Transcript AMSA Supervisor Education Program Online Application

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AMSA
SUPERVISOR EDUCATION PROGRAM
ONLINE APPLICATION
Ross Whitelaw
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Challenge
Supervisor Education Program
• Replace old standalone application with an on-line application,
allowing users, including participants, administrators and AMSA
leadership access on the Internet through the ACSA Website.
The application is to include a database of questions and
answers located on Website server:
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import questions from external database or text files;
edit questions on-line by authorized users group;
restrict access by group depending on function of group;
categorize questions by legislation, act or standard, etc.
That has the ability to produce an exam that:
• Is based on the questions and answers stored in the database;
• Has the ability to shuffle questions & answers when individual exam is
created;
• Has a time limit that is sufficiently long enough to allow participants
sufficient time to complete the exam.
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Supervisor Education Program
• That has to mark and score exam automatically and:
• Send results to user groups identified by leadership in AMSA;
• Issue passing grades and notifying appropriate administrators;
• Who, in turn, can print and distribute certificates as required.
• That has the ability to retain a table of certificate holders
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• Send notification of expiry to administrators as well as internal
reporting for member organizations.
• That has the ability to create statistical reporting based on
usage of application and database tables.
• That has the ability to easily access appropriate
legislation, regulations, codes, standards, etc. within the
application or appropriate links to other Websites.
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Moodle
Supervisor Education Program
• Moodle was chosen as the underlying engine of our program
because of it’s acceptance by educators throughout the world.
• An added benefit is that it is open source software and is
available at no cost with contributions made welcomed. AMSA
has contributed to the Moodle community
• Moodle (abbreviation for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic
Learning Environment) is a free source e-learning software
platform, also known as a Course Management System,
Learning Management System, or Virtual Learning
Environment (VLE). As of October 2010[update] it had a user
base of 49,952 registered and verified sites, serving 37 million
users in 3.7 million courses.[3]
• Moodle was originally developed by Martin Dougiamas to help
educators create online courses with a focus on interaction and
collaborative construction of content, and is in continual
evolution.
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Potentials with Moodle
Supervisor Education Program
• Capable of being used for Multiple Courses
• Mine Emergency Response Course
• Could house individual courses from member companies
• Great place to store:
• Documents for access by members only
• Incident Bulletins
• Incident analysis
• Schedules
• Example: http://www.oneagleswings.org/
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Database of Questions
Supervisor Education Program
• Questions and answers from previous program were
converted to numerous text files.
• Questions and answers in the files were modified to a
format that the new program understood.
• Subject text and page and/or manual reference were
added to each question.
• Questions and answers were imported into various
groups of questions based on requirements various
supervisors must meet and which reference various acts,
regulations, codes and standards.
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Update
Supervisor Education Program
• As of May 30th, 2012:
• 815 Users have been given access to SEP by their mine
administrators.
• 528 have opened at least one of the exams.
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421 – General Exam
89 – Blasting
94 – Electrical
128 – Mechanical
275 – Mobile Equipment
Operator
• 138 – Material Handling
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137 – Utilities
160 – Hoists
114 – Radiation
196 – Rigging
125 – Shops
104 – Warehouse
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Access through the Website
Supervisor Education Program
• Access to the SEP site can be through the AMSA home
page: www.amsaonline.org
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Access through the Website (continued)
Supervisor Education Program
• Access to the SEP site can be through the AMSA Supervisor
Education page: www.amsaonline.org/course.html
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Access through any other means
Supervisor Education Program
• Access to the SEP site could technically be through other
means, but it doesn’t matter how you access it, you come
to this:
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Security
Supervisor Education Program
• There are only two ways to get access to SEP:
1. Someone who already has access at a higher level must submit
a user’s name to the database.
2. Once someone has access during one session on the internet,
the user name and passwords are remembered and someone
else could use that computer to gain access. Once the browser
is closed, the user name and password are forgotten.
• User information includes administrator, company and
mine location. This allows for cross checking to ensure
that all users are appropriately registered.
