 Right, so we kind of come to the end of the DHIs to level one tracker data use academy. So we have been able to cover a lot of different topics related to this academy but this doesn't mean that everything comes to an end. Of course in this course of this academy there is one more day where we will be having the final feedback and the final examination for this academy. But having said that there's a lot more that we offer you when it comes to the trainings related to DHIs too and that is what we are planning to discuss. Right, so in this session we kind of try to cover the areas around what are the DHIs to academies, different types of academies and what do we mean by local training and how to follow the tracker development and then support and additional resources. Right, so let's first talk about DHIs to academies. Now DHIs to academies introduce the latest features and applications that and provide an overview of best practices for implementation. That is why we have this DHIs to academies and that's why we have to keep on repeating them. So it's kind of important to note that probably some of you may think that if you attend the tracker use academy say in 2022 that it is for the lifetime and you don't really need to attend it. So it's like this. So if you are really familiar and hands-on with DHIs too and you really keep using the DHIs to on day-to-day basis you may not really need to attend an academy related to tracker use again. But then again the thing is like if you don't use DHIs to tracker or like if you are kind of an administrator or a data manager who's not really hands-on with what happens with DHIs to tracker then of course it makes complete sense for you to probably attend the same academy maybe in two years time as it permits because the thing is we'll be discussing about latest features and things are really changing fast even for us who are kind of regularly using DHIs to we always refer the various resources available for us to keep updated with what is there because it's a lot to cover now given that DHIs is so big. So DHIs to academies are meant to train the core team staff and not the end users. So meaning like if your country or your health program has end users who are field level users will be actually using the DHIs to capture data so DHIs to academies are not really meant for them. So these are kind of meant for the core team so who do we mean by core team. So it's given like looking at the scale of the implementation. So if you have a national level implementation then this core team that we refer to in this context refer to the national level central team who's in charge in customizing training and preparing user documents and things like that and as well as there may be other users in a national level instance where these users will be somewhat giving feedback and also may be involved in training and sometimes even customizing right. So they are also part of this but if it is a kind of a very program specific or say organization based implementation then it's going to be kind of different. So the thing is it's a very contextual decision to define who is core team but what we want to mention here is that this core team only involves sorry the DHIs to academies are only targeted towards the core team and not the end users. So these are seen as supplemental to the in-country trainings and these do not actually are meant to replace them right. So the thing is in-country training is a different thing that we have to do when we are kind of conducting a training program related to a specific program say for example if you have a TB campaign and then in this TB campaign you want to conduct a training program very specific for the TB related data capture, data analysis and all. So these have to be very specific you can of course develop the user material and the training material based on the academies that we conduct but they have to be very uses the program centric and the use cases have to be from that program so these are different. So these we can't actually supplement by having the DHIs to common training programs or DHIs to academies right and in addition they provide an opportunity for countries in the region to network and share their successes and challenges with other members of the DHIs to community okay. So there is always sharing of knowledge actually like right now we are conducting this DHIs to academies online right but it used to be on site most of them and we are going to have all these different types of I mean some of these training programs which will be coming on site again. So there's again when you are on site when you are together there's a lot of opportunity for interactions and sharing knowledge and even in these academies we see how others are asking questions and we kind of learn from them so we try to interact as much as possible right. So what are the different types of DHIs to training academies which are available? So the first thing is we have DHIs to levels like different academy levels so the first one is the DHIs to level one academies. So when it comes to level one academies we have currently four different flavors or four different types of academies. So first one is design for data use and then we have analytic tools tracker configuration and the one we are doing right now which is tracker use. So what do we cover in each of these academies? So in level one sorry so level one tracker configuration academy discusses about it provides you an introduction to configuring and managing the tracker programs. So the general topics that we cover includes various tracker terminologies data model and configuration of tracker program and how to configure the tracker dashboard and how to configure relationships and how to manage user roles user groups and program access levels and how configuration of program rules indicators and notifications and these kind of metadata which is purely about configuration takes place which we actually did not cover in this academy and then we have level one analytic tools. So here what we do is like we are discussing about how to use various analytic tools available within the DHIs too. So here we discuss and we deep dive about various tools such as maps pivot tables and then features such as the validation rules, interpretations and then charts and dashboard applications how we can use them to make best out of the DHIs too and to kind of train your end users on how to do the decision making based on the data that is captured in the DHIs too and then here in this academy the design for data use is like mainly focusing on the linkages between configuration and the design of analytic outputs right. So here just give me one second sorry about that I had some shoes related to zoom okay. So design for data use covers the linkages between configuration and design for analytics outputs. So the main topics that we cover in this academy includes the configuration of various dimensions and