Please note that this is a four-step procedure:
1. Contacting CDS for your agency's unique URL and organization ID
2. Enabling the CDS Bridge from Provider Preferences on Therap
3. Setting up a CDS Administrator
4. Entering the information provided by CDS into Therap
For Provider Administrators
Activating the Feature
The Therap Provider Administrator of agencies who use CDS, can go into the Provider Preferences section, and easily turn this feature on (right now, its at the very bottom of that page).
The Provider Administrator would also have to assign a CDS Administrator who would be able to see the staffs' lessons and their status.
For CDS Administrators
Setting up the Bridge
When CDS Administrators log in, they will see a box on their FirstPage with the title "CDS" (shown below), which will have a link saying "Setup" in it. For the bridge to work, the CDS Administrator would also have to put in the Organization Id, and the URL that will be used to provide access for the agency's staff to the CDS site. You can collect these bits of information directly from CDS. Read this message from CDS to find out how.
The setting up is a one time thing, and after that you can move towards using the features of the bridge.
CDS Learner Ids
The CDS feature consists of two things, accessing the current CDS lessons, and a link to directly log users into their CDS Personal Page. They are described in detail here. Both these features require the users to enter in their CDS Learner Id the first time they try to use it. Once its entered for one, it doesn't need to be entered in again.
Users will need to make sure that they have entered in their CDS Learner Id or login name exactly as it is, into Therap to use this bridge. The first time that any user tries to see their lessons or use the Go To CDS link, Therap will ask them to put this in. If later, a correction is to be made, they can go to the Lessons' page and there they'll find a button that says "Update User Info". They can re-enter their CDS Learner Id there.
A CDS Administrator can also reset the CDS Learner Id for a staff, if the staff member is having trouble doing it. Just click on Trainee Report in the CDS section on FirstPage, and search or locate the user in question from the list, and click on his or her name. The resulting page will also have the "Update User Info" button. Using that feature you or any CDS Administrator can change the CDS Learner Id for a staff when necessary.
If the Go To CDS link is failing to log a user in, and the error message something like this:
Could Not Log In.
The system was not able to recognize learner credentials.
...its best to first check if the CDS Learner Id was entered in properly. If there's a confusion with that Id, its best to contact CDS directly about it.