The Georgia Public Safety Training Center proudly announces the “Student Registration Online Learning Management System” project received top honors in Georgia’s 2016 Technology Innovation Showcase.

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On September 29, 2016, a special event was hosted in Atlanta, GA, as part of the Georgia Digital Government Summit. Eighteen projects from 12 state and local agencies were reviewed for the 2016 showcase. According to the Georgia Technology Authority (GTA), nominations are evaluated based on the following criteria: “level of innovationin addressing a specific business problem, significance to improving business processes and operating efficiency, significance to financial savings or cost avoidance, significance to enhancing service delivery to external or internal customers.”

 

GPSTC acknowledges the need for training on an annual basis—online or classroom-based. Situations are always changing, and training keeps public safety personnel prepared. The Student Registration Online Learning Management System project focused on online training. Traditional classroom time can be stressful for students and agencies. Therefore, online training is becoming an efficient alternative.

 

GTA explains that GPSTC developed an online learning management solution (LMS) to “enhance the online delivery of public safety training and enable other state agencies to use its LMS to host their own unique online training, manage enrollment, and create additional course offerings.” GPSTC is now allowing other agencies to use similar training techniques. The training techniques are being shared with the Department of Public Health’s Office of EMS and Trauma, the Department of Corrections, and the Department of Community Supervision.

 

The LMS helps students complete the appropriate steps in chronological order. GTA notes: “For more interactive blocks of instruction, the GPSTC integrated its solution with a popular open-source LMS product that allows for student discussion, submission of assignments, quizzes and detailed student activity reporting.”

 

For online training courses at GPSTC, students are in charge of their own account and choose which courses to attend. After logging in, students can register for online training courses. The agency administrators can easily monitor the student’s progress since students are listed on agency rosters. GTA explains: “After a student completes a required block of instruction, proof of training is uploaded to other state agency systems for purposes of regulatory reporting, and public safety personnel are not required to provide additional proof of training to meet annual requirements.”

 

For more information about other projects honored in Georgia’s 2016 Technology Innovation Showcase, click here.

 

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