# AgLearn Fact Sheet

# Phase One 

# Implemented March 23, 2004

> Customers -- USDA employees and USDA Training/HR Offices

# Phase One Customer Features

**USDA employees can use AgLearn to:**

-   Search and access free GoLearn online courses (about 30)

-   Search and access online courses purchased by their agency

    -   SkillSoft - about 2,000 courses in IT and Business and Reference
        Books

        -   ARS, APHIS, FSIS, FNS, NASS

    -   Netg -- about 1,000 courses in IT and business

        -   FSA, RD

    -   Karta -- IT Security

-   Search and access USDA online courses or reference material

    -   Homeland Security

        -   Incident Command System Level 100 (all USDA employees)

        -   ICS Level 200 (First Responders -- FSA in Phase One)

    -   AgLearn Student User Reference Guide on-line

    -   Annual Civil Rights training -- when ready

-   Register for USDA Classroom Training

-   Participate in training in many different delivery formats such as:

    -   On-line

    -   Video

    -   Instructor-led

    -   Chat Room

-   View and run reports summarizing about your learning activities

**USDA Agency Training Officers can use AgLearn to:**

-   Organize AgLearn agency area (Domain) into subdomains

-   Delegate authority by creating other AgLearn Administrative Users
    within their agency's domain such as Course Instructors,
    Certification Program Managers, Individuals who can run reports only

-   Assist Users in their agency with password and personnel data
    questions

-   Assign training to users through their Development Plan

-   Set reminders for users to complete training by a certain time

-   Create courses and certification requirements

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-   View and run reports summarizing student's learning needs and
    activities

**Number of Users by Agency for Phase One**

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  **ARS**                             **452**

  **APHIS**                           **821**

  **FSIS**                            **273**

  **FSA**                             **1479**

  **FNS**                             **1567**

  **FS\***                            **285**

  **NASS**                            **1,097**

  **NRCS**                            **805**

  **OCE**                             **56**

  **OCIO**                            **315**

  **RMA**                             **19**

  **RD**                              **302**

  **Total**                           **7471**
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\* FS Phase One includes some DOI employees due to the Wild Land Fire
Training program; AgLearn's customers will include USDA partners, but
priority in FY 2004 is providing access for all USDA employees.

# Agency Training Officers Support Implementation of AgLearn 

Agencies are responsible for:

-   Defining organization of agency domain within AgLearn

-   Ensuring Employee data appears correctly especially emails

-   Getting Supervisors of employees in spreadsheet for loading into
    AgLearn

-   Communicating and marketing AgLearn within agency

-   Identifying individuals to be Administrative Users of AgLearn within
    their agency -- such as Instructors, Managers of Certification
    Programs, Managers of Training Facilities or Classrooms, Schedulers
    of Conferences

-   Populating AgLearn with courses and training programs

Agency Training Leads for AgLearn were prepared through:

-   Classroom Hands-on Training

-   System Testing

-   Readiness Interviews

-   Administrator User Guides - online

-   Providing marketing materials and email templates

-   Implementation Strategy

# Demo of AgLearn -- Student View

-   Log In

-   Help Buttons: Contact Us, About AgLearn

-   Development Plan

-   Search and launch free GoLearn course

-   Search and Launch Home Land Security course

-   Learning History

-   View and print Development Plan Report

# Demo of AgLearn -- Administrator View

System Administration

Student Management

Learning

Scheduling

Resources

Commerce

Reports

# NEXT STEPS 

# 1 -- Obtain and Analyze feedback from Phase One users 

Adjust AgLearn or identify changes needed

# 2 - Integrate with eAuthentication

April -- begin developing integration with eAuthentication

By June 30, 2004 -- integrate with eAuth

# 3 - Develop automatic updates of employee data 

Integration with ICAMS for personnel data -- in place during April

Need automatic update of personnel data in AgLearn for agencies not
using ICAMS -- in place by June 30, 2004

**4 - Migrate existing USDA Training Systems to AgLearn**

-   TRAI (NFC System used by several USDA agencies)

-   RMA Distance Learning (mGen)

-   FSIS VTA

-   FS TIPS

-   APHIS (mGen)

# 5 -- Provide access to AgLearn for all USDA employees

> Developing roll out plan for USDA agencies -- access dependent upon
> funding received