CAS 4.0 Web Training for Administrators

The CAS Web Training for Administrators provides hands on training for learning how to set up your school within CAS.  The course consists of demonstrations of the CAS software and an account to log into a test instance of CAS to complete exercises for hands on experience. 

The web course is self-paced.  Two weeks are given to complete the course, but most people can complete the course in less time if they set aside time each day to work on lessons and exercises.

The cost of the course is $500 per person.  

You can find out more information about the availability of the course and registration on the DARS training site. 

Lesson 1:  Welcome to CAS

Becoming familiar with CAS functionality
Understanding your role as an administrator
Creating an administrator account

Lesson 2:  Beginning Steps

Creating an xxxxxx user for your school
Determining your schools settings within CAS
Adding the Year Term Conversion table

Lesson 3:  Course Information

Adding your course catalog to CAS
Importing and Exporting your course catalog
Managing course memos
Course URL and header customizations

Lesson 4:  Course Equivalencies

Local DARwin Course Equivalency Guide
External Course Equivalency Guide

Lesson 5:  Managing CAS programs

Adding categories and programs to CAS
Importing and exporting programs
Running programs
Program URLs

Lesson 6:  Program Question and Answers

Creating questions for programs
Adding answers to questions

Lesson 7:  Managing User Accounts

Creating a user account
Searching user accounts
Edit/Delete user accounts

Lesson 8:  Customizing CAS

Adding customization URLs in CAS
Adding customization header messages in CAS

Lesson 9:  CAS Statistics

Running statistic reports within CAS

Lesson 10:  Maintaining CAS

Keeping CAS updated