Welcome to the newly updated Blended Learning Instructor Portal Blog.
Offering Training Directors, administration staff, and instructors updated information on the LMS and Blended Learning continues to be a top priority and with that in mind, an updated area was constructed. 
This updated area maintains not only a place for the immediate LMS/Blended Learning update, but also acts as a repository of the past articles, info and tools.
The new updates include:
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For any programs that may have been missed by the recent newsletter, the Annual Survey was placed on the LMS and made available on December 1st and submissions are requested to be completed by December 30th. All Training Directors were enrolled and will find the survey located at the top of the My Courses page of the LMS. The following announcement was made to inform each Training Director of the Survey and how to access. (more…)
As of Tuesday, November 22nd, the tolerance of + or – 2.5 % has been applied to the numerical input questions in both levels of the Semiconductor courses. Read on for the list of courses that include tolerance and the dates it was applied.
In a relationship between the electrical training ALLIANCE and the Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Training Program (EVITP), electric vehicle training is now available in the LMS. EVITP provides training and certification for electricians installing electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE). 
As a voluntary non-profit collaboration of electrical industry organizations, EVITP supports developing electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure for residential and commercial markets. (more…)
A new feature released recently allows the Training Director to offer a do-over of a lesson, as long as the lesson quiz was submitted within (more…)
As of Monday, October 31st, the tolerance of + or – 2.5 % has been meticulously applied to the numerical input questions in another couple courses. In both the 2012 and 2015 70E based editions of Electrical Safety-Related Work Practices, Level I, the numerical input questions within Lesson 5: 3-Phase Bolted Fault Currents now include a tolerance.
We recognized today that we have an error in the time reports that started on October 4th, 2016. This error relates to how a user logs out of a quiz or the LMS. If the user chooses to select the “Logout” function when they want to stop using a quiz, then the time captured is accurate. Moodle logs the time started and can then log the time completed. When however, (more…)
We are many times asked the question, “How much internet bandwidth do I need in my training center?” To this you usually hear one of our directors respond:
How do you intend to use the Blended Learning System?
The Printable Study Guide went off-line but has been brought back up. Requests made since Sunday morning at 4am eastern until now are being sent out as the system catches up. The issue that caused the disturbance in performance has been identified and resolved.
Two new features have been added to the Formula Builder (FB)
question type specifically to the solution area.
The question type may now be applied a few different ways. (more…)