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Netacad UX Feature Map

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New Netacad Courses

Here are some of the new courses available from within Netspace.

=>Be Your Own Boss
=>Get Connected
=>Mobility Fundamentals Series
=>Packet Tracer Know How
=>Internet of Everything Summary Podcast

Networking Academy Curricula

The Networking Academy delivers a comprehensive, 21st century learning experience. Students develop the foundational ICT skills needed to design, build, and manage networks, along with career skills such as problem solving, collaboration, and critical thinking. Students complete hands-on learning activities and network simulations to develop practical skills that will help them fill a growing need for networking professionals around the world. These are some of the offerings of the Networking Academy:

• IT Essentials - IT Essentials covers the fundamentals of computer hardware and software and advanced concepts, such as security, networking, and the responsibilities of an IT professional.

• Entrepreneurship - The Entrepreneurship course teaches critical business and financial skills, attitudes, and behaviors to help students develop an entrepreneurial mindset that can empower them to improve their overall quality of life.

• Introduction to Cybersecurity - The Introduction to Cybersecurity course covers trends in cybersecurity and demonstrates the need for cybersecurity skills in various industries.

• CCNA Routing and Switching - CCNA Routing and Switching provides a comprehensive overview of networking concepts and skills. It covers network applications to the protocols and services provided to those applications by the lower layers of the network. This curriculum has an emphasis on practical application, work-force readiness, and soft-skills development.

• CCNA Security - CCNA Security introduces the core security concepts and skills needed to install, troubleshoot, and monitor a network to maintain the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of data and devices.

For more information on the latest offerings, go to the Networking Academy website at www.netacad.com.

Student Lab Manuals CCNA v5.0

The student lab manuals for CCNA v5.0 are difficult to find on Netspace.

Here are the PDF-files for the Student Lab Manual Routing & Switching Essentials: 

Student Lab Manual Routing & Switching Essentials

You have to log into Netspace in order to access the file.

Benefits of Networking Academy Membership

This information is taken from the New Networking Academy Membership Guide

All academies are required to align with an Academy Support Center as part of their onboarding process.  Academies are free to change their Academy Support Center alignment in Cisco NetSpace if they choose.  Academies also select Instructor Training Centers as needed to provide training to their instructors.

The benefits of Networking Academy Membership include the following:

• Access to online curricula, videos, graphics, and supplemental learning materials, many of which are available in several languages
• Access to the Cisco NetSpace integrated learning management system
• Access to learning environment enables collaborative learning and encourages the sharing of best practices through instructor communities
• Access to Packet Tracer and Cisco Aspire instructional game
• Access to services from an Academy Support Center
• Support from the Global Support Desk—24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• Regional events provide opportunities for teachers to meet and collaborate with each other while learning about the latest developments in networking.
• Equipment and Cisco certification exam discounts
• Consistent Quality

Academy Success Dashboard

For Cisco NetAcad Contacts or Success Leads

At the end of August 2013 Cisco Networking Academy released a new version of the Academy Success Dashboard which not only contains the data  from NetSpace but also provides slightly different metrics.

Here is the link to Academy Success Dashboard, you also can login  to NetSpace, go to the “Manage” tab and select “Access Academy Reports”

Cloud Computing - Cloud Primer Introductory Course

Accredited Networking Academy CCNA Instructors have access to Cloud Primer, a newly created introductory online course available in Netspace. Cloud Primer is a course targeted at students that have a good understanding of LAN switching and want to learn more about Ethernet and Fiberchannel networks and understand the multifaceted world of  virtualization (as a foundation of cloud computing), including solutions from Citrix, VMware, Microsoft ...

 Aims of the course

• Explain cloud computing concepts at a fundamental level
• Describe the technologies which comprise cloud computing
• Configure certain basic hardware constituent components of a cloud

BiASC Members: Send an email to Yvan Rooseleer <[email protected]> to learn more about this course.

List of new courses from Networking Academy: 
http://honim.typepad.com/biasc/2014/01/new-netacad-courses-2014.html

 

New Netacad Courses 2014

New courses will be added to Networking Academy during 2014: voice, datacenter, cloud, collaboration, entrepreneurship, linux, ...

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Belgian IT Academy Support Center are following up the evolution very closely and are involved in testing or evaluation of new materials.

Netspace Learning Experiences

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Harbrinder Kang, Director of Communications, Cisco Social Responsibility, Cisco Systems

Networking Academy Leadership Team

Academy Conference 2013 - Networking Academy Overview

New Curricula in Netspace

All new curricula - like IT Essentials 5.0 en CCNA 5.0 - will be delivered fully inside Netspace, thereby improving the learning experience.

Benefits of delivery in Cisco NetSpace

• Curriculum is accessible on mobile devices
• Improved user interface
• Ability to increase and decrease size of text box within the course
• Course management flexibility for instructors
• Ability to re-arrange course chapters
• Ability to add additional course content, including videos, documents, links, etc.
• Ability to add assignments
• Communication and collaboration tools, including groups, discussion threads, and course calendar with automatic notifications

 

NetSpace 24hour Virtual Conference

Recently there was a 24hour Virtual Conference for Networking Academy Members.

The recordings are available for everyone who owns a username and password for Networking Academy.

Overview

Cisco NetSpace Sessions
Introducing Cisco NetSpace  Kimberly Jones
Personalize your course with IT Essentials on Cisco NetSpace  Rob Meals
Networking Academy Certification Exam Discount Program  Catherine Stanley
Guide to Cisco NetSpace Upgrade Giuseppe Cinque
Guide to Cisco NetSpace Upgrade (Portuguese Session) Bruno Alexandre Moreira e Silva

Cisco NetSpace Basic Features
1a) Create a course; Enrol Students; Help Students with lost password  Eric Kwok
1b) Publish a course; Manage and schedule assignments; Launch Curriculum; Complete a course  Ananth BS
Publish a course; Manage and schedule assignments; Launch Curriculum; Complete a course  Echo Rantanen
1c) Activate exams via default activation and advanced activation; Manage grade book  Bogdan Doinea

Cisco NetSpace Advance Features
2a) Using Calendar features; Collaborate via Inbox, Discussions or Announcements  Liu Kang
Collaborate via Inbox, discussions or announcements  Bogdan Doinea
2b) Intro; Rubic and outcome; Creating question banks and quizzes  Marc Khayat
Rubic and outcome; Creating question banks and quizzes  Jose Esquivel
2c) Customizing and Creating Modules; Editing Navigation Bar; Editing Home Page; Managing Files and Content Karen Alderson

Hyperlink: http://lms.netacad.net/file.php/3541/html/24h-recordingmacv8.htm
To view the webinars it is necessary to have a valid login for Cisco Networking Academy.