The 2017 Catalog is now available via download from the electrical training ALLIANCE website in the downloads area. Printed versions are on the way to your program soon.
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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CLCS and Catalog PDF to be completed soon
The following message from our Customer Service Specialist – Mr. Steve Strickland, is a great update as to where we are in our process of delivering the current curriculum information.
“We are working to get the catalog posted on the website ASAP. The printed copy will be sent to all JATC’s as soon as it is completed. The bookstore and LMS have both been updated for the new school year.”
A few notes follow: (more…)
Instrumentation Blended Learning Update
The instrumentation curriculum has undergone a textbook revision, which resulted in the creation of the new Applied Science of Instrumentation textbook. Along with the new textbook, 3 Blended Learning courses, for use at both the journeyman and apprentice level, have been placed into the LMS.
Apprenticeship test generator exam questions and course credit allocation will be completed soon. Read on for descriptions of the 3 
courses.
Numerical Input Question Tolerance Addition Update – June ’17
As of Thursday, June 1st, 2017, the tolerance of + or – 2.5 % has been applied to the numerical input questions in all levels of the Code Calculations courses. Read on for the list of courses that include tolerance for numerical input questions and the date that it was applied.
Blended Learning Course Content Update – 2017
Updates and additions for the 2017 Blended Learning curriculum and CLCS are nearing completion with many titles available now. Included in the new 2017 content are:
- Code courses are updated and available based on the 2017 NEC®
- NEC® Reference questions are being revised for use with the participant’s own keyboard
- Six topics where there were a large number of lessons and multiple test generator exams (example: DC Theory, Level I, 27 lessons and 4 section tests) have been realigned (or split) into single exam courses
- 2017, 1st year apprentices and instructors will see a title change for the Code content
The following information and more is also to be provided in an upcoming electrical training ALLIANCE bulletin. (more…)
Final Updates to Grouped Course Enrollment Completed
Previously a blog post covered the newly (Spring 2017) released tools for the LMS and Enrollment Application. One of those items was addressed in two stages. The final stage was just completed along with a training video. (more…)
Test Generator Server Maintenance
The Test Generator server will be undergoing routine maintenance starting Friday, April 7th, 2017 at 11:00 pm (EDT). The maintenance should be completed before 11:00 pm (EDT) on Saturday, April 8th, 2017. Please generate any tests needed for the entire weekend prior to 5:00 pm (EDT) on Friday, April 7th, 2017.
Spring 2017 — New features added to the LMS and EA
Many new features have been added to the Learning Management System (LMS) and Enrollment Application (EA). A list of those items and a brief explanation follow. For a more in-depth discussion of the items and what will be coming next, look for an announcement of an upcoming webinar. The date of the webinar has not yet been set, but as soon as we have the details, we will post and offer a method to sign up. (more…)
Internet issue on East Coast causes LMS access issues
On Tuesday February 28th at 11:16 am Pacific, we found that our systems (LMS and Enrollment App) began to cause delayed response times and at times become inaccessible to some. As soon as we had that information we posted a Notice on the login pages to both the LMS and the Enrollment App. At 12:37 pm Pacific, we were able to cautiously update the notice to reflect that the systems were again running normally.
The cause of the issue seems related to an internet failure largely focalized on the East coast. This issue however affected users all over who access cloud based storage from data centers in the east. Some large online sites were affected…Amazon, Netflix and Time Inc to namedrop a few. Email systems came to a crawl and for a moment the Twitter-sphere was caught in a Catch-22….it wanted to shout but only a few had access.
We will continue as always to monitor the status of the systems and update all users with info if necessary.