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Ethics office pilots updated refresher course, proposes staff support for learning-management work
Summary
Ethics staff demonstrated a draft of a new online refresher course that uses scenario-based avatars and noted coordination with HR and IT to transfer training records into the city's personnel system; staff said they may request an additional employee to manage the learning-management-system interface.
At the April 15 meeting, Ethics Officer Dwight Floyd walked board members through a draft of the ethics office's new annual refresher course and described coordination with Human Resources and Information Technology to link course completions to the city's personnel system.
Floyd said the board's goal is a roughly 10-scenario refresher course that uses short, scenario-based modules drawn from recent advisory opinions. The demonstration showed avatar-generated voices and interactive questions intended to prompt staff problem-solving; Floyd said using generated voices lets staff produce training more quickly while preserving a human narrator briefly on-screen.
Floyd described an ongoing technical issue: a new learning-management system used by HR does not automatically accept completion records from the ethics office's platform. He said the city has designated a person to manage transfers but that the ethics office may request an additional employee from the city commission to maintain the interface and handle the expected workload if the office takes responsibility for the transfer function.
The board discussed whether the training should include stronger coverage of state statutes as well as local rules and encouraged distribution of the draft to members for comment. Floyd said he would accept emailed suggestions and would update the draft course before wider deployment.
No formal action was taken; the board asked staff to continue development and return with updates if staffing or technical needs change.
