Designed for how Students Learn

T&D PowerSkills courseware has been retooled to take advantage of how adult learning styles have changed over time. Since 24-hour cable news began broadcasting in 1980, the way people process information has been changing. Information became more bite-sized, digestible, and always-on. This trend continued after the introduction of the smart phone and advent of social media, the trend is clear that shorter, more topical learning lessons that repeat important principles are key.

Assignments Display

Courses that the student is assigned appear with vibrant thumbnails organized into three categories: In Progress, Completed, and Not Started Yet. Courses that haven’t yet been started are ordered according to the curricula set by administrators, or the course due date, if one is set.

Course Display

Our traditional apprenticeship training program is divided into two- to five-minute segments, giving a student a clear vision of how much of the course they’ve completed. Students can gauge their progress with the segments in the menu on the left side of the screen.

Subtitles can aid comprehension when dealing with complex topics or unfamiliar terminology. English subtitles are available for all of our videos, and many now have Spanish subtitles, facilitating learning for non-native speakers.

Section Quizzes

Each major course segment is capped off with a retrieval practice exercise: a non-graded quiz to engage the student’s grasp of what they’ve just learned. It engaged their attention and involvement with the material and provides instant gratification to the student.

Final Test

Each final test is composed of 20 questions drawn from a larger course pool of 30-50 questions, and randomized so that each student has a unique test. Each question has as its foundation one or more of the lineworker competencies.