Virtual Aviation College  
Multi-language e-Learning program on Airport Ramp Safety 
 
The job of an airport loader is a tough one, often working in extreme conditions under great pressure, loading and unloading goods that range from racehorses and cars to suitcases and crates of bees.
The Virtual Aviation College wanted an extremely easy to use, modular program that would lead new employees through all the potential safety hazards and demonstrate how they can avoid injury and damage. The program contains hundreds of location photos, animations and video clips but deliberately has very little on-screen text and is continuously narrated.
There are several interactive exercises in which the Loader must identify hazards by clicking on ‘hot spots’ in 360 degree photos or must choose safe practices from a selection of video clips.
ALL content (text, animations, video and audio) is held in separate, editable files to enable cost-effective conversion to other languages and for rapid, cost-effective updating.
The Quiz poses 30 questions to test the Loader’s understanding of ramp safety. These comprise True/False, Multi-Choice and clickable images and videos and are designed to assess their ability to recognise danger and to know what to do to minimise risk to themselves and to others.
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Each Loader’s progress data is saved to a central database and may be viewed by a supervisor. This includes their name, ID number, language, total time spent in the module, date last used, quiz scores achieved with dates and a ‘bookmark’ for returning to the module where they left off, at a future date.
The program has an intelligent ‘shell’ which dynamically builds the navigation menu Section and Topic buttons from an ‘ini’ file.
This means that (for example) if a Section menu option needed two more Topics adding this is achieved simply by adding two more line entries in the text file. No changes to the program and no new menu graphics are needed. The labels for the menu buttons are also held in a file and the whole exercise is completed in minutes.
This solution is a good example of our technique of keeping e-Learning content separate from the program structure – sounds awfully boring but it gives our clients great flexibility.
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