 Welcome back after that short break. I hope everyone is here. I'm seeing 46 participants. So I hope we are not missing anyone, right? Okay. So, right. So, so far what we have done is to introduce you to the learning management system, which is open edX. And next what I'm going to do is like when you are, I mean, while you are doing all the activities like say, for example, we have presentations and we have group activities and assignments, exams. So like when you are interacting with this academy, you may have certain issues that you have in you may encounter issues and you want to get it verified from the facilitators or maybe even with the colleagues that who have enrolled in this course. So for all these interactions, other than the zoom chat that we are using now, we are using a platform called Slack. So let me share my screen and what you are seeing here on my screen is we refer to this platform. The name of the platform is Slack. This is basically a workspace environment. What it means is like this is a platform in which people can interact. So these interactions can be just just like what you do in say WhatsApp or like Zoom, not on Zoom, Skype, like you can chat with the people one to one. And also like you can chat with a group of people. So let me explain to you the interface that you are seeing here and also let me remind. So right now the version of Slack I'm using here is a desktop version, meaning like if you Google on Slack desktop, then you will find a link to download application, which is a Slack application. And you can use it as a desktop application, which I'm doing right now because I use Slack a lot. But most of you in your emails, you must have received a link. And when you click on that link, the Slack opens in the web browser itself, like it opens in Google Chrome or Firefox. So whatever the web browser you are using. So that's the commonest way of using it. But in case if you like this platform or if you are anyway using it often in your normal day to day activities, it is quite handy to have a desktop application of the Slack. So in this you can see like on my left hand side here I'm seeing the name of my workspace, which is the HS2 Analytics Tools Academy. And why I'm seeing it here is as you can see here now this is the one that is currently selected, which is this academy, right? So for this academy, this is my workspace. And if you are using Slack for say you at your at your organization or for any other work, you can add multiple versions of Slack as you can see here. So I have added different other workspaces for my work and other activities. So in this Slack, you are seeing on your left hand side, you are seeing a menu here called Channels. And then another menu called Direct Messages. So in this Direct Messages, you will see the list of participants who have joined this workspace. So this list includes all the participants of this academy and the facilitators. So for example, if I want to drop a message to one of the participants, just a private message so that only that participant will be receiving, I can just type it here. So what I can do is, okay, now Saurabh is here. I will just message Saurabh. I hope Saurabh is here. Hi, Saurabh, right? So ideally when I do that, Saurabh should be receiving this message and he should be replying me back, unless of course he's sleeping. Are you there, Saurabh? Yeah. I don't know whether he's there. So if he's there, he should be, he should reply me here and I'll be able to see the message. Right, so I don't know. Some reason Saurabh is not responding. I can try someone else. Who should I try? Okay, I'm going to message Rajiv. Rajiv, if you're there, I'm going to type hi Rajiv. And if he replies, okay, I can see now he's typing. So he's probably is replying. Yes. Now I see the message. So this is like, I mean, all of you are familiar with it. This is like WhatsApp where you can do this direct message one to one. Right. So this is quite straightforward. Only thing what I want to highlight in addition is that here you can, you know, like now these are quite self-explanatory. You can, when you type something, you can make it bold, italic, right? And also in addition, you can post emojis which are available, right? And you can also put links and attach, attach files. So you can even like, if you want to share a word document to another participant, you can just drag and drop that word document here and you can send it as a direct message. So it is, it is quite easy and you can, you know, like easily communicate with participants rather than using email. So that's why we have it here. And one more thing I want to mention. Okay. I can even mention it. Okay. I'm receiving a couple of messages from all the participants. Thank you so much. Right. Okay. So now that we are done with direct messages, I can just collapse it, right? Just when I do like this, all the direct messages will collapse and next let me introduce to you what we mean by channels. So basically you can think of channel as something like the group chats that you have in WhatsApp. Okay. So for example, we have a couple of channels. We have one channel for announcements where we will be, you know, like if we have an announcement for all the participants, like say, for example, that we are going to, you know, give an extension to assignment submission. I don't think we are going to do that. I'm just mentioning, right? So if you do some, if you want to communicate any important messages like that, we'll be making that announcement in this announcement channel, right? So here you will appear the