Soldier self-enrollment in Structured Self-Development (SSD) courses is no longer authorized
Per SMA directive on 18 Dec 12, Soldier self-enrollment in Structured Self-Development (SSD) courses is no longer authorized. All new enrollments in SSD will follow the auto-enrollment triggers and the NCOES pre-requisite sequencing shown in the table below.
| SSD Level / NCOES Course | ATRRS Auto-Enrollment Trigger | Completion is Pre-Requisite for: |
| SSD-1 | Successful completion of OSUT or AIT | - Registration and attendance at WLC |
| WLC | N/A – unit schedules | - ALC registration and attendance |
| ALC | N/A – HRC schedules | - SSD-3 registration |
| SSD-3 | ALC Graduation | - SLC Attendance |
| SLC | N/A – HRC schedules | - SSD-4 registration |
| SSD-4 | SLC Graduation | - SMC selection |
| SMC | N/A – HRC schedules | - SSD-5 registration |
| SSD-5 | SMC Graduation | |
Soldiers currently enrolled in or who have already completed SSD classes above and beyond what they are eligible to take per above guidance will not be disenrolled… they will be allowed to complete this training. However, HQDA policy guidance will be forthcoming that will establish rules governing whether this accelerated completion will continue to result in promotion points being awarded and how long accelerated completion of SSD courses will be acceptable to meet NCOES selection and attendance pre-requisites. Soldiers should understand clearly that accelerated completion of SSD under these guidelines does not mean they may not have to re-take the training in the future when they are slated to take the training and attend NCOES in due course.
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Integrated Business Intelligence Solution (iBIS) Released
The ATRRS Funding Allocation Model (AFAM) has released the integrated Business Intelligence Solution (iBIS) website to production. The iBIS website (https://www.atrrs.army.mil/channels/afam) is available for current AFAM National Guard and State level users. The initial dashboards available in iBIS are focused on providing metrics of particular interest to ARNG leadership. The reports are presented in Dashboard views that may be sorted, filtered, and exported based on the user’s preferences and needs. IBIS’s graphical interface provides data analysis capabilities not found in standard reporting tools.
AFAM iBIS POCs are:
MAJ Dan Runyon, daniel.k.runyon.mil@mail.mil, 703-601-6936 or Mr. Justin Repoli, Justin.repoli@asmr.com, 703-225-1659 or Mr. Michael Grunewald, Michael.d.grunewald.ctr@mail.mil, 703-607-9150
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Reserve Component Electronic-Based Distributive Learning (EBDL) Compensation
Reference Army directive 2010-06 Compensation for Reserve Component Personnel for Army Electronic-Based Distributive Learning (EBDL), 2 June 2010.
The HQ G-3/5/7 has developed a list of EBDL courses eligible for compensation as directed by Army Directive 2010-06. This EBDL course list will be reviewed by the HQDA/G37-TR semiannually for currency. Additions or deletions from this EBDL course list will be submitted to ASA (M&RA) for approval.
Points of contact for this action may be reached at commercial (910) 570-9133 for USARC, or (703) 607-9884 for ARNG.
The EBDL Course list can be reviewed here.
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Institutional Training Common Operational Picture (ITCOP) Released
ATRRS has released the ITCOP website to production. The ITCOP website (https://www.atrrs.army.mil/ITCOP/) for Army Commanders and leaders provides enhanced analytical and reporting capability. ITCOP Dashboards are designed to provide Commanders and leaders visibility of Unused and Open Seats available to personnel under their Command. Additionally, ITCOP provides important historical seat execution metrics. The reports are presented in Dashboard views that may be sorted, filtered, and exported based on the user’s preferences and needs. ITCOP’s graphical interface provides data analysis capabilities not found in standard reporting tools.
Common Access Card (CAC) access authority to ITCOP is determined by Pay Grade and will be validated upon login. Individuals with Pay Grades of E8, E9, O5, and O6 shall be granted access to ITCOP. Users at these levels are authorized to delegate authority to other users. Delegated users are not granted authority to delegate access to others. All ITCOP users are able to view all Dashboards in the application.