disaggregations for use of data and for use of data in DHIs too analytic tools. So this is about configuration but we are configuring the DHIs too mainly targeting how to use the data and then also we discuss about best practices for this configuration to allow users to more easily generate complex outputs right. So sometimes we feel like we just need to configure the instance and then we think about how to analyze the data it should not be like that we always need to have an idea what kind of different analysis is required from your DHIs to instance and then you do the configuration and then configuration of additional analytic applications including data quality bottleneck analysis and the scorecard applications. So all these are part of the design for data use academy and when it comes to the level two academies related to tracker of course we have different types of level two academies but here we are only discussing the academies at level two related to tracker. We have three of them so one we have for android and then we have for disease surveillance and tracker implementation management. So when it comes to android academies we have two separate tracks. So the first track is for DHIs to android implementation where we are discussing I mean the configuration and deployment right and the second track is on android development. So we have something called DHIs to android SDK. So here we are mainly discussing on how to build applications for android using the DHIs to android SDK. So this this academy of course is conducted based on the demand so we used to have these academies again on site sometime back but currently most of them will be online but then moving forward it's quite likely that they will be having these academies on on site again. So in DHIs to android implementation academies we discuss and we learn on how to collect data with a mobile device for your tracker and event programs and how user management happens on android and how to modify metadata to work well with that with the android application. This include one of I mean like things like colors icons and other android specific settings how are you configuring it and then how to test deploy and manage android application at scale at country level like what are the different tools you require to actually do an implementation on android it's not just customized in DHIs to you might have to deal with so many other technologies when you are especially deploying so many devices across a large number of users and then of course it also discusses about android app development roadmap and probably what will be included in future releases. When it comes to the android development academy here we learn how to develop our own custom android application on top of DHIs to android SDK. So this is a specialized area of course but then here we will be mainly discussing about the SDK in the DHIs to android and how you can leverage functionalities and features available on SDK to build your own custom applications. So we are discussing about how to communicate with your DHIs to instance and how to keep your offline database synchronized with the server and how to facilitate the access to the data model right so this focus only on your functionality user flow and interfaces right and then we have the DHIs to tracker implementation management academy so this again is a specialized academy which focuses on planning and managing tracker implementation versus configuration of tracker program so here we are not really going into how to configure the tracker programs and topics like that but this is mostly about how to manage your implementation how to plan your implementation. So this mainly targets the managers of organizations ministries who will be responsible for overseeing DHIs to tracker implementations as well as DHIs to technical leads who need to understand the availability to who need to understand the available tracker features right so you kind of learn the features available and you plan your implementation. So we discuss about and provide an overview of number of different tracker features and outline strategies for managing tracker implementations and we provide tools to assess your internal readiness for implementing tracker and we support development of a long-term tracker implementation plan that can be reviewed on regular basis in this particular academy but it does not focus on configuration right if you are if your focus is about how learning how to configure your DHIs to tracker then you should actually consider the level one tracker configuration academy or scheduling and in-country tracker training this is the suggestion if your if your focus is mostly about learning how to configure right then we have the disease surveillance academy so this one focuses on the implementation of aggregate and case-based disease surveillance systems and we target implementation personal responsible for the configuration and adaptation of these systems in the country right so that's kind of like the focus of this particular academy and here we discuss the integrated approach of disease surveillance and we review how to modify standardized disease surveillance packages for local use and also we discuss how to add additional diseases and to map indicators dashboard etc and demonstrates the configuration of surveillance related features such as validation notifications and how to define predictors and then review standard outputs associated with the surveillance packages so it's it's all about surveillance so we'll be discussing leveraging DHIs to features based on surveillance use cases that's what we do in this type of academies right so this kind of outlines all the different academies that we have in the level 0 which we refer to as foundational level and then the level 1 and level 2 so in level 0 the foundational level we have DHIs to aggregate fundamentals right and then we capture analysis and we do customization in that and then we have DHIs to event fundamentals and on level 1 we have the tracker related webinars use cases and features and the two different academies that want you to participate in now which is the DHIs to tracker use and the tracker configuration academy and in level 2 related to DHIs to tracker we have DHIs to android implementation tracker implementation management and the DHIs to surveillance so these are the three academies that we can recommend if you are interested to deep dive in in DHIs to tracker at level 2 right so now let's look at what we mean by local training so DHIs to academies are very generic and it is not applied to your local system right so here we we take some use cases some sample databases scenarios and we discuss I mean these scenarios based on based on the standard use cases that we have in our academy databases right but you probably have many specific questions about your implementations that were not covered here so the best way to continue is to implement to supplement