Frequently Asked Questions - Administrator
How do I...?
display a customized announcement to users after they login to TrainCaster?
Custom announcements are displayed when a user logs into your TrainCaster environment. The announcement can be shown only when they login, or every time they return to their home page. Announcements are set to expire automatically - just enter the date you want to stop displaying the announcement.
- Click the Administration tab.
- Click the Announcement Settings button.
- Enter an announcement, when users will see the announcement, and an expiration date.
- Click the Update Announcement button to save your changes.
create a curriculum progression?
- Click on the Administration tab at the top of the page.
- Click Manage Curriculums.
- Select the name of the first curriculum in this progression from the scroll list and click Modify Curriculum.
Note: All curriculums that are to be included in this progression need to be created before you create the progression. The other curriculums can be created as non-progression curriculums. - The Curriculum Progression box at the bottom of the page should indicate that curriculum progression is currently set to off. To change this select Modify.
- Select the On radio button in the Curriculum Progression box at the top of the page.
- Select the next curriculum(s) in the series from the text box on the right side of the page and click Add.
- Click Finished.
assign a user grouping contact?
- Click the Manage Users tab.
- Click Manage Users.
- Select the name of the user grouping contact from the list. Click Modify User.
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Modify next to User Grouping Contact Assignments.
- Select the user grouping that this user is the contact for. (one or several). Click Add Assignments.
- Click Finished.
Note: A Group Contact must have a user type of Administrator, Course Manager, User Manager, or Report Manager. Trainees cannot be Group Administrators. Additionally, Group Contacts can be automatically notified via email when a trainee is overdue for training or when a trainee completes a course.
assign trainees to a course?
Assign Multiple Users to a Curriculum
This function lets you assign trainees to classroom courses.
- On the User Manager screen, click 'Assign Multiple Users to a Curriculum'.
- Select the curriculum from the drop-down list. Click Continue.
- Select users from the 'Unassigned' list and click Add.
- When you have moved the users from unassigned to assigned, click finished.
Please note that if users are assigned courses based on User Grouping, when the User Grouping changes - so do the curriculum assignments. In that case, these changes will be overwritten with the new curriculum assignments.