The two plans differ in whose QuickBooks® company the work is in. Lite works in Craig's Landscaping, Intuit's free Test Drive company, so students need no QuickBooks® account. Standard adds chapters 9 and 11–16, where students build their own company file. That needs a QuickBooks® Online account, but never a paid one: an instructor's Intuit Education invite, a free Intuit Accountant Suite profile or a 30-day trial all work.
- Lite opens
- chapters 1–8 plus two bonus chapters, and Appendix C
- Standard opens
- chapters 1–16, the Advanced Company Setup bonus chapter, and Appendices A and C
- Only in Standard
- Chapters 9 and 11–16, Appendix A (Purging a Company) and every end-of-chapter Do It Yourself
The Standard-only chapters cover the YinYang Graphic Design case study, job costing, inventory, year-end, payroll and the capstone. Chapters 9 and 16 are case studies.
A student with no plan and no seat reads the front matter and chapter 4 only.
What a locked chapter takes with it
Everything attached to it: the reading, the practice quiz, the chapter exam and the smart-graded uploads. And in every chapter, the Do It Yourself section at the end is Standard-only, so a Lite student's chapter stops just before it.
Teaching a class with both plans
- On Assignments, chapters outside Lite carry a Standard edition badge. Including one in your class never opens it for a Lite student.
- Keep the work you assign inside chapters 1–8 plus two bonus chapters, and treat the Standard-only chapters as extra work.
- Or give every student a seat from your pool, so the whole class has the same plan. See How seats work.
- Each student's own completion is measured against the chapters their plan opens. The class's numbers are measured against the plan the class teaches, so a Lite class is never marked behind for Standard chapters.
Class type at the top of the class page sets which plan the class teaches. It never changes what any student owns.
