Navigating the Drives

Our office uses a series of drives to store our information. Learning to navigate the drives can be difficult at first, so this quick guide is meant to help you find some of the most commonly used information.

Learning Development (K:)

This is where most of the tools for the writing team are located. Inside, you will find your own personal folder as well as how-to documents and blank templates. Your personal writing folder is where you can keep and save your own documents, such as unfinished courses, graphics, or side projects.

The K-Drive houses the PowerPoints and zip folders for each of our online courses, which you may need to access or edit from time to time. It also contains the DIY kit folders. The kits will contain our basic PowerPoint presentations along with lots of extra information for each training topic in our catalog. This includes research documents, accident profiles, practical and written exams, and reference manuals. 

For new hires, it can be difficult to navigate the contents of each kit since there is so much information. Take some time to pick a course and explore its kit documents. This can help prepare you for creating your own kit documents as well, so don't feel like you're wasting time.

M-Drive (M:)

The M-Drive is the Media drive. When we create courses, we do our best to use pictures that the company owns, rather than internet images. You will find those pictures in the M-Drive. Like the kit folders, there is lots of information to navigate in the M-Drive. Take the time to look through the folders that house our office's pictures and videos.

While we have tried to organize them in a helpful way, our system is not perfect. You may be surprised which folders you find the exact picture you were looking for, so don't limit your search too much. Explore all possible avenues!

A-HHT (H:)

This drive is used for file sharing between departments. You will rarely need to use anything in here. 

Helpful Locations

Your writing folder: K:\5_Writing\9 - Writer Folders

Media pictures: M:\01-Training Topics

Blank writing templates: K:\5_Writing\2-Templates

How-to guides and checklists: K:\5_Writing\5-Forms-Checklists

Online courses: K:\1_Online\1 - Online Training\1-eLearning Courses\1 - OSHA\OSHA

Kit folders: K:\2_Kits\1 - KITS\1 - USA Kits

What is the LMS?

"LMS" stands for Learning Management System. This is the platform that we use to upload and display our courses. When we finish creating our online courses, we upload them to the LMS so they can be accessed by our end-user.

Our end-user will not see an edit that we make within the course unless we upload the updated version to the LMS. This is why it is so important that our content is of the utmost quality before it is finalized and added to the LMS.

Editing Courses

If you find typos or incorrect quiz answers in a course that is already published to the LMS, you will need to make sure it is corrected. Reach out to your supervisor to see if you should be the one to make the change and upload the updated course to the LMS.

Again, this is why it is important to triple-check everything! It can be time-consuming and frustrating to have to repeatedly update courses in the LMS. If you have questions about something in your own course, make sure it is resolved before you upload it to the LMS.

Editing the Kit

If you have made any changes to a completed kit, you must inform the Web Department. They will be able to update that kit on the website. Simply adding something to the kit within the drives will not automatically make it accessible to our end user.