learnings from this academy with the local trainings so these in these local trainings that they can apply the skills covered in this academy and other academies that you have attended to your local implementation so you can actually target a particular local implementation that you have and probably even reuse some of the material and the documentation that we have in these academies and design training modules and the training documentation very specific to your use case because then I think your participants will be able to get best out of it because it's more closer to their working environment and to do this you can always reach out your local his group or the I mean in this Asia region we have the Hispacia hub to discuss what might be best suitable on conducting these kind of training programs so when it comes to the tracker in DHIs too like many other components such as analytics and platform tracker is an area which wrap keeps developing really fast so how to follow tracker development so the thing is the DHIs too has different release cycles and patches okay so generally DHIs too has DHIs to releases two new versions per year so this generally takes place one in October and the other one in April so that's generally when we have the releases the new releases so the now probably in few weeks time you will have the release of version 2.39 so we have two main releases per year and in addition there will be patch releases which are kind of continuous releases to to mostly these patch releases will not be addressing many new features but they these are kind of security patches performance and then bug fixing so these are the ones that will be addressed mainly in this patch releases so we provide patch releases to the current dhs 2 version which is which is the latest we have and two versions before that so for example if the current version is 2.38 we'll be supporting mainly 2.37 and 2.36 right so that's why we always advise you to try and be in a in a version which is at least two versions behind the current release because if you are stuck in an older version it might be difficult for you to get the patch releases because these will address mainly the security and the performance related concerns so especially if you are trying to go for a country-wide implementation that can scale that is why it is really advisable to be on a latest version of dhs 2 right now dhs 2 has a lot of features and it will be incorporating so many new features in fact like dhs 2 is is one of the fastest growing open source softwares in the health domain because it is receiving so many feedbacks across more than 70 plus countries which are using dhs 2 at national level so the so due to that we have something called dhs 2 roadmap so the dhs 2 roadmap is something that is publicly available with prioritization of new features and fixes which is actively occurring so you can refer this roadmap by following this link here dhs 2 dot org slash roadmap and there it is updated for each release throughout the year to keep on top of changing priorities so priorities also for dhs 2 keeps changing so we never anticipated covid 19 to emerge in the start of 2020 so some of the priorities that we had probably in later part of 2019 they were changed and new priorities emerged because we had like global requirements around few areas which are which were not identified before okay so that way it is it is it really makes sense if you want to plan your implementation to know what will be upcoming I mean in the new releases what will be the features that you can expect in dhs 2 so you can plan when to upgrade and kind of advocate your the administrators the high level officials so it's it's very handy to be familiarized with the roadmap right and in addition dhs 2 has many social media dhs 2 is present in social media so dhs 2 has a separate channel in the youtube and dhs 2 has a facebook page and a twitter account and we also have the dhs 2 community so these are the main social media presence or social media related social media tools where you can get to know about dhs 2 and probably get your issues clarified right so what are the additional resources that we provide so the first thing is about the documentation so documentation is a great resource that covers a range of topics topics from simple to complex I know it can be a bit too overwhelming at first but my personal experience again is that documentation has been really useful in all these years for me to keep in track of what is available in dhs 2 because sometimes it keeps it becomes really difficult to be familiar with all different components and features and the limitations in various dhs 2 tools right so when that happens it goes really handy for you to check what is there in the dhs 2 documentation so the documentation of course has four different categories that we cover we have the dhs 2 documentation for user implementer developer and system administrators right so you need to check each different types of document based on the requirements that you have and they are different to each other and the documentation is available in this url how to access the dhs 2 training resources so dhs 2 has two is using two main platforms to provide the training resources so the first one is the dhs 2 academy where we will be able to refer I mean if you go to academy.dhs 2.org you will be able to find the self-paced courses and have access to them and then we have the training .ths 2.org which is the model based system which you are currently accessing and we also have material that we have designed based on the priority so for example during COVID-19 there was a lot of dhs 2 based customizations and implementations that took place which needed rapid adoption deployment scaling up so we knew like countries don't really have too much time in designing and developing this training material and again following the user guides to set up their implementations based on their country context so that's why we have separate set of user material available for local adaptation which you can for COVID-19 which you can access by following the url here and usually when someone asks about dhs 2 or else if you want to quickly try out if something works in a dhs 2 it makes more sense for you to use a test environment right so you may be having your own test or development environments for your countries but all of us in general to test features and to demonstrate what dhs 2 looks like we use dhs 2 demo instances so we have several different demo instances which has or preconfigured metadata along with some dummy data available so that you can actually show how things are configured in a standard way and also show some outputs like some visualizations also when you are demonstrating and it can also come in handy if you are testing a feature so these urls are these can be accessed by following these two urls played or dhs 2.org or demos.dhs 2.org right and then of course we