The Assessing App

The Assessing app uses the following terms to create skills maintenance events and sessions for each SLS award.

Event:

The Skills Maintenance event details, e.g., location, name of event, date, contacts

Course:

Predetermined SLS course options, e.g., Skills Maintenance SRC, Skills Maintenance BM, Skills Maintenance ART

Sessions:

One or more assessment event sessions held during an event.

For example:

• Session 1  9am – 10am Skills Maintenance SRC
• Session 2  10am – 1pm Skills Maintenance BM
• Session 3  1pm – 3pm Skills Maintenance ART

Sessions can also have specific comments to identify groups of members enrolling in each session, e.g., Red Group, Yellow Group.

The Assessing App User Guide demonstrates how to navigate the app and perform skills maintenance assessment activities.

Some functions within the app do not require an internet connection, however, you will need to ensure that you have an internet connection on your device to install the app and update the data collected into SurfGuard.

Review and confirm the attendance list

1. Log into the SLSA Assessing app on your mobile digital device using your SLS Members Area login details – Click here to see how
2. Select the ‘Training Event’ that you are assessing – Click here to see how
3. Go to the ‘Members’ Tab
4. Review and confirm the attendance list (members from your club and visiting members)
5. Add any participants who did not enrol before the event – Click here to see how
6. Delete any no-shows from the attendance list (as required).

Note: Members who have completed assessment criteria before the event will already be marked as complete for that criteria, e.g., online theory assessment,  resuscitation.

Assess Skills Maintenance (Online or Offline)

1. Go to the ‘Assess’ Tab
2. Complete the online assessment summary sheet. This can be done in offline mode (without an internet connection) or online mode (with an internet connection) – Click here to see how.

This is similar to completing a skills maintenance card.

Time Saving Tip – Tick the boxes in the top row first, then untick any relevant box for a member as required.

When connected to the internet again

1. Review the assessment outcomes in the ‘Status‘ tab
2. Open the menu options (‘three dots’ in top right-hand corner)
3. Click  ‘Mark Complete’ to update and submit award proficiencies to SurfGuard (must be done in online mode) – Click here to see how.

This is similar to submitting a Form14.

Note: If the members’ Surfguard records do not update immediately, please check again after 24 hours.

Support education team members

Support Assessors, Facilitators and Endorsed Delegates as needed to:

1. Find the event they will be assessing – Click here to see how
2. Enrol members and visiting members into a session last minute – Click here to see how

This is similar to supporting them complete skills maintenance cards.

When connected to the internet

Have the sessions been marked ask complete?

Help ensure all sessions have been marked as complete when connected to the internet.

This is the crucial step for the skills maintenance proficiencies to be submitted automatically into SurfGuard.

This is similar to submitting a Form14.

Note: If the members’ Surfguard records do not update immediately, please check again after 24 hours.

Is the member a current financial member?

If no – the member is not eligible to sign in until their financial status is renewed.

Does the member belong to your club?

If yes – Search the member’s ‘Surname’ as prompted on the screen.

If no – Click on the ‘Visitor’ button to turn it red, then search for the member’s ‘first name’ plus ‘surname’ as prompted on the screen.

Time-saving tip – Ask the members to sign in using the app on a shared device as they arrive or sign in before the event via the ‘Training Event’ menu within the SLS eLearning platform. This helps support a quick and easy sign-in process as people spell their names correctly and can better identify their date of birth if someone else shares their name.

Has the member already completed all the skills maintenance event requirements?

If yes – they will not appear as eligible to sign in because they have already met the requirements.

Does the member have the older ARTC version of the Advanced Resuscitation award?

If yes –  their name will not appear for the app’s Advanced Resuscitation skills maintenance events. They will need to have their Advanced Resuscitation skills maintenance session recorded using the paper version of the skills maintenance card v2022/23 (available from the SLSNSW Education Training Resources webpage).

