseware (eTextbooks): Annually updated digital textbooks with turnkey lesson plans, auto-graded quizzes, and real-world case studies. Courseware is designed to pair with Stukent Simternships, providing the conceptual foundation that students apply in the simulation. Content is updated each year to reflect current industry practices.

Who is it for?

Faculty: Pair Stukent courseware with a Simternship to create a complete, hands-on course in digital marketing, social media, entrepreneurship, or business. Benefit from pre-built lesson plans, auto-graded assessments, and automatic annual content updates — without rebuilding the course each year.

Students: Access the Stukent eTextbook, complete auto-graded chapter quizzes, and work through simulation rounds through the Brightspace course link. Build a portfolio of simulated professional work products.

Access

Through the Stukent link inside your Villanova Brightspace course. Faculty also manage courses directly at stukent.com. Always launch from the Brightspace course link to ensure single sign-on and grade sync function correctly.

Authentication

Separate Stukent account required. Faculty and students create a Stukent account using their Villanova email. After this one-time account creation and LTI linking step, subsequent sessions use SSO from the Brightspace course link.

LMS Integration

Villanova Brightspace (D2L).

Cost

Cost to students for access varies by course and adoption model. Please see the textbook access program page for more information: https://www.villanova.edu/university/teacher-scholars/about/textbook-access.html

Availability

Available for Villanova courses where faculty have adopted a Stukent Simternship or courseware title. Contact Learning Technologies to confirm LTI integration is configured for your Brightspace course.

Vendor

Stukent, Inc. — stukent.com

Managed By

Individual faculty (course setup), with support from Learning Technologies and the Stukent Customer Success Manager for Villanova

Getting Started / Quick Start

Faculty / Instructor Setup
Student Setup

How-To Guides & Related Articles

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