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Accreditations - Quick Start Guide


(Note: This is a document from a prior version and may no longer provide full insight into all the attributes of this feature. It is recommended to use the newest documents linked from the Main Page)



There are four basic steps to the Accreditation Process: 1) Add a Vendor; 2) Create an Accreditation; 3) Add an Accreditation to a Course; 4) Select an Accreditation.

Add a Vendor

Accreditations are associated with vendors. These can be external, for example a governing body, such as the AMA (American Medical Association) or internal, for example, a specific Client, hospital, division, etc. Vendors are added in the Advanced View > User Management dropdown menu (& selecting Vendors).

To Add a Vendor to the LMS system, follow these steps (Note, if vendors have previously been created, this step can be skipped):

  1. Click on the User Management Dropdown Box
  2. Click Vendors.
  3. This will bring up the Vendor List screen which displays Vendors that have previously been added to the system
  4. Click on the New Vendor button near the top right portion of the screen.
  5. This will launch the New Vendor Details screen. The level of detailed entry will vary based on your organizational needs.
  6. Enter the required information of vendor name and address.
  7. Enter any desired optional information.
  8. Click the Save button located near the top right of the screen.

The vendor has now been created and will be available in the Vendor list. Repeat this step as necessary for all vendors to which Accreditation will be associated.

Create an Accreditation

To Create an Accreditation in the LMS system, follow these steps (Note, if desired Accreditations have previously been created, this step can be skipped):

  1. Click on the Learning Objects Dropdown Box
  2. Click Accreditations
  3. This will bring up the Accreditation List screen which displays Accreditations that have previously been added to the system
  4. Click on the New Accreditation button near the top right portion of the screen.\
  5. This will launch the Accreditation Details screen. The level of detailed entry will vary based on your organizational needs
  6. Enter the required information of Accreditation Name and Vendor.
  7. Enter any desired optional information.
  8. Click the Save button located near the top right of the screen.

The Accreditation has now been created and will be available in the Accreditation List. Repeat this step as necessary for all Accreditations required.

Add an Accreditation to a Course

  1. Select the specific Learning Object Course to which you wish to associate an Accreditation and open the (Course) Learning Object Details Page
    1. Note: Do NOT select Edit Mode (Do not click on the EDIT button which allows you to edit Course details, but makes Accreditation info read only.
  2. Scroll down to the Available Learning Object Accreditations section (in the lower portion of the page).
  3. Click on the Available Learning Object Accreditation button on the right side of the Available Learning Object Accreditations section.
  4. This will bring up the Add Learning Object Accreditation Details page in a separate (pop-up) browser window. It is here where you specify attributes for this specific Accreditation / Course association.
  5. Enter the required information of Accreditation and Accreditation #.
  6. Enter any desired optional attribute information.
  7. Click the Save button located near the top right of the screen to save the attribute association between this particular Course and Accreditation.
    1. Click the Save and new button if wishing to immediately add another accreditation.

The Learning Object Accreditation has now been added to this course. It will now show in the bottom portion of the Courses Learning Object Details Screen. Repeat this step as necessary for all Accreditations to be applied to each particular course.

Select an Accreditation

How to View Accreditation Information Associated with a Course

When accreditations are utilized there will be an additional way to search for course instances associated with accreditations when using the course Search function. That is, there will be a drop-down box enabling the search to specify an Accreditation one of the search criteria,

When a specific course is identified and the Enroll link is selected, the Course info screen will display. About 2/3 of the way down, the associated accreditations will be listed in a scrollable text-box. A subset of attributes (e.g. course units, expiration, etc.) will also be visible.

How to Select the User Specific Accreditation for a Course

Once a user enrolled in the course. The new course and course options will appear in their own personal Course list with a drop-down box asking them to Select Accreditation. This Accreditation drop-down box is just below the Course Name for each course offering Accreditation.

  1. The student uses the Accreditation drop-down box to select the Accreditation appropriate to them.
  2. A separate Message window will pop-up asking the user to confirm the application of the chosen accreditation.
  3. If the wrong accreditation was selected, they can click on the Cancel button. Assuming the correct choice was made, the user clicks OK.
  4. When the user takes the course all testing, grading, credits, retake, evaluation and other selected attributes will be those specific to the Accreditation option they chose.