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How does an organisation use a staff calendar?

by rebeccareading 4. June 2009 12:44

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An Organisation can review the availability of trainers and assessors that they have in their network in one screen. Organisations can only view a staff calendar if a person is available or not available on a date. No personal information about the user is displayed.

To view your trainers or assessors calendars:

  • Select Staff Calendars from left hand navigation box, in Organisation Details
  • In the top left hand corner Click View Trainers Calendars

If a trainer or assessor has not entered their availability in their calendar it is possible for an organisation to send you an availability request via email or text message. This allows the individuals to reply, which automatically updates their calendars using only their mobile phones.

To send an availability request:

  • Click on the green icon with in the dated box.
  • Here you can select the staff type (this will list all trainers or assessors you have in your network), time of availability, and whether you want to send them a text message or email, or both.
  • Click green send request button. This will default message will appear to tell you these messages have been successfully sent.
  • By refreshing your screen (press F5) you will then see updated versions of your those trainers or assessors who have replied to their texts in your staff calendars.

 

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Website Update: New features and some redesign

by David Hawes 5. January 2009 06:30

Happy New Year everyone. I am please to announce that we have incorporated a number of new features into the Safety Training Network website over the festive period which should make using the site easier and allow you (the users) to have a voice in the future development of the website and it's features.

The New Features

1) Single Sign On - If you have accounts with other websites (Google, Facebook, MySpace, More...

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Website update: new features and some items re-designed

by David Hawes 20. December 2008 15:02

We have just updated the website with a new feature - the 'Availability Request' this allows training coordinators for an organisation to send in bulk emails and or sms messages to their trainers and assessors to see if they are available for work. For more details on this functionality please read the more detailed post on the subject.

We have also redesigned the screens for adding and managing portfolios with the Portfolio Builder. We had got feedback on how confusing is was to use. We have replaced the initial screen with a much clearer layout for the portfolios. When you open a portfolio you can see what pages have been setup for that portfolio and what items from the evidence store have been used to fulfil those pages. For a diagram on the concept of how the portfolio builder works please view our help section

Other updates are mostly cosmetic with the breadcrumb control at the top of the page plus better layout rendering for Firefox browsers.

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What an 'Availability Request' is

by David Hawes 20. December 2008 14:45

We have released a new feature called 'Availability Request'.

The 'Availability Request' feature allows organisations to quickly, easily and cheaply ask the trainers and assessors in their network if they can work on a certain date. This is very useful if trainers and assessors have not entered their time into their calendar. This article goes into more detail about what the request is and how it works. More...

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Online shop and text message functionality

by David Hawes 9. December 2008 10:18

We have added an online shop to the website where people can purchase our services. Currently we are only selling mobile phone text messages. These messages More...

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