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Roles
Supervisor Education Program
Current Roles:
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Menus depend on Roles
Supervisor Education Program
• Webmaster
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Menus depend on Roles
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• Mine Administrator
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Menus depend on Roles
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• Authenticated User
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Administrators
Supervisor Education Program
• Len Broad - Lehigh Cement
• Jennie Brooks - Ledcor
• Bonnie Roul - Grande Cache Coal
• Chris Chapman - Paintearth/ Sheerness
• Fred Kuzmic - Coal Valley
• Brad Hulbert - Obed
• Cory Michie - Teck Cardinal River
• Tim Wolf - KMC
• Doran Jones - Genesee
• Dan Lloy - Highvale
• Maurice Robichaud - Graymont
• Dale Delueg - Graham Earthworks
• Matthew Jones - Lafarge - Exshaw
• Angela Kucek - Sherritt Coal (corporate)
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Administrators
Supervisor Education Program – Morning, November 18, 2011
• Denis Vezina – Keyano College - dZ000001
• Janet Somerville – Keyano College - Js000001
• Sarah Richard – KMC Mining - sR000001
• Sheila Gill – KMC Mining - sG000001
• Craig Lamb – Imperial Oil - Kearl - cL000001
• George Berridge – Syncrude - gB000001
• Tracy Bourassa – Syncrude - tB000001
• Vivian Wong – Suncor - vW000001
• James Smith – Suncor - jS000002
• Jennie Brooks – Ledcor - jB000001
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Administrators
Supervisor Education Program – Afternoon, November 18, 2011
• Bruce Wheaton – Aecon - bW000001
• Danny Turner – Aecon - dT000001
• Scott Rose – Hammerstone - sR000002
• Craig Lowrie – Graham - cL000002
• Annick Schumacher – CNRL - aS000001
• Sandra Russell – CNRL
• Christine McCullagh – Shell Albian - cM000001
• Steve Nash – Shell Albian - sN000001
• Nancy Payne – Shell Albian - nP000001
• Laila Goodridge – North American - lG000001
• Melanie Plowman – North American - mP000001
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Administrators
Supervisor Education Program – Afternoon, May 31, 2012
• Brenda Curtis – Syncrude – bC000001
• Naomi Cormier – Syncrude – nC000001
• Brad Haugen – Syncrude – bH000001
• Shauna DeBock – Teck –
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Edit your own User Profile
• Change your password
• Check your information for accuracy
• Add anything you like in appropriate fields.
• While the ability in the program is there, do not enter too
much information.
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Some Issues
Supervisor Education Program
• Valid expiry dates from both old and new program – do
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we need a separate database for retention?
Do we need a tutorial for users?
There is no lockout on password retries.
Any administrator can change any password.
Nuisance with incorrect e-mail addresses in database.
Individual administrators not automatically notified when
student completes and exam.
Individualized reports for administrators lacking.
When people move from location to location, what
protocol is used to ensure the database is kept up to date.
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Discoveries
Supervisor Education Program
• Some administrators have "taken" exam under their
regular e-mail address and discovered that there is no
record of their taking the exam, just previewed. Yet, when
you check individual record, scores and completion dates
are present.
• When you use the same login on two different computers
so that you can review reading material on one and
answer questions on the second, the app will not save
your work.
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Check Individual Record
Supervisor Education Program
• Go into the AMSA SEP main page. Click on “Required Exams” in the centre
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column.
Click on “Grades” under Administration in the left column. The resulting report is in
Surname order.
Go to the page you would assume the name was on, you might have to then go to
previous or next page depending on position of person’s name.
Scroll to appropriate name. You’ll see the person’s mark(s) across the row.
Click on their name and you’ll get their employee (etc.) information.
Click on the ”Activity Reports” tab and you’ll get a report of his ore her grades and
the date(s) and time(s) the exam(s) were submitted.
You have a set of tabs that you can use:
Outline Report (default) – reveals grades (right responses/total responses
available) and Date and time of final attempt
Complete Report – as above with all attempts listed by date
Today’s Logs – Student’s activities in the exam area for today
All Logs – Student’s activities in the exam area since first access.
Statistics – not currently being used.
Grade – not currently being used.
You can use your Web browser’s print option for a hard copy of a report.
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Certificate Procedure
Supervisor Education Program
1) Site Administrator
sets up Student
Account
2) Student logs in and complete
modules as required. Modules are
determined by each site’s
management. Exams must be
completed within 180 days.
4) Site Administrator notifies
AMSA Administrator of
student completion. AMSA
administrator verifies
completion of all exams on
website grading chart.
3) Student notifies Site Administrator
when exams are completed.
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Certificate Procedure (cont.)
Supervisor Education Program
5) AMSA Administrator
prints certificate and
enters student into
tracking sheet.
8) Signed certificate is
delivered to student.
6) Certificate is sent
to AMSA chair for
signature.
7) AMSA chair sends certificate
back to site Administrator.
General Manager or site rep
signs certificate.