by Tom Gottschalk, COO It is hard to believe that next semester/term is just around the corner academically speaking. Listed below are our prices for the remainder of the year. EMSTesting.com Account Type Annual School Membership EMR Student EMT Student EMT I-85 Student EMT I-99 Student AEMT Student Paramedic Student After July 1, 2015 $500.00/year […]
PlatinumPlanner.com New Additions
by Ryan Krebs, Customer Service Advocate Hopefully you are already familiar with our new additions to the program, if not I’ll take a moment to point out two of the big additions we have made and how to see these features in action. Changes to Reports One of the areas that has seen the most […]
Program Enhancements
by the Development Team New PlatinumPlanner Program Enhancements: Platinum Planner: Improve student shared site signup. Improved server performance for both programs. New EMSTesting Program Enhancements: EMSTesting: Real-time question statistics. Improved server performance for both programs. Upcoming Program Enhancements: EMSTesting: Improve question feedback. EMSTesting: Gradebook percentages by category. EMSTesting: Platinum Secure Testing iPad compatibility. EMSTesting: Test […]
Platinum Secure Testing in EMSTesting & PlatinumTests
Platinum Educational Group has partnered with Respondus Lockdown Browser for secure online testing in EMSTesting & PlatinumTests. This feature launched in early March 2015 and is available to school instructors with their school subscription to EMSTesting and PlatinumTests. The Platinum Secure Testing feature gives Instructors the option to lockdown tests on a students computer or […]
Finally One Solution Institution Wide!
Platinum Educational Group is proud to announce the availability of our newest enhancement to Platinum Planner. Beginning January 1, 2015 Platinum Planners new capabilities will allow an institution to utilize the program to schedule and track skills for any curriculum. Finally, there is one solution that can be used institution wide. The Planner is very […]
Academic dishonesty?
This article was published in our December 2014 Newsletter, by Tom Gottschalk, COO Our sales team is often approached with inquiries about how our websites prevent cheating. I am sorry, let me rephrase that question. How do we deal with academic dishonesty, cognitive knowledge testing trickery, or someone who takes an educational opportunity shortcut? For […]
Exciting News from the CEO!
This article was published in our December 2014 Newsletter, by Doug Smith, CEO We are just finishing up our latest upgrades to Platinum Planner. You should see major positive changes in the reports section as well as an easier lab and opportunity creation and sign up process. We have instituted a Monday Webinar Update program […]
Q: What textbook are your questions based off of?
This article was published in our December 2014 Newsletter, by David Smith, Customer Advocate A: Actually, our questions are not based off of any particular textbook. This is primarily due to the fact that publishers tend not to agree on where questions belong across the board(ex. Is this a Cardiology or a Pediatrics question?, Is […]
Q: Can I export EMSTesting.com questions into another learning management system?
This article was published in our December 2014 Newsletter, by David Smith, Customer Advocate A: Not easily. There are actually 2 reasons for this. One reason is test bank security. Once a question has been removed from our program, it is much harder to keep track of that question and ensure that the question does […]
Q: Can I modify a test after students have taken it? (EMSTesting.com)
This article was published in our December 2014 Newsletter, by David Smith, Customer Advocate A: No. Once a student has answered a question on a test online, the test cannot be modified again. This is because student results on a test are directly tied to the questions that they answered, and so modifying a test […]