Question 1

I already have an instructor account. How do I purchase additional Group Learner Accounts?

Accepted Answer

A Group Learner Account provides access to the site for 1 year and costs £20 GBP for each student.

You can purchase additional Group Learner Accounts when you need to register additional students.

For example, if you purchase 20 accounts for a training course and run the course with 15 students. For your next course, you have 5 accounts remaining but may need to purchase an additional 10 accounts if you have another 15 students attending.

Accounts can be requested and payment arranged by completing the Group Learner Billing Form.

Question 2

Is there a user guide for this website?

Accepted Answer

Yes. We have supporting guides for learners and instructors on how to use this site when training or being trained..

Question 3

Can I trial the Instructor Account and learner progress tracking?

Accepted Answer

We offer a trial Instructor Account which will grant full site access in addition to 3 trial Group Learner Accounts so you can try out our tracking feature. Trial accounts are free and grant membership to instructors and learners for 3 months. Please contact us at support@researchanimaltraining.com to apply.

Question 4

Do you intend making “regional” versions of your training materials?

Accepted Answer

We appreciate that the Research Animal Training website is currently focused on UK legislation while given mention of regulations when working in the EU.

Although it is good to give access to all the material on the site to all registered users, this can create some concerns for course organisers outside of the UK. If you are sending your course participants to the site to look at specific modules, it may be confusing if the text mentions UK or EU specific information, particularly concerning legislation.

Our roadmap includes structuring the site so that it can “hide” some of the very specific information (eg the UK law) unless a participant from outside the UK really wanted to access the information. Several of the current modules and supporting notes also use UK or European terminology such as “Named Veterinary Surgeon” and “Animal Welfare and Ethical Review Body”. We will edit the content so that it uses more generic terminology, especially for those of you accessing the site from outside Europe. This edited content would be presented to users from outside Europe, the current versions would be presented to Europeans. I should add that we would also aim to produce “non-UK” versions for our European colleagues.

We can’t promise to make these changes immediately, as we have some very tight deadlines with our current module development program, but we already have the required changes to the web interface in place, and hope to start adjusting content over the next few months.

Question 5

Can I track article reading progress for learners in my group?

Accepted Answer

Article reading tracking is for individual self assessment only and details are not available to group leaders. Only the progress of eLearning modules can be tracked by a group leader.

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I already have an instructor account. How do I purchase additional Group Learner Accounts?

Is there a user guide for this website?

Can I trial the Instructor Account and learner progress tracking?

Do you intend making “regional” versions of your training materials?

Can I track article reading progress for learners in my group?