Posts by Duncan Welder IV

Importing Students to a Team

July 8, 2014

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…

Case Study: Auto-Teaming with Report Scheduler

January 13, 2014

Duncan Welder IV

General

We’ve done several blog entries on the Output to Team feature and Report Scheduler for automating team assignments, but I wanted to tell you about a project that I worked on recently for a customer. During a consulting session, the…

How To Configure First & Second Requirements Notices

December 27, 2013

Duncan Welder IV

How To, Utilities

Recently, a user confronted me with this business need… “You can specify the timing for first and second reminders on Confirmations, but there is only one frequency for requirements notices. I would like to have first and second notifications for…

Site Specific Filter & Option Settings

December 27, 2013

Duncan Welder IV

General

The new grids introduced in Version 6.3 allowed users to save Filter and Option settings for all main grids in the system. This gave users more control than ever before over what was shown on the grids and was a…

How to Import a Team

December 23, 2013

Duncan Welder IV

How To

Recently, we received a user request to import a team from a spreadsheet that contained student ids and names. This is nothing out of the ordinary because we offer a number of standard import services to our hosted customers, one…

Improvements to Child Grids

December 23, 2013

Duncan Welder IV

General

In Version 6.3, we added new grid filters, options and exporting to all main grids in the system, giving you greater control of which records and what fields are displayed in these grids and allowing you to export the data…

New Forward Note feature in Student Mailbox

December 23, 2013

Duncan Welder IV

Administrator, How To

A wise VTA Administrator once said… It would be really handy to be able to forward a note from the Student Mailbox to someone just for those “rare” occasions when a student forgets that he or she received an email…

Posts by Duncan Welder IV

Importing Students to a Team

Status Counts Available on History and Schedule Grids

Setting VTA Password Complexity in Backoffice

Creating Competency Groups and Competencies

Case Study: Auto-Teaming with Report Scheduler

How To Configure First & Second Requirements Notices

Site Specific Filter & Option Settings

How to Import a Team

Improvements to Child Grids

New Forward Note feature in Student Mailbox

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