The Digital Marketing Simternship and Courseware

Give your students a best-in-class digital marketing experience

The Digital Marketing Simternship and Courseware

Give your students a best-in-class digital marketing experience

The Stukent Digital Marketing Simternship

Turn today’s students into tomorrow’s digital marketing professionals

Transform classroom concepts into real-world marketing experience! The Stukent® Digital Marketing Simternship® places your students in the role of a digital marketing specialist for a simulated e-commerce retailer. Over 10 immersive rounds, your students will select and optimize keywords, manage bids, analyze KPIs, improve landing pages, and so much more.

Pair the simulation with the “Digital Marketing Essentials” courseware to integrate strategy, application, and real-world scenarios in one cohesive learning experience.

Strengthen your students’ skills with a Simternship

Each Simternship round mirrors professional practice, giving students the hands-on experience they need to succeed in today’s competitive job market.

I am currently taking a digital marketing class, and the Stukent Digital Marketing Simternship is amazing. This product has brought in-class connections and hands-on learning to my fingertips. I have learned a lot and love logging on. The simulations make you feel like you are actually running a marketing campaign with real products.

Jeffery P., Student

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What’s in a Simternship round?

In every round, students apply key digital marketing concepts to authentic business challenges. Curious to see how the Simternship works? Take a guided tour of a round!

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Add experiential learning to your course with the Digital Marketing Simternship!

Add experiential learning to your course with the Digital Marketing Simternship!

Add experiential learning to your course with the Digital Marketing Simternship!

Jeff Larson, Ph.D.

Stuart Draper

The “Digital Marketing Essentials” courseware

Jeff Larson, Ph.D.

Stuart Draper

The “Digital Marketing Essentials” courseware

Get more than a textbook

The “Digital Marketing Essentials” courseware deepens students’ understanding of core marketing concepts, including web design, on- and off-site SEO, analytics, paid advertising, web analytics, email marketing, and more. With turnkey activities, real-world examples, and annual updates, your course stays current while your students stay engaged.

Everything you need to teach with confidence

With “Digital Marketing Essentials,” you’ll spend less time building content and more time bringing concepts to life. From auto-graded quizzes to turnkey lesson plans, each resource makes your course planning more efficient and impactful.

Annually Updated Text

Engaging Resources

Auto-Graded Activities

Author Video Lectures

Everything you need to teach with confidence

With “Digital Marketing Essentials,” you’ll spend less time building content and more time bringing concepts to life. From auto-graded quizzes to turnkey lesson plans, each resource makes your course planning more efficient and impactful.

Annually Updated Text

Engaging Resources

Auto-Graded Activities

Author Video Lectures

The ‘Digital Marketing Essentials’ courseware [helps] students understand the elements of digital marketing, but the Stukent Digital Marketing Simternship really brings those elements to life by asking students to apply their new knowledge to a business in need.

Nick S., Professor, Midland University

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Explore the table of contents

Give your students a comprehensive understanding of modern digital marketing strategies. In “Digital Marketing Essentials,” your students will explore how to build high-performing websites, optimize search and display campaigns, leverage analytics, manage reputation, and apply emerging tools such as AI to real-world marketing challenges.

Chapter 1: Digital Marketing Foundations

Chapter 2: Web Design (Desktop and Mobile)

Chapter 3: Analytics

Chapter 4: On-Site SEO

Chapter 5: Off-Site SEO

Chapter 6: Paid Search Marketing

Chapter 7: Display Advertising

Chapter 8: Email Marketing

Chapter 9: Social Media Strategy

Chapter 10: Social Media Platforms

Chapter 11: Online Reputation Management (ORM)

Chapter 12: Mobile Marketing

Chapter 13: Digital Strategy

Chapter 14: Artificial Intelligence for Digital Marketing

Turnkey instructor resources

Save time with an instructor tool kit that includes auto-graded activities, expert videos, test banks, lesson plans, lecture slides, and resources that support any course format — face-to-face, hybrid, and online.