ITCOP POCs are:
Mr. Tony Alston, Anthony.e.alston.civ@mail.mil, 757-501-5404 or Mr. Justin Repoli, Justin.repoli@asmr.com, 703-225-1659
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ATRRS Tips - Self-Development Training
The ATRRS Self-Development Center allows all military and DoD civilian personnel to easily search the ATRRS Course Catalog for available self-development courses and then self-enroll. Enrollment does not require the approval of a supervisor. Available courses include correspondence and online courses offered by the Army Correspondence Course Program, AMEDD, the Joint Warfighting Center, the Army e-Learning Program, and several other providers. You can access to the ATRRS Self-Development Center from links on AKO My Education, Army Career Tracker, and the ATRRS website.
Features and Benefits of the ATRRS Self-Development Center
• Provides one-stop shopping for all self-development courses offered in ATRRS.
• Assists Soldiers who seek to advance their knowledge, skills, and promotion points.
• Streamlines the training application form by pre-loading many fields with data from AKO, CAC, and/or previous applications. Automatically transmits registrations to schools/systems that participate in the ATRRS Web Service interface.
• Centrally tracks course enrollments and completions in ATRRS and provides students with access to their ATRRS Training Record.
Registration Process
The registration process is quick and easy. As a student, you do not need to create an account in the ATRRS Self-Development Center, nor do you need to log into the system to search the catalog. After you select a course from the catalog, you’ll be prompted to log in with a CAC in order to submit a training application. Many of the fields in the application are pre-populated from data pulled from AKO, CAC, and/or previous applications. You’ll receive an email a few minutes after submitting your application to notify you of your registration status and to provide any instructions from the school regarding access to courseware. ATRRS has a direct interface with many of the systems that provide courseware, such as the Army Learning Management System (ALMS), and your Self-Development registration is automatically transmitted to those systems. This allows you to access courseware shortly after submitting your training application.
Army e-Learning Program
The Army e-Learning program provides a free license to use Skillport, a commercial, online education system. Skillport contains thousands of online courses, some of which are even ACE (American Council on Education) accredited. Eligible students may register for an Army e-Learning license in the ATRRS Self-Development Center. Upon registration, ATRRS automatically creates an account for you within Skillport and emails instructions to access it. Skillport notifies ATRRS when you successfully complete a course and your ATRRS training record is updated accordingly.
ATRRS Training Record
The Self-Development Center also provides an option to review your ATRRS training record. This displays all past, present, and future reservations recorded for you in ATRRS. It also shows whether or not you successfully completed a course. If a completion certificate is available for a course, then you can download it directly from the Self-Development Center. The site also allows you to view and print a record of all training you successfully completed.
Did You Know
• There are currently over 1,500 self-development courses in ATRRS, not including e-Learning.
• There are over 6,000 courses available in the Army e-Learning Program.
• Over 3,000 self-development registrations are processed by ATRRS each day.
• Three of ATRRS Online Trainings recently won 2012 Communicator Awards of Distinction. You can view these trainings on our ATRRS Homepage.
Visit the Self Development Center at https://www.atrrs.army.mil/selfdevctr and begin your online training today.
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ATRRS Training Receives Three Communicator Awards
The US Army Training Requirements and Resources System (ATRRS) multimedia training presentations earned three 2012 Communicator Awards of Distinction from the International Academy of the Visual Arts on April 30, 2012. These training presentations were made available to the entire ATRRS community through the ATRRS website (https://www.atrrs.Army.mil) earlier in the year.
ATRRS won three Silver Distinctions in the Interactive Multimedia category for:
• ATRRS Homepage Overview Training
• ATRRS Overview Training
• ATRRS Answers Training
“Receiving these Communicator Awards bears witness to the fact that the ATRRS team’s commitment to bringing state of the art, high quality and relevant training and training management support to the ATRRS user community remains as strong today as it was at its inception over thirty years ago,” offered Ralph Steinway, Acting Division Chief, Army G-1 Training Requirements Division. “ATRRS is a critically important enabler of Total Army readiness.”
The Communicator Awards are judged and overseen by the International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA), a 550+ member organization of leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving nature of traditional and interactive media. These three winning trainings and six other ATRRS online trainings are available from the ATRRS Training Page at the ATRRS website.
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Sending SSN to ATRRS Help Desk
Do not include social security numbers (SSN) in emails you send to ATRRS support staff. To do so is a violation of federal law, including but not limited to the Privacy Act of 1974. It is also considered a security breach in the protection of personally identifiable information (PII).
In the event that you require a review of an individual’s records by ATRRS support personnel, please email either the individual’s AKO username or the parameters of the course in which they are currently enrolled (FY, SCH, CRS, Phase, CLS, Name). This information is sufficient to allow ATRRS support personnel to access the details needed to assist you.
