 All right, so as I mentioned, the Academy doesn't really focus on project planning or broader management issues. So we have another Academy for that. Okay. But one really important thing that I want to highlight at the bottom here. The Academy works under the assumption that you have previous experience in DHS to configuration, this doesn't necessarily mean tracker programs, but understanding you know what the maintenance app is and how to create data elements for example. Having created at minimum an event program before, because we kind of work through some of those concepts a bit quicker in this Academy, and we review them briefly, but we don't get into the same level of detail we would if we're introducing them for the first time. So if you feel as you're going through some of the material that you know, there are concepts that you haven't really heard of before. Then you know you can let us know we won't really have a ton of time necessarily to go through them but we can kind of see the best way to help you. If we can maybe point you to some resources that you could have a look at for example, to try and get up to speed with some of the information that we're presenting over the next couple sessions because each session really builds upon itself. And it's going to be kind of challenging to kind of keep up if you're behind on one of the concepts. All right. So we can just talk about kind of the broad learning goals and the learning objectives for this Academy so kind of broadly this Academy is really about the increasing the ability to describe specific tracker features and increasing the ability to configure specific tracker features now there's a lot more kind of detail around this but just broadly speaking this is kind of what we're aiming to do within the global VHS to community. When we look at what we want you to be able to do by the end of the Academy. So be able to configure these tracker programs within DHS to also configure the correct user access and authorities related to accessing tracker programs, and also be able to supplement these tracker programs for the use of some of these additional configuration features so program rules program indicators and program notifications are kind of the big ones that come to mind. All right. And we're hoping by the end you can achieve this at some degree. And of course you know this is meant to be kind of a continuous learning so, as I mentioned, you know you might not learn everything you need to exactly for your specific use case at this time but we're hoping that we give you broad principles that you can build upon makes it a lot easier for you to kind of apply this when you try this on your own in your own specific use cases. All right, so if you look at some of the specific learning objectives what we're going to cover and we'll also go over the agenda in quite a bit of detail. We will define the tracker data model in DHS to that's kind of the first thing we're going to cover in tomorrow's session. So if you who went through some of the other courses or have some previous training in DHS to you'll know that the aggregate model, there's a model for aggregate metadata and data as we refer to it, as well as the event kind of metadata and data and we'll be working through the tracker specifics. I'm sorry here my bottom bar keeps popping up. We'll also look at applying that tracker data model to a couple of different use cases. So we'll look specifically at you know how this model effects, you know, different ways, different modalities of tracker programs that can be built in DHS to. We will actually go through the process of creating a tracker program and you'll have the opportunity to create a tracker program it will be based on a use case that we're providing to you in this in this kind of environment. We will talk about creating and modifying user roles and user groups in DHS to and combine this with this principle called sharing settings. Hopefully this is familiar to you. If you have some experience with events, you'll know that or even aggregate data sets, the sharing settings are quite a critical part of providing access to various parts of your system in DHS to. We'll also be looking at a concept called program access levels. I'll describe that a bit more later on, but there's this concept that allows you to basically do some interesting things with who can access the program, depending on you know which which organization units in your hierarchy they can search. And then we'll look at creating program rules indicators and notifications in DHS to and we will spend a fair amount of time on this in the sessions that we have allocated for these topics. So, before I continue any further I want to have a look at the agenda here so. So this is the agenda that was shared with you and sent out to you previously. So I'm just going to go through the various sessions and of course if there are any questions or anything about the content, feel free to, you know just use the raise hand function, and we will try to address those as best we can. All right. So today, as I mentioned we're just going to kind of go through some of the logistics of the Academy itself. Right now we're going through the overview, and we'll do a bit of an introduction as well. We'll introduce you to the learning platform so for those of you who haven't had the opportunity to look at the Moodle or sign up for Moodle we'll just walk through those instructions. And also the DHIS two systems that we'll be using, at least for the first part of the course, get you to sign into those and anyone who has not yet joined Slack as well so Slack is a messaging system we can use both during and after the sessions if you have any questions. And unlike the Zoom chat it won't just go away when this closes so it's useful for kind of maintaining that history of questions if we're not able to address them immediately for example. On, we'll also actually on day one take a little bit of a group photo. So we'll just get you to turn your webcam is on that's not on the agenda here but I think we have enough time we won't keep you during the entire allocated time today I think, because this will be, you know a shorter session today. All right. So on Monday so tomorrow, we're going to get into kind of the beginning of the content and we're just going to jump right into it, and discuss the tracker data model. So, you know, for those of you who are a bit familiar with the event data model or even aggregate data model, you know there's very specific kind of DHIS to terminology we use, and we map this to kind of real life, you know, constants or materials or use cases that are on the inside of DHS to, and the main principle to kind of get around here is that you know we generally don't just jump from receiving a set of requirements or data collection tools or indicators, and just go in DHS to and make them we can kind of have a process of kind of thinking through what makes sense. Before we do that, and we just want to discuss that a little bit, both in terms of your data collection methods and modalities, as well as some of your outputs as well and how they kind of affect your initial design of your program. And then we'll then do a bit of an exercise on kind of, you know, applying this model to some use cases to allow you to kind of get familiar with the terminologies and familiar with mapping, you know these real life use cases to the DHS two terms. On the on the third day on Wednesday. We will walk you through creating a tracker program from start to finish. Okay. So we'll kind of work together on this, where we'll kind of create the program and allow you to kind of take part in also creating your own program as an example. To just make sure everyone is able to kind