Technology continues to have an increasing effect on construction and how jobs are built. In order to keep up with this ever-changing trend, the electrical training ALLIANCE is happy to begin an effort to inform and keep our JATCs up-to-date. (more…)
Legacy Test Generator Changes Reminder and Download Link
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…)
At Long Last – Activity Reporting & Improved Course and Report Organizing
Are you an instructor assigned to access many LMS courses? Have you taught the same topics for more than a few years? Have you ever wondered how students performed on the interactive content available in the LMS? A yes to any of these questions means recent LMS updates were aimed at helping you. From SCO reports to improved UI/UX in the My Courses and Sessions Report areas, the fall 2018 LMS updates were designed to help every instructor spend more time doing training and less time doing navigating. (more…)
Important Information about the Legacy Test Generator
Over the past several months we have had numerous programs notify the electrical training ALLIANCE about issues that they were having with the legacy test generator. The primary issue was the inability to generate both a student version of the test and an answer key at the same time.
In most instances our support team was able to reach out to the programs experiencing this issue and (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.
Looking for the training course for the LMS and Blended Learning?
The original LMS Instructor course had its content closed recently but a new edition is in the works and at the same time available. The new course;
- Has a new title – Managing Electrical Training
- Will be continuously updated
- Has been assigned to all LMS Instructor accounts
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.
Courses Added and Courses to be Archived
Many of the new courses slated for the 2018-19 Calendar School year [identified here] and the 2018 Catalog, have been turned on in the past month. The rest are still in process, but slated for use as described in those articles. A future article after NTI will be posted when the details are ready for listing all recently released content.
The message here focuses on the Archiving of courses. Some of the new courses turned on recently replace existing ones. When this occurs, we Archive the course being replaced once it’s new-use is no longer part of the system. On August 7th we will archive the listed courses below. Archiving a course does not remove access for those already enrolled. Archiving affects only new enrollments, not existing ones. Read on to get the full explanation. (more…)