Posts by Marc Letendre

RISC VTA Team Management Feature Is Now In Development!

July 28, 2014

Overview Team Management is a new tool that will provide Primary Supervisors an efficient way to update Team assignments in VTA Learner according to a Risk Level Rating AND a Student’s Preferred Language. It allows an organization to put control…

List Advisor Survey Questions Report in v6.3

March 3, 2014

Marc Letendre

General

Introduction Previously, if you wanted to view Advisor Survey question information, you would either have to open or preview the record in VTA Evaluator or pilot the survey in VTA Learner. Neither method was as quick as it will be…

ICS Calendar Attachments from Administrator in V7.0!

March 3, 2014

Marc Letendre

VTA

Overview In VTA 6.3 (or older), when students enroll into a Schedule Class Session in VTA Learner, the enrollment confirmation email they receive contains an ICS attachment that adds an appointment to their calendar. When their enrollment is canceled in…

Managing Schedule Rosters Without Notices Being Sent

March 3, 2014

Marc Letendre

General

Overview It’s possible that you may need to move a session from Schedule to History for a session that is in the “future” (current date, but later Start Time). Perhaps people are in an early morning class and they will…

Notification Settings in V7.0

July 8, 2013

Marc Letendre

Administrator, VTA

Overview In version 7.0, VTA has greatly expanded the Email capabilities for the new enrollment approval process. You can send these notices to Students, Instructors, Supervisors, Enrollment Approvers and/or their Delegates as long as they meet the notice criteria and…

The Matrix (Reports) – Reloaded

June 14, 2013

Marc Letendre

VTA

The Shape of Things To Come In VTA 7.0, the Student (previously Employee), Job Title, Team and Course Status Matrix Reports will start using distinctive shapes in addition to the colors displayed to indicate past due, coming due and compliant…

Best Practice: Cutting/Pasting Text from External Files in VTA

April 18, 2013

Marc Letendre

VTA

Scenario You have tons of information stored in Microsoft Word of PDF files and you want to copy and paste text from these files to VTA (i.e., Course Descriptions). Why re-create the wheel or waste time re-typing when it exists?…

Credit Hours Now Available on Certificates in VTA 6.2!

June 14, 2012

Marc Letendre

Learner

Introduction You can have students launch individual training completion certificates online in VTA Learner using an HTML template that is set as the final, optional (non-required) Document Lesson of the Course. This can be done as follows: Add the certificate…

Wild Cards in Administrator, Evaluator and Utilities!

June 13, 2012

Marc Letendre

VTA

VTA’s Employee Group auto-complete fields will allow for the use of wild cards! Wild cards are characters that can be used to substitute for any other character or characters in a string. VTA Employee Group fields are strings. When VTA…

Comma Wild Card for Employee Auto-Complete

June 13, 2012

Marc Letendre

VTA

When you have the auto-complete feature turned on for Employees in your User Profile, it allows you to start typing the name and selecting them from the displayed results. What if you are not completely sure of the…

Posts by Marc Letendre

RISC VTA Team Management Feature Is Now In Development!

List Advisor Survey Questions Report in v6.3

ICS Calendar Attachments from Administrator in V7.0!

Managing Schedule Rosters Without Notices Being Sent

Notification Settings in V7.0

The Matrix (Reports) – Reloaded

Best Practice: Cutting/Pasting Text from External Files in VTA

Credit Hours Now Available on Certificates in VTA 6.2!

Wild Cards in Administrator, Evaluator and Utilities!

Comma Wild Card for Employee Auto-Complete

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