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Improvements to the Enforcement of Employee Restrictions in v6.3

June 6, 2012

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…

New Grids in v6.3

May 30, 2012

Duncan Welder IV

General

This is part 1 of a three part article on the new grids in v6.3. In VTA Backoffice version 6.3, we have re-engineered the main data grids in the system. This was primarily done to improve performance. However, in addition…

“New” button added to Enroll Group, Assign Group & Register Group in v6.3

May 24, 2012

Duncan Welder IV

General

“New” Button When adding a single student to a roster, a team or as a participant in a program, the “New” button allows you to add the student and leaves the add form open, so you can immediately add the…

Employee Inactivation Date in v6.3

April 17, 2012

Duncan Welder IV

General

Have you ever needed to know when an employee became inactive? We’ve added a new field to the employee record that will allow you track the employee’s inactivation date. This is an optional field. If you don’t want to use…

Experimenting with VTA Report File Types

March 1, 2012

Duncan Welder IV

General, How To, Reports

In my last blog, I explained the different report file types. I also gave you some cautions and some ideas for using each of the file types. In this entry, I have some simple experiments for you to run in…

VTA Report File Types

February 15, 2012

Duncan Welder IV

General, How To, Reports

When you run a report, the query created by your report tab selections extracts the data from the system and loads it into a temporary database. The Report Form you selected on the WHERE tab uses the data in the…

Why Learning Management Systems Fail – Part 3 of 3

February 10, 2012

Duncan Welder IV

General

7 Reasons Implementations Fail Continued… This is part three of three blog entries based on a US Business Review article with the same title highlighting common reasons that companies see their LMS implementation as failed. The first two entries highlighted the…

VTA Report Favorites

January 31, 2012

Duncan Welder IV

General, How To, Reports

Report Favorites All reports have a “Save As Favorite” button. After making your selections for report parameters on the Who/What/When/Where tabs, click Save As Favorite. You are prompted to enter the Name of your favorite and a description. You access…

General

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

New Grids in v6.3

“New” button added to Enroll Group, Assign Group & Register Group in v6.3

Employee Inactivation Date in v6.3

Experimenting with VTA Report File Types

VTA Report File Types

Why Learning Management Systems Fail – Part 3 of 3

VTA Report Favorites

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