Introducing: Digital Competency Evaluations

I don’t know about you, but I don’t want a nurse who only practiced giving shots once or twice to stick me with a needle. Or a phlebotomist who only drew blood three times to try and find my vein. Fortunately for all of us, nursing and allied health students practice and hone their skills… Continue reading Introducing: Digital Competency Evaluations

How Career Colleges Can Track Attendance Across Different Learning Environments

How trade and technical schools can track timely and accurate student attendance in distance learning, onground learning, and externships.  The scene is iconic for a reason. Anyone who has sat through a roll call knows it’s a dull, time-consuming way to begin class. For trade and vocational schools, however, taking attendance is no joke—funding and… Continue reading How Career Colleges Can Track Attendance Across Different Learning Environments

How To Maintain Great Relationships With Externship Sites

It’s difficult to track attendance in externship sites and manual processes can put a strain on the relationship. Improving attendance processes will help your school maintain great relationships with externship sites. Externships are one of the most critical parts of the learning process. They give students the practical, hands-on experience they need to succeed post-graduation.… Continue reading How To Maintain Great Relationships With Externship Sites

8 Ways CourseKey Creates A Modern Externship Experience

Digitizing externship and clinical data tracking in career universities helps improve compliance, student success, and your school’s relationship with an externship/clinical site. Externships and clinicals are critical capstones in healthcare programs, during which students practice and develop the skills they learned in theory in a real-world setting, without an instructor over their shoulder. While externship… Continue reading 8 Ways CourseKey Creates A Modern Externship Experience

13 Tips To Reopening Clinicals And Labs

Earlier this year COVID-19 forced many career colleges to temporarily halt their on ground clinical and lab operations to keep staff and students safe. While we may have yet to see the worst of the pandemic, we’ve learned enough about the virus to make informed decisions about reopening on-ground clinicals and labs. As schools look… Continue reading 13 Tips To Reopening Clinicals And Labs

Tips To Resume Externships Safely & Efficiently

Students who choose to attend career schools are motivated by more than simply earning a certificate. They want to become proficient in a niche set of skills that will allow them to enter a career path they feel passionate about. While taking in theoretical knowledge about a career is important, students’ development increases dramatically when they… Continue reading Tips To Resume Externships Safely & Efficiently

How Schools Can Automate Externship Data Collection

Nearly every course session starts with attendance. It’s a hallmark of education and one of the most important actions during the learning period. But can you imagine attendance being conducted without an instructor or supervisor present? It may sound unusual, but many students, particularly those preparing for careers in healthcare, complete some of the most… Continue reading How Schools Can Automate Externship Data Collection