Profile: The mission of EADP is to ensure that hiring individuals and members of search committees understand and apply the University's commitment to diversity, affirmative action, and best practice principles. EADP verifies that all UNL, federal and state mandates are met. As per agreement with the Office of Civil Rights and University policy, hiring personnel and search committee members must receive orientation training and must have current certification.

Problem/Opportunity: While situated predominately in Lincoln, UNL spreads across two main campuses and has other facilities located across the state. All individuals involved with the hiring of new employees must be certified. Currently, training sessions are regularly held in Lincoln and trainees must adjust their schedules to attend orientation. This requires significant time and cost for those outside of Lincoln and inconvenience for those in Lincoln.

Solution: The J.D. Edwards Design Studio students and their partners at EADP are developing an on-line, multi-media system that will allow personnel to be trained at their convenience. The system will be available both on and off-campus so that hiring and search committee personnel do not need to travel to Lincoln or be available at a specific time for the orientation sessions.

Benefits:

1. The system will save EADP approximately 5-15 hours per month in trainer preparation and delivery time
2. The system will be accessible from any computer with an Internet connection, thereby enabling search committee members to take the required training at their convenience. This makes it possible to reduce or eliminate travel time, and to begin and end sessions at any time and even split the session if necessary. It will also eliminate the preparation tasks associated with coordinating face-to-face training sessions.
3. The system will ensure that the training is complete and consistent since all content is stored within the system and presented in every training session.
4. The system will ensure that trainees understand the course material through an integrated comprehension testing component.
5. Trainee attendance and performance will be automatically tracked and easily accessible by EADP.
6. The system will provide equal access to all members of the UNL community by insuring that those with disabilities, such as color blindness, will be able to readily use the system.

Technologies:

PHP
MySQL
HTML & Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)