If none of these potential reasons apply to your situation, please advise the SLSA IT Helpdesk to investigate the matter further.

How long ago did they complete the online skills maintenance theory and assessment?

It can take up to 24 hours for completed eLearning activities to show up on a member’s training library and/or SurfGuard records.

If the online theory assessment has still not appeared on the Assessing app after waiting 24 hours, you can advise SLSA IT Helpdesk to investigate the matter further.

Can’t wait 24 hours?

On the day of the event, you can ask the member to show you evidence of their online training completion status before manually marking the online theory component as complete within the app.

Members can show you their completion certificate status on a mobile device or as a printed certificate copy.

The SLSA IT Team can support you with any technical queries or concerns related to the app.

Simply Click here to raise an IT  Support Ticket that includes as much information as possible for them to respond to or call them Monday to Friday 9.00am to 6.00pm (AEDT) on 1300 724 006.

SLSNSW recommends reading the SLSA Assessing App User Guide and our FAQs before raising a ticket.

Tip – Include screenshots where possible as a picture says a thousand words.

Following on from the SLSA Member Education Resource Changes for the 2022/23 season Circular, SLSNSW would like to highlight the below Assessing App enhancements introduced since last season.

We would also like to thank all the TAFs that provided their feedback which lead to these continuous improvements.

Sign-in/Enrolment Enhancements

• The Assessing app will display whether a member meets the required prerequisites when enrolling into the skills maintenance event.
• The Training Event calendar will also display course eligibility information to members upon enrolment.
• More email formatting options are available to allow for enhanced communications to event members and assessors.
• The Assessing App has been enhanced to allow multiple participants to be signed in at once using the participant multi-select feature in the Members tab.

Event Enhancements

• The colour of the assessment checkboxes can now be configured to branch organisation brand colours.
• A new member search function within the Dashboard and Events Management page has been added to locate events specific members have enrolled into.
• The Assessing App now creates a unique event code for each event which is displayed alongside the event name throughout the Assessing App and LMS. The event code is also sent to SurfGuard when the LMS updates proficiency dates on members’ award records.
• Extra member information is displayed in the app assessment tab to allow assessors to distinguish between different members more easily within the app.
• The Assessing app will automatically select newer Skills Maintenance courses based on a member’s eligibility and the courses covered within the event. For example, if an event is created for Skills Maintenance 2022/23 BM and Skills Maintenance 2022/23 SRC, the app will select Skills Maintenance 2022/23 BM even if the member is eligible for both courses.

Reporting Enhancements

• The LMS events reports (Training Event Summary Report, Assessment Notes Report and Event Enrolment Report) can now be run at a Branch and State level instead of requiring a club to be selected.
• The LMS now allows LMS administrators to save commonly used report filters for the Training Status Report, Training Event Summary Report, Event Enrolment Report and Assessment Notes Report. These saved reports can be named and used to simply populate report filters in each report.
• The LMS Events Reports (Training Event Summary Report, Event Enrolment Report and Assessment Notes Report) display SLS member IDs within the report data tables and CSV exports.

Click here to have your username and a temporary password sent to you via email or text. After logging in, remember to go to the settings menu to change your password to one that is easier to remember.

Alternatively, click here to create your own unique SLS members area login details. These login details are used to access restricted resources and other SLS applications, e.g., Publications App and Operations App.

You can also click the links below to watch videos that guide you through the above processes:

How to retrieve login details and change your password

How to create an SLS Members Area Account

Yes.

Select the ‘Visitor’ button when welcoming and adding members from outside of your club and/or branch.

Click here to see how.

For the 2020/21 season and beyond, SLSA created a separate PSAR35 Spinal Update award in SurfGuard that clubs have the option of using to record the BM upgrade.

As such, they have not included a spinal component within the SLSA Assessing app for skills maintenance 2022/23.

Refer to the SLSNSW Skills Maintenance webpage for more information and resources relating to the BM spinal update for the 2022/23 season.