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Tips & Tricks for NetAcad Instructors

In the recent presentation from IPD Week you will find a lot of useful tips and tricks:

• How to request help from the support desk?
• How to report an error in Packet Tracer?
• What to do if you discover an error in a course or in a test?
• How to generate course certificate?
• How about certification discounts?

Powerpoint Presentation
PPT: Download NetAcad Wizard_Tips & Tricks Oct 2020

More references
NetAcad FAQ Page: https://netacad.com/portal/faq-page

 

NetAcad New Course Experience

All Cisco Networking Academy are migrated to a new user experience. However, only the learning management system is changing; the course content, hands-on labs and exams remain the same. The plan is to migrate every NetAcad course to the new environment by End October 2020. 

ADVICE: If you are keen on using the new course experience, create the course when the actual course has been migrated.

The new experience courses provide a cleaner and more unified user experience. There are more possibilities for instructors to customize content. Also, there are better ways to prevent cheating during exams have been put in place.

Main elements of the new course experience tour

• Introduction to Navigation
• Adding and Editing Content
• Tours and Tooltips
• Marking Students Complete
• Hiding and Revealing Content
• Advanced Quiz Settings
• New Quiz Question Types
• Adding Custom Assignments
• Grading Assignments
• Taking the Pulse with Polls and Surveys
• Fostering Collaboration

Self-guided video tours: https://www.netacad.com/portal/content/self-guided-tour

Presentation: Download NetAcad New Course Experience

REMARK
Legacy experience courses end on 31 July 2021. There is no way to extend the course. You have to recreate a course if it needs to be used after 31 July 2021.

NetAcad possible learning outcomes

NetAcad awareness that different instructors value possible learning outcomes differently

For example, there are cognitive (planning, analyzing, thinking), affective (emotional, social), and kinesthetic (physical hands-on, movement in a networking space) aspects to designing, configuring, and troubleshooting networks.

Networking Academy Overview for Educators

 

Many new Cisco Networking Academy courses and updated versions are arriving between now and the next academic year. The presentation Overview-networking-academy-for-educators gives you a description of the Cisco Networking Academy portfolio:

• Course Overview from beginner to expert
• Resources for teachers and instructors
• Resources for students
• Talent Bridge Program
• Jobs with employers around the world
• Support and marketing services
• Instructor Training

Remote Hands-On Labs for Academy Students

Marc's Home Lab

Access for Cisco Academy students

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Quite a number of Cisco Academy Instructors have been working on hardware lab access solutions so that students are able to experience working with real equipment and solving real problems. Marc Delmotte has provided his students with all the equipment necessary for the CCNA and Security courses. Marc is an instructor Trainer in Belgium who also teaches full-time in higher education.

Marc Delmotte, ITQ, NetAcad Coach and Cisco Academy Instructor

J'ai mis en ligne 3 labos accessibles à distance par les étudiants en CCNA et en CCNA Security. Je peux encore améliorer le système, mais cela fonctionne déjà très bien.  Les étudiants semblent enchantés. L'amélioration porterait sur une automatisation du planning des labos, car cela me prend beaucoup de temps…

BiASC recognition by Cisco Networking Academy

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

 

Webex taking you one step further in online learning and teaching

At BiASC, PXL and HOWEST we have started experimenting with specific hardware to improve online teaching. Sensational!
Additional Webex Support: URL: https://www.netacad.com/learning-never-stops

Webex Teams and Webex Meetings are cloud applications that can be used with nearly all computer systems, portables, tablets and smartphones.

Using the extra devices that are available gives some extra touch that works very well in a professional education environment.

We believe that the video and sound quality should be nearly perfect, because we are distance education professionals.

Here is the complete list of available professional devices: URL: https://projectworkplace.cisco.com/en-us/devices

BiASC favours the Roomkit Plus

More pictures of Webex Devices
URL: https://projectworkplace.cisco.com/en-us/workspaces

Great workspaces to teach and collaborate online

Webex for Education

Now is the time in which online education is more relevant than ever. NetAcad members from BiASC are entitled to use a full Webex admin account (up to a maximum number that we are able to provide). Equally, all other educational institutions can use a free full access account until the end of the current academic year.

