Estimated Time To Read This: 2 – 3 minutes       I know avid followers of this blog are probably all thinking the same thing:  “What’s the deal with the new PD Place Support Forum?”   Here’s the 411:  The PD Place Support Forum provides PD Place users with an online meeting place to discuss how to make best use of the system, to exchange tips and tricks and to suggest feature ideas for future releases of PD Place.  With the new PD Place Support Forum, users from a variety of organizations can ... Read More

Estimated Time To Read This: 3 – 5 minutes       Twice a year, CoreSolutions offers our PD Place partners the opportunity to convene with other organizations using PD Place via our PD Place User Group Meetings. These meetings provide PD Place users with an open forum to communicate with members of the PD Place development team. Together, our PD Place partners along with members of the PD Place development team assemble to discuss how to make optimal use of PD Place. Our next PD Place User Group is meeting on ... Read More

Estimated Time To Read This: 4 – 7 minutes       The new private course feature available in PD Place version 3.9, offers PD Place partners the opportunity to hide a course, so that it does not appear in the system via keyword searches or in the calendar module. The only way to access a private course in PD Place is to have a supervisor register you for the course on their behalf. I’m sure that right now you’re probably asking yourself, “Why would I create a private course that is essentially hidden in ... Read More

Estimated Time To Read This: 6 – 9 minutes       I recently attended a PD Place Development Team meeting, which highlighted new features available in the upcoming release of PD Place version 3.9.  In that meeting, I was thrilled to see the addition of a “managed content” section into PD Place.  This functionality was actually suggested to CoreSolutions by several PD Place Users during our bi-annual PD Place User Group Meetings.  These PD Place Users originally envisioned a module in PD Place that would ... Read More

Estimated Time To Read This: 3 – 5 minutes       You don’t have to take it from me.   A quick google search of the terms, “professional development” and “student achievement” will provide a profusion of scholarly articles that discuss the merits of teacher professional development and the direct correlation between it and student achievement.  We all know that staff excel when they possess the skills and knowledge to fulfill their role as educational thought leaders and students excel when they are ... Read More

Estimated Time To Read This: 3 – 4 minutes       PD Place will streamline your professional development programs and save your organization valuable time and money, but that’s not all!  Did you know that you can use PD Place to generate a revenue stream for your organization?  In this blog, I outline a few different ways of how you can utilize PD Place to create a new source of income for your company and establish your organization as an industry leader in professional development.  With PD Place, your ... Read More

Estimated Time To Read This: 3 – 5 minutes       Cinema influences us all; from programmers to account managers, to educators and so on, you’d have to be living at the centre of the earth to survive a day without reference to a classic film or quip from a favourite flick.  With the upcoming release of PD Place version 3.8.4 just around the corner, I thought I’d have a little fun with this blog and present you with the top 3 films that provide insight into what PD Place can do for your organization. 300 ... Read More

Estimated Time To Read This: 6 – 9 minutes       I know you’re probably thinking, “There’s nothing Zen about managing professional development.  It’s stressful, time-consuming and when last minute changes arise due to classroom fumigation, it can feel quite maddening!”  What if I were to tell you that there is a way to run professional development programs at your Higher Learning Institution that is efficient, effective and will leave you feeling at ease?  The purpose of this blog is to elucidate ... Read More