Tag: Nursing

ANGEL: Certificate-Generating Tool Instructions

I met with a group of IDs and IPSs from Outreach to present on some work that I did while working on a solution for the PSU School of Nursing.

I have documented my overview, procedures, and implementation notes in an Evernote: “ANGEL: Certificate-Generating Tool Instructions“.

This project covers the design, development and implementation of a solution that was developed to automatically generate certificates-of-completion for participants taking online continuing education credits. Nurses in PA need to maintain professional development credits in an ongoing basis. PSU Outreach worked with the School of Nursing to develop self-paced online learning that would satisfy this need.

Nursing Online CE Summer ’10 Update

8171A Pilot – test-out flow and function of groupsList of participantsNo creditSurveySummer Groupsmake changes given the upgrade: no GOTO function6003-6008 (see 6003 for changes)screen cap quizzes, then chuck them”You have now completed this course” change link2. Helpful Informationcheck presentation lengthsremove…

8171A Pilot – test-out flow and function of groups

  • List of participants
  • No credit
  • Survey

Summer Groups

  • make changes given the upgrade: no GOTO function
  • 6003-6008 (see 6003 for changes)
    • screen cap quizzes, then chuck them
    • “You have now completed this course” change link
    • 2. Helpful Information
      • check presentation lengths
      • remove maximize/minimize toggle button
      • remove “click here to return to the course content” link
    • 3. Presentation
      • no banner?
      • re-publish w/o toggle button
    • 4. Technical problems – add info to OTS
    • 5. AI – add alert
    • 6. Quiz
      • check feedback options
      • “all at once” questions
      • delete action
  • 6009
    • About page – text and recording?
    • Sections 1, 2, 4, 8, “You have now finished…”
    • screen cap and remove quiz
  • 6011
    • About page text
    • publish presentation
    • Sections 1, 2, 4, 8, “You have now finished…”
    • wrote Colin about deleted files??
  • 8171A
    • remove quizzes
    • reverse import from DEV?

Assessing the Nursing Online CE Pilot Course: 8171A

Background – The Nursing Online CE program was initially developed to use ANGEL Groups as they were the only resources available to the planners at that time. The planners now have access to use ANGEL Groups which are advantageous for…

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  1. Background – The Nursing Online CE program was initially developed to use ANGEL Groups as they were the only resources available to the planners at that time. The planners now have access to use ANGEL Groups which are advantageous for a number of reasons:
    1. Courses are not linked to any one person’s account
    2. There aren’t any quotas on the numbers of courses we could create
    3. The use of DEV spaces would make the process of course revisions more similar to typical WC courses
    4. WCLD would maintain more direct admin access to the courses, this would be especially useful for succession planning
    5. Courses provide a level of legitimacy that Groups do not have
  2. Goal – test the proper functioning, flow, and basic organization of a Nursing Online CE Course in ANGEL
  3. Survey
    1. History/Experience
    2. Main Components of Materials
      1. Nursing Portal/Marketing Site – point of first entry
      2. SOAR – registration engine
        1. FPS – account registration/user database
      3. ANGEL Course
        1. Welcome page
        2. Handouts
        3. Navigation info
        4. Presentation
        5. Support info
        6. AI
        7. Quiz
        8. Eval
        9. Certificate
        10. Completion
        11. Copyright & TEACH Act
    3. Survey attributes
      1. Content
      2. Organization
      3. Flow
      4. Support
    4. Comparison of the Group with the Course

I’m tempted to expand the pilot to include effectiveness of the design of this course. It would be a mistake to do that at this time given the scope, time frame, and initial goal of this pilot. It would be great to get more specific answers about how these courses compare to other forms of professional development that are available to nurses.

Nursing Online CE Updates

I’ve notified SON and CAPE about the new version of ANGEL’s Assessments broken GOTO advanced actions (the resulting page is blank). We’ll have to resort to alerts to assist students along the course process. I was also considering using Presenter’s…

I’ve notified SON and CAPE about the new version of ANGEL’s Assessments broken GOTO advanced actions (the resulting page is blank). We’ll have to resort to alerts to assist students along the course process. I was also considering using Presenter’s built-in quizzing features as an alternative.

Madeline had me change some colors in PPT because they wouldn’t print in B&W. I just checked and we shouldn’t have to worry about that since that seems to occur when participants are printing directly from PPT. Students only have PDF’s to print from and as long as they look good, then participants will get good prints. Looking at the printing more carefully, I began to wonder if we should offer B&W versions. The problem there is that the Penn State Mark and “SON” do not appear at the bottom of each slide.
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6008_slide10_color.pngI was also wondering if we should include full-sized references, but began to think that is going too far for a .1CEU non-credit course. The information is available online and the students can copy that info if they really want to.

NURS 6009 “Living with a Life Threatening Illness” Mediasite Live

Spoke to Heather Stover, School of Nursing, today and she said that she’ll talk with their IT Specialist, Colin Dangler today to request the materials and software we’ll need to edit Cheryl’s presentation for 6009: “Living with a Life Threatening…

Spoke to Heather Stover, School of Nursing, today and she said that she’ll talk with their IT Specialist, Colin Dangler today to request the materials and software we’ll need to edit Cheryl’s presentation for 6009: “Living with a Life Threatening Illness.” I had emailed Colin Fri 3/5 about the materials and software, but haven’t heard anything from him.

I’m under the impression that there is a possibility that we (Learning Design) won’t be able to get a copy of the Mediasite Live editing software. This could be a potential hurdle for getting the 6009 course launched by the start of the Summer… when SON would like the course to go live. I’m confident that if we get the materials and software soon (within the next week or so), we’d be able to get the course ready by the summer.

Course Development Goals: Take a pre-existing Mediasite Live presentation and swap out the PowerPoint for a different version. Then publish the presentation and incorporate it into a new 6009 course that is a part of the Nursing Online CE program. Due date to go live: start of Summer ’10. Will work on other aspects of the course until the content is ready: Welcome Page, Resources, Quiz, Evaluation, Certificate, etc.

More updates to come.

NURS 6008 Development

New QuizzesChange the title of the quizdelete all pre-existing questionsreview the new questions and determine whether to manually or import the questions into the quizadd/import the questionsyou’re finished for now!New Evalschange program title in the headingskip to “Speaker Evaluation”change the…

New Quizzes

  1. Change the title of the quiz
  2. delete all pre-existing questions
  3. review the new questions and determine whether to manually or import the questions into the quiz
  4. add/import the questions
  5. you’re finished for now!

New Evals

  1. change program title in the heading
  2. skip to “Speaker Evaluation”
  3. change the name of the speaker to match course author
  4. delete old/previous questions and update with newly provided evaluation questions
  5. you’re done for now! skip the marketing section (it’s the same for all of the evals)

Update Email in Eval Settings

  1. go to Action editor and change…
  2. SUBMIT ALERT for course title
  3. also change the SUBJECT and MESSAGE TEXT in the SUBMIT EMAIL action item
  4. you done for now!

Automatic Redirects

  1. Evaluation: SUBMIT GOTO action item, change the long string of characters to match the ID for the Print Your Certificate object in the the Content tab
  2. Academic Integrity: SUBMIT GOTO action item, see above to redirect to the quiz

Set Password Access

  1. review instructions from the “Password Information” document