Frequently Asked Questions
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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.
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.
store trainee documents - like evaluations, assessments, or training notes - in the database
- Click the Users tab.
- Select a user name from the scroll list in the center of the screen. Click the Modify button.
- Scroll to the bottom of the screen. Click the Modify button next to User Files.
- Click the Add a New File button.
- Click the Browse to find the file to upload on your local computer.
- Give the file a title. The title will be displayed when viewing User Files.
- Enter a brief description of the contents of the file.
- If you would like the trainee to have read-access to this file, check the 'Share this file with the user' box.
- Click Add File.
show trainees the correct answers on the quiz results page?
On the Quiz Settings page, under Advanced Settings: Always Display Graded Responses: select Yes.
set a minimum amount of time a trainee must spend on a particular course page?
In the content editor, select the page on which you want to add a minimum time. The page timer is displayed at the bottom center of the page. Enter a minimum value. When a minimum time value is set, trainees may not navigate from the page until the minimum time is reached.