In our CIN website we can find videos and other materials for all courses. But we cant find the trainer Power point slides for all courses.
Hope CIN can add in power point slides for the trainer reference.

I am the Technology Teacher and Network Admin at Tri-City Christian Academy in North Carolina. I am trying to start teaching the ITF+ course at our school. Honestly, I don't even know where to start... Is there resources available that I can build out lesson plans with? Any help or guidance would be awesome!

Thank you,

Cole Haynes

This is indeed great training... lets get the ball rolling together...

I am trying to match up the NetLab N10-007 labs with an appropriate N10-008 Lesson. I was wondering if anyone has figured out an appropriate matchups between the existing labs and the new lessons?

Appreciate any feedback.
Pat

I am trying to match up the NetLab SY0-501 labs with an appropriate SY0-601 Lesson. I was wondering if anyone has figured out an appropriate matchups between the existing labs and the new lessons?

Appreciate any feedback.
Pat

Please log into your Pearson VUE/CompTIA account at www.pearsonvue.com/comptia to view your score report.

Hello CIN Community,

I would like to share that tomorrow we bring to you a very special webinar showcasing how careers in technology can be inclusive. We have an all-deaf panel of ITPros (and our interpreters) sharing more about a day in the life of an ITPro. This is great content to share in your classroom either live or on-demand. REGISTER

Please can i have the links for the above mentioned.

I'd really appreciate it.

I'm mainly looking at teaching at an undergraduate level, with real hands on, in order to provide students the instruction they need to pass any/all of the certifications listed.

I've considered the following: https://www.certificationtrainingsolutions.com/product/ccna-security-standard-labkit/ even though it's listed as CCNA, think it could be used for Network+ and Security+.

Does anyone know of another company that sells similar products, maybe geared more towards CompTIA?

Any and all suggestions appreciated.

Gary

These are probably pretty common questions about the vouchers so I'll try to make them as general as possible for everyone in the TTT sessions.
Under the new stipulations for receiving a voucher one is that we be involved with a CompTIA training partner or be an independent instructor - for those like myself who are unsure where we fall, who are BDM's to talk to to find out more information and meet this requirement?

At the end of the TTT sessions once the voucher requests are submitted, how long does it usually take to receive the vouchers? Is it a fairly quick turn around (few days to a week) for those who may be working on a deadline either for when they begin teaching a new course or are trying to pass the PenTest+ exam to renew their other certs?

-Thanks

I missed two sessions and I have searched for the emails for these two sessions and I have not been able to locate them. I have the other 10 completed.

Can anyone assist?

Thank you

Hi All

There's an opportunity available for an in-person / in-classroom certification prep session for the CompTIA ITF+ (IT Fundamentals FC0-U61) in the state of Nevada, USA.

Feb 7-11
5 students

If you are certified, in Nevada and available on those dates, please let me know here and I'll contact you via private message.


Regards

Welcome new instructors! Whether you are a first time instructor or an instructor teaching CompTIA certs for the first time this community is here for you! This is a great place to ask any questions about content delivery, resources, certification or ... anything else. Need some advise or suggestions, this is the place to find some answers. Be sure to jump in and introduce yourself!

Please can someone send me the link or videos for CompTIA Sec+ SYO 601 Train the Trainer (TTT).

I need assistance please.

Happy New Year to all 2022, With a lot of blessing and success!

Good day All! I am a newbie here and am in search of a Security+ Instructor for virtual instruction. The course will be held twice a week from 6PM-8PM EST on Tuesdays and Thursdays for 4 weeks. Pay rate is $45/hr with some flexibility.

Any questions or interest please fire away in the comment box!

Has anyone ever used the Raspberry Pi as a teaching tool in a Network + class? Are you aware of any materials that could help integrate some Pi labs into this course. Thanks

Victor Rezmovic Montgomery College MD

I am completing my first semester using CertMaster Security+ as the basis of our "Information Security Fundamentals" course and need to assign letter grades at the end of the semester based on the results from the Boost Dashboard. This dashboard shows average PBQ, Quiz and Lab scores for each student, as well as the level of proficiency they have achieved in each module.

Has anyone yet mapped this output to appropriate letter grades, A, B, C, D, F?

I am thinking completion with an average across categories >= 90% AND median "Proficient" Proficiency, across all modules is an "A",
< 90% OR median < Proficient = "B".
Completion and >= 80% = "C"
Completion = "D"
and Incomplete = "F"

Any other ideas?

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Howdy All!,

The Institution that I work for is looking at hosting a month-long or 6-week long A+ Course for Students. We have yet to finalize dates/etc, but were hoping to get a class started in January 10th-ish time frame. The time to train could also be changed around a bit (a 2 week course, etc). We are trying to get this program off the ground so we can start assisting students and adults who want to get certified with CompTia.
We still haven't finalized how many students, or any of that just yet.
Anyone interested please email me at
[email protected]

This will be a remote job, and we utilize Zoom.

