Introducing the New Mobile Application for use at NTI

Greg Greiner July 22, 2019 No Comments

NECA and the IBEW, with collaboration from the electrical training ALLIANCE are excited to announce the deployment of our new ProTech Skills Institute mobile application.  As mentioned in our previous announcement, IBEW and NECA created the ProTech Skills Institute to offer new tools and resources to serve your needs.  Streamlined services and tools with high functionality have been requested by you and this new mobile application was designed to do just that.


We are launching this now in time for NTI.  On it you will find all NTI tools for a great experience in Ann Arbor including maps, the event guide, your personal schedule, communications and much more.  Beyond NTI, this mobile application will be a central location for accessing upcoming and future service tools and resources without need of downloading new apps each time.  This newly architected solution will become a single-stop location to access all of the many resources you have requested of NECA and the IBEW to support you with.

Please take a moment and watch the video announcement above of this new application, where to access and download it and how it will be a primary tool for use at our 30th Annual NTI.

 

Download the app from the Apple App Store, Google Play Store or from the https://protechskillsinstitute.org website.

 

 

Introducing the ProTech Skills Institute

Greg Greiner July 8, 2019 No Comments

It is the mission of the electrical training ALLIANCE to develop and standardize training to educate the members of the IBEW and NECA contractors to insure and provide the most highly trained and highly skilled workforce possible.  To be effective and competitive in the electrical industry, ​we must constantly improve ​our processes and enhance our services ​for you. You have told NECA and the IBEW the areas that need focus and you have been heard.  Please take a moment and view this exciting announcement of how NECA and the IBEW have created the new ProTech Skills Institute.

 

 

LinkedIn Learning removes Lynda.com name and how it may affect you

Greg Greiner May 21, 2019 No Comments

As you may know, LinkedIn purchased Lynda.com. This is not new or fake news..really its rather dated news… But, great things are happening there! Due to that purchase a few years ago, LinkedIn created a subsidiary called LinkedIn Learning. Up until this week they carried the Lynda.com name with them as a part of their learning platform. Change is and has been coming and it’s been pretty seamless so far. One thing you will note over the next few weeks will be the Lynda.com course titles in the LMS & TMS will be updated. Courses previously identified as Lynda.com courses will now utilize the LinkedIn Learning identifier in the title.

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New Online Test Generator Active – Webinar Video Available

Greg Greiner May 14, 2019 No Comments

There were over 128 participants on the New Test Generator (TG) GoToWebinar that took place on Friday May 3rd.  The webinar discussed most of the features with a live demonstration of creating, administrating, and reviewing the test with live students.  The new TG is live for all Inside JATC Training Centers and awaiting for the Training Director to activate the system.

The recording was post-edited (47 mins) with additional comments and is now available to watch.

The programmers will be adding this video to the Orange Help block on the TG home page in the near future.

Be sure to ask questions if you have any issues.  Keep in touch!

BBall@ElectricalTrainingAlliance.org

eBooks! The New Reference Option

Greg Greiner February 14, 2019 No Comments

The electrical training ALLIANCE is excited to announce that select eBooks are now available.  Students and Instructors will be able to access content on the go, wherever they are, without need of carrying the printed books.  This is just one beauty of eBooks where the content is also much more than a book in pdf form.  It offers many other great features. (more…)

TMS Course Enrollment Session Name Error

Greg Greiner January 21, 2019 No Comments

We are very sorry to note, but at this time we are having an issue with new sessions of courses created utilizing a session name previously utilized on other courses.

An example to explain: Let’s say I have an enrollment for DC Theory, Level I, 2nd Ed. called: 1A4 2018-19 that was completed early last week (or really any time in the past).  Now this week I try to create an enrollment in Conduit Fabrication, Level I, 2nd Ed. for the same or different group of students.  When I try to use the same session name of, 1A4 2018-19, the system will not allow me to place it in the cart and displays the error above.

This is not how the system is designed to work.  You should, and have always been able to use the same name across different courses.  The correct rule is that you may not use the same name for sessions of the same course.  At this time, this rule is jumping across courses.  We are aware of the issue and working to clear it.  We are very sorry that we are experiencing this bug.

A poor work-around is:

In the example above, use a name for the session that you have never used before in any course, then after submitting the course, edit the session and name it what you wanted using the cog and clicking Edit Session Name.  This is not at all a preferable solution.  It is just a work-around until we fix this bug.

There is no issue with adding users to existing sessions or creating new sessions using unique names to your training location.

I will post again as soon as we have this issue resolved.  The team is actively working on it right now. We know how important it is this system runs as it should and are very sorry for this inconvenience.