Greetings fellow educators. Last month, during an NRA safety class, our instructors discussed at length situational awareness (SA). While I had heard the term before in firefighter related training, I was ignorant to what it really meant. When I reviewed the topic afterwards, I found it very interesting when trying to understand people’s state of […]
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Go from Nurse to… Paramedic?
You may be thinking “Isn’t that title backwards”? While it is true that many paramedic’s progress towards a nursing degree, there are, however, many benefits for nurses to obtain a EMT or Paramedic degree as well. This article will discuss several reasons for RN’s to adopt EMS training to their résumé. First, let’s all get […]
Introducing Platinum’s Knowledgebase!
Platinum Educational Group is striving to give you every tool possible to help you succeed in your endeavors. Within the past few months, we have officially released a brand new way to help our customers even more! Our newest tool, called the “Knowledgebase”, is a place where both instructors and students can get their questions […]
New Progress Reports Feature in Platinum Planner!
This article was published in the September 2016 newsletter by Tom Gottschalk, COO, Medical Educator Last month’s article revolved highlighted gems at EMSTesting.com many instructors do not utilize but could if they wanted to. (See article here) This month, I am going to steer our colleagues to an exciting new tool hot off the developer’s […]
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 […]
Q: In Platinum Planner, how do I change my password?
A: Before the Single Sign-On update, once you logged into Platinum Planner all you would need to do is go to My Account near the top-right of the page and you could enter a new password there. Now that accounts are linked in both EMSTesting and Platinum Planner, you need to go to my.platinumed.com to […]
Q: I used to have accounts in both Platinum Planner and EMSTesting. When I log in now though on my dashboard it only shows one of the two programs. Why can’t I access my account for the other program?
A: The impetus behind the Single Sign-On update was to allow users to access both EMSTesting and Platinum Planner accounts by just logging in once with a single email address and password. The way we did this was by linking together accounts that had the same email address, since email addresses are unique and names […]
The Importance of Computer Adaptive Testing and Actually Training Like You Fight!
This article was written for our July 2016 Newsletter by By John Spencer, Medical Educator Take a moment and think about all of the trainings that you have personally attended over the years. Do you remember them all or just some of them? Odds are that you can remember some of them because something memorable […]
PEG’s EMSTesting Validity
This article was published in our July 2016 Newsletter and was written by Doug Smith, Medical Educator, CEO There is a marketing campaign from our competitor going around suggesting that there is only one solution out there for providing valid tests for EMS providers. Let me be very clear that this is NOT the case. […]
Q: I’ve set up a series of opportunities for my Paramedic students to sign up for, but they can’t see them as available on their end. They are also enrolled in a scenario class. Why can’t my students sign up for clinical opportunities?
A: If you are an instructor who has made clinical opportunities for the students to sign up for, but the students are unable to see them, this could be because of how scenario classes work. If the students in this course are also in a scenario class, this makes what opportunities are available to students […]