National Qualification System Release Notes

The new National Qualification System (NQS) Board helps you create fundamental qualifications for your incident workforce, encompassing personnel in incident management, incident support, and emergency management roles using your Unified Command Platformdesktop or mobile app.

Board features include:

• An NQS Dashboard that displays total courses, positions, users, and qualified/completed courses and tasks.

• Position qualification and tasks sections for Education, Core Curriculum Training, Position Specific Training, Experience, Physical/Medical Fitness, Currency, and Professional/Technical Licenses and Certificates.

• Official courses can be added, and new courses can be created.

• Courses are designed to match the National Preparedness Course Catalog, making it easier to import classes.

• Inclusion of a user bio that displays all positions, training, education, and licenses/certifications.

With this board, you can:

• Train and qualify personnel for incident preparedness and management.

• Create positions and add requirements for user assignment.

• Create and manage task requirements for different positions.

• Assign tasks and courses to users when they are assigned positions.

• Review workforce credentials and assign users to the appropriate training.

• Easily assign and unassign users to positions and review unfulfilled/met credentials.

• Assist and track user progress in the system.

• Tie Unified Command Platformusers to user records for ease of access.

• View and print out a user’s Task Book credentials for a specific position.

• Monitor personnel progress and approve them for specific positions.

• View a report of the qualified and partially-qualified users for each position.

Notes:

• The NPC Catalog is found at: https://www.firstrespondertraining.gov/frts/npccatalog

• To import courses, access the NPC Catalog website, then filter and export the desired courses to Excel.

• You can import Unified Command Platformboard data to the Course table on the NQS Board.

• We recommend setting up your courses, tasks, and users before you set up your positions. When set up is completed in this order, credential records are created automatically as you assign users to positions.