A: When students are attempting to submit enrollment into a course or class in our programs, what is listed for them to choose from are the current and upcoming courses or classes created by your institutions. If your Course or Class is not listed it may just be that it hasn’t been created yet, the […]
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Progressive Testing. What is it?
This article was published in our February 2017 Newsletter, by Doug Smith, CEO, Medical Educator Progressive testing is based on the concept that one does not build on a weak foundation. It also values the concept that students typically do not “get it all” on the first pass. It is significantly different than “Chunk Testing”, […]
Evaluation of the Elusive Affective Domain
This article originally appeared in our November 2016 Newsletter by John Spencer, Customer Support Manager, Lead Medical Educator Cognitive, Psychomotor, and Affective are the three domains of learning that we must evaluate as instructors. The cognitive domain focuses on knowledge and is easily evaluated using quizzes and tests. The psychomotor domain focuses on the use […]
NEW FEATURE: Ability to View our Global Forms as a School Admin in Platinum Planner!
Platinum Educational Group has had requests from our current customers to allow School Administrators to view our Global Forms before they choose to use them. This new feature is now live! Sign in with your School Administrator account, then go to Options > Manage Forms. There is a new Global tab. In the Global tab […]
NEW FEATURE: Ability to Customize Preceptor Training in Platinum Planner!
Platinum Educational Group realizes that Schools often need the ability to customize or create their own training from within Platinum Planner. That is why we are currently working on a new feature for Schools to be able to customize their own Preceptor Training! In addition, Schools and Teachers will be able to review, auto-grade the […]
Platinum Attendance Tracking
Platinum Attendance Tracking is an opt-in feature that allows instructors to keep track of student attendance in Platinum Planner, EMSTesting and Platinum Tests. School Administrators can customize the attendance tracking notifications that students will see on their dashboard and what the instructor can view. If you are an EMS, Nursing, or Allied Health training program […]
NEW FEATURE: Enhanced Control for Shared Sites
Many of our valued customers have asked for the ability to change locations and times for Shared Site opportunities in Platinum Planner. This feature works well for students in shared sites that don’t know where they will be assigned to for the day until they show up to the opportunity. This feature is scheduled to […]
The Unknown Patient: As Opposed to the Textbook Patient
This article was published in the December 2016 newsletter by Doug Smith, CEO, Medical Educator We often hear feedback from the students indicating what they are being exposed to on a question is different than what is in their textbook. Many times they have been conditioned through school and publisher textbooks that the text is […]
Updates to Appendix F & G in Platinum Planner
Updates to Appendix F Appendix F now displays a list of all preceptors that are associated with the site/location via approved student clinical documentation. The other update shows if the preceptor was trained and the date of training. If the preceptor was not trained, the column will show Pending. Update to Appendix G Appendix G […]
New CoAEMSP Report Available for Schools in Platinum Planner!
Platinum Educational Group worked with CoAEMSP to bring you a new report to help during accreditation. The CoAEMSP Course Progress Report (3c2) *BETA*, tracks the number of times students successfully perform competencies required in their Course, then by Gender, Age, Hours, Global Clinical Skills and/or Custom School Skills. Custom School Skills are marked in the […]