Importing a Roster to VTA from Turning Technology Audience Response System
Background: Many groups use audience response systems for in-class polling to increase interaction and to provide live assessments during class. With systems like that produced by Turing Technology, in-class polling results can be output as a .csv file which can…
Read MoreLog Files and Reports Part 3 – Evaluator Log Report
Report Description The Evaluator Log report displays all VTA Learner actions involved with starting, scoring, and storing tests, evaluations, checklists, and surveys for the date range selected (or All Dates). For troubleshooting purposes, you can run the report for a…
Read MoreLog Files and Reports Part 2 – Learner Enrollment Log Report
Report Description The Learner Enrollment Log Report displays all VTA Learner actions for the employees in the specified site associated with starting courses, launching Lessons, giving credit, etc. for the date range selected (or All Dates). For troubleshooting purposes, you…
Read MoreLog Files and Reports Part 1 – Overview
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…
Read MoreUsing Autocompletes in VTA Backoffice
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…
Read MoreMulti-forms is a deprecated feature in 6.3
The multi-form feature of VTA Backoffice was put in for backward compability between VTA 6.0 and VTA 5.2. Now that we are several versions in to VTA 6 the multi-form feature is deprecated and may not be supported in future versions.
Using Scheduled Session Status to Control Enrollments in VTA Learner
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…
Read MoreCustom Report Templates and File Types
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…
Read MoreSchedule & Session Summary Reports by Instructor
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…
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