Many fire service trainers are faced with having unreliable resources to produce relevant and competency based classroom training for their fire officers and firefighters. StageIT is an innovative product created by Action Training Systems, which provides realistic training in tactical decision making. It allows training officers to use photos or video clips of actual buildings and sites located in their response area. Its realistic quality and capacity to create multiple stages for an incident allows the training officer to change the fire conditions in the classroom based upon the tactical decisions made by company officers and their crews.
Fire service trainers now have the tool to create real world situations which will enhance your student’s tactical decision making ability and help prepare pre-incident planning for fire, HAZMAT, terrorism and WMD situations. StageIt can also be used for promotional testing.
If the fire scene can be visualized, StageIT can build it. This is both a cost-effective solution for creating simulations for the classroom and an affordable networking solution. It is now possible to keep response areas staffed while training by remotely running simulations out to networked locations. The instructor will have the ability to change the student’s simulation screen and view what the student is seeing on the instructor module. StageIT also allows you to project a full-screen image of the scenarios without the instructor controls being visible to the student. This keeps the student focused on the scenario presented to them instead of being disrupted by what the instructor is doing behind the scenes.
StageIT Effects: Module I (Advanced Smoke and Backdraft) is an enhancement that adds even more realistic effects to the simulation. Module I includes backdraft explosions, directional fire, column smokes with added colors, puffing smokes and added glass effects. A remarkable 40 additional animations and seven still effects in all!
The properties of each effect in StageIT may be layered to blend effects, edit them for size, transparency, speed or fade in and out giving you an almost unlimited ability to match the effects to your photos.
This training simulator is as close to reality as you can get. That’s what makes this software so unique – its authenticity and the realism in the training content with actual photos of local buildings and sites and as well as the ability to import your own video and sound files. With StageIT’s Windows based file and folder design, you simply drag and drop effects, making it simple to use.
Another feature which makes StageIT a flexible training tool is the ability to use scenarios in PowerPoint® presentations. The separate stages of a scenario are automatically published as independent Windows Media Video [.wmv] files, which are easily imported into PowerPoint presentations. No additional software is needed to import a movie created in StageIT into a PowerPoint® presentation.
Action Training Systems provides high quality video demonstrations on DVD and interactive CBT (computer based training) programs and simulator programs on the Iluminar Learning Management System (LMS) software platform. All programs are reviewed by renowned subject matter experts aiding in content creation through the production of multimedia training tools, which is why ATS has been recognized for their high standard of exceptional real life content.
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