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BiASC Team Shifting to "No Lockdown"

The Belgian BiASC Team is shifting to "No Lockdown" in the true Cisco NetAcad style. New opportunities are becoming apparent for the next educational period:

• Twinning Challenge making teams at two Cisco Academies work together
• Instructor Workshops to support new ways of working
• Experimenting with 3D Virtual Reality courses
• Preparing for Infrastructure and Network Automation Skills
• Interesting educational materials from RedHat and VMware

Click on the links if you require moore information

From the past period we are proud of the following

• Receiving recognition award form Cisco Systems
• Presenting ideas and best practices in IPD Week regarding remote teaching

DevNet Associate Topics & Skills -- Preparation

The presentation below offers a good overview of the topics and skills that will be trained in the new NetAcad DevASC course that will arrive in the summer of 2020

URL: Download Preparing for DEVASC Certification - Medium Version (v4-20)

 

BiASC recognition by Cisco Networking Academy

BiASC is grateful having received a new recognition by Cisco Networking Academy.

 

VMware Learning Zone -- Complementary Offerings

VMware Learning Zone is an online digital library including over 1500 videos, 65 self-paced courses, and 12 Certification Exam Prep courses across all VMware solutions.

VMware Academy Instructors are entitled access to VMware Learning Zone for six months. This  Premium Subscription includes access to valuable content such as:

• The full Learning Zone video library
  - Advanced troubleshooting, configuration, and solution-oriented best practices videos
  - VMware Certified Professional exam preparation with 12 Exam Prep Courses (over 650 videos)

RedHat Academy - Introduction to Containers, Kubernetes and Openshift

Instructor Led - Virtual Training Session
DO180 Introduction to Containers, Kubernetes and Red Hat Openshift

Date 15-18th of June
Only for Red Hat Academies!

Enrollment: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfPB6mSJBYJnlFTAdTFTTtH3jYts-Xov5JidQAGAH3kW8JoJw/viewform

RedHat Academy - Available Technical Overviews

Available Technical Overviews from RedHat Academy

RH018 Virtualization and Infrastructure Migration
RH053 Red Hat Satellite
RH024 Red Hat Enterprise Linux
DO040 Developing Red Hat Agile Integration
DO007 Ansible Essentials: Simplicity in Automation
DO080 Deploying Containerized Applications
DO092 Developing Cloud-Native Applications with Microservices Architectures
CL010 Red Hat OpenStack

Online Cloud & Virtualization Courses -- VMware & NDG

  

Through its partner NDG, VMware offers different practical courses on the topics of virtualization & cloud from beginner to advanced level. Users must be officially recognized as a VMware Academy.

Introduction to OpenShift Applications (DO101) available for free access

Introduction to OpenShift Applications (DO101) 
Red Hat OpenShift offers automated installation, upgrades, and lifecycle management throughout the container stack—the operating system, Kubernetes and cluster services, and applications—on any cloud.
=>Available until June, 30th 2020, Free access to the course

CML/ VIRL Virtual Hands-on Lab Workshop for NetAcad instructors

Cisco Modeling Labs

VIRL VIRTUAL HANDS-ON LAB WORKSHOP -- for NetAcad instructors

DATE: 12 JUNE 2020 via WEBEX -- INSTRUCTOR: ALAIN PIETERS

• GROUP EN - ENGLISH 9-10:30
• GROUP NE - NEDERLANDS 11-12:30
• GROUP FR - FRANCAIS - 14:15:30

Presentation & docs
URL: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BFr6iHNAgmws-Sd3d4svgB_IvPUQ3K0I?usp=sharing

Timing of the DevNet Associate Course

Timing of the DevNet Associate Course

 

Cisco Academy Webinars in het Nederlands

Voor Cisco Academy instructors die graag een keer een webinar in het Nederlands volgen is er een interessant aanbod in mei 2020.

Remote Teaching Best Practices -- Cisco NetAcad IPD WEEK

Nico Declerck and Yvan Rooseleer from BiASC organized a webinar about Remote Teaching Best Practices for Cisco NetAcad IPD Week on Thursday 30 April 2020.  The webinar started streaming at 14pm. There were about 150 attendees from all over the world, mainly Networking Academy instructors and coordinators. At the end of the presentation there were a lot of interesting questions from the audience. A video of the conference is available for NetAcad instructors and coordinators.

EMEA Red Hat Academy Webinar - 7 May 2020

LIVE REDHAT WEBINAR

Date: Thursday, May 7th 2020
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (CET)

New training resources available to upskill you
Upcoming online Virtual Training sessions on RH technologies
Linux Training pills by hand of our Solution Architects

Register HERE

Important
AFTER you register, you will receive a Bluejeans Invite where you will have to click "YES" to add this Webinar to your calendar.

RedHat Academy Hands-on Labs with NDG Cloud (free)

RedHat are offering for a limited period of time FREE access to the NDG Cloud Labs to help RHAs in this period.

Cisco Pearson Vue Certification Exams Remotely

CISCO PEARSON VUE CERTIFICATION EXAMS ARE NOW POSSIBLE REMOTELY - from home, from office, from school

OnVUE online proctored exams allow you to conveniently take an exam in the comfort of your home or office while being monitored by an offsite proctor. All communication with the proctor is done in English.

Here is the FAQ document: https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/training-events/exams/online-testing-faq.pdf

Twinning Remote Lab Challenge/ Europe North & Benelux

TWINNING PROJECT & COMPETITION

Let Cisco Academies students connect to live Cisco Hardware labs for real networking challenges

The Twinning Concept is based on the need for connection services across borders allowing collaboration between Cisco Academies, students and instructors by making possible remote connections with physical (and virtual) lab equipment. The Twinning competition is a co-creation challenge for "Twin Cisco Academy Teams". 

