Soldier training: One-stop shopping for online training
Some of you soldiers out there who are enrolled in an online course that’s still delivered through the old ATIA system may have noticed that www.train.army.mil no longer takes you to ATIA, exactly. Yep. Changes. As of this week, it has now been replaced by the MT2 (try it and see), which, by the time you log in with your CAC (and you have to log in with your CAC), looks exactly like – you guessed it – your AKO MyTraining page. It’s the new one-stop shopping idea applied to online distributed learning.
Okay, that’s all very fine and good, you might say, but I wasn’t done yet with my Unit Supply Specialist IMI Sustainment Training, or my Action Officer Development Course? How the heck do I get there now???
Long story short, access it from the Army Warrior University Enrollments gadget on the new MT2 page, which is the same as the AKO My Training page. Either go in from AKO > Self-Service > My Training, or go there from www.train.army.mil > Access the My Training Tab (MT2) > log in with your CAC. Look for the Army Warrior University Enrollments gadget box, which is usually located in the middle column about the third gadget down from the top, right underneath the ALMS gadget.
If your Army Warrior University Enrollments gadget is not there (some users do say theirs isn’t there; I have no idea why), never fear. Click on Customize View on the far left of the ribbon on the top. Put a check by Army Warrior University Enrollments and click OK. (Disclaimer: If your government computer is anything like my government computer, you can customize your MyTraining page (MT2) all day long, but it’s still going to go back to the way it was in the first place by the time you get back in the morning, LOL.)
You’ll find your course in that Army Warrior University Enrollments gadget under “Active.” (And if you need your old ACCP records from the old system: click on Historic and print).
Here’s the big announcement about the new one portal for training, which has been posted in several places now, including on www.train.army.mil before you log in:
The Army Training Information Architecture (ATIA) Soldier Portal web page will be replaced by the My Training Tab (MT2) web page on Thursday, 16 Feb 2012 at 0800 EDT. The ATIA “Soldier Portal” web page has been redesigned as the MT2. It is accessible from AKO using the self service dropdown and by selecting “My Training”. The MT2 serves as the Soldiers’ entry point to the Army Training Information Systems (ATIS) and other training related web resources/portals. The redesign provides a modern web user interface, based on web page “gadget”/”widget” technology that point to Army and public web resource page or portals . It provides “one stop shopping” for Soldier/user online training needs.
Been kind of quiet the last couple days. Don’t know if it’s because the soldiers are busy with other stuff right now, or because it’s just all so clear and working so smoothly, no one is confused?
Category: Professional Development, Support the troops
Now that’s interesting news!
Is this standard for all branches? I remember taking MCI (Marine Corps Institution) mail order courses way back when. I remember having to take the exam with the company clerk as the proctor. The good old days!:)
Sorry, no…not at all. Strictly army.mil Of course, any service member with a CAC can access and take them, but that’s not to say their own branch is going to give them any recognition or credit for it (and not saying that they won’t; just saying, really, it’s out of my realm).
Good post. Not applicable to me, but informative. 🙂
Most if not all can max us out on military ed for our NCO boards right?
Sadly no, as of last weekend’s Drill, Structured Self Development and the correspondence courses no longer are worth promotion points, and if I remember correctly, neither are civil education courses. Straight from my CSM’s mouth.
*civilian
Lucky, I haven’t seen a change in AR 600–8–19, no recent MILPER messages to that effect, nothing posted on the S1Net Forum or S1Net email messages. Are you sure you understood your CSM correctly?
I can’t really speak regarding the Structured Self-Development (SSD) as the proponent school for the SSD courses is the Sergeants Major Academy and those course, while DL courses, are not part of the Army Correspondence Course Program (ACCP), however, I do know the SSD courses are on the current EMILPO code list for correspondence courses, and that code is what is needed for something to go onto your ERB.
As far as the ACCP courses go, now it is totally true that there are no longer any promotion points awarded for individual (stand-alone) subcourses, as there used to be – and I wrote three paragraphs on just that subject alone in my post “ACCP: another TAH public service announcement” at http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=28620 To get the promotion points for ACCP courses, what soldiers need to do is take the full ACCP courses. Enrollment in full ACCP courses is through ATRRS from the ATRRS Self-Development Center page, and then access the course material on ALMS. (You can find the full ACCP course listing, showing all the subcourses that go to each full course, in both Excel file and PDF, by searching for ACCP on AKO in the search field for AKO Content . )
When a full ACCP course taken on ALMS is completed, it processes automatically (and instantaneously – assuming nothing is hung up in ALMS Current Enrollments) into your ATRRS record and from there auto-populates into your ERB.
However, that is for Active Army. If you’re National Guard or something, maybe they have their own rules. I have no idea about that.
I could wish that the Army would consolidate some of their many online training tools, and maybe (while we’re dreaming) make them work well on something other than Internet Explorer on Windows.
Full on daydream mode: I wish they had a cross-platform digital form application so that I wouldn’t have to reboot into Windows just to sign my NCOER.