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ATRRS News Available Through RSS Subscription
Did you know that you can receive important ATRRS news and information directly to your computer or mobile device through our ATRRS News RSS feed? To keep up with ATRRS news and receive the RSS feed, simply navigate to our feed link at https://www.atrrs.army.mil/AtrrsMessages/rss.aspx with your favorite RSS feed reader or through Internet Explorer and subscribe where prompted by the feed reader. Once you have successfully subscribed, ATRRS News will be delivered directly to you as it is published.
You can also subscribe to the ATRRS News feed through Microsoft Outlook 2007 or higher. If you don’t know how to subscribe to an RSS feed in Outlook, go to http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/subscribe-to-an-rss-feed-HA010355679.aspx?CTT=1#_Toc288635727 for detailed instructions on adding a feed.
Add the ATRRS News RSS feed today to keep up with important news and information on the ATRRS program as it becomes available and have it delivered directly to your computer or mobile device.
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ATRRS Training Goes Online
Eight new online training modules are now available from the ATRRS Training page. These interactive modules cover a variety of ATRRS-related subjects that include:
1. An ATRRS Homepage Overview – How to navigate the ATRRS Homepage website
2. ATRRS Answers – A step-by-step walkthrough of how to find answers to the most frequently asked questions about ATRRS
3. ATRRS User Help – An overview of the different help options offered to ATRRS users
4. Using the Course Catalog – A step-by-step guide to the Course Catalog
5. ATRRS 101 Overview – A look at the history and importance of the Army’s ATRRS program
6. ATRRS Logon ID – An overview of what an ATRRS LID is and who needs one
7. How to Logon to ATRRS Portals – An overview of ATRRS Portals
8. Renewing Your Portals Password – Step-by-step instructions on how to renew your Portals password
Also included on the training page is a brief module that explains how to use the new ATRRS video player. To open a training module, click its icon.
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Extended Blackboard Help Desk Hours for MSCoE LLC
At the request of USARC, Army G-1/ATRRS Program Office is posting the following update to Blackboard courseware students of the Maneuver Support Center of Excellence (MSCoE), Fort Leonard Wood, MO:
“We are pleased to announce that the MSCoE G-37 Lifelong Learning Center is currently extending our Blackboard Help Desk hours to support the warfighter-student of the Maneuver Support Center taking courses on Blackboard.
Our extended Help desk hours are:
Monday 0730-1630
Tuesday-Friday 0730-2230
Saturday 0800-1700
The new Help Desk hours are posted within each of the MSCoE Blackboard systems (Engineer, MP, CBRN, and MSCoE), but please also pass this information along to your respective units.”
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Registering for Courses
The ATRRS Help Desk has updated their Frequently Asked Questions for information on how students may register for courses such as Structured Self Development, AMMO, No Fear, Composite Risk Management, ACCP and AMEDD Courses.
Please view the ATRRS FAQ’s or the ATRRS Student Self Service Center for more information!
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ATRRS Portals Now Has Interactive Help
Unsure what to do next in ATRRS Portals? If so, log in and click Portal Help from the Main Menu.
This opens a new window devoted to instructions on how to use each Portal Function. The buttons in the top left of the window provide a full list of contents, an index, and a glossary of terms. Our new help system also allows you to search the complete library of guides with search terms you choose. If you prefer, you can browse the library page-by-page as you would with a hardcopy version. To do so, just click the “Next” button on each page. A single page may be printed, or if you need the entire 500 page volume, that too is available as a printable PDF.
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New Version of the ATRRS Training Tracker
New Training Tracker was deployed on 9 Aug 2010!
Training Tracker’s new and improved features provide ready access to current training and reservation information about Soldiers in your unit, an intuitive way to view the UIC hierarchy, and an easier way to delegate system access to a colleague.
Click here to access.
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Automated Promotion Point Reporting in ATRRS
Army G1 has directed the automation of promotion point calculations for Active Army promotion to E5 and E6. Automation will ease the burden on Soldiers and Personnel Officers who manually submit data to eMILPO to justify the award of promotion points. An immediate benefit of automation will be in the reporting of academic achievement awards earned in WLC and ALC.
