Posts by Duncan Welder IV

Log Files and Reports Part 1 – Overview

October 15, 2012

What are Log Files? Did you know that VTA Learner logs many of the actions that students take while signed into the system? For instance, Learner makes a log entry when a student or a supervisor enrolls in a scheduled…

Using Autocompletes in VTA Backoffice

August 14, 2012

Duncan Welder IV

General, How To

Autocomplete is a feature provided in many web based applications to speed up human-computer interactions. It involves the application predicting what the user is typing in without the user actually typing it in completely. Autocomplete is available in VTA Backoffice…

Using Scheduled Session Status to Control Enrollments in VTA Learner

July 30, 2012

Duncan Welder IV

Administrator, How To

Everyone is familiar with the scheduled session statuses OPEN, SHUT and CANCEL. They’ve been around forever. But, there are some new status options that have been incorporated into the system over the last few years that you may not have…

Custom Report Templates and File Types

July 23, 2012

Duncan Welder IV

General, Reports

In this post, I want to discuss the relationship between custom report templates and VTA report file types. You may recall from my previous post on VTA Report File Types that some file types bypass the report form and work…

Schedule & Session Summary Reports by Instructor

June 25, 2012

Duncan Welder IV

Administrator, How To, Reports

While you’ve had the ability to run a Scheduled Sessions or Session History report by Instructor for a long time in VTA to show the sessions scheduled for or taught by a particular instructor, you’ve never had an easy way…

How To Run a No Show Report

June 15, 2012

Duncan Welder IV

Administrator, How To, Reports

Looking for a report on No Shows or Cancellations? The Course History report on the Course Reports menu is the one for you! From time to time, we get asked if there is way to generated a No Shows report. …

Controlling Date Formats in VTA

June 14, 2012

Duncan Welder IV

VTA

Introduction VTA manages a host of dates; job title dates, session dates, requirement due dates, etc. Administrators select session dates when scheduling or entering history sessions and students are exposed to these dates when browsing Learner and in email notices.…

Improvements to the Enforcement of Employee Restrictions in v6.3

June 6, 2012

Duncan Welder IV

Administrator, General, How To

Employee Restrictions have been around for some time in VTA. They have been used to limit an administrator’s ability to edit or enroll to a specific group of students. However, those restrictions were not applied to other areas of the…

Using Options on the New Grids in v6.3

June 6, 2012

Duncan Welder IV

General, How To

This is part 3 of a three-part article on the new grids in v6.3. For an overview of new grid features see Part 1 of this article. A new Options section has been added to many of the main data…

Exploring New Grid Filters in v6.3

June 4, 2012

Duncan Welder IV

General, How To

This is part 2 of a three-part article discussing the new grids in v6.3. To see Part 1 of this article, click here. There were filters on some grids in previous versions of VTA Backoffice, but version 6.3 takes grid filtering…

Posts by Duncan Welder IV

Log Files and Reports Part 1 – Overview

Using Autocompletes in VTA Backoffice

Using Scheduled Session Status to Control Enrollments in VTA Learner

Custom Report Templates and File Types

Schedule & Session Summary Reports by Instructor

How To Run a No Show Report

Controlling Date Formats in VTA

Improvements to the Enforcement of Employee Restrictions in v6.3

Using Options on the New Grids in v6.3

Exploring New Grid Filters in v6.3

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