Boone’s Finance Boot Camp
A free, self-paced resource for students preparing for a finance course or reviewing a particular concept. It covers time value of money, bonds, financial statements, free cash flow, and valuation.
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Using this in your course
Link students to a practice quiz before class, alongside an assignment, or when they need a refresher. Each attempt draws a fresh set of questions, with immediate, answer-specific feedback and pointers to the relevant lessons for help. Encourage students to work a problem, review the feedback, follow the lesson links, and try again. The quizzes are for practice and learning; assess individual understanding separately.
Time Value of Money quizzes Financial Statements to Free Cash Flow quizzes
The Project
I created the Boot Camp to help students review foundational material outside class, leaving more class time for application and feedback. It brings together 19 videos, seven practice banks with 1,400 questions, notes, six Excel workbooks, a financial calculator, and VB—Virtual Boone, a tutor grounded in the course materials.
Students can follow the sequence or return to a specific explanation, practice bank, or workbook. Practice questions provide immediate feedback and links to relevant lessons. Faculty can link directly to the materials that fit their courses.
Project Report (PDF, 6 pages) Project Poster (PDF)
Prepared for the Montague–Center for Teaching Excellence Scholar Award, September 2026.
What I Learned
I now think of the Boot Camp primarily as an organized body of teaching content and decisions, with the website serving as its delivery layer. I manage the scripts, slides, notes, spreadsheets, questions, and tutor materials together in Visual Studio Code. Codex helps me work across those files, turn existing material into new learning opportunities, carry revisions through related resources, and check that the pieces still work together.
That organization allows subject-matter expertise to compound. One good explanation, example, or correction can support a video, a note, a workbook, a question, answer-specific feedback, and Virtual Boone. The work becomes easier to reuse across formats and future courses. Faculty judgment remains central: I still need to choose what students should learn, sequence it, anticipate their mistakes, and check the finance.
The project also clarified two separate responsibilities: providing opportunities to learn and assessing what each student knows. AI assistance, feedback, repeated practice, and group work can be valuable for learning. A correct answer produced with help, however, does not show that a student can explain or apply the idea independently. We need learning environments where students can use those supports, alongside separate assessments, such as controlled exams, that provide credible evidence of individual understanding. Boot Camp quiz activity can help me improve the resource; it is not, by itself, evidence of durable mastery.
Acknowledgment
The Boot Camp was made possible by support from the Montague family and the Texas A&M Center for Teaching Excellence through the Montague–Center for Teaching Excellence Scholar Award. I am grateful for the opportunity to develop this resource for students and faculty.