URL: https://www.webex.com/webexremoteedu.html
Contact: Michel Assink, massink@cisco.com, +3227785404

Advise for Newcomers and Deep Dive Webinar

This page gives basic information for newcomers along with a video reference to a deep dive explanation of the major components of the Webex ecosystem. 

NetAcad instructors who have been using Webex for distance learning are attracted to this very useful collection of open standard communication and cloud collaboration tools. Webex Teams & Meetings offers all the possibilities that you get from other well known cloud applications. Only in Webex all the tools are integrated.

Participants can join a meeting with a desktop or laptop computer, a tablet or even a smartphone.

Open Standards and Integration
Webex is a combination of functionalities that you find in apps like WhatsApp, Messenger, Skype, Zoom, Dropbox, Adobe Connect ... Moreover, Webex is offering a very intuitive screen sharing, annotation, chat and polling tool. The elegant whiteboard application allows instructors to explain design concepts with the use of visual representations. Meetings can be recorded and all the necessary files can be up- and downloaded. Webex facilitates integration with calendar applications Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, Google Gmail. 

Start simple, step by step 
For group meetings and online classes we advise you to use the Webex Meetings tool with your students. This is the most simple for all participants. For small group or individual coaching we advise Webex Teams, in which students can also collaborate without a teacher.

Below is a Beginner's Guide in three languages:

• English: Download 2020-03-02_Webex_eschool_v1.0-eng(1)
• français: Telecharger 2020-03-02_Webex_eschool_v1.0-FR(1)
• Nederlands: Download 2020-03-12_Webex_eschool_v1.3-Dutch(1)
• Additional information on Cisco NetAcad - URL: https://www.netacad.com/learning-never-stops
• Related information: https://honim.typepad.com/biasc/2020/03/webex-free-remote-teaching.html

A video has been created for you giving background information for professional and educational usage of Webex
We particularly advise to watch the part starting at time 16:24 until 45:54

 

NetAcad Content Quality & Learning Engineering

A quality professional education program needs more than just content. Cisco Networking Academy is based on education research, learning engineering, innovative media animations  and much more. Soon, you  will even get a 3D learning experience. Contact us to learn the future of learning.

IPD Week for Cisco Academy Instructors

Four times a year online webinars are organized for Cisco Academy Instructors. In 2019-2020 the webinars will focus on the new program updates and inform you about technical issues. You will be invited by mail and through other media. Please register to be updated and learn about the new technology evolution.

IT Academy Show & Exploration Day | 23 MAY 2019

IT Academy Programmes

from multiple IT providers

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On 23 May BiASC will inform all interested academy instructors from the Benelux about new IT Academy Programs in the domain of IT Infrastructure.
REGISTRATON LINK: https://goo.gl/forms/QBUZQnvKAYy1Cg392

The following IT Academy Programs will be presented, and you will learn how to get access to study materials and to hands-on labs for your students:

• Amazon Web Services Academy
• Cisco Networking Academy
• Palo Alto Networks Cybersecurity Academy
• RedHat Academy
• VMware IT academy
• CompTIA
• Linux Professional Institute (LPI)

Also statistics of Pearson Vue certification exams will be made available.

Date: 23 May 2019
Location
Odisee UC --- rue d'Assaut/ Stormstraat 2 --- 1000 Brussels ---- Polyvalent Auditorium 2215
Start: 14pm
End: 18pm

REGISTRATON LINK: https://goo.gl/forms/QBUZQnvKAYy1Cg392

FOSDEM Open Source - Brussels - 2 & 3 February 2019

FOSDEM is a two-day event organised by volunteers to promote the widespread use of free and open source software. Taking place in the beautiful city of Brussels (Belgium), FOSDEM is widely recognised as the best open source conference in Europe.

