I have had a cadet sit the BASIC course on ultifail over the past few nights. He has now completed the powerpoints and is ready to take the exam. Does anyone know how this is done? I cant find an exam on ultifail to sign him up to and there isn’t one on his bulk register area.
Another evening of being frustrated with ultifail. A cadet had 3 questions on answer and it had made him resit the whole exam AGAIN! I know most people are having these issues too but this is so annoying and not a good show for the cadets! AHHHH!
Any way I’ll ask the boss to email helpdesk for that issue but any help on the BASIC issue would be great!
Thanks,
Treacle :?
I understood BASIC to be an attendance course. You attend the course so you know the rules. The examination element is knowing what to do with the information learned in real life.
Basic has to be attended by the cadet, the power points are provided on Ultilearn for the benefit of the instructor, so that the whole corps is singing the same hymn. My wing add a couple of other elements that benefit the Staff Cadet, and can prepare them fro staff in the future, loosely based on the old staff part 2 content.
Are you saying the cadet has sat and clicked through the presentations or had it presented to him?
Wrt the failed exams, under the new system cadets should only need to resit he LO’s that they failed, but lets not forget that the old system of exams were that if the cadet missed out by one mark they sat the whole paper again, so nothing has been lost here, if they have the knowledge what’s the problem!
Ultilearn is being replaced in the future to a more reliable system, so hopefully our troubles will be gone in the next couple of years.
Our guideline was that Cadets / New staff are to attend a wing-run BASIC course, and that the Ultilearn presentations and the like are there as a guide, extra resource, refresher training device etc.
Whereas down our way, BASIC is devolved to squadrons to deal with. No Wing run courses.
Exactly, no Wing courses. The boss said the cadet had to go through the presentation which he did! I will suggest in future that it is delivered to cadets by Squadron staff as it did seem a little pointless and rather boring for the cadet. At least I know there are no longer exams so I’m not going crazy by not finding one.
The problem with Ultilearn is that it is proving impossible for the cadets to pass this particular exam (we have 2 cadets in the same situation). It will make them resit parts they have already passed which is fine but the bits it doesn’t ask them to resit subsequently are then marked as fail. Another help desk issue I think.
Thank you again for the help.
Treacle
I can understand that for “re-takes” but I would say the initial one, staff or cadet, should be a face to face course, as there are some things around CP that need more than just reading a slide, like some scenarios to gauge understanding.
I also think the initial Data Protection should be a face to face.