A: Yes! The programmers have recently done an update to Platinum Planner to allow teachers the option to create labs and allow students to sign up for them, rather than automatically add each student in the class to them. To do this, start by making sure your role is set to “Teacher” in the upper-right […]
News from NAEMSE
Every month Platinum Educational Group will feature a key news snippet or other information from the National Association of EMS Educators (NAEMSE). NRP Psychomotor Examination and Regional Scenario Development Workshops The National Registry of EMTs (NREMT) is changing the way it verifies psychomotor competency for National Registry Paramedic (NRP) certification. All students who begin their […]
What is PlatinumTests.com?
Many of you have noticed a new platform addition entitled PlatinumTests. This new web based mobile friendly site provides us a platform to provide valid and reliable testing for a myriad of different healthcare industries. We are excited about this new venture to take testing to another level! Currently, PlatinumTests houses our NCLEX-RN® study prep […]
Why should my EMS Program use Final Exams offered by EMSTesting?
Are you still creating final exams for your EMS programs? Are you still writing your own items, creating spreadsheets and reports for validation? WHY? It takes a great deal of time and effort to invest in building a defendable final exam that will be a reliable indicator of your students’ success at the National Registry. […]
Q: My students have been reporting to me that they cannot take their tests when I activate Platinum Secure Testing. Is there any advice that I can offer them to help them gain access to their tests?
A: Platinum Secure Testing is a secure testing browser designed to allow students to take online tests, but prevent them from accessing other websites while they test or running certain applications like Messenger, Skype, or other communication applications. As it does require that students close these other applications before Platinum Secure Testing will allow them […]
Platinum Planner Mobile App for Students and Preceptors
Students can view, submit and complete their documentation right from the mobile app! They can also view and send messages to their instructor or classmates and view their progress reports The app syncs all labs and opportunities to the student’s calendar on their phone, so they will always know where they need to be Preceptors […]
Q: When I go to create/edit one of my lab classes in PlatinumPlanner.com, I noticed a new option for “Allow students to create labs”. What does this do?
A: In the past, teachers have had the ability to create a lab session for their students, but students could also create a lab session on their side as well. This meant that a teacher could set up a single lab for every student in their class, mark which lab skills would be covered, and […]
Getting the most out of Platinum’s Computer Adaptive Testing experience (CAT)
Almost a decade ago we launched our computer adaptive testing software to prepare students for this new method of taking high stakes exams like the National Registry of EMT’s and the NCLEX for nursing. I can vividly remember the building process with our educators and IT experts around a table mapping it all out. Armed […]
FERPA – Understanding the Family Educational Right and Privacy Act
I will begin with a confession to our readers. I was never fully aware of the FERPA guidelines until long after the peak of my teaching time in the initial education setting. Granted in retrospect I obeyed them in the academic and private secondary environment, but I did not know the Why’s. I was just […]
AHA 2015 Guidelines Update
The American Heart Association recently released their 2015 resuscitation guidelines. The 2015 guidelines mostly reinforce and strengthen the 2010 guidelines, and include some changes, such as the separation of the Chains of Survival to differentiate out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) from in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA). The 2010 guidelines introduced us to the C-A-B approach and to […]