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The Akuter Quarterly Newsletter

February 2007 | Member Edition

You are in quest of perfection for your personnel, your customers and your organization. Our purpose is to belong to your teams and provide a technology suited to your missions in training and quality and an irreproachable service. As usual, your suggestions are most welcome.

Certainly, it is not too late to wish you all a wonderful year 2007.


Thank you for trusting Akuter,
Didier Bourgeot  
President  


New

Launch of Akuter User Group Discussion Forums

Last December we have launched the Akuter User Group Discussion Forums:
http://forums.akuter.com

To register:
http://forums.akuter.com/forums/profile.php?mode=register

By clicking on a forum, you can see its various topics and participate by posting a reply to a message.
Use the forum entitled "Your questions and comments..." for new topics and the moderator will create a new forum accordingly.

Translation services
Akuter Technologies now offers translation services from English to French. We can translate and put in cultural context your courses, products, services and applications. Akuter has set up a team of highly qualified people for this new service. Please contact us for estimates.

New user guide
A new user guide covering the complete Akuter system has just been released in English. French version will be available early March.
Request a copy at info@akuter.com


Coming events

One of the main applications of Akuter Enterprise software is training and certification for school personnel who must learn contents specific to their school district such as health and safety, organisation, and violence prevention for instance. They can take tests on line from the school district’s eLearning center powered by Akuter. Courses developed by some school districts can be adapted to other school districts: See our Partner, ATM Productions (http://www.atmproductions.ca). User discussion forums create numerous opportunities to share experiences and energise the community. You are only limited by your imagination!


bcspaAkuter will participate to BCSPA 2007

British Columbia School Personnel Association Conference

February 23, 2007 Downtown Vancouver Four Seasons Hotel 7:30am – 3:30pm

80 to 100 School District Human Resources Personnel from across the Province Will attend the 15th Annual BCSPA Conference.

sposaAkuter will participate to SPOSA 2007

The SPOSA Conference & Trade Show will be held in Edmonton May 15 & 16 at the Coast Terrace Inn. The conference is intended to school board facilities personnel.


“Our goal is to inspire students to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes essential for participation in our changing society, by creating a supportive learning environment and demonstrating our commitment to quality. Our communication plan is to promote the strengths, successes and uniqueness of the Fort St John Public School System. With this in mind, we have selected Akuter as a business partner. The Akuter Enterprise is a revolutionary product that will help us meet our knowledge and skills objectives. We believe that the Akuter system will play an important role in developing the knowledge, skills, and attitudes essential to meet these goals.”


Ernie Inglehart, Secretary-Treasurer, School District No 60



Recently seen at

ERH 2006:
HR directors’ conference in Paris (November)

“The fall 2006 must-see event!”

E_Human resources applications field has never been so large. Job centers’ traffic increased dramatically over the past few months narrowing their historic audience and streaming more and more résumés. The broader use of e-HR tools brings more and more integration and optimisation to HR personnel’s stakes.

Manage talents implies to have some in your HR system. This 3rd convention aims to present this topic's state of the art.


Rouen 2006:
Private seminars series to promote Quality Assurance at the hospital. (December)

These seminars aim to present tools and methodologies to prepare, in a motivating way, hospitals’ personnel to meet HAS expectations.


Product news

Recently added:
- Guests group
- Automatic learners' language preference
- "New User" alert
- "New Guest" alert
- SSL encryption support (with option of selective or full SSL)

Coming soon:
- Learners' time credit management
- Automatic redirection to course list when exiting a course
- User info messaging
- Automatic broken links management in courses
- Learner's anonymity toward the scorer



Recent forum topics


Converting MS Office documents to Flash for free:
http://forums.akuter.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=59

Converting MS Office documents to PDF for free:
http://forums.akuter.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52

Converting to RealVideo format:
http://forums.akuter.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=59

Converting WAV -> MP3:
http://forums.akuter.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=60



Tips

#1 Properly sizing your logo:
Any types of picture formats can be selected for the logo. We suggest using one of the following formats: PNG, JPG, GIF. Do not use BMP as it is big and proprietary. Also make sure the size of your logo picture will fit well in your course’s screens (80x80 pixels for a 1024x768 resolution is a good size).

#2 Properly sizing your course:

It is important that you size and organize your chapters and courses to re-use them in a modular way to different training programs or audiences. Therefore, you will avoid large chapters or courses. (rule of thumb is 10 to 15 pages per chapter and 10 chapters max per course).

#3 Sizing your texts:
Courses' texts can easily be too big. This gives your page a billboard look and feel that can be largely improved by downsizing the font size. You must avoid having scrollbars in the text windows. Use links to glossary to decrease the volume of text displayed on a screen.  Identically, if the font size chosen in the style for the table of contents is too big this brings scrollbars that are inelegant. Remind to preview your courses in the same resolution as your future learners (Typically 1024 x 768).



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