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Welcome to NetDimensions Wire, our monthly newsletter.

One of the main advantages of e-learning is that it brings learning to the learner rather than taking the learner to the learning. In this month's feature article, Redtray's e-learning solutions director Mike Ditchburn takes a look at e-learning at its most effective, while acknowledging and identifying its limitations. Read full article.

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According to a new research paper issued by LogicaCMG, a provider of business and IT services to the energy and utilities sector, lack of expert knowledge among staff poses a threat to the industry if effective knowledge management practices are not implemented. Read full article.

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The NetDimensions Team

Announcement

NetDimensions is pleased to announce the release of EKP 4.7

The main feature of EKP 4.7 is the enhancement of the overall exam process, from creation to management to delivery. The release will be available in two forms, EKP 4.7 with most of the exam enhancements incorporated directly into the LMS environment and the Enterprise Assessment Platform 4.7, as an exam-only server environment.

For those of you already familiar with EKP, you can dowload the upgrade kit here. We suggest the EKP 4.7 New Feature Summary document as the starting point for reviewing the new capabilities.

We will also be hosting webinars on Tuesday, July 3 at 10:30am (EST) and Thursday, July 5 at 4pm (HKT). To register please click here.

FAQ of the Month

Q: How does EKP handle withdrawals of individual module sessions within a learning program and the learning program session itself?

A: The default behavior when a user withdraws from an enrolled course is to record an entry in the "withdrawnStudents" table and to remove all standard records related to the enrollment itself. Several important points about this logic include the following:

The withdrawal record is for the object in which the user was directly enrolled -- this means:

Individual module sessions in which the user was directly enrolled;
The Learning Program (but not the individual modules within the program);
Users who are "waitlisted" or "pending approval" do NOT have a withdrawal record created, as they are not yet considered enrolled.

The overall withdrawal logic is the same no matter where it is invoked. The one exception is the Group Withdrawal function with the Override indicator set. This Catalog Editor function is intended to remove all traces of an enrollment, and so will not record the individual withdraw records for each user when the override flag is checked.
A new System Configuration option entitled "Record All LP Module WIthdrawals" has been added to recent releases of EKP 4.6 and later which allows administrators to change the above business logic so that all modules within a Learning Program also have withdrawal records recorded. The default, as mentioned above, is to only record the LP withdrawal and not the individual LP module withdrawals.

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