message. You will see the message like, I mean, like whatever the announcement that we will do. And then we have another one called introduce yourself. This I think most of you have already used. So I mean, like, I don't need to explain so I think it's quite straightforward on how to communicate in this. So you can see like all of you have access to this channel, introduce yourself. And if you have not introduced yourself to the fellow participants so far, you can definitely type in here and give a brief introduction of you. So I mean, we see that most of you have done it already. So thank you so much. Right. And then this one is just for us. I'm not going to open that. That is where we do our secret chats, right? The facilitators. And then, of course, this one is for the assignments. So we have a number of assignments that we will be giving while you are doing any of these assignments. If you have specific queries about the assignments, please type in this channel so that we can directly attend to it because like we don't want to, you know, like why we have created a separate channel for this is like, so that only the assignment related questions will be asked here. So in case if your queries are not related to the assignments, you can just ask it in this channel called questions, right? So there you go. Right. I can already see that some of you have, you know, like ask questions and our facilitators or even you all like say, say for example, there may be some questions that even you as a participant will be able to answer. So I mean, I just want to inform you that this this this workspace is not for you to ask question and the facilitators to answer. It's just that in case if you feel like you know something which you can share with the other other participants, please feel free to share it in this channel. Right. So basically that's it about the slack. Is there any questions on slack or is anyone having any issues? While you say, I mean, when you're trying to join slack, you can ask now or as you can type in the zoom chat. But generally from here onwards, or any if you have any questions, please use slack to communicate with participants because the zoom chat will disappear once we close the session. Sumit, are you having any questions? All right. So are there any questions about slack? And also I saw there were a couple of messages asking about how to mark attendance. We will let you know how to do it shortly. You have to do it in open edX. How to do it, we will let you know. So if you don't have any queries, I think we'll just stop it there. And yeah. So next what we will do is we will introduce you to the demo DHS to instances that we'll be using during the academy. So for example, we mentioned that there will be some assignments and you will have to practice certain things that we try to introduce during the academy. So to do that, you have to access the DHS to instance that we are using for the academy. Yes. Sorry, I didn't realize there was an attendance thing. Would you like me to show you quickly where it is? Yeah, please do. Sure. One moment. Let me just show my screen again. Cool. Can you see that? Yeah. Yeah, brilliant. So when you logged into the course, you can see it's coming up as tomorrow for some reason, but so I'll get it boosted today. So if you give it a moment in the introduction, logistics and analytics and features section, you'll shortly be able to see an attendance box there. So if you just give it a few minutes and I'll have that open for you. That's all. I'll pop the notification in the zoom. I think till Grant gets fixed. We can show you the DHS to instances that you'll be using for the exercises. So sorrow. Yeah. Oh, thanks for more. So I'm going to share my screen, whatever done in the meanwhile is on the assignment standard. I have posted the link for the DHS to exercise instance, which you guys will be using for doing new exercises and submitting your assignments. So if you can see my screen, I'm currently on the assignments channel and I have posted a link for the exercise instance, which you would be using for all your assignment questions, both ungraded and graded exercises and for the comprehensive exercise as well. So if you would click on this link, it will open up link for you. One sec. Yeah. So this will open DHS to instance for you for this academy. We're using DHS to version 2.35. You'll see an option to create an account both on the right top corner and also here. You need to click on that specific button and form will open for you. Please add your first and last name, your username and password which you desire to use for this specific instance and the corresponding details. What it would do is it would create an account for you in the system and you will be logging in using the same account for the next set of nine days that we have for the course and using the instance for all your exercises. So this is what you can do right now. And once you create a users, we will put the appropriate sharing settings within DHS to so that you have access to all the data which is available in the system. So it's essential that you create your user accounts today so that we could after the academy after the course session today we will enable the sharing settings on all the user accounts today so that you are able to use this instance from just logging access. So this instance has basically program data for multiple programs and it is based on the WHO standard packages which have been defined by the team at Oslo in collaboration with the WHO headquarters in Geneva. So these programmatic