On December 31st, 2020, Adobe Systems will officially stop updating and distributing Adobe Flash. Several industries and businesses have been built around Flash technology — including gaming, education and video. To be ready for this change, the LMS team at the electrical training ALLIANCE began planning and revising system components over three years ago. Today we are excited to share that we are nearing the day where (more…)
Do you own or work from a personal computer running Windows 7? If so, keep reading. As presented at the past two NTI’s and all regional seminars, the end of support for Windows 7 has come upon us. Beginning January 14, 2020, Microsoft will no longer provide support for the Windows 7 operating system:
No tech support for any issues
No software updates
No security updates or fixes
Although a Windows 7 computer will still function, it will be at a much greater risk for viruses and malware. Not good. So, we do recommend that if you own or work from a Windows 7 computer that you upgrade to Windows 10 before January 14, 2020. Optionally and depending on its age, you might consider purchasing a new computer. Can you believe when Windows 7 was released, the iPhone 2 was one of the new cool gadgets?
The landing page of the LMS will soon undergo an upgrade and while this upgrade occurs, one of the changes to note will be the devices that are considered recommended and compatible. Windows 7 will no longer show as compatible and changes to what is deemed recommended will come soon as well due to the system continuing to become more system agnostic everyday.
For more information for Windows users out there, check out this video for a full explanation of what it means when Microsoft ends support for one of its Operating Systems and how to prepare.
Microsoft Windows 7 End of Life Support site
Thanks for reading and have a wonderful Holiday Season!
The Learning Management System experienced erratic performance on Saturday, December 14, 2019 from 11:30am eastern until 11:49am eastern affecting some and their interaction with the system. Sensors alarmed the support team immediately and the DB was switched from the master DB server to a backup DB. After converting over to the backup the support team then replaced the master and recovered the overall implementation to include multiple redundancy once again to the LMS DBs. During this time, and as soon as the team was able to provide a reason for the disturbance, a notice was placed on the login pages to both the TMS and the LMS to alert users that we were aware of the issue.
We are very sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused. All systems began to run normally just before 11:50am Eastern Saturday and continue. As always, we continue to monitor the system and will provide details if anything ever occurs. Again, we apologize for our system issue.
We have resolved the technical issue we found with the Harassment Prevention course. We are very sorry for the inconvenience we caused. We understand the importance of this curriculum and appreciate your patience as we worked through the issue.
Due to a technical issue, we have had to temporarily disable the Harassment Prevention course. We are working diligently to resolve the issue and apologize for this inconvenience. We understand the importance of this curriculum and appreciate your patience as we work though this issue.
On June 24th users accessing the TMS and LMS systems experienced regional connectivity issues. One of the internet backbone connections that link different parts of the country together experienced intermittent issues from 6:23am till 8:33am ET. This outage prevented some of our users from reaching the TMS and LMS systems.
The outage impacted many websites across the country including the LMS and TMS systems.
Not all users were impacted. The outages were regional in nature.
The TMS and LMS systems themselves were functional during the outage.
Outage notices were posted on the TMS and LMS login pages during the outage.
The Electrical Training Alliance will continue to employ and add best practices to notify our users of any service interruptions.
The 2019 Catalog is ready for download! Uploaded to the electricaltrainingalliance.org website on Friday April 12th, 2019, this catalog is ready to purchase from starting July 1st, 2019. While purchasing from this catalog must be delayed to July, the planning for the 2019 calendar school year can begin immediately!
The October 29, 2018 blog post identified upcoming changes to the legacy test generator. The change will require all programs currently using the test generator to (more…)
The new enrollment system used for the Learning Management System (LMS) has been, at long last, deployed. We have been working on exciting enhancements and added functionality across the entire application to better support your management of the Blended Learning Training. The legacy system was written in a codebase that offered the need of an update to be able to apply these new features and I’m glad to share the beginnings of them with you today. (more…)
to be considered off-line.