have the dhs 2 community of practice so dhs 2 community of practice i think we had a i mean you all must be familiar and you all must be members of the dhs 2 community of practice and we had a separate session on that so this is the kind of online forum where you can engage with all different dhs 2 implementers in dhs 2 developers and people who are interested in using dhs 2 so you can meet all of them and you can ask questions you can respond to questions already asked and help others so it's a community of practice so it is not just a q and a forum where people ask questions and someone answers it's always about sharing experience so especially during the covid 19 pandemic how all these experiences and whatever the resources that were developed from different countries and his groups were shared thankfully to all these knowledge sharing experiences that took place in the dhs 2 community of practice so it's a very active vibrant community so it's one of the best that is around so i really recommend you to become a member if you are not a member already and to be engaged actively and even if you have some feature requests you can always discuss that there and you can even get more people's votes to support new features so you can do a lot there so i highly encourage you all to be active on dhs 2 community of practice right so that kind of concludes the the final wrapping up session which where we have discussed about so many different components which goes together with the academy material and the topics that we have covered during this dhs 2 academy but we also have a final feedback session tomorrow where you will where we'll be kindly requesting all of you to provide feedback of this particular academy so that we can definitely consider them and improve our future academies and also if you have not joined the community of practice yet please join the dhs 2 community of practice and we will also make an announcement on slack regarding how to receive your final certificate once everything is completed and especially about the time and whether the examination will be opened for extended duration that also we will let you know we will communicate to you on stack during the day and the other thing the material is available to you so you can always download the pdfs and refer them so a little bit about the exam it'll be it'll it'll be a one-hour exam and most of the questions will will be in the format of multiple choice extended matching questions and yes no type of questions so everything will be based on what we have discussed during the course of the academy you are expected to do it individually but you are allowed to you know refer your user documents material and dhs to instance i mean we don't have any issues with you doing that but you are expected to work alone by yourself because i mean it's not a kind of a very strict exam and very theoretical exam it we wanted it to be very close to what you are doing when you are really implementing dhs 2 so you when you are implementing dhs 2 you always have access to all these different user materials and the instance all this so we don't have any issues you accessing it during the exam so it'll be a one-hour exam and we will be starting tomorrow at the same time so this will be 12 30 p.m. indian standard time and then first we will do the feedback session and following that we will start the dhs 2 tracker use academy final examination yeah so that's what i have from our team for now but i'm happy to take any questions if you have related to this final wrap-up session anything you want to clarify and i must also mention we have for the dhs i mean for the asia region we will be having a dhs 2 asia conference which will be there in vietnam in first week of december so this is again available in our academy home page so it's an on-site in person conference it's not actually an academy it's a conference so we'll be discussing various use cases related to security performance right and standard base configurations and there are many topics the agenda is not finalized yet but you will find in that web page all different topics that will be discussed in this three-day conference that we are going to have in december so we kindly invite all of you and to spread this information to your colleagues and networks you are free to join but the thing is i i recommend you all to kind of process the registration a bit fast because it's just a couple of months away and still we are not totally out of the pandemic so some of the processes regarding obtaining visa and other logistics might take time so i encourage you all to register the conference soon if you are planning to join so that's it what i have from our side if there are any questions you are free please feel free to ask and also you can ask later in on slack thank you very very much i would like to actually ask the exam i already asked it and you mentioned it but on the conclusion you told us that the exam will be opened by tomorrow do we have to the update in the slack or it's already fixed yes so about the exam i mean because the thing is like exam as it is scheduled will be starting somewhere i mean i can't tell you the exact time because we have a feedback session before that but i suggest you join at 12 30 p.m in the standard time that which is the usual time we we started the academy all these days so join at that time so probably we will have the feedback session for like a half an hour i'm just saying like it's a rough estimate of time that will take for the feedback and then following that we will start the exam so this is a one-hour exam you'll be individually doing it on the model itself meaning like when you open the exam it's it's a time based so depending on what time you start you'll be having exactly one hour to finish the exam so that's how it is done usually but i have noted all the requests received so far asking for an extension which i'm not yet in a position to comment at this moment of time but we will communicate with the dhs to academy team and get back to you on this within the course of the day and we will announce this on Slack so please follow the Slack today for updates and we will let you know thank you thank you okay are there any other questions and please kindly provide feedback the daily feedback for all the sessions that we have conducted till today um we we really appreciate all the feedback you have provided so kindly do that also and try to complete all the graded assignments that you have to do in these four days till today right so if we don't have any any other questions i think we can wind up for the day let me quickly check um yeah i don't see any major questions related to the exam or today's session in the chat right so that's it thank you very much for joining um uh today and we are looking forward to seeing all of you for the final day tomorrow and all the best for the exam preparation good luck see you tomorrow thank you thank you pamad