For the input-output values in the assignments, and for the parts of a term-project LCA that have no process data in SimaPro: map the step to the closest sector, run the dollars involved, and record in your data-quality discussion that the step was estimated with sector-average input-output data. That is the hybrid method from the design module.
No. SimaPro is the course's process-LCA tool and stays where it is. This tool gives sector averages for the 2012 U.S. economy, in dollars: right for screening, background processes and gaps; wrong for product-level claims, for comparing two designs within one sector, or for anything the project brief asks you to model as a process.
So the model version is fixed for the quarter, the number you cite in week three is the same in week ten, and the air-emission flows, the price conversion and the citation block the assignments use are in one place.
The CEE 226 teaching team. Bring a number that looks wrong to class, with your inputs.