Training Manager Courseware Tab

Training Manager is a powerful course management program that allows you to tailor options and features to meet your needs. You will use this system to manage the day-to-day training operations and the training delivery process.

This page shows screen shots and feature descriptions from the Training Manager System's "Courseware" screen.

See screen shot

Click on a tab heading below to link to other sections.

Control how each individual course title will function from the Courseware tab.

Enter the UNC path to the folder containing Mastery Advantage courseware. This is one of the locations included on the Courseware location list in the General folder.

Control any of the courses installed at this courseware location by selecting it from this pull-down list.

Tell the system what courses you would like active on the course listing menu allowing users access to it. Uncheck this box to hide this course from users.

You can scramble the order of the questions. This option causes quiz questions to be displyed to the learners in a random order even if question pools are not available for the course. This feature helps defeat cheating by users.

Follow-up Review is a unique feature of Mastery courseware. When this feature is activated, the system will remember the problem areas from a learner's previous session in a course. When the learner returns to the course it will give a review of those problem areas, reinforcing difficult concepts. This feature dramatically improves long term retention of course material.

The Express feature streamlines the entire training session. It saves training time if you want your workers trained in a single session. Express eliminates main course menus. When learners start the course the system will automatically take them through all lessons and quizzes without them having to make lesson selections. It will play the first lesson and quiz, then the second lesson and quiz, and so on until it finishes the last lesson. After learners finish the last lesson, it congratulates them and automatically signs them off and returns them to the sign-on screen—ready for a new learner.

Check this box to enable user printing of their own quiz results if user printing is enabled for this installation in the General folder.

Every course has an option for a pre-test. You can make the pre-test optional to each learner, not available to learners, or required by all learners.

Users select the display size of movie files with the zoom button. However, you can select the screen size for movie files when the user has not made a zoom adjustment (default size).

If video (movie) files are installed with more than one bitrate you can select the bitrate to be used by all users of the Runtime System. Select the bitrate from the pulldown list. Select "User" to allow users to make their own selection at the commencement of the course.

CD-ROM Jukeboxes and disc changers/towers are supported as local drive letters. Enter the drive letter assigned to this course title.

If you've assigned a different course ID to a Mastery course in your other Human Resource or Learning Management systems, enter that course code here. This will provide a link with your other HR databases which will be used during data exports.

Use this control if you offer this course in more than one language, or in a language other than English. If you are offering the course in one language, select that language here. If you offer this course in multiple languages, select "User" here to allow the user to select the language.

You can use Training Manager to administer non-Mastery courses too. You can add some of the Mastery Advantage to other publishers' computer based courses and even instructor-led classes and off-site seminars. Click here to learn how you can use the Mastery administration and management systems to manage all your training.

Click this button to remove this course from the system.

The STARS Student Analysis and Reporting system uses certain information from the course files to form course reporting structures and an answer key. If you are using STARS on a separate computer, you can click this button to copy the answer key information for this course to a floppy or work folder. Answer key information can then be imported into STARS.