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 […]
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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 […]
Class Test Results, Individual Student Results and Class Detailed Results in EMSTesting.com
This article was published in our December 2014 Newsletter, by Tom Gottschalk, COO Many EMS teachers and program directors will seek out help from our customer service advocates around the time they need help defending their testing practices. In fact, I believe this is one of the main motivators for adopting our system for their […]
New Features Added to PlatinumPlanner.com!
This article was published in our October 2014 Special Edition Newsletter, by Doug Smith, CEO We thought this would be a great time to let you know about some of the new features available in PlatinumPlanner.com. Many of you have requested these new features, and we thank you for your feedback on making PlatinumPlanner.com even […]
Looking for Help with our Programs?
by Ryan Krebs, Customer Service Advocate I’m sure all of you at some point have said “I NEED HELP!” If you are at all like myself, than you too might have trouble asking for help when you really need it. My job is to ensure that never happens with you. I do not expect folks […]
Summative versus Formative
by Doug Smith, CEO I was speaking with Gabe Romero of the National Registry the other day and he shared with me some interesting information. He indicated that a large number of instructors were confused with the terms Formative and Summative when it comes to testing. As such, I would like to take just a […]