Regularly Scheduled Series (RSS) Data Management System
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Office of Continuing Medical Education (OCME)
https://cme.nums.northwestern.edu/portal/login.cfm
Definitions:
Course:
Event:
CME activity (i.e. Grand Rounds)
Each time a CME course meets (i.e. grand rounds on 6/5//12)
The following are instructions for entering FSM’s faculty member’s attendance at a RSS to the RSS Data Management Systems.
Step 1.
Type in your logon id and password provided by the OCME
Step 2.
Click on submit
Please enter your logon id and password to log-on:
Logon ID
Password
Step 3.
Click on “Continuing Education”
Welcome Jane Doe!
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Step 4.
Continuing Education
Located on the right hand column, click on “Events/Attendance”
CE Application
Overview
Events/Attendance
User List Administration
Step 5.
Located on the right hand column, click on “Search Events”
CE Application
Overview
How to use this demo
Courses Development
Schedule Development
Events/Attendance
Help
Show Calendar
Calendar (New Window)
Search Events
Today's Events
This Week's Events
Apr 2012 Events
May 2012 Events
Jun 2012 Events
Jul 2012 Events
Quarterly Reports
User List Administration
Lookup Tables
Reports
Step 6.
In the “Course” dropdown box select the course (i.e. NUMS 4200 Department of Medicine Grand Rounds). Leave the Director box blank. Click on the
calendar buttons to select the dates of your search. Click on submit.
Please select your search criteria and click on Submit.
Course
NUMS 4200 : Department of Medicine Grand Rounds
Director
From
06/01/2012
To
06/30/2012
Step 7.
The events occurring within the dates selected will be listed. Click on the “Attendees” button on the date you wish to enter attendance.
Listing of Events between
06/01/2012 and 06/30/2012
Action
Step 8.
Course
ID
Attendance
Event Date/Time
Title
Approved
Delete
NUMS 4200
Attendees (0)
6/5/2012 07:30A
Department of Medicine Grand
Rounds
Yes
Delete
NUMS 4200
Attendees (0)
6/12/2012 07:30A
Department of Medicine Grand
Rounds
Yes
NUMS 4200
6/19/2012 07:30A
Department of Medicine Grand
Rounds
Yes
NUMS 4200
6/26/2012 07:30A
Department of Medicine Grand
Rounds
Yes
To enter attendance click on “Add Attendees by Hand”.
Course: NUMS 4200
Title: Department of Medicine Grand Rounds
Date/Time: 06/05/2012 07:30A
Location:
Attendees: 0
Options
See Attendees Use this option to see a list of attending for this event.
Print a Report of Use this option to see a list of attending for this event. Once the list is on the screen you will need to right-click on
Attendees the page and choose print from the menu to print the list.
Credits Pending (0.00)
Credits pending are the number of people who registered for this event, but have not been marked as having
attended this event.
Add Attendees by Hand Use this option to add an attendee for this event by selecting entering the information manually.
If you have a file created by the kiosk scanner program enter the filename below and click here
Upload Kiosk Data
Copy Attendees from
Use this option to copy all the attendees from the last event into this event.
Last Event
Edit
Location
Subtitle
Step 9.
Enter the faculty’s last name and click on “Find Person” button. If there are multiple faculty members with the same last name, their department will
be listed after each faculty’s name. Select the appropriate faculty member’s name.
Course: NUMS 4200
Title: Department of Medicine Grand Rounds
Date/Time: 06/05/2012 07:30A
Location:
Attendees:
0
Hand Entered
Thomas, Alisha (Attending Family & Community Med )
Thomas, Gregory (Attending Otolaryn-Dental Surg )
Thomas, John (Attending Physiology )
Thomas, Kurian (Attending Neurology )
Thomas, John (Attending Physiology )
Clear
Click to add attendee.
Options
See Attendees Use this option to see a list of attending for this event.
Print a Report of Use this option to see a list of attending for this event. Once the list is on the screen you will need to right-click on the
Attendees page and choose print from the menu to print the list.
Credits Pending Credits pending are the number of people who registered for this event, but have not been marked as having attended
(0.00) this event.
Step. 10.
The faculty and their status will be listed in the drop down box. Use the “Click here to add attendee” button to enter the faculty’s attendance.
Step 11.
To verify the attendance data was entered into the appropriate event (i.e. Department of Medicine Grand Rounds on 6/5/12), click on “See Attendees”.
The faculty’s name will be displayed. If you have selected the incorrect faculty member, you have the option to delete that faculty member by selecting
the delete option located in the last column.
Course: NUMS 4200
Title: Department of Medicine Grand Rounds
Date/Time: 06/05/2012 07:30A
Location:
Attendees: 1
Attendees:
Attendee
Status
Thomas, John
Attending
To enter another participant repeat steps 9 through 11.
to your listing of events.
Step 12.
Entry Method
Hand Entered
Date/Time
Delete
06/12/2012 10:05A
After all the faculty members have been entered into that event, click on “Close Window”. This will return you
To copy the attendance from the previous week attendance list, click on “Copy Attendees from Last Event”.
Course: NUMS 4200
Title: Department of Medicine Grand Rounds
Date/Time: 06/12/2012 07:30A
Location:
Attendees: 0
Options
See Attendees Use this option to see a list of attending for this event.
Print a Report of Use this option to see a list of attending for this event. Once the list is on the screen you will need to right-click on
Attendees the page and choose print from the menu to print the list.
Credits Pending (0.00)
Credits pending are the number of people who registered for this event, but have not been marked as having
attended this event.
Add Attendees by Hand Use this option to add an attendee for this event by selecting entering the information manually.
Upload Kiosk Data
If you have a file created by the kiosk scanner program enter the filename below and click here
Copy Attendees from
Use this option to copy all the attendees from the last event into this event.
Last Event
Step 13
The number of attendees will change to the number of attendees copied from the last event. In this case 1 attendee was copied. Click on “See
Attendees”.
All attendees from last event with attendees for this course have been copied to this event.
Course: NUMS 4200
Title: Department of Medicine Grand Rounds
Date/Time: 06/12/2012 07:30A
Location:
Attendees: 1
Options
See Attendees Use this option to see a list of attending for this event.
Print a Report of Use this option to see a list of attending for this event. Once the list is on the screen you will need to right-click on the
Attendees page and choose print from the menu to print the list.
Credits Pending (0.00)
Credits pending are the number of people who registered for this event, but have not been marked as having attended
this event.
Add Attendees by
Use this option to add an attendee for this event by selecting entering the information manually.
Hand
Upload Kiosk Data If you have a file created by the kiosk scanner program enter the filename below and click here
Copy Attendees from This option is disabled since there are already attendees for this event. If you'd like to copy the attendees from the
Last Event previous event into this event manually delete all the attendees for this event and then choose this option.
Step 14
The participants from the last event has been copied to the current event. To remove individual faculty from the copied list, click on the delete key. To
add additional participants click on “Add Attendees by Hand” and complete steps 9 through 11.
Course: NUMS 4200
Title: Department of Medicine Grand Rounds
Date/Time: 06/12/2012 07:30A
Location:
Attendees: 1
Attendees:
Attendee
Thomas, John
Status
Attending
Entry Method
Copied
Date/Time
06/12/2012 10:11A
Delete
Bottom of Form
Options
See
Use this option to see a list of attending for this event.
Attendees
Print a
Use this option to see a list of attending for this event. Once the list is on the screen you will need to right-click
Report of
on the page and choose print from the menu to print the list.
Attendees
Credits
Credits pending are the number of people who registered for this event, but have not been marked as having
Pending
attended this event.
(0.00)
Add
Attendees Use this option to add an attendee for this event by selecting entering the information manually.
by Hand
Upload If you have a file created by the kiosk scanner program enter the filename below and click here
Kiosk Data
Copy
Attendees This option is disabled since there are already attendees for this event. If you'd like to copy the attendees from
from Last the previous event into this event manually delete all the attendees for this event and then choose this option.
Event
Step 15
To exit event click on “Close Window”