Creating a Digital Cert Card Course
Digital-Cert Card courses enables instructors to provide digital certification to students who have successfully completed a Blended or Classroom course.
Step 1 Select TRAINING > CLASSES/BLENDED/ONLINE from the navigation pane.
Step 2 In the Create and Manage Classes window, click +CREATE NEW CLASS/BLENDED/ONLINE.
Step 3 Enter Details from the following fields:
Note Fields accompanied with an asterisk (“*”) requires input.
- Choose Digital Cert Cards from the Select Program Type* drop-down menu.
- Choose a Program* from its drop-down menu.
- Select a Class Type* from the following choices shown in the drop-down menu:
— Initial—Choose for students who have never taken a course at your training center.
— Renewal— Choose for students whose certification needs renewing.
Note Certifications need to be renewed every two years.
— Challenge—Choose for students who have learned the program’s curriculum elsewhere and want an opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge and hands on skills (without prompting by the instructor) in order to test out of the course.
- (Optional) Include any Class Notes you may want to reference for the course, such as a room number.
- Choose an Accrediting Instructor* from it’s drop down menu.
- (Optional) Choose a Site from its drop-down menu. The system defaults to the top-level training center.
- Click the Start Date field to begin picking the year, month, and day that this training course begins.
- Click the End Date field to begin picking the year, month, and day that this course ends.
- (Optional) Selecting Open Enrollment displays a link for the course registration page. This link can be posted to the Training Center’s website or emailed to students so they can self-register.
- Choose an Assisting Instructor if the student/instructor ratio exceeds the following:
HSI recommends the following:
— ASHI=10 students/per instructor
— MEDIC=12 students/per instructor
Note The optimal ratio is six students per instructor.
The assisting instructor typically assists during the skills-check portion of the class.
- (Optional) Click SELECT SUPPLEMENTAL TOPICS if you want to include additional topics in the course:
A) Select one or more topics in the dialog box.
B) Click OKAY when you finish.
Step 4 Click SAVE & CONTINUE.
Step 5 Click the Build Roster section header to choose among the following:
- Enter Student for those students who have never attended ASHI/MEDIC & EMS Safety courses at your training center by:
— Entering a student’s first and last names, their email address, and then clicking SAVE.
- Select Student displays a list of any student that has previously added to a class roster by:
— Selecting a student’s name, and then clicking Submit.
- Select Member is used to add instructors to the roster.
— Selecting a member’s name, and then clicking SUBMIT MEMBERS.
- Upload Students to invoke the Upload Students dialog box, where you can either:
— Import an Excel spreadsheet with a list of students that you have already prepared. The spreadsheet must contain their first and last names, along with their complete email address.
Note Excel (.xlsx) is the only document type this process accepts.
or (Recommended)
— Click the Download Excel Student Upload Form, which is prepared in the format that our system requires.
A) Save the file to your device.
B) Open the file and click Enable Editing to begin inputing student data.
C) Enter the following information into the spreadsheet:
Student Last Name
Student First Name
Student Email Address
Note You do not need to provide input for both Department and Acct Code columns.
D) Save the file to your device.
E) Return to the Build Roster page and click Select a File to upload the spreadsheet to the system.
F) Browse your system for the spreadsheet, and click Open.
G) After the spreadsheet name displays, click UPLOAD.
The page refreshes and student names derived from the spreadsheet display on the page.
Step 6 (Optional) If you want to remove a student after submitting their name, you can remove them by:
(a)Returning to the Build Roster section.
(b)Finding their name, and click the trash icon shown at the end of their row.
Step 7 When you finish this page, click Review and Submit.
Step 8 In the Review and Submit section:
- Keep the Classroom Course Email toggle enabled to keep student’s informed about the class. This email delivers to students shortly after you click the SUBMIT button.
- Click the pencil icon shown next to Classroom Course Email to create your own content for the email.
Caution Do not click SUBMIT until you verified that the skills session is successfully completed by all students. --
Step 9 After confirming the details shown in this page, click SUBMIT.
Step 10 CONFIRM the action. Credits are deducted from your credit balance.
You have completed all steps necessary to build this course.
To check to see if a student is still working on their course, add scores, or to indicate pass or fail for students, see Performing a Training Search.