packages basically come as a collection of data collection formats and indicators and dashboards which are based on the WHO technical guidelines and countries are free to adapt this particular these packages for these key health programs and they kind of are able to implement by kind of adapting to the standards which the WHO has defined as ideal set of data collection points and indicators which the key programs such as HIV immunization malaria should capture in a country. So we have an arbitrary geographic region created for you which we call as training land and it has two regions available and some districts and some clinics of different types and then you have certain data sets which are available and you already have data and all it exercises would be your questions and your case studies will be based on the data which is already available in the system for different programs. So you have the data already added in, you will be asked to create validation rules or test validation rules, create pivot tables, create maps and charts individualizing through the data which is already available in the system. So in terms of there is no data required externally to kind of go through the exercises, everything is already added in and well set for you to access that specific sets of data and performer exercises on that. So Pamod will be doing kind of an overview of the analytical apps available in the system but then most of us are already DHRs to use us so you will have access to these different applications available in the system and largely what we will be focusing on the analytical applications so dashboard is one of them which would be a key focus. Then we will be using the data visualizer app which has now integrated the pivot table component into the visualizer app so both for pivot tables and charts we will be using the data visualizer app and then we have a dedicated maps app which we will be using for generating our spatial analysis. We have the reports app which we will be using for understanding the functionalities available in the standard reports and reporting it some of these and all that. Then we have data quality app which kind of helps you with the validation rules and stuff so we will have a look at that and some bits of maintenance app where we will have a look at how we configure the validation rules. So mostly the configuration aspect would be limited to the use of validation rules for data quality management validation rules through threshold validation rules through calculated results. Rest all would be based on the analytical apps available in the system. We will also have sessions where we cover the interpretations app which is kind of a dedicated application for you to discuss the data, the analytical objects which you have created and kind of build a conversation on the data and exchange thoughts on the data or the item so what I would like you to request is to create a user accounts today so that when you come tomorrow we have your user accounts ready with the sharing settings enabled for all the data sets which are available in the system so that when you do your exercises you are able to get access to the data which is already there in the system. So that's about it for the exercise instance which you will be using today. Yeah, so any questions please post it on the Slack channel I have added the link there and please do create user accounts today. That's it, thank you. Grant if you were able to give access to the attendance unit on edX we can show that. Yeah sure that's open now if you give me a moment. Okay, over to you. Yeah brilliant so once you've logged into into the DHIS to Academy and you've gone into the session you should see under the introduction logistics and analytics features tab there's an attendance button that you can click and in here you just need to enter a word of the day and the word of the day is test or lowercase submit. Okay, thanks Grant. So yeah, so let's take a couple of minutes we can quickly mark our attendances for the day by adding the word of the day which was test all in small letters and please do create your DHIS to account in the meanwhile before we move on to the next set of sessions. So gentle reminder everyone how this word of the day works is like why we do this is to identify the participants who have actually attended the session so what we will do every day is during one of the sessions say like it could be mid day or it could be just at the start of the session or maybe after three hours towards the end of the session in one of the most probably we'll put it in a slide the word of the day which will be a text and we let you all know so what you have to do is like at that time say for example today the word of the day is test so that particular text that we mentioned as word of the day you have to log into the index and type it there I see like some of you are asking like in this Slack what is the word of the day because it's the first day and everybody is new to this we will mention it on the Slack but here onwards how it will happen is we will not mention the word of the day in Slack but we will mention it somewhere during the sessions in one of the slides so you can join the live session and get to know what's the word of the day or else in case if you miss out on that one you can watch the offline recorded version and know the word of the day from there and just input that one in the open index so that's how your attendance is getting marked so I hope I am clear about it that's how we will be communicating word of the day on daily basis to all of you