Every year, FOSDEM hosts a wide variety of activities about open source. The 2019 edition features 452 speakers, 470 events, and 54 tracks. There are essentially six different categories of sessions and activities: keynotes, main tracks, developer rooms, lightning talks, stands and certification exams.

Date
2 & 3 February 2019

Location
Activities take place in 33 rooms spread across several buildings of the Solbosch campus of the ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles).
ULB,Campus du Solbosch,Av.F.D.Roosevelt50,1050 Bruxelles,Belgium

Registration
No registration necessary

Good to know

• Cisco provides all of the WLAN hardware and manages the wireless network at FOSDEM.
• Linux Professional Institute (LPI) has a stand at FOSDEM.
• LPI Linux Certification exams have been scheduled on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning. 

Communities of practice

In recent courses Cisco Networking Academy is introducing the idea of communities of practice

Communities of practice are formed by people who engage in a process of collective learning in a shared domain of human endeavor: a tribe learning to survive, a band of artists seeking new forms of expression, a group of engineers working on similar problems, a clique of pupils defining their identity in the school, a network of surgeons exploring novel techniques, a gathering of first-time managers helping each other cope. In a nutshell:

• Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.
• More information: http://wenger-trayner.com/introduction-to-communities-of-practice/

For our interests, CoPs used by networking programmers include:

• GitHub
• Stack Overflow
• Cisco DevNet

The Network Programmability with Cisco APIC-EM course refers to Communities of Practice (also known as Cop). If as a BiASC member, you want to have access to the Emerging Technologies APIC-EM course materials, please send an email to <yvan.rooseleer@biasc.be>

 

New CCNA R&S Instructor PowerPoint (PPT) slides

The CCNA R&S Instructor PowerPoint (PPT) slides have all been updated.

Changes include: 

- Better instructional flow
- Updated template 
- Enhanced content based on your feedback

Start using the new slides today! You will find them under Course Resources for each CCNA R&S class - https://www.netacad.com/group/resources/course-resources

Mininet - An Instant Virtual Network on your Laptop

Mininet creates a realistic virtual network, running real kernel, switch and application code, on a single machine (VM, cloud or native), in seconds, with a single command: sudo mn

This tool is used in the workshops of the CyberSecurity Operations Networking Academy course.

Mininet enables you to quickly create, interact with, customize and share a software defined network prototype, and provides a smooth path to running on hardware. Because you can easily interact with your network using the Mininet CLI (and API), customize it, share it with others, or deploy it on real hardware, Mininet is useful for development, teaching, and research. Mininet is also a simple way to develop, share, and experiment with OpenFlow and Software-Defined Networking systems.

Mininet is actively developed and supported, and is released under a permissive BSD Open Source license.

Documentation: https://github.com/mininet/mininet/wiki/Documentation

Benelux Academy Day - Cisco Amsterdam - 17 May 17

   

At the Academy Day organized in collaboration with Cisco Amsterdam we were able to welcome more than 80 delegates from education to learn about new developments in the ICT domain and about new online curricula. The Academy Day is becoming a prime networking event for innovation in education. An interesting evolution is that there is a lot of support from the IT sector with offerings from Cisco, Oracle, CompTIA, LPI, NDG, Suse and FastLane.

Highlights

• Dive into Country Digitization & Internet of Things projects in the Netherlands
• Overview of the 33 courses in the Networking Academy Curriculum
• Practical Workshop on Internet of Things
• Simulations with Packet Tracer v7 
• Interactive session about innovation competences and active learning with Hackathons and Packathons
• Interesting offerings from Cisco with Big Data & Analytics and DevNet, from Oracle Academy, Suse Academy and FastLane Summer School
• Certification Tracks with CompTIA and Linux Professional Institute

Photo's: https://goo.gl/photos/jDQJMQNxokDoGPST9

 

Brussels Smart City for Education | 8 March 2017 13pm | Tour & Taxis

REGISTRATION: http://honim.typepad.com/biasc/2017/02/uitnodiging-brussels-smart-city-for-education-8-maart-2017.html

Brussels Smart City for Education includes inspiring conferences, participatory workshops and immersion in the most innovative solutions for the digital era.

The event is aimed at anyone or any organisation active in the field of education.

Meet the leading experts, and discover practical applications interactively.

Event
On 8 March 2017, from 13.00 to 16.30.
Venue: le BEL (Tour & Taxis)
Av. du Port, 1000 Brussels.

You will receive the programme shortly.

Brussels Smart City is an initiative of the Brussels-Capital Region.
www.smartcity.brussels

Uitnodiging – Brussels Smart City for Education - 8 maart 2017

Online Registratie: http://brussels.us15.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=648efecb575b5dc55e915edfc&id=e82965973d&e=f0c25fd676

 

Bericht van Bianca Debaets, Staatssecretaris voor Digitalisering

Geachte mevrouw, geachte heer,

Graag nodig ik u uit voor het event “Brussels Smart City for Education: leren en kennis delen in het digitale tijdperk”, dat past in een reeks evenementen geïnitieerd door het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest rond het project Brussels Smart City.

Infosessie Basistrajecten "Digitale Vaardigheden"

Inschrijvingsformulier URL: https://goo.gl/forms/KUwRAPbxC3VSJ3222

Op vrijdagnamiddag 27 januari 2017 plannen BiASC en NASC in Brussel een verkennende infosessie over nieuwe basistrajecten "digitale vaardigheden" voor betrokkenen uit hogescholen, CVO’s, secundair onderwijs en andere opleidingsinstituten. Het gaat over twee soorten trajecten: enerzijds voor ICT-opleidingen, anderzijds voor niet-ICT opleidingen.

LOCATIE
Odisee 
Lokaal E.1000
Warmoesberg 15
1000 Brussel

DOELGROEP
Deze bijeenkomst is bestemd voor docenten die voorop willen lopen en interesse hebben voor nieuwe basistrajecten "digitale vaardigheden". In Nederland is een nationaal project “Country Digitization” gestart. Daarbij is er veel aandacht voor digitale vaardigheden in normale (niet-ICT) opleidingen.

TOPICS

• Certificaat digitale vaardigheden (InAspire)
• Nieuw interactief cursusmateriaal voor beginners (Cisco Academy Programma)
• IT Certification Roadmap (CompTIA)
• Nieuw eBook "IT Fundamentals" (CompTIA)
• Nieuwe versie "IT Essentials" A+ (Cisco Academy Programma)
• Focuspunten Benelux-kennisdagen (eerste helft 2017) met ondersteuning van CompTIA

INSCHRIJVING (GRATIS VOOR LEDEN)
Indien je graag deelneemt aan deze verkennende meeting, vul dan aub het onderstaande formulier in.

Inschrijvingsformulier URL: https://goo.gl/forms/KUwRAPbxC3VSJ3222

Deze verkenningsdag is een uitwisselende netwerkactiviteit en heeft geen commerciële doeleinden. BiASC en NASC zijn onafhankelijke IT-netwerkorganisaties gericht op het onderwijs en met het doel kennis en best practices uit te wisselen.

Ken je iemand met interesse voor het onderwerp, dan kun je dit bericht aan hem/ haar doorsturen.

IoT Hackathon Instructor Workshop | openBerlin | 17-18 November 2016

  

On 17 and 18 November 2016 an IoT Hackathon Workshop for Cisco Networking Academy Instructors was organized at openBerlin. Participants were 45 instructors from all around the EMEAR region. Although this Hackathon was run at double speed, the results were still quite impressive. Both green ideas and technology innovation are found among the solutions and prototypes invented by the teams. The hackathon was conducted by BiASC and NASC, two Cisco Academy Support Centers from the Benelux.

THEME OF THE HACKATHON
General theme: Developing Digital Economy/ Developing Digital Business 
Subtheme: Internet of Things/ Internet of Everything
Topic: Smart Shopping/ Smart Shopping Center

TASK
The task given to the participants was to develop creative ideas and a prototype for Smart Shopping or for the Smart Shopping Center.