The October 29, 2018 blog post identified upcoming changes to the legacy test generator. The change will require all programs currently using the test generator to (more…)
LMS Response Times Slowed for Some Users
On Wednesday, October 24th, from 9:35pm to 10:08pm Eastern, the LMS system showed increased response times which caused pages to display much slower than normal for some users. Our monitors sensed the increase and the teams immediately went to work to identify the issue. We are very sorry for the issues this may have caused.
Media Closed, but Not Forgotten
This message is to bring a bit of clarity to the recent changes (media file closings and removals) that were made to the system to resolve the timeout issues experienced by the LMS a few weeks ago.
We have thousands of media clips and interactive animations placed throughout the system in various lessons and courses. (more…)
Recent LMS Performance and Resources
The development teams and etA staff have been working to resolve the recent 522 errors that users have been experiencing during the busy usage times of the day. After Labor Day, system usage numbers have set new records for the number of users per day and concurrently. The system itself is working pretty effortlessly to handle the traffic as it was built to exceed current and relative future numbers for use of the system. The issue causing the poor performance has been located and it (more…)
Blended Learning LMS Performance Question
The Learning Management System has experienced long response times for some users of the system recently. The symptoms display a connection error where for some they see that the Cloudflare CDN is inaccessible and others see that the blendedlearning.njatc.org site is inaccessible. Typically a quick refresh by the user clears the issue.
This is not the expected performance of the system and the teams are working around the clock to resolve the issue. We are very sorry for this inconvenience and will update with new information as soon as it is available.
New Training Management System for LMS Enrollments Arrives
The new enrollment system used for the Learning
Management System (LMS) has been, at long last, deployed. We have been working on exciting enhancements and added functionality across the entire application to better support your management of the Blended Learning Training. The legacy system was written in a codebase that offered the need of an update to be able to apply these new features and I’m glad to share the beginnings of them with you today. (more…)
Coming Soon! Enrollment Application Upgrade
The Enrollment Application is 
evolving with your needs to keep you a step ahead. It features a polished interface and enhancements designed to maximize productivity, improve predictability and fast-track new users while supporting all existing workflows...Most importantly, it was carefully crafted to 
make managing LMS training easier. It’s worth restating: As we update this system, users of the legacy system will not be faced with a burdensome task of learning a whole new system. After 7 years of use on the legacy system, we applied (more…)
2017 December Updates
The Learning Management System (LMS), Enrollment Application (EA) and the Course Level and Credit Summary (CLCS) tools have all been updated with new features this December. The following is a rundown of some of the many changes made to continue to improve upon our systems. (more…)
Internet outage for some, and for a while, on Monday, 11/6/2017
Internet outages were reported across the US on Monday, 11/06/17. Reports began coming into sites like downdetector.com starting at roughly 1pm EDT and continuing until a bit after 4pm EDT. 
Reports after 4pm EDT indicated the outage issues were identified and corrected. Our LMS sites were at all times running smoothly, if you could access. Two users sitting next to each other may have had different experiences with access to this and many major sites across the internet, based on the kind of outage that occurred. This outage affected one of the major internet communication backbones.
Here are some articles that covered the incident: Click on one/each to read details of the outage and resolution.
Director, Bill Ball shared a very enlightening article yesterday with staff from vox.com. It’s an interesting look at the construction and history of the internet. It also explains much of what some of yesterday’s activities and investigations realized when looking for answers to why the internet was acting up.
We know how important these services are and will continue as always to monitor and communicate regarding site access.
Maintenance and Upgrade of the LMS Completed
The Blended Learning Management System went through, and completed, 
a large phase of maintenance and updates this weekend, as you may have seen by the notification that had been posted on the login pages for the last month-plus.
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