What FAALAS is doing for you: AALAS Learning Library

1. What FAALAS is doingfor you:AALAS Learning Library Danny Johnson, RALAT FAALAS Technician Branch Representative Email: jdjohns7@ufl.edu

2. AALAS Learning Library …launched in 2003 as the successor to the AALAS Campus

3. Features • Courses:116+ • Media • Image-rich • Streaming video & audio in selected courses • Tests • Practice questions and exams • Transcripts • Documenting courses started, completed, and exam scores • Course Completion Certificates • Printable • Continuing Education Units • For the AALAS Technician Registry and CMAR recertification

4. Curricula Training Tracks – organized by job functions: • Technician Certification Preparation • Animal Care & Husbandry • Animal Use Methodology • Occupational Health & Safety • Regulatory and IACUC Compliance • Management • Training • Animal Health, Disease & Medicine • Free Courses • All Courses • Users with an account may access any track without restriction. • Users without an account may access only free courses – no documentation.

5. 20 Free Demo Courses

6. Training Documentation Training Documentation For Branch Members • Each individual who has an active account will have access to a transcripts. Course Completion Certificates • Each individual can also print a certificate when a course is completed & exam is passed. Continuing Education Units • Earned for the AALAS Technician Registry and CMAR recertification

7. Tracks – Organizing Course Topics by Job Function Courses StudyAreas Lessons

8. Course: Working with the Laboratory Mouse Yellow link color track lessons completed Videos demonstrate procedures

9. PracticeQuestions optional after each lesson ExamQuestions cover entire course • Multiple question formats: • Multiple Choice • Multiple Answer • True/False • Short Answer

10. Success! Missed Q's

11. Transcript Documentation

12. Print a CEU Certificate for each course completed and exam passed.

13. Subscriptions – Individual Group A subscription provides access to all courses for 1 year. • Individuals • $100 USD (AALAS members); $170 USD (nonmembers) • Groups (7-199 group members) • Fee decreases with increase in group size • Example: Group of 150+ persons, each: • $10 USD (AALAS Institutional & Commercial Members or AALAS branches)

14. Group Enrollments

15. Eligibility • FAALAS Members • You must be a FAALAS Member to participate in FAALAS ALL program • Registration • September 2006 • Fee will not be prorated for late registration

16. Group Coordinators • Institutional Group Coordinator • “backstage pass” • can view transcripts, certificates, etc… • Branch Group Coordinator • no backstage pass

17. Features for Group Learning Management(Branch Groups) • Branch Group Coordinator responsible for • Purchasing accounts • Adding group members to roster • Sending usernames and passwords • enrolling members and assigning accounts • Branch group coordinator does not have access to online staff records • Distributes usernames and passwords; once the group member has logged in the first time, username and password is no longer visible to group coordinator on branch roster.

18. 2005 User Satisfaction Survey 6000 users contacted by email 290 responses 98%

19. Not just a certification tool! • The ALL has courses for • Investigative staff • IACUC members • Veterinary students and veterinarians new to the field • Management staff • Technical staff

20. Contacts Danny Johnson Email: jdjohns7@ufl.edu Luis Zorrilla Email: zorro21@ufl.edu www.aalaslearninglibrary.org