All competition teams will have access to a working prototype so that they can evaluate, use and test the existing connection services. After getting acquainted with the prototype, teams are invited to propose and create additional didactic use cases or connection services.

Twinning Competition Registration Form URL: https://forms.gle/4XfsfasZyEthHNB89
Presentation: Download Cisco AcadConnect Twinning Competition 2020 (v1-71)

The first page of this document provides basic information and proposes milestones and dates. All other details are in the second part of this page.

TWINNING REMOTE LAB CHALLENGE FOR CISCO NETWORKING ACADEMIES -- BASICS

CHALLENGE 

Design, develop, prototype and create a didactic use case based on the Twinning concept between remote Cisco Academy labs.

Twin Academy Teams are briefed, trained, coached and followed up by NetAcad Coaches and Cisco Experts

Reporting Errors in NetAcad Courses

On a regular basis BiASC receives messages from active members about errors in course content, labs, quizzes or tests. Cisco NetAcad Support advises the following approach. Please use the community related to the actual course to report errors or remarks.

HOW TO?

If the user is a non-student user, please have him post this issue in the Community Forum. 

We recommend using the Community Forum which is a great tool to get answers on technical issues users have come across. 

Non-student users can access the Community Forum by going to www.netacad.com>Hover over “?” and click “Community Forum”

 

Reporting Errors in Online NetAcad Courses

As an ASC in Belgium Belgian IT Academy Support Center  (BiASC) often receives messages from NetAcad members regarding mistakes in the online courses, online tests and hands-on labs (also PT). Academy Instructors are able to report errors to Cisco Support

Non-student users can report errors found in the curriculum to Cisco Support [netacadsupport@netacad.com].

 

Please provide the following elements when reporting an error in the curriculum:

• The name of the course
• The error in the course, page # or activity name
• If possible a screenshot of the error

 

As soon as you update the case with these information, Cisco Support will forward your case to the NetAcad Curriculum and Assessment Team for review of the errors.

Curent Special Activities by BiASC

Through this difficult time with no people in offices, training centers and schools,  BiASC is busy with a lot of topics, making use of extra time having not to travel or commute for 10-15 h every week.

[A] CCNA v7 bridging course
=> 125 online participants

[B] CCNP v8 Instructor Evaluation (no instructor training)
=> 26 online participants in one week
=> More information: https://honim.typepad.com/biasc/2020/03/new-ccnp-enterprise-core-networking-ccnp-encor-v8-course.html

[C] FROM CCENT TO FULL CCNA
=> Proposal by Semyon Ovsyannikov 
=> More information: https://honim.typepad.com/biasc/2020/03/ccent-netacad-instructors-upgrade-to-full-ccna.html

[D] INTRO TO CYBERSECURITY:
=> Online training for 150 business students  
=> Catch up online for lost internship days with relevant information

[E] WEBEX FOR EDUCATION PROJECT
=> Started last year, received a boost lately
=> More information: https://honim.typepad.com/biasc/2020/03/webex_didactics_quality.html

[F] TWINNING PROJECT => TWINING COMPETITION EUROPE NORTH & BENELUX
=> connect labs for students + instructor training

[G] ACADCONNECT PROJECT
=> Offering refurbished lab equipment that is still useful: Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, Madagascar, Suriname, ...
=> More information: https://honim.typepad.com/biasc/2019/11/acadconnect-donations.html

[H] CERTIFICATION VOUCHERS: CCNA, CYBEROPS, CCNP
=> lots of interest
=> waiting for Pearson Vue Test Centers to reopen
=> More information: https://honim.typepad.com/biasc/2020/03/free-cisco-certification-vouchers-2020.html

[I] DEVASC NEW NETACAD COURSE MATERIALS EVALUATION
=> Yvan involved in a 30-person worldwide group

[J] IT ACADEMY OFFERINGS COMPLEMENTING NETACAD
=> VMWARE, REDHAT, ...

[K] VIRTUAL REALITY/ 3D CCNA TRAINING + FREE CERTIFICATION
=> End June/ Beginning of July
=> 20 NetAcad Students, ready for certification
=> with Semyon Ovsyannikov + LEARNING AT CISCO Developer

[L] PYTHON TRAINING
=> Intec Brussels

New CCNP Enterprise Core Networking Course

The CCNP Enterprise: Core Networking (CCNP ENCOR v8) course is the first of two courses designed to help learners train and prepare for the CCNP Enterprise Certification.

Free Access to all BiASC Members who have finalized CCNA3 V7 (ENSA) or equivalent. Send a message including your full name and instructor email address to <yvan.rooseleer@biasc.be>

This course aligns to the core exam, Implementing and Operating Cisco Enterprise Network Core Technologies (350-401 ENCOR) which focuses on your knowledge of enterprise infrastructure including dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) architecture, virtualization, infrastructure, network assurance, security, and automation.

CCNP ENCOR v8 contains 29 chapters. The content for this course can be found in the Cisco Press CCNP and CCIE Enterprise Core ENCOR 350—401 Official Cert Guide.

Online you will find labs, quizzes, videos, and assessments that will help you prepare for the certification exam. Some of these labs use a virtual machine as an easy way to use programming to access and modify a network device. In addition to configuring enterprise level routing and switching features in a network, certain labs give you the opportunity to construct API requests for network programmability.