The ATRRS R2 function has been modified to allow the posting of academic achievement awards for WLC and ALC. For those posting class output statistics, click the drop-down arrow for the Soldier on the R2 to view the Achievement Award field and select the highest award for which the Soldier qualifies. If the Soldier qualifies for more than one achievement award, post the highest, i.e. Distinguished Honor Graduate (highest), followed by Distinguished Leadership Graduate, and then Commandant’s List. ATRRS will transmit the achievement data for Active Army Soldiers to TAPDB and eMILPO, thus relieving the Soldier from the need to send the information to eMILPO. It is imperative that schools post achievement award data to make this process work.
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Electronic DA Form 1059 Distribution Change For Army Reserve Soldiers
We have enabled electronic DA Form 1059 distribution to HRC for Army Reserve soldiers. Their DA Form 1059's will travel to HRC and into the soldier's Official Military Personnel File via an automated process. There is no need to send paper copies to HRC.
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Obtaining A New ATRRS Password
The below Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) has been added to the ATRRS FAQ’s. You may access the FAQ’s by clicking on the ‘FAQ’ link of the ‘Support’ menu item on the ATRRS Homepage.
After clicking on the ‘Renew Password’ link in ATRRS Portals you should receive two new windows. The first window displays after you click on the ‘Renew Password’ link (this window explains the process), and the second is a pop-up window (which displays your new password). If you are not able to see this second pop-up window, please ensure that you do not have a pop-up blocker enabled on your machine or firewall. If you do have a pop-up blocker enabled, pressing and holding the <CTRL> key while clicking on the ‘Renew Password’ link will override most blockers. Additionally, please check to ensure that the pop-up window is not being hidden behind any other window that you may already have open.
For more information and a video tutorial on changing your password, please visit the ATRRS User Training. User Training is available under the ‘Support’ link on the menu bar of the ATRRS Homepage. On the User Training page you may click on the ‘ATRRS-101 Online’ tab to view online training options. You may click on the ‘Launch Training’ link on the right to view the online video tutorial.
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Army eLearning Registration Available Through ATRRS
At no cost to the individual or their organization, all active duty soldiers, members of the National Guard or Reserve as well as all Department of the Army civilian employees are authorized to access over 1,500 Information Technology, Business Skills, and Interpersonal Skills courses from any location, around the clock (24/7). All you have to do to use Army eLearning is get an http://www.us.army.mil/ account and complete an https://www.atrrs.army.mil/channels/elearning/smartforce/. Be sure to browse the https://www.atrrs.army.mil/channels/elearning/smartforce/sfCatalog.pdf to see the courses available to you.
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Need to view Training by UIC? – Use the ATRRS Training Tracker!
The ATRRS Training Tracker allows a Command Sergeant Major (CSM) and First Sergeant (1SG) to view the training records of individuals assigned to their UIC in the Total Army Personnel Data Base (TAPDB). The CSM and 1SG have to be listed as such in TAPDB and they only have access to the records of Soldiers belonging to that UIC.
A CSM or 1SG may grant a colleague access to the Training Tracker for a temporary or extended period up to 180 days. The colleague must already have an AKO account and access is only possible to UICs the CSM or 1SG is authorized to view. Click here to access.
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ATRRS Self Development/Student Center – Register for Army Correspondence Courses
There are many popular Self Development courses that you can register for through ATRRS Student Center. These courses include, but are not limited to: AMMO, Joint Knowledge Online, AMEDD, and the Army Institute of Professional Development Courses.
You may logon to the Self Development Site (https://www.atrrs.army.mil/selfdevctr) to apply.
Once you get to the site, you will need to enter the above course number in the Crs Nbr box of the Quick Course Search. This will pull up the information for the course.
After clicking on the class number you will be prompted to logon using your CAC. After logging on you will be able to fill out your personnel information on the application. Once your application has been processed the school that administers the course will send you the information that you need to begin the courseware. You may find the POC for the school that administers the course by visiting the ATRRS Course Catalog (https://www.atrrs.army.mil/atrrscc) and doing a search using the course number, or a portion of the course title.
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Electronic DA Form 1059 Distribution Enabled For Active Army Soldiers
We now offer electronic DA Form 1059 distribution for Active Army Soldiers within the ATRRS DA Form 1059 Preparation System. An Active Army Soldier’s DA Form 1059 completed in the ATRRS system and electronically signed is automatically sent to HRC and inserted into the Soldier's Official Military Personnel File. There is no longer a need to send paper copies to HRC.
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