User Guide - Safety Training Profile Customization and Assig - page 2

UserGuide:
SafetyTrainingProfileCustomizationandAssignment
Introduction
Part of educating students is teaching them the skills towork smart AND towork safe. This isevident as
student injuries in shops and labs areprofiledon thenational level drawingattention to theneed to
incorporate safety instruction to thebottom line ineducationand research.
Teaching studentshow towork smart AND safe starts inacademic courses, shops and labs. As safety
becomespart of academic curricula studentsbecomemoreawareof safetyhazards andhow towork
safelywithor around thosehazards.
We realizeworking safety intoanexistingacademic curricula canbedaunting. Finding reliable sources
of information, addingextraassignments to thegradebookandentering scores for thoseassignments
takes time.
What if incorporating safety training into your academic curriculawasmadeeasy?What if youhad
access to reliable safety trainingand resources?What ifwe could reduceyourworkload for recording
completionof training, allwhile increasing students’ basic safetyknowledge?
Well,we’vegot great news for you! Checkout thenew SafetyTraining link found in theBlackboard
LearnContent. Using theSafetyContent link…
Gives youaccess to safety trainingand resources you canassign toyour students.
Displays theassignment for the students in theBlackboard LearnContent area.
Automatically generatesBlackboard Learngradebookentries for eachassignment.
Automatically records grades for assignments completedby the students.
Allows you todetermineaccess to rooms and/or equipment that havekeycardaccess.
So, how isall of this accomplished?Theprocessof adding safety training to your academic course
involves:
customizing the safety trainingprofile for your course,
evaluatinganddefiningyour students’ needs for access to certain roomsor equipment,
completinga safetyassessment, and
assigning these items toyour students.
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