Posts by Duncan Welder IV

Creating Competency Groups and Competencies

January 15, 2014

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…

Competency Profiles and Assessors – Part 2 of 2

October 15, 2013

Duncan Welder IV

General

Part 2 of this blog moves to Administrator where Competency Profiles are built and assigned – all based on Part 1 which covered Assessor groups identified for each Competency and the impact of checking the “Allow Override By Profile” box.…

Competency Profiles and Assessors – Part 1 of 2

September 30, 2013

Duncan Welder IV

General

The last important step an Administrator must complete before assessments can commence in Learner (Assessment, Part 1; Assessment, Part 2) is to set up Competency Profiles and designate who can assess students assigned to those Profiles. Since Profiles are composed…

RISC YouTube Channel

September 24, 2013

Duncan Welder IV

VTA

Did you miss a VTA Webinar? Looking for training briefs on VTA? Check out the RISC YouTube channel for this and more at http://www.youtube.com/user/RISCInc.

Posts by Duncan Welder IV

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

Competency Profiles and Assessors – Part 2 of 2

Competency Profiles and Assessors – Part 1 of 2

RISC YouTube Channel

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