Setting VTA Password Complexity in Backoffice
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…
Read MoreCreating Competency Groups and Competencies
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…
Read MoreCase Study: Auto-Teaming with Report Scheduler
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…
Read MoreIn-Progress Aging, Training Hours For Year Widgets in v7.1
In-Progress Aging Dashboard Widget The In-Progress Aging widget shows a pie chart indicating the aging of your students’ in-progres training. Pie sections are shown for: Training that has been in-progress for 30 days or less Training that has been in-progress for 31-60…
Read MoreHow To Configure First & Second Requirements Notices
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…
Read MoreSite Specific Filter & Option Settings
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…
Read MoreHow to Import a Team
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…
Read MoreImprovements to Child Grids
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…
Read MoreNew Forward Note feature in Student Mailbox
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…
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