Data Cleanup in your LMS (Part 2)
Is it time to Spring clean your LMS? (Part 2 of 2) In our first post, we took a look at why LMS administrators might throw their hands up and want to scrap their LMS, when all it needs is…
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Data Cleanup in your LMS (Part 1)
Is it time to Spring clean your LMS? (Part 1 of 2) Part 1 of 2 exploring the reason or reasons an organization would consider changing their entire learning management system (LMS). Often, some ‘spring cleaning’ goes a long way…
Read MoreVTA Backoffice 7.2 Gets Social! – Part 2 Managing Skills Data
In the previous post, we looked at setting up Skills data in VTA Backoffice. In this post, we will cover VTA Backoffice tools to help you manage Skills data. (more…)
Read MoreStatus Counts Available on History and Schedule Grids
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…
Read MoreFind Instructor Report in v6.3
In version 6.3, we’ve added a new Find Instructor report that lists the courses for which the selected person is assigned as an instructor in VTA Administrator. This report allows the selection of the person to include in the report…
Read MoreVendor and External Instructor changes in v6.3
Understanding Vendors, External Instructors and Course Instructors All external instructors are associated to a vendor in VTA. Once an external instructor has been added to a vendor, that external instructor can be added to any number of courses as an…
Read MoreWarn user of associated requirements during course inactivation in v6.3
As general rule, an inactive course should not be assigned as a training requirement. To help prevent this from happening in your system, we have added a check that will warn the user if the course is assigned as a…
Read MoreAdministrator Activity Report in v6.3
When was the last time a Backoffice user logged on to the system? Which Backoffice users have access to a site and what are their roles? Prior to version 6.3, questions like these could only be answered through complex queries…
Read MoreCourse Instructor Report in v6.3
Until version 6.3, the only way to identify the instructors associated with a specific course was to access the Instructor tab of the course record itself. Now in version 6.3 on the Course Reports menu, the new Course Instructor Report…
Read MoreDelete In-Progress Training Records
Delete In-Progress Training Frequently students start a multi-lesson course and do not finish it. This feature will allow you to delete old in-progress training records. This is a great tool for cleaning up your history files. The screen for this…
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