iATN Educator Program (i.e. Business+ program for schools)
Info for Centennial College
Annual Price:
$540 per site
Authorized Users:
Students and instructors in automotive programs
Authentication:
Username/password (on-site and remote access permitted)
ACCOUNT TYPES
(See http://www.iatn.net/pricing for account type features.)
Administrator
Instructors
Students
All features of the “individual
premium membership”
account type, plus the ability
to add/remove instructors.
All features of the “individual
premium membership”
account type, plus the ability
to add/remove students.
Read-only access;
membership hidden from
other members and member
directory.
Product Promo (from the vendor):
The bottom line benefit we see is that the student will have access to iATN's KnowledgeBase
where they can look up member generated in-use repairs, troubleshooting, diagnostic best
practices and more. The beauty here is that each student has their own account where they can
log into the site from anywhere. After they graduate, they will be given the opportunity to
graduate their account into a full professional account. If the student uses iATN as a resource, we
would hope that he/she would continue leverage our resources making them a more valuable
asset for their employer.
We highly recommend watching our video "Learn how to manage your sub-accounts"
http://www.iatn.net/video/premium/sub-accounts.mp4/view.aspx
For additional educator documentation and worksheets, please visit the following link:
http://members.iatn.net/forums/read/msg.aspx?f=forum7&m=33934&sr=1&kw
We also have additional videos for instructors and students that will be helpful in navigating the
site: http://www.iatn.net/video/
Setup Procedure
There can only be one master account. The name/email on the master account can’t change, so it should
be someone fairly permanent – the vendor recommends a senior faculty member or the Dean of the
program, but perhaps the library would be better (under the name Centennial Library, and email
library@centennialcollege.ca).
Once the master account is established, the user on that account can create an instructor sub-account
and then assign all admin privileges to that user, so they needn’t be the person going forward who
actually administers the account. Only accounts with full admin privileges can create instructor subaccounts. (All instructors can “invite” their colleagues, but their name will show up as “pending” in the
admin back-end until a user with full admin privileges turns them on.)
Once the master and instructor accounts are set up, any instructor can go in and generate a code to send
to their students so that their students can set up their own accounts. The code is good for all students
but it’s only valid for six months, after which point it must be regenerated. When a student clicks on the
code, they’re brought to the iATN sign-up page and when they submit the sign-up form their account is
automatically created under the college’s account.
Student and instructor accounts never expire. A user with full admin privileges must go in periodically to
remove old accounts. Students who have graduated and removed from Centennial’s account are still
recognized by the iATN system, but they’ll be prompted to contact Customer Support in order to migrate
their account to the standard individual account type, if they qualify. (Individual membership is only
available to automotive service professionals with 4 years’ work experience or ASE certification.)
Steps:
1. Sign up for a free account here: https://join.iatn.net/simple/. You will be asked for credit card
information but select “free account” instead – do not fill out the credit card info. This account
will eventually morph into your master account, so use the email address and name you would
like associated with your master account. Use the relevant campus’ street address, though,
instead of the library’s address. The address is important because it ties all the sub-accounts to
the college account.
2. Contact iATN support to turn your free account into an institutional account for Centennial. They
will want to know the following information:
a. How many sub-accounts you want set up. They can always add more, if necessary, so you
might want to just start with 335. The number of sub-accounts does not affect price.
b. Names and email addresses of any instructors who already have individual accounts (Al
Lancaric, Rob Ristau, maybe others?). iATN will change their account details so that
they’ll be automatically included under your institutional account. Note that refunds are
not offered to individual members in this case.
c. Indicate that you want the invoice sent to OCLS and that our address must appear on the
invoice instead of yours. (We require this in order to process the invoice for payment, but
the default system behaviour is to print your address, so you’ll have to ensure they make
the change manually.)
3. Once iATN receives payment, they will turn your free account into the master account for
Centennial. You will have to let OCLS know the official start and end dates, so that we can ensure
a smooth renewal for you next year.