In adjusting to this season of unprecedented changes, your sacrifices, steadfastness and ability to “change on the fly” have been noted, appreciated and admired! We understand your struggles and would like to help.
As an extension of our Training Partner Tuesday social media effort (#TPTuesday), we would like to introduce Training Partner Tuesday Remote Learning. Our training partners have agreed to offer their expertise and are willing to teach through various webinars. These remote learning sessions will be designed as a collaborative series of webinars to be held each Tuesday, at 6PM Eastern, to augment teaching and training despite the current national circumstances.
The Electrical Theory Simulator (ETS) continues to be improved upon. Besides supporting nearly all platforms, it now has better circuit viewing and saving functionality.
Realtime use of the ETS saw a change in meter lead display where the leads are offset to support ease of seeing what is being measured. Next, we improved upon the ability to save and then share circuit builds. For example, (more…)
created with the assistance of Platinum Level Training Partner Graybar.
Lesson 3 in the Blueprints Level-II course titled “Understand Job Costs and How to Do an Actual Takeoff” allows for the opportunity for students to do a small take-off on a Residential job. This helps the students to get a feel for the work done by NECA contractors in securing work of the IBEW members who work for them. This is an eye-opening lesson for most students. (This price list is also used in the Residential Job Information 2, Level I, (Based on the 2017 and 2020 NEC) – Lesson 7.) (more…)
On December 31st, 2020, Adobe Systems will officially stop updating and distributing Adobe Flash. Several industries and businesses have been built around Flash technology — including gaming, education and video. To be ready for this change, the LMS team at the electrical training ALLIANCE began planning and revising system components over three years ago. Today we are excited to share that we are nearing the day where (more…)
Practicing Leadership: The Foreman Development Series
The electrical training ALLIANCE is excited to announce the continuation of the leadership course topics within the Blended Learning System. At the beginning of 2018 the ALLIANCE released the Preparing for Leadership course, which is intended to be taught in apprenticeship and, as the name indicates, prepare students for the opportunity, after they become Journey-level workers, to lead (more…)
Do you own or work from a personal computer running Windows 7? If so, keep reading. As presented at the past two NTI’s and all regional seminars, the end of support for Windows 7 has come upon us. Beginning January 14, 2020, Microsoft will no longer provide support for the Windows 7 operating system:
No tech support for any issues
No software updates
No security updates or fixes
Although a Windows 7 computer will still function, it will be at a much greater risk for viruses and malware. Not good. So, we do recommend that if you own or work from a Windows 7 computer that you upgrade to Windows 10 before January 14, 2020. Optionally and depending on its age, you might consider purchasing a new computer. Can you believe when Windows 7 was released, the iPhone 2 was one of the new cool gadgets?
The landing page of the LMS will soon undergo an upgrade and while this upgrade occurs, one of the changes to note will be the devices that are considered recommended and compatible. Windows 7 will no longer show as compatible and changes to what is deemed recommended will come soon as well due to the system continuing to become more system agnostic everyday.
For more information for Windows users out there, check out this video for a full explanation of what it means when Microsoft ends support for one of its Operating Systems and how to prepare.
Microsoft Windows 7 End of Life Support site
Thanks for reading and have a wonderful Holiday Season!
The Learning Management System experienced erratic performance on Sunday, December 15, 2019 from approximately 11:55am eastern until 12:27pm eastern affecting some users and their interaction with the system. Sensors alarmed the support team immediately and troubleshooting was begun. The team found and fixed the problem and confirmed performance had returned to acceptable metrics. As soon as the team was able to provide a reason for the disturbance, a notice was placed on the login pages to both the TMS and the LMS to alert users that we were aware of and working on the issue.
We understand the importance of the LMS for our users and are very sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused. All systems began to run normally at approximately 12:27pm Eastern Sunday and continue to function acceptably. We continue to monitor the system and again, apologize for the system issue.
The Learning Management System experienced erratic performance on Saturday, December 14, 2019 from 11:30am eastern until 11:49am eastern affecting some and their interaction with the system. Sensors alarmed the support team immediately and the DB was switched from the master DB server to a backup DB. After converting over to the backup the support team then replaced the master and recovered the overall implementation to include multiple redundancy once again to the LMS DBs. During this time, and as soon as the team was able to provide a reason for the disturbance, a notice was placed on the login pages to both the TMS and the LMS to alert users that we were aware of the issue.
We are very sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused. All systems began to run normally just before 11:50am Eastern Saturday and continue. As always, we continue to monitor the system and will provide details if anything ever occurs. Again, we apologize for our system issue.
In adjusting to this season of unprecedented changes, your sacrifices, steadfastness and ability to “change on the fly” have been noted, appreciated and admired! We understand your struggles and would like to help.
to be considered off-line.
