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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!
Akuter
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.
Akuter
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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