Posts by Duncan Welder IV

VTA Backoffice 7.2 Gets Social! – Part 1 Setting Up Skills Data

February 23, 2015

By now, you’ve seen the announcements regarding the new social learning features in Learner 7.2. Well, to support & manage those features like Skills, Endorsements and Blogs, VTA Backoffice 7.2 includes a whole new Social application. This is where you will…

Primary Supervisor and Performance Manager Added as Report Groups in VTA 7.2

February 19, 2015

Duncan Welder IV

Administrator, Evaluator, General, New Features, Reports

We’ve had several users indicate that they would really like to be able to run reports by Primary Supervisor and Performance Manager. (more…)

New Recently Visited List in VTA Backoffice

February 16, 2015

Duncan Welder IV

General, New Features, VTA

There just aren’t enough minutes in the day! Here at RISC we pride ourselves on providing tools to help VTA Administrators work better, faster and smarter! This is why VTA Backoffice offers features like recurring training requirements, group enrollment/assignment capabilities, imports…

Assign/Enroll Group Gets an Update – Part 2

February 11, 2015

Duncan Welder IV

General, New Features

In the previous article, we introduced the new filtering capabilities added to Assign/Enroll Group. In this article, we’ll cover the rest of the improvements made to Assign/Enroll Group in version 7.2. (more…)

Assign/Enroll Group Gets an Update – Part 1

February 9, 2015

Duncan Welder IV

Administrator, New Features, VTA

Improved Filtering Capabilities Assign/Enroll Group is a feature in VTA that has been around forever, as a mechanism to assign/enroll multiple students at one time to a team, class session or program. After new grid filtering capabilities were introduced in…

Explanation of Met By Reasons on Status Reports

September 3, 2014

Duncan Welder IV

General, Reports

From time to time, users ask for explanations of the Met By reasons that appear on Status reports. Here is a little refresher: Pass means the student has successfully completed the course and the next due date (completion date +…

Importing Students to a Team

July 8, 2014

Duncan Welder IV

Administrator, How To

One of the things that we heard loud and clear at the VTA Live 2014 User Conference in May was that you wanted the ability to do more importing, similar to the Import Roster functionality that is available in History…

Status Counts Available on History and Schedule Grids

July 8, 2014

Duncan Welder IV

Administrator, Data Cleanup, General, How To

The 2014 VTA Live User’s Conference was, like all our user conferences, an opportunity for the user community to share ideas with RISC regarding upcoming features and share you did! Thanks to your feedback we came away with some great…

Setting VTA Password Complexity in Backoffice

January 25, 2014

Duncan Welder IV

Administrator, How To, VTA

In System Properties found in VTA Utilities, the primary system administrator has the ability to configure password security settings for VTA Backoffice. These settings are system settings, not site settings. As such, they will apply across All VTA Backoffice users…

Creating Competency Groups and Competencies

January 15, 2014

Duncan Welder IV

Competencies, VTA

Time to get down to the nitty-gritty and talk about Competency Groups and Competencies, right? In addition, this blog ventures into elements that touch competencies and gives them additional dimension for use in assessment activities – especially for those who…

Posts by Duncan Welder IV

VTA Backoffice 7.2 Gets Social! – Part 1 Setting Up Skills Data

Primary Supervisor and Performance Manager Added as Report Groups in VTA 7.2

New Recently Visited List in VTA Backoffice

Assign/Enroll Group Gets an Update – Part 2

Assign/Enroll Group Gets an Update – Part 1

Explanation of Met By Reasons on Status Reports

Importing Students to a Team

Status Counts Available on History and Schedule Grids

Setting VTA Password Complexity in Backoffice

Creating Competency Groups and Competencies

Upcoming Events

Recent Posts