of work through these concepts, as we go through the session on day four, we will allow you to work from start to finish on your own tracker program. So we have an assignment for that and we'll be around we'll make sure that there's plenty of support if you have questions or if you're kind of stuck somewhere. We'll go over the kind of assignment more detail on that day. All right. We're going to look at user roles and sharing and user groups. Now these concepts are quite closely linked. They allow you to kind of provide, you know, different levels of access to your programs and your data within those programs and we want to try and discuss this. So people are kind of aware of what can be done and discuss some of the kind of template user roles and typical user groups who would use and how to set those up and you know how this affects kind of, you know, access to your programs and so. All right. And hopefully, you know, that's stuff, you know, sharing in particular that concept should be a little bit familiar I hope for for most of you. On day six so next Monday, we will be looking at program access levels and relationships. So the program access levels concept it might be a new concept for many of you and that's completely fine. We'll describe that a little bit more. When we get into the session itself, and then the relationships is just kind of creating relationships between two different tracker programs for example, like a mother to child relationship or you know something like this and we'll discuss kind of the implications a little bit, a little bit more on that day. Day seven, eight, day seven and eight are kind of, we're really focusing on these two separate concepts and we will spend a fair amount of time, and similar to the way we work back and forth with the tracker program, we're going to kind of have the same principle with program rules and program indicators so program rules, they allow you to introduce things like validation in your data collection tools, allow you to introduce different logic to hide and show fields and then do kinds of all kinds of other things. So we'll discuss this on on day seven and we'll work together once again so we'll present concepts to you will allow you to try it and work through that in a little bit more detail. Okay, and the same thing for program indicators. So this concept allows you to kind of create an aggregated values or counts or averages or things of that nature from your tracker data, right. And we'll work together once again, it might seem like a lot of time, but we'll be working back and forth we will have a break in between the session as well. On day nine on the next Thursday, we will discuss program notifications on a little bit and just kind of how these work in practice. You know, basically allowing you to send out notifications based on data that is entered into your program. And then we will discuss a bit on implementation considerations so just, you know, considerations like scaling up performance issues with large scale tracker systems. We'll give you a little bit of feedback from you know our colleagues in Sri Lanka and the university who have some experience in working with these kind of large, larger systems and kind of making them work well. Right. And then on day 10 we have an exam. Okay, so there's no no other session allocated then we will review a bit of the material and then we'll allow you to perform the exam. All right, so the agenda as you can see has covers a lot of different ground, and it really builds upon the previous sessions. If you're not able to attend a session it's okay but hopefully you're able to kind of review that material, because everything will be recorded and available on the online platform. That will discuss shortly, and hopefully you're able to kind of go on there and access some of that material and review beforehand because it's going to be kind of difficult to kind of build upon what you've learned the previous day. We're looking at a bit of a faster pace I know, but we will try to kind of keep everyone together and keep, keep the concepts kind of as clear as possible throughout the various days. All right. So if there are any questions about the agenda, please let us know. We will describe the topics, much more when we get into the content itself of course to kind of give a better understanding of what these all mean in case there are things that you're not exactly familiar with at this point in time, that's okay. We will discuss those in more detail later on. So back to the presentation here. All right, so I just want to talk a little bit about the certification process and how that works for everybody. So this course consists of both quizzes and assignments that contribute to your final grade. A couple of them were noted on the agenda but I'll get into that more I'll discuss each one. In order to pass you need an overall grade of 70%. All right, so this is broken down into the following pieces of information so attendance or 10%. The assignment on creating a tracker program is worth 25%. Okay, then there'll be assignments on user groups and sharing program rules, program indicators and program notifications. All valued at 10% of your final grade. And then we have the exam at 25%. So there's a lot of room here and none of the assignments are meant to trick you in any way shape or form. Try to keep them as straightforward as possible. It's just kind of meant to ensure that you're able to kind of, you know, work with the concept and understand what we've shown you. So then being a strict grading, especially with some of these other areas where it's often quite easy, for example, program rules indicators. So when we get into those, it's quite easy to make mistakes, you know, I still make quite a few mistakes, but it doesn't really matter. You can test them and make sure they work before you get them right. So it's not necessarily meant to penalize you in any way. So don't worry as long as you keep up with everything. You'll be able to get through everything with no problem. Right. We just, we just do want to make sure that there are some systems in place to kind of gauge your progress. Right. And with the assignments, you will have extra time to perform them. So you don't need to kind of rush to get them all done. So the Academy ends on February 4, but you will have until February 10, 10th. So one week after the Academy ends to submit all of the assignments. All right, so you have a little bit of extra time to work on them. So if you're in Russia and trying to get them done this week or next week, you can submit them when you when you do have that time. Right. We will then grade the assignments, the ones that need to be manually reviewed. So, for example, the tracker creating a tracker program assignment, there's quite a few participants. We will need to manually review that submission and grade that to ourselves before we can provide you feedback. So once this is done, you will also have the exam. And your overall grade will be released. And then you can access your certificates. Okay, and we will announce to you via the Slack channel. So if there are questions about how you obtain that certificate or anything like that. I hope this addresses some of those. You have to have that grade over 70%. We have to have everything graded. So you won't receive it immediately. Right at the end of the academy, just because we want to make sure everyone has submitted their assignments, we have a chance to go through and grade them all and then provide feedback to everybody on what they've done. All right, but once that is done, you will then have access to your certificate and be able to download that and we'll discuss that a bit more later on as we get closer to the end.