Turnkey instructor resources

Save time with an instructor tool kit that includes auto-graded activities, expert videos, test banks, lesson plans, lecture slides, and resources that support any course format — face-to-face, hybrid, and online.

Turnkey instructor resources

Save time with an instructor tool kit that includes auto-graded activities, expert videos, test banks, lesson plans, lecture slides, and resources that support any course format — face-to-face, hybrid, and online.

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chapters

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chapters

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auto-graded quizzes

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auto-graded quizzes

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Check Your Understanding activities

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Check Your Understanding activities

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Strengthen Your Skills activities

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Strengthen Your Skills activities

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lesson plans

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lesson plans

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lecture slide sets

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lecture slide sets

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projects

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projects

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case studies

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case studies

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Expert Sessions

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Expert Sessions

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real-world assignments

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real-world assignments

sample syllabus and course calendar

sample syllabus and course calendar

cumulative glossary for student reference

cumulative glossary for student reference

14

chapters

46

Check Your Understanding activities

14

lesson plans

2

projects

8

Expert Sessions

sample syllabus and course calendar

14

auto-graded quizzes

14

Strengthen Your Skills activities

14

lecture slide sets

4

case studies

14

real-world assignments

cumulative glossary for student reference

The “Digital Marketing Essentials” Video Lectures

Comprehensive, on-demand video resources

Flip your classroom with ease! The “Digital Marketing Essentials” Video Lectures contain 14 hours of video content from Dr. Jeff Larson, a professor of marketing at Brigham Young University. These video lectures complement the courseware, providing your students with additional support, instruction, and insights into course material.

See how easy it is to teach your next course with the “Digital Marketing Essentials” courseware.

About the Authors

Jeff Larson, Ph.D.

Jeff Larson is a professor of marketing at Brigham Young University, where he has taught courses in marketing research and internet marketing since 2007. He earned his master’s degree in applied economics and his Ph.D. in marketing from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Stuart Draper

Stuart Draper is the founder of Stukent, Inc. and has taught and mentored hundreds of students as an adjunct faculty member at Brigham Young University–Idaho. Before launching Stukent, he founded the successful digital marketing agency Get Found First, where he trained dozens of students as interns and employees in online marketing.

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Instructor support you can count on

With a 96.4% satisfaction rate and an average response time under 10 minutes, the Stukent Support Team and customer success managers ensure you can focus on teaching.

Always have the latest edition

The “Digital Marketing Essentials” courseware contains robust instructional resources for educators and students. Best of all, the Stukent team updates the courseware annually, which means your curriculum will always be on the cutting edge of your industry.

Support for you, support for students

Whether you need help logging into your Simternship, navigating your courseware, or troubleshooting an issue, we're here to help!

Connect with your dedicated Stukent customer success manager

Your go-to contact to save hours on course preparation. Book a time to discuss course setup, LMS integration, or adopting additional products.

Learn to navigate your Stukent course

Prerecorded training videos and step-by-step instructions help you build courses, add students, and master the platform.

Support for you, support for students

Whether you need help logging into your Simternship, navigating your courseware, or troubleshooting an issue, we're here to help!

Connect with your dedicated Stukent customer success manager

Your go-to contact to save hours on course preparation. Book a time to discuss course setup, LMS integration, or adopting additional products.

Learn to navigate your Stukent course

Prerecorded training videos and step-by-step instructions help you build courses, add students, and master the platform.

Support for you, support for students

Whether you need help logging into your Simternship, navigating your courseware, or troubleshooting an issue, we're here to help!

Connect with your dedicated Stukent customer success manager

Your go-to contact to save hours on course preparation. Book a time to discuss course setup, LMS integration, or adopting additional products.

Learn to navigate your Stukent course

Prerecorded training videos and step-by-step instructions help you build courses, add students, and master the platform.

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