Helpful Hint for ALC Common Core (ALC-CC) students ;-)
Another (unofficial) TAH Public Service Announcement!!!
ALC Common Core (ALC-CC) students: You can access your course directly from https://ncoes.ellc.learn.army.mil after it’s started.
The system will usually allow you to continue accessing your ALC-CC course through the ALC001 link in Atia for a while — maybe a few weeks, possibly even throughout most of the course. But sooner or later the day will come when you’re going to go there and that link doesn’t work anymore; you just get an error page. No, the plug has not been pulled on your course! It’s just what happens. Accessing your course from that link is only needed for the initial access and, thereafter, you should go straight to Blackboard.
So, remember, if this happens to you, don’t panic. Nothing has gone wrong. Even if you are on the last day of your course when it happens, just go straight to:
https://ncoes.ellc.learn.army.mil
Your course will be there. Promise!
Category: NCOES, Professional Development, Support the troops
Thank you for posting this for others LadyVet! I had to call the helpdesk for Army Distance Education to get that info, and thank you for the distance learning info, I signed up for Ammo 67, the Ammo handler course, so we shall see how that goes. I think NCOES should become a more permanent and more written about topic here, it would certainly help out many readers!
I agree that more info pertaining to active duty personnel would be helpful here. This doesn’t affect me as I did BNCOC Phase 1 on the ground at Benning, but I’m sure there are more than a few active service members lurking on the blog (not to mention those of us who comment).
Since the blog moves pretty quick, how about an NCOES or professional development category?
This would also assist NG and Reserve folks, as the total force will now be doing ALC phase 1 online asa cost saving measure. This is a professional development goldmine and those of us who have done such courses can mentor any readers with questions or concerns about their NCOES. Btw, I saw an excellent quote about taking care of Soldiers recently: “Regard your Soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys. Look on them as your own beloved Sons, and they will stand with you even unto death…”
Lucky,
I don’t know how I left ARNG and USAR folks out. There are doubtlessly many of you that visit this site.
As for the quote, I was a well respected squad leader among the Soldiers in TOG. I wasn’t the PSG’s or PL’s favorite because I shielded my Joes from most of the bs stuff, but I always treated them with the respect and courtesy they deserved. As a father, I think of my Soldiers as my family–a fact the wife doesn’t necessarily like, but that’s another story. If a Soldier needs some physical retraining I usually let a team leader handle it; if that doesn’t or can’t work, I explain exactly what the deficiency is and how to correct it. Verbal counseling, if you will, even if there is some sweat involved. The thing I hated most as a younger Soldier was being seriously smoked for a trivial reason or a reason I didn’t fully understand. Being the subject of a fun smoke session, on the other hand, was always welcome, even if not while it was going on.
Some of the other squad leaders and team leaders would let emotion dictate their actions. Some of the worst were little more than bullies who believed in leading through fear. I am nowhere near the best NCO (I reserve that for my squad leader in the 101st, who’s now a 1SG in the KY ARNG), but I strive to improve on a daily basis. In a couple of weeks I’ll get the chance to lead a squad or (very slight maybe) platoon again.
Wonderful to receive this positive feedback… Lucky… Yes, I know…uh, a fly on the wall told me the phone lines were ringing at the help desk non-stop all day Monday and Tuesday…technicians were having meltdowns (at least one that I know of anyway. 😀 Apparently soldiers don’t read their emails containing information about their enrollments??? LOL… Or maybe there is a problem that the information is not presented clearly; I don’t know. This wouldn’t surprise me, but I don’t know what the current email contains that soldiers receive about their ALC-CC enrollment. In any event, speaking from the trenches of the army training help desk (in anonymity, of course)…it would contribute greatly to my sanity if word on these sorts of things could spread, if not through official channels, then at least through unofficial… 😀 Fm2176, thank you for the suggestion of a category for NCOES, which I have now created and tagged this post with. And, yes, I think I will likewise create a Professional Development category and tag it with that also. Also, fm2176 (#2)…pardon me, but there are wide gaps in my knowledge and I am learning all the time as I go along. You mentioned you did BNCOC Phase 1 on the ground at Benning. Was this a predecessor of the current ALC-CC online? I have been wanting to gather further info on this as I find it a little bit confusing. I see soldiers get DA-directed reservations for ALC-CC in their ATRRS when they have already had the BNCOC Phase 1, and I know there are at least some soldiers who get this who believe they shouldn’t have an enrollment for ALC-CC, but I’m not sure what to tell them – except that it’s DA directed, we didn’t do it, and suggest they submit a DA Form 4187 through their unit if they want it changed. I am going to check some other resources for information on this now that I think about it some more, and will likely get the answer, but would also be interested to know whatever it is you know about… Read more »
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