1. New Features

2. Virtual Economics Version 4.0 is available as a CD-ROM

3. Virtual Economics is also available as a 1 GB USB Flash Drive

4. New Features 20+ new publications Playful Economics
Financial Fitness for Life: K-2, 3-5, 6-8 and Student Workbooks and Teacher Guides
Teaching Financial Crises
Civics and Government
What Personal Finance is About
What Economics is About
Economics & Entrepreneurship
Trading Around the World
Focus: Economics – Grades K-2
And many more

5. Improved performance, primarily with searching
New Features
Improved performance, primarily with searching
Faster searches
Number of lessons displayed
Online lessons automatically displayed
Offline message displayed for users without an internet connection

6. State standards updated and personal finance standards added
New Features
State standards updated and personal finance standards added
Users can easily switch between Economics and Personal Finance standards.
Date standards were updated is clearly visible.

7. Lessons open full-screen
New Features
Lessons open full-screen
Lessons open in a separate viewer, allowing users to view them at any size, print, or save any lesson they choose from their viewer.

8. Lessons can be saved to your computer or USB Flash Drive
New Features
Lessons can be saved to your computer or USB Flash Drive
Each lesson page has a Save button, allowing users to save the document in any folder on their computer or USB Flash Drive.

9. Updated content for many of the concepts
New Features
Updated content for many of the concepts
Content has been updated to provide updated data, graphs, etc.

10. Short quizzes added for each concept
New Features
Short quizzes added for each concept
Each quiz contains 5 multiple choice questions that pertain to the concept video.
Quiz results can be ed from student to teacher with an internet connection.

11. Online resources integrated for each concept
New Features
Online resources integrated for each concept
Resources include links to online lessons and videos with similar concepts.
Many of the online resources come from EconEdLink.org, a free economics and personal finance resource for teachers, students, and afterschool programs.
New resources are added dynamically with an internet connection.

12. Concept Overviews, Tips, Lessons and Quizzes can be printed
New Features
Concept Overviews, Tips, Lessons and Quizzes can be printed
The print box gives users the option to select individual sections of the concept that they want printed.

13. Concept videos can be viewed full-screen
New Features
Concept videos can be viewed full-screen
The Full Screen tab at the bottom of the video box allows users to view both concept videos and quizzes full-screen.
The size of the application window can also be changed, making it easy to use Virtual Economics with a projector.

14. Time display added to all concept videos
New Features
Time display added to all concept videos
The time display shows both current and total time, allowing users to easily navigate to specific points in each video.

15. For more information visit ve.councilforeconed.org