Happy New Year and Welcome to 2018! The electrical training ALLIANCE continues to add new courses to the LMS. The month of January will be busy and a list of the course additions are coming soon. That said, some courses included new functionality requirements. One of those courses is the new, Preparing for Leadership: Personal Qualities, Level I (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…)
Electronic Systems Labs added to AC & DC Theory
A recently completed project was to add the Electronic Systems Labs to the LMS — both the Student and Instructor Guide versions. They are located with the lessons where the labs are indicated for use. (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.
Recent Updates to the LMS and Additional Content Delivery Resources
- Printable References
- Textbook Chapter Review Questions
- Report modifications to remove Flash components and pesky asterisks from CSV exports
These are recent updates and additions to the Learning Management System — the Blended Learning tool.
New to the System and Looking for Training Materials?
- Can’t see a lesson question or know how to interact with it?
- Wanting to know why the Learning Management System or content is as it is?
- Not sure what device or browser is best?
- Needing to allow popups or update Flash?
- Wondering how to configure reports to display what you are looking for?
- Looking to understand Blended Learning?
- Hoping to find answers quick?
- Looking for training?
Instrumentation curriculum update
As the rollout of the revised instrumentation curriculum continues, improvements have been made based on instructor’s recommendations. (more…)
Learning management system was down for a few minutes – 9.11.17
This message is to inform you that we did have an issue with our Blended Learning LMS today. The system was down from 10:20am Eastern to 10:29am Eastern. We identified the root cause of the disturbance and enacted procedures going forward that will remove the possibility of a reoccurrence.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused.
Please have a great rest of your week.
LMS Training, Resources, Computer Specs and Links — Updated
This post offers a few links to some resources that may be used to empower your Blended Learning training efforts. Some of these have been here for a while, some have been updated and a couple have been added for this, the latest edition of the post. There are currently 8 items that have been found to be useful, especially for those new to Learning Management Systems, new to it’s use as a student or administrator, or just in need of a specific tool — including how to enable Flash. Click on the image next to each explanation of the items to download. The 8 items are
Temporary Solution for Password Reset Feature
An odd look will appear along the left hand column of the LMS for Training Directors, Assistant Training Directors and Instructors, while we work to modify an LMS theme issue. The issue revolves around the lack of a password changing feature for users — See Red Image on the right. Access to the feature is now again available, but the settings ribbon is duplicated for the above mentioned user roles. Students will only see the one ribbon so it will look correct — See Blue image on the Left. Users will once again be able to manage their passwords as they previously could. Thank you for your patience with the odd look for administration staff, it will be fully resolved as soon as possible.