Skills are student-specific data that contain the training
requirements for a given online learner. If you have enabled Skills in your
Software Modules section (from the Options Menu), you can establish a Skill for
each student in your database. Here we use the terms "learner" and
"student" interchangeably.
FlexTraining uses a concept called Skill Groups to make the
setup, maintenance and reporting of skill requirements and training progress
easier. A Skill Group is really nothing more than a name for a set of training
requirements.
The process works as follows:
First, you create one or more Skill Groups, establishing
training requirements - a list of courses - for each. At this point the course
requirements are not yet associated with any particular student.
For example, you may decide to define a Skill Group called
"General Orientation," which is intended for new employees. You may
decide that this Skill Group includes three courses, "Corporate History,”
"Customer Service” and "Completing Your Time Sheet.”
Next, you create skill records for any or all of the
students in your student database. Each record assigns a student to a Skill
Group. This connection is what links a student to each required course. It is important
to note that each learner has a separate Profile Record for each Skill Group he
is assigned.
For
example, a learner for whom you want to track four different Skill Groups will
have four skill records. Progress toward each Skill Group is tracked and
reported separately
The EDXL-HAVE in Haiti played a significant role in saving lives by improving the speed and quality of coordinated response activities.
DHS’ Disaster Management E-Gov Initiative sponsored the development of the EDXL suite of standards to share information across a wide range of applications, different domains and multiple systems.
The Organization for Advancement of Structure Information Standards (OASIS) approved the EDXL-HAVE standards on November 1, 2008, and it quickly received acceptance as a standard by the National
Incident Management System in January 2009.
Within five working days, the HRWG and technology vendors crafted a solution using the Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) Hospital Availability Exchange (HAVE) standard.
The HRWG united Google’s mapping and mobile technologies, Sahana’s disaster management data collection repository, Shoreland’s data set and EvoTec’s data messaging and EDKL expertise to develop a
fully operational solution. Emergency workers instantly could access real-time information of hospital status, capacity, and resource availability/usage information among medical and health
organizations and emergency information systems. Dispatchers found medical relief for injured Haitians based on accurate logistical information accessible via mobile devices such as cell phones and laptops.