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Setting VTA Password Complexity in Backoffice

January 25, 2014

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…

New Forward Note feature in Student Mailbox

December 23, 2013

Duncan Welder IV

Administrator, How To

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…

Proficiency Levels and Proficiency Indicators – Part 3 of 3 (Site-Specific Indicators)

August 27, 2013

Duncan Welder IV

Administrator, Competencies, Evaluator, How To, VTA

This is the last of a three-part series. Refer to Part 1 and Part 2 for things you need to know and do in order to create Site-Specific Indicators. Site-Specific Indicators Provide Greater Flexibility On the topic of Proficiency Levels and…

Proficiency Levels and Proficiency Indicators – Part 2 of 3

August 27, 2013

Duncan Welder IV

Administrator, Competencies, Evaluator, VTA

This is the second article in a three-part series on Proficiency Levels and Proficiency Indicators. Examples of Proficiency Level Terminology The table below contains terms used by organizations to label their Proficiency Levels. Before deciding on the number of Proficiency Levels for…

Proficiency Levels and Proficiency Indicators – Part 1 of 3

August 27, 2013

Duncan Welder IV

Administrator, Competencies, Evaluator, How To, VTA

In the blog on Creating Competency Groups and Competencies, I touched briefly on Proficiency Levels and Proficiency Indicators. In this three-part blog we’ll take a deeper dive and look at the thought processes that need to happen when first setting…

Resources to Support Competencies

July 27, 2013

Duncan Welder IV

Administrator, Competencies, How To, Utilities, VTA

One of the most important functions in the VTA Competency Management System is the ability to assign developmental activities to a student’s Personal Development Plan. These developmental activities may include courses, tasks, and resources. (Refer to the blog on Competency…

Notification Settings in V7.0

July 8, 2013

Marc Letendre

Administrator, VTA

Overview In version 7.0, VTA has greatly expanded the Email capabilities for the new enrollment approval process. You can send these notices to Students, Instructors, Supervisors, Enrollment Approvers and/or their Delegates as long as they meet the notice criteria and…

New & Improved Find Student Feature

July 2, 2013

Duncan Welder IV

Administrator, How To

In version 7.0, Find Student has been updated to take advantage of the new grid functionality that was introduced in version 6.3. Find Student works very much like Find Course by allowing you to search for students across all sites…

Competency and Course Associations

June 27, 2013

Duncan Welder IV

Administrator, Competencies, General, How To

The purpose of competency assessment is to help build students’ skills to reach the target proficiency levels for their role. To help build competency, Assessors need to easily access a list of resources they can assign as Personal Development Plan…

List Profiles Report in v7.0

April 30, 2013

Art Werkenthin

Administrator, Reports

List Profiles Report This report lists data associated with selected Competency Profiles. This includes the assigned competencies and their target proficiency level, complexity, frequency and criticality. The students groups assigned the profile are also included when the Detail version of…

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Setting VTA Password Complexity in Backoffice

New Forward Note feature in Student Mailbox

Proficiency Levels and Proficiency Indicators – Part 3 of 3 (Site-Specific Indicators)

Proficiency Levels and Proficiency Indicators – Part 2 of 3

Proficiency Levels and Proficiency Indicators – Part 1 of 3

Resources to Support Competencies

Notification Settings in V7.0

New & Improved Find Student Feature

Competency and Course Associations

List Profiles Report in v7.0

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