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LAST UPDATED MAY 15, 2008
The Instructor Test Generator has given all of us heartburn but it HAS BEEN RESOLVED. Please test it and let us know if you have any problems. Otherwise, we will move on to fixing other problems and making enhancements to LAPWARE as well as posting of new solutions. We have the capability, but do NOT want to add it until the summer when all students have sat and graduated, of being able to jump to the actual reference page in Rules of the Road. This enhancement will be added during a slow period (just in case of any problems). Right now, students can simply page down to the reference needed. We will also try to use this VIEW PDF feature in other books as well. It should make a nice enhancement to the use of LAPWARE.
FIXED - Students and Instructors PLEASE READ BELOW!
Instructors can again generate and edit a Test Template. They can generate a Test or Study Test from that Template. They can edit the Test Template under the VIEW mode, if it is INACTIVE and no Student has taken the test. Tests can again be generated and taken in the TEST Mode. What we are working on now is to be able to review the test results in the STUDY MODE showing the full question stem and all distracters.
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If your Instructor has authorized you to be able to generate a test you have that capability NOT only for randomly generated tests but for chart plots. Regarding chart plots, we are still working on a way to for us to better control the display of the chart plot questions and sequential numbers that belong to each plot. About 6 of the more than 100 plots have questions that are out of sequence. This will be fixed. Each such plot does indicate when a problem exists. We want better control so as to be able to add new plots and delete old plots when NMC takes such action.
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In the generation of NEW test from Test Templates you now create, the proper link for the School to the Instructor to the Student does work, BUT only for those NEW tests you create from here forward. I recommend printing out existing Test Templates, deleting them and recreating them. This means regenerating your test templates and the tests for those templates. I know this is a pain since I just spent over three hours doing this for LAPWARE UNIVERSITY students, creating over 110 tests. The LAPWARE University students are those students who purchase LAPWARE on their own.
ONCE you set the test to active the students will be able to see it on their "MY TEST" screen. REMEMBER, you can create a LICENSE EXAM from the administrator's test templates with answer sheet that ONLY YOU, the Instructor, can see. The Students will ONLY see the test. If you want them to have the answer sheet then either save it and email it to them or print out a hard copy for distribution.
FINALLY, in case you have not discovered it, the posting of the NEW solutions in LAPWARE can be downloaded. We will NOT go back and regenerate solutions for older questions unless they contain an error. All new questions can be copied BUT not easily printed. We have turned off the PRINT feature in Adobe Acrobat Security but I am sure some of you will find a way around this. We are considering the possibility of letting solutions be printed with exams generated BUT on a limited basis. We have yet to discuss this with the programmer. Primarily we are just concerned in making sure LAPWARE runs properly under the new server and with our new programmer who has discovered numerous errors in coding by the original programmer. These are the headaches we all have been suffereing under and we apologize for any inconvenience. Hopefully, all of this is behind us and we can finally move forward making improvements to LAPWARE as desired.
For those interested in the New Fire Plan Questions for Safety please look at the Test Templates. I have created a template that creates 99 questions. Delete the first 8 questions leaving just 91. These are all of the NEW questions recently added by NMC on the Fire Plan which can be expected to be seen on the exams just generated earlier this month. GOOD LUCK ON YOUR EXAMS!
Since the NMC released a NEW DATABASE as of April 21, 2008 if you find any OLDER exams that were generated containing the word "Inactive" at the beginning of the question please have either your instructor update the exam, replacing it with a valid question, or notify us, if you purchased LAPWARE directly.
The NMC is in the process of generating NEW LICENSE EXAMS as notified as of TODAY, April 25, 2008. Please expect Fire Plan questions referencing the new diagrams to be on exams given commencing as early as April 28th. Students purchasing LAPWARE on their own can email me and I will send them the SAFETY questions which include the Fire Plan questions. Download the NEW and MODIFIED questions and NEW ILLUSTRATIONS from the link below. NOTE, however, that the NEW questions will not be on the exam until after 30 days (commencing May 21, 2008).
http://homeport.uscg.mil/
On January 10th, the NMC released NEW and MODIFIED questions, along with associated NEW ILLUSTRATIONS on Fire Plans. The above link can be copied and pasted into your browser so you can download these files in PDF format.
LAPWARE WORKS ONLY ON A PC
and MUST use Internet Explorer as its browser!
When studying for your license please reference the links below for NMC information as well as for you to determine the exact DECK CODE for the license exam you will be sitting for and the exam test modules.
http://www.uscg.mil/stcw/mmic-policy.htm
or
http://www.uscg.mil/stcw/index.htm
To figure out which of the exam modules or test codes you will be required to take for your license exam, please refer to the below link to the NMC Deck Guide Book in PDF format. Please review the abbreviations at the BOTTOM of this page.
http://www.uscg.mil/stcw/mmic-deckexquest.htm
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PLEASE USE Internet Explorer as your Internet Browser when running LAPWARE . Do NOT use FireFox or Netscape or a MAC/Apple Computer. These programs or computers can have difficulty running LAPWARE unless properly set up and we are unfamiliar with the set up procedures. Thank you. We will be looking into WHY these browsers do not interact properly with LAPWARE .
LAPWARE requires you to install one program and two (2) plug-ins.
¨ Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 4.0 or later) is required in order to view the solutions in PDF format.
¨ Macromedia Flash plug-in is required to be able to view the LAPWARE program.
¨ Copy Safe Pro plug-in is required and protects the author’s solutions from being printed or copied.
The links to the software/plug-ins are provided below. If you have problems running LAPWARE please see the “Trouble Shooting” page for more guidance. Report any new problems to the authors via email for posting.
Adobe Acrobat:
Copy Safe Pro:
Macromedia Flash:
License exam test templates and exam codes have been generated based upon the Deck Guide Book published by the National Maritime Center (NMC). Users should be aware that the following abbreviations are being used:
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100T = 100 Ton License |
500T = 500 Ton License |
1600T = 1600 Ton License |
AGT = Any Gross Tonnage |
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3M = 3rd Mate |
2M = 2nd Mate |
CM = Chief Mate |
MA = Master |
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Steer = Steersman |
OUPV = Operator of Uninspected Passenger Vessel |
Inl = Inland |
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U = Unlimited |
O = Ocean |
NC = Near Coastal |
GL = Great Lakes |
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OSV = Offshore Supply Vessel |
OICNW = Officer In Charge of a Navigation Watch |
RIG = Raise In Grade |
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