Thank you,
Patrick Brown

Calbright College is seeking a remote, part-time instructor with expertise in training adult learners in CompTIA A+ curriculum. The contract role (temporary) is 20-25 hours/week and requires evening, weekend and holiday work to support students. Under the direction of the Dean of Learning and Instruction, the incumbent will provide instruction, student support, development and implementation of curriculum and evaluation of courses. The instructor will support student success and retention from learning to job placement by ensuring curricula and instruction meet student needs and industry standards. The instructor should possess a commitment to working with a diverse student population in an online environment.

See attached position description for further details.

Who We Are
Calbright College is one of California’s newest community colleges – the first statewide, online campus designed to bridge the gap between employers with unfilled positions and students who don’t have either the time or money to attend a traditional school. Our mission is to increase economic mobility and close equity gaps for working adults who lack easy access to traditional forms of higher education by offering online, flexible, affordable skills-based programs that provide tangible economic value for both working adults and hiring managers.

To apply, email your resume and letter of interest to Jessica Rubie, Project Manager ([email protected]). Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Join the CompTIA Instructor Network as we welcome Sam Berumen who will lead our Network+ N10-008 TTT series. The series will consist of ten sessions covering the Network+ exam domains. Sam will teach the key networking concepts covered on the exam as well as hands-on activities with key technology tools used by networking professionals.

We will also discuss instructional strategy for presenting the concepts to students and best practices for implementing a Network+ course.

Network+ ensures an IT professional has the knowledge and skills to:

• Design and implement functional networks
• Configure, manage, and maintain essential network devices
• Use devices such as switches and routers to segment network traffic and create resilient networks
• Identify benefits and drawbacks of existing network configurations
• Implement network security, standards, and protocols
• Troubleshoot network problems
• Support the creation of virtualized networks

What: 10-session webinar series
When: Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021
Where: ON24
Registration (Be sure to select all of the sessions)

So I've been talking about setting this up for a while, so I finally got it started.

The Cyber Cache is a CIN Resource where you can find things for your courses that are CySA / PenTest related. Of course, even I can't come up with a completely exhaustive list, so if you have something that didn't make the list, DM the link(s) over to me and I'll add it to the list. Every once in a while, I'll curate the list to make sure links don't end up broken. But the idea is for us to have a neat place to put this kind of stuff.

Eventually, we might do one of these Caches for different things for each exam. But for the moment, I wanted to start with this.

Since a lot of this came from Teresa Nash's CySA TTT, she gets the first shoutout.

So, let's get this built up!

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CSSIA has built a nice set of “interactives” on different cybersecurity topics. Since they receive grant funding for the development of learning products, we can all use them.

Access is provided below.


https://www.cssia.org/interactives/

So I was reading a post on Reddit (here) and it sort of struck a cord with me. I won't repeat the post here - you get to go read it for yourself.

But at the risk of spoiler alert, the author's basic premise is that business leaders are simply making these statements:

• Stop putting all this security stuff in place that makes it harder and harder for me to do business
• Make security more friendly to my budget and we'll talk about it.
• ...oh but make sure to keep our collective butts out of hot water and get us compliant.

So, let me ask, is there really a cyber talent shortage, based on what we see coming through our classrooms? I mean, there are degrees all over the place and kids are enrolling in droves, but are we actually getting the rich cyber talent that we need to form solid blue teams and be able to defend our networks from come what may?

We all know that cybersecurity is the new sexy. It's the bright shiny buzz word surrounded by pictures of people in business attire, in darkened data centers, analyzing the content displayed on a couple of 27" displays with other pictures of some person in a hoodie and Guy Fawkes mask displayed as "the enemy". Little do these star-struck candidates know that if they actually get into a cyber role within five years after graduation (despite what some admissions rep may say), it's going to be filled with menial tasks like filling out hundreds of pages of documentation for compliance and insurance sake, answering tickets for why the password reset tool isn't working, and maybe pouring over the outputs correlated by a SIEM that shows little more than background noise. But hey, sexy things sell, so we have students (which is good for us...but...).

And as a side rant, just yesterday, US President Biden had some kind of conference with cyber leaders where the output seemed to be (at least from just reading the headlines) was, "Hey NIST, we need a new Framework". Why? What's wrong with the old framework? Seems it was just fine, but since we're still seeing cyber attacks (T-Mobile anyone), somehow a new framework would help tamp down all these new cyber threats.

I didn't think so, either.

I think 3_toad_Grizzly has a point. I personally don't see a real cyber shortage. I see a "care" shortage. I still see business leaders out there that don't care about cyber until it bites them in the posterior region and threatens to sap all their corporate profits that they reluctantly start hiring real cyber analysts into their organizations, rather than just the casual relationship with an MSP to solve a specific problem or, more likely, overcome a compliance/insurance hurdle.

Anyway, it seems CIN is a bit quiet this week, so I figure, time to get a good discussion going and earn a few more achievements and XP. Come one, come all...it's a good old fashioned RickRant!

/r