Overview

VTA The Virtual Training Assistant system is a comprehensive learning management system from RISC, Inc. Learner is a web application that provides access to your training records.

The pages, images or labels used throughout this VTA Learner Online Help system may vary from your actual system.  Some options may be turned off, configured or styled according to your organization's needs.

If you have questions about your system, contact your system administrator using the Contact Us link (next to Help).

Know another organization that can use VTA?  Contact Sales@RISC-inc.com.

Navigation

There are three ways to navigate the VTA Learner system:

• Menu

• Menu (Classic)

• Site Map

Roles

There are five major roles, or types of access, that control the actions you can do:

1. Student

2. Supervisor

3. Assessor

4. Instructor (Internal only)

5. Course Custodian

You may have multiple roles.  Any Student can be set up as a Supervisor A person connected to one or more student groups with access rights to: 1) view their training records, 2) manage their enrollment into instructor-led training events, 3) run reports on them, 4) complete Competency Assessments, 5) reset passwords or 6) add or edit student s., an Instructor, a Course Custodian or a Competency Assessor. Once you are given additional roles, they will provide you access to the additional features.

Your system administrator may create additional controls which may restrict your access to Learner pages or features.

Student

As a Student, you can:

• View your My Plan page of training Requirements

• Start online training

• Search the training Schedule, enroll into Class Sessions, cancel enrollment and/or take pre-class online Lessons

• Continue training that is in-progress

• View your training History, including reviewing previously viewed training-related documents associated to the sessions

• Add, edit and view items on your Wishlist

• Update your Emergency Contact information

• Complete VTA Advisor Surveys (if they are setup to be taken by the Student)

• Complete a self-assessment for Competencies associated to your Profile Groups

• Enter External Training records (if the system is setup to allow Students to enter their owns records)

• Retrieve messages sent to your VTA Learner My Mail box (if feature is on)

• Search the Course Catalog

• Run the following reports:

• • Student Detail

  • Training Summary Report

  • Schedule Report

  • Status Report

• Complete Surveys (generic)

• Change your VTA Learner password

• Send a message to a System Administrator via the Contact Us link

• View this VTA Learner Online Help system

Supervisors

Supervisors can access all the same areas as a Student for their own records.

In addition, they can also do the following for Students in the Student Group they are assigned to supervise:

• View the Student's training that is in-progress

• Enroll the Student into Scheduled Class Sessions and/or cancel enrollment

• View the Student's Learning Plan of training Requirements

• View the Student's training History

• Add, edit and view items on Students' Wishlists

• Complete an assessment for Competencies associated to your Students

• Update Students' Emergency Contact information

• Run the following reports:

• • Student Detail

  • Training Summary Report

  • Schedule Report

  • Exception Report

  • Status Report

  • Status Graph

  • Status Matrix

  • Attendance Report

  • Non-Attendance Report

• Reset Student Passwords

• Add new or edit existing Student Profiles (if feature is turned on)

Assessor

Assessors can access all the same areas as a Student for their own records.

If they are setup as a Supervisor, they can also do the same functions listed above for Supervisors.

In addition, if they have students with Competencies assigned that they can assess, or if they are set as a Named Assessor for the Competency, then they can:

• Start, continue and/or Commit an Assessment for their people (if any Supervisor can assess the Competency).

• Start, continue and/or Commit an Assessment for Competencies (if they are one of a select list of people who can assess the specific Competency).

• Create and manage a Personal Development Plan in either scenario.

Instructors

Instructors can access all the same areas as a Student for their own records.

If they are setup as a Supervisor, they can also do the same functions listed above for Supervisors.

In addition, they can do the following for Classes they are scheduled to teach (set as the Instructor of a Schedule Class Session):

• View the Roster A list of students who attend a specific course, on a specific day at a specific time.

• Send Email messages to Students on the Roster

• Change the Status of the Scheduled Class Session

• Move a Scheduled Class Session to History, including updating each Student's enrollment Status and enter Grades and/or Scores

• Run the following Reports:

• • Schedule Sessions Reports (lists the classes they are scheduled to teach)

  • Roster Report (includes all Students on the Roster)

  • Sign-in Sheet Report (includes only Students on the Roster with a Status of "Attend")

Course Custodians

Custodians can access all the same areas as a Student for their own records.

If they are setup as a Supervisor, they can also do the same functions listed above for Supervisors.

In addition, they can update the following for Course records they are set as the Custodian for:

• Credit Hours

• Next Review Date

• Description

• Outline

